Section 5-13A-2 - Definitions. - New Mexico Statutes

5-13A-2. Definitions.

As used in the Sports and Recreation Facility Financing Act [5-13A-1 NMSA 1978]: 

A.     "local governing body" means the governing body of a qualified municipality authorized pursuant to the provisions of the Sports and Recreation Facility Financing Act to impose sports and recreation facility fees; 

B.     "lodging facility" means a hotel, motel or motor hotel; a bed and breakfast facility; an inn; or any other facility offering rooms for payment of rent or other consideration; 

C.     "qualified municipality" means an incorporated municipality with a population of more than one thousand but less than one thousand one hundred that is located in a class B county with a population of greater than fourteen thousand but less than fifteen thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census; 

D.     "room" means a unit of a lodging facility, such as a hotel room; 

E.     "sports and recreation facility fee" means the fee imposed by a local governing body pursuant to the Sports and Recreation Facility Financing Act on vendees for the use of lodging facilities; 

F.     "vendee" means a person who rents or pays consideration to a vendor for use of a room; and 

G.     "vendor" means a person or the person's agent who furnishes rooms for occupancy for consideration.