Section 7-27-14 - Amount of tax; security for bonds. - New Mexico Statutes

7-27-14. Amount of tax; security for bonds.

A.     The legislature shall provide for the continued assessment, levy, collection and deposit into the severance tax bonding fund of the tax or taxes upon natural resource products severed and saved from the soil of the state that, together with such other income as may be deposited to the fund, will be sufficient to produce an amount that is at least the amount necessary to meet annual debt service charges on all outstanding severance tax bonds and supplemental severance tax bonds.

B.     Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the state board of finance shall issue no severance tax bonds unless the aggregate amount of severance tax bonds outstanding, and including the issue proposed, can be serviced with not more than fifty percent of the annual deposits into the severance tax bonding fund, as determined by the deposits during the preceding fiscal year.

C.     The state board of finance shall issue no supplemental severance tax bonds with a term that extends beyond the fiscal year in which the bonds are issued unless the aggregate amount of severance tax bonds and supplemental severance tax bonds outstanding, and including the issue proposed, can be serviced with not more than sixty-two and  one-half percent of the annual deposits into the severance tax bonding fund, as determined by the deposits during the preceding fiscal year.

D.     Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the state board of finance may issue supplemental severance tax bonds with a term that does not extend beyond the fiscal year in which they are issued if the debt service on such supplemental severance tax bonds when added to the debt service previously paid or scheduled to be paid during that fiscal year on severance tax bonds and supplemental severance tax bonds does not exceed ninety-five percent of the deposits into the severance tax bonding fund during the preceding fiscal year.

E.     The provisions of this section shall not be modified by the terms of any severance tax bonds or supplemental severance tax bonds hereafter issued.