§ NMSA 1978, § 1-3-11Purpose

Purpose.
The purpose of the Precinct Boundary Adjustment Act [1-3-10 to 1-3-14 NMSA 1978] is to comply with the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of Subsection (c) of Section 141 of
Title 13 of the United States Code in order to obtain an enumeration of the populations of election
precincts by the bureau of the census in the federal decennial census and in order to provide such
enumeration data to the New Mexico legislature for purposes of legislative reapportionment.