A. The board of county commissioners of any county may adopt a resolution to submit to the qualified electors of the county the question of whether a property tax at a rate not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) per thousand dollars ($1,000) of taxable value of property should be imposed for the purpose of providing the necessary funding for the property tax rebate for low-income taxpayers provided in the Income Tax Act if the county has adopted an ordinance providing the property tax rebate.

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B. The resolution shall:

(1)     specify the rate of the proposed tax, which shall not exceed one dollar ($1.00) per thousand dollars ($1,000) of taxable value of property;

(2)     specify the date an election will be held to submit the question of imposition of the tax to the qualified electors of the county;

(3)     impose the tax for one, two, three, four or five property tax years and limit the imposition of the proposed tax to no more than five property tax years; and

(4)     pledge the revenue from the tax solely for the payment of the income tax revenue reduction resulting from the implementation of the property tax rebate for low- income taxpayers.

C. The resolution authorized in Subsection A of this section shall be adopted no later than May 15 in the year prior to the year in which the tax is proposed to be imposed. By adoption of an appropriate resolution, the board of county commissioners may submit the question of imposing the tax for successive periods of one, two, three, four or five years to the qualified electors of the county. The procedures for the election and for the imposition of the tax for subsequent periods shall be the same as those applying to the initial imposition of the tax. The election shall be scheduled so that the imposition of the tax for successive periods results in continuity of the tax.

D. An election on the question of imposing the tax authorized pursuant to this section may be held in conjunction with a general election or may be conducted as or held in conjunction with a special election, but the election shall be held by the date necessary to assure that the results of the election on the question of imposing the tax may be certified no later than July 1 of the first property tax year in which the tax is proposed to be imposed. Conduct of the election shall be as provided by the Election Code [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 1].

E. As used in this section, “taxable value of property” means the combined total of net taxable value of property allocated to the county under the Property Tax Code [Chapter 7, Articles 35 through 38 NMSA 1978]; the assessed value of products severed and sold in the county for the calendar year preceding the year for which a determination is made as determined under the Oil and Gas Ad Valorem Production Tax Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 7, Article 32]; the assessed value of equipment in the county as determined under the Oil and Gas Production Equipment Ad Valorem Tax Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 7, Article 34]; and the taxable value of copper mineral property in the county pursuant to Section 7-39-7 N.M. Stat. Ann..