NM Constitution Article IV Section 24

Article IV section 24   

Complete section of 24 is located at the end of this document. Underlined text is what pertains to SB1. 

The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following cases: regulating county, precinct or district affairs; Nor in the following cases:incorporating cities, towns or villages, or changing or amending the charter of any city, town or village; changing the name of persons or places; and the creation, extension or impairment of liens. In every other case where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.[1]

• Regulation is the controlling of an activity or process, usually by means of rules. These are points awarded to those who transfer ownership and responsibilities to a New Quasi-government.  These points  are not equally and fairly offered or applied  to community public water system who choose to retain their sovereignty 

RESTRICTIONS UPON LOCAL AND SPECIAL LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

BY CHAILES C(AUNCXY BnqwNY, ES. II.

Tm DISTINCTIONS BETwEEN GENERAL, LOCAL AND SPECIAL LEGISLATION.

THE word "general is defined by Webster as "relat- ing to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class “or order;" while "special," by the same authority, means "pertaining to a species or sort; designed 'for a particular purpose or person ;" and "local," "pertaining to a partic- ular place, or to a fixed or limited portion of space."

The term "general law," as used in our State consti- tutions, has not been found easy of definition, and no court has as yet undertaken to state its meaning with any great measure of exactness.' It is clear that it is not merely a law in regard to a general subject, for if the subject be regulated in a particular locality only, or as affecting par- ticular persons, the law regulating it is local or special, and not general.'

From the definitions given above, it follows that a general Act must be one which is designed neither for one or more particular persons, nor to operate exclusively in any particular part or parts of the State; yet such an Act is not necessarily universal, i. e., capable of operating upon all persons or all things within the State legislated for.! Provided that an Act be not expressly limited to operate upon particular persons or in particular localities, it is enough to constitute it a general Act, first, that it should operate wherever the circumstances to which it is applicable exist in the State, and secondly, that it should operate uniformly, i. e., upon "every person who is brought within the relations and circumstances pro- vided for," without regard to the number of such persons as compared with the whole population of the State.2 Or,

I" Are we then to understand that a general law is only one which

operates upon all persons or all things? If so, it is obvious that our general laws are very few, if, indeed, there are any of that class. Obvi- ously such cannot be the meaning of the words 'of a general nature ' as here used [in the constitution]. The word general comes from genus,and relates to a whole genus or kind, or'in other words to a whble-class or order. Hence a law which affects a class of persons or things less than all may be a general law:" Brooks v, Hyde, 37 Cal., 366, 375.

"The term "general law' does not import universality

Antitrust Law: Today, antitrust is principally concerned with preventing anticompetitive conduct that enables firms to exercise market power.: federal funding allocated by the clean water act mandates participating states to use  funding as intended for small community public water systems with low populations in rural areas.  In a September 2021 public hearing New Mexico without public participation reallocated state revolving funds to bigger cities 

Section 2 of the Sherman Act: MonopolizationSection 2 of the Sherman Act: Monopolization Under Section 2 falls into the following categories: exclusionary pricing (e.g., below-cost pricing intended to eliminate rivals

Section 24

Text of Section 24:

Local or Special Laws

The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following cases: regulating county, precinct or district affairs; the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police magistrates and constables; the practice in courts of justice; the rate of interest on money; the punishment for crimes and misdemeanors; the assessment or collection of taxes or extending the time of collection thereof; the summoning and impaneling of jurors; the management of public schools; the sale or mortgaging of real estate of minors or others under disability; the change of venue in civil or criminal cases. Nor in the following cases: granting divorces; laying out, opening, altering or working roads or highways, except as to state roads extending into more than one county, and military roads; vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys or public grounds; locating or changing county seats, or changing county lines, except in creating new counties; incorporating cities, towns or villages, or changing or amending the charter of any city, town or village; the opening or conducting of any election or designating the place of voting; declaring any person of age; chartering or licensing ferries, toll bridges, toll roads, banks, insurance companies or loan and trust companies; remitting fines, penalties, forfeitures or taxes; or refunding money paid into the state treasury, or relinquishing, extending or extinguishing, in whole or in part, any indebtedness or liability of any person or corporation, to the state or any municipality therein; creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers; changing the laws of descent; granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks or any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise, or amending existing charters for such purpose; changing the rules of evidence in any trial or inquiry; the limitation of actions; giving effect to any informal or invalid deed, will or other instrument; exempting property from taxation; restoring to citizenship any person convicted of an infamous crime; the adoption or legitimizing of children; changing the name of persons or places; and the creation, extension or impairment of liens. In every other case where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.[1]