Section 5-13-3 - Authorized local governmental entitiesA. The following local governmental entities are authorized to impose convention center fees: (1) a qualified municipality if the governing body of the qualified municipality has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee; and(2) a county in which a qualified municipality is located, provided that: (a) a qualified municipality within the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;(b) the board of county commissioners of the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;(c) the qualified municipality and the county have entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act [11-1-1 to 11-1-7 NMSA 1978] to collect the revenue from the convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required in the Convention Center Financing Act; and(d) the fee shall only apply to lodging facilities located within twenty miles of the corporate limits of the qualified municipality.B. Two qualified municipalities may enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act to collect revenue from a convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required by the Convention Center Financing Act if the municipalities: (1) are located in the same county within twenty miles of the corporate limits of each other; and(2) have each enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee. Laws 2003, ch. 87, § 3; 2013, ch. 190, § 2.Amended by 2013, c. 190,s. 2, eff. 6/14/2013.