Constitution · New Mexico

N.M. Const. art. IV, § 30

Constitution
Constitution of New Mexico
Text as of
October 2026

What does this section say?

[Payments from treasury to be upon appropriations and warrant.] Except interest or other payments on the public debt, money shall be paid out of the treasury only upon appropriations made by the legislature. No money shall be paid therefrom except upon warrant drawn by the proper officer. Every law making an appropriation shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated and the object to which it is to be applied.

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