N.M. Const. art. VI, § 16
- Constitution
- Constitution of New Mexico
- Text as of
- October 2026
What does this section say?
[District court; additional judges; redistricting.] The legislature may increase the number of district judges in any judicial district, and they shall be elected or appointed as other district judges for that district. At any session after the publication of the census of the United States in the year nineteen hundred and twenty, the legislature may rearrange the districts of the state, increase the number thereof, and make provision for a district judge for any additional district. (As amended November 8, 1988.)
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