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Otero County Ordinances



(PLEASE NOTE! - Newer ordinances may amend or supersede older ordinances)

Ordinance Number

Date Passed

Title

70-01 01/26/1970 Creation of Planning Commission (See Ord. 94-04 amending)
73-01 11/29/1973 Establishing the Airport Zoning Board
74-01 01/29/1974 Regulating and Restricting property use in the vicinity of municipal airport
75-01 07/15/1975 Flood Control and providing the county powers over flood and mudslide areas
78-01 08/12/1987 Flood Damage Prevention
78-02 08/07/1978 Franchise Ordinance - Otero County Electric Cooperative, Inc.
79-01 07/02/1979 Animal Control
83-01 01/03/1983 Salaries of Elected Officials
83-02 08/26/1983 County Fire Protection Excise Tax
85-01 12/27/1985 Amending the County Commission District Boundaries
86-01 09/08/1986 Franchise Ordinance - Cablevision Communications
86-02 12/19/1986 County Gross Receipts Tax - for general County purposes
87-01 10/05/1987 Subdivision Regulations (See Ord. No. 91-01 amending 87-01)
87-02 12/07/1987 Indigent Hospital Claims (See Ord. Nos. 90-05, 91-02, 91-06 and 95-03 ammending)
88-01 10/05/1988 Franchise Ordinance - Scott Cable Communications
88-02 12/21/1988 County Fire Protection Excise Tax
88-03 02/21/1989 Otero County Financial Plan
88-04 06/05/1989 Animal Control
88-05 05/15/1989 Fair Housing
88-06 N/A Five Member Commission (VOIDED)
88-07 06/05/1989 Franchise Ordinance - El Paso Electric Company (See Ord. 03-03 amending)
89-01 N/A Fireworks (VOIDED)
89-02 12/18/1989 Gross Receipts Tax  for Indigent Fund
90-01 01-16-1990 Franchise Ordinance - Chaparral Cable Company
90-02 02/05/1990 Land Subdivision Ordinance - payment of property taxes before approval of subdivision
90-03 07/02/1990 Emergency Measure re: Retiree Health Care Act
90-04 10/01/1990 Franchise Ordinance - Lake Section Water Co. of Chaparral, NM, to operate and maintain community water system in Chaparral
90-05 08/06/1990 Ammending section 6 of the Indigent Hospital Claims Ord. (Amending certain portions of Ord. No. 87-02; see also Ord. No. 95-03 amending)
91-01 02/11/1991 Requiring placement of street signs in subdivisions (Amending certain portions of Ord. No. 87-01)
91-02 05/06/1991 Increasing Administration Expenses - Indigent Fund (Amending certain portions of Ord. No. 87-02)
91-03 07/22/1991 Junked Vehicles
91-04 08/19/1991 Refuse, Litter, Handbill, and Weed Control and Burn (See amended No. 91-04 and 97-02)
91-05 06/17/1991 Repealing Financial Planning Ordinance 88-03
91-06 07/22/1991 County Gross Receipts Tax - Indigent Patients and general County Purposes (See Ord. No. 95-03 amending)
92-01 09/28/1992 County Environmental Services Gross Receipts Tax
92-02 11/02/1993 Re: Public Rangelands Improvement Act
92-03 11/02/1993 Adopting the Civil Rights Act as a County Ordinance
92-04 11/02/1993 Reaffirming the protections of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act
93-01 03/26/1993 Personnel Policy Manual
93-02 10/08/2003 Collective Bargaining (Amending Collective Bargaining Ordinance; amended by Ord. No. 05-04)
93-03 N/A County Health Care Gross Receipts (NOT ADOPTED)
93-04 05/17/1993 Providing for an environmental planning and review process
93-05 10/22/1993 JPA Environmental Services Gross Receipts Tax/Project Revenue Bonds for construction of solid waste facilities
93-06 10/22/1993 County Fire Protection Excise Tax (Repeals Ord. No. 88-02)
94-01 PENDING Amending certain portions of Ord. No. 91-04 Weed & Litter
94-02 PENDING Amending certain portions of Ord. No. 91-03 Junked Vehicles
94-03 05/19/1994 Amending certain portions of Ord. No. 93-01 Personnel Policy
94-04 06/06/1994 Creation of Planning Commission - Appointment of Members, Terms of Office, Duties, Rules Concerning Conduct (Amending Ord. No. 70-01)
94-05 09/19/1994 Establishing PLUAC (See Ord. No. 96-01)
94-06 10/10/1994 Rules of Procedure relating to the use of the Sidney Paul Gordon Shooting Range
95-01 07/10/1995 Animal Control (Amending Ord. No. 88-04)
95-02 08/21/1995 Unreasonable Noise; Enforcement and Penalties
95-03 05/30/1995 Indigent Hospital Claims Administration (Amending Ord. Nos. 87-02, 90-05, and 91-06)
95-08 11/13/1995 Animal Control (Repealing Ord. Nos. 95-01, 88-04, and 79-01)
95-09 01/29/1996 Fair Housing (Repeals Ord. No. 88-05)
95-10 01/03/1996 Collective Bargaining - Employment relationship between employers and employees (Amended by Ord. No. 05-04)
96-01 01/08/1996 PLUAC (Amending Ord. No. 94-05)
96-02 01/08/1996 Providing for procedure, policy, and fee structure of modification to street designations
96-04 02/19/1996 Citizens Right to Bear Arms
96-05 02/29/1996 Personnel Policy
96-07 06/03/1996 Initiating bi-weekly Pay Periods for Otero County Employees
96-08 06/24/1996 Amending the County Work Week
96-09 06/24/1996 Declaring an Emergency, temporarily banning the sale, possession, and use of fireworks within the County of Otero
96-10 07/22/1996 Unreasonable Noise; Enforcement and Penalties (Amending Ord. No. 95-02)
96-11 07/22/1996 Repealing Otero County Ordinance No. 96-09
97-02 05/12/1997 Amending certain portions of Otero County Ord. No. 91-04 establishing a County-wide system for the regulation of the collection and disposal of refuse and burning, etc.
98-01 02/25/1998 Personnel Ordinance (Amending Ord. No. 96-05)
98-02 02/17/1998 Hospital Indigent (Amending Ord. No. 87-02)
98-04 05/18/1998 Otero County Planning Commission Ordinance
98-05 05/18/1998 Establishing a road naming and rural addressing procedure for the unincorporated areas of Otero County
98-06 09/21/1998 Establishing a fee for the use of the Otero County Tire Recycling Center
99-02 05/24/1999 Repealing and Amending certain provisions contained in Otero County Personnel Ordinance No. 98-01
99-03 07/12/1999 Repealing and Amending certain provisions contained in Otero County Ordinance Number 91-04 Burning
00-01 08/28/2000 Economic Development Strategic Plan - 1993
01-03 02/13/03 Adopting a County Health Care Gross Receipts Tax
01-04 04/26/2004 Indigent, compliance with the New Mexico Open Meetings Act for Indigent fun meetings (Amending Ord. 98-02) (AMMENDED BY ORD. 09-01)
01-05 06/29/2005 Amending the Otero County Subdivision Ordinance (as it pertains to the Sacramento Mountain Checkerspot Butterfly)
01-06 08/29/2006 Amending Ordinances 01-03, 01-04, 98-02 and 97-02 Otero County Indigent Claims and County Healthcare
02-01 12/04/2001 Repealing and amending certain portions of Otero County Ord. No. 91-04
02-03 07/08/2003 Establishing a County Grazing Advisory Board
02-04 06/08/2004 Prohibiting noise caused by the use of un-muffled retarder or un-muffled straight pipes (Jake Brakes)
03-01 12/28/2001 Repealing and Amending certain provisions of the Otero County Indigent Claims Ordinance No. 98-02
03-03 07/08/2003 Granting Renewal of Texas - New Mexico Power Company Electric Franchise
03-04 05/18/2004 Project Revenue Bonds for construction of jail facility in Chaparral, NM
04-04 09/21/2004 County Correctional Facility Gross Receipts Tax for the County Detention Facility (.125%)
04-05 11/08/2005 Franchise Ordinance - Chaparral CableVision, Inc. . of Chaparral, NM, to operate and maintain one or more cable television systems in Otero County, New Mexico
05-03 09/30/2003 Repealing and amending certain portions of Otero County Ord. No. 91-04
05-04 12/14/2004 Repealing Ordinance No. 06-03 - Collective Bargaining
06-03 10/08/2003 Amending certain provisions of the Otero County Collective Bargaining Ord. No. 93-02
07-03 09/30/2003 Adopting a County Fire Protection Excise Tax (Repeals Ord. No. 93-06)
07-01 03/27/2007 Amending Provisions contained in the Otero County Personnel Ordinance No. 98-01
07-02 03/27/2007 Amending Provisions contained in the Otero County Subdivision Ordinance No. 97-03
07-04 04/17/2007 Authorizing the issuance of Otero County, New Mexico Jail Project Revenue Bonds
07-05 10/18/2007 World Heritage Site Applications
07-06 10/18/2007 Prohibiting the import for release into the wild of certain genera; repealing ordinances in conflict; providing for the severability of parts hereof; and providing an effective date.
08-02 08/21/2008 Adopting A County Regional Spaceport Gross Receipts Tax
09-01 08/20/2009 Otero County Indigent Claims and County Health Care repealing all prior and previous Ordinances regarding Indigent Health Care.

 


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