N.M. Const. Art. X § 6 — Constitutional Municipal Home Rule (Charter Cities) (NM)
Tracked preemption from the New Mexico overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1970-01-01
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:NM
Other New Mexico preemptions
WIPP (Carlsbad) Federal Radioactive Waste CorridorNMSA 3-21A — Manufactured Home Siting Non-DiscriminationMilitary AICUZ / Federal Installation Overlays (Kirtland AFB, Holloman AFB, WSMR, Cannon AFB)NMSA 3-21 — Municipal/County Zoning Enabling Act (Dillon's Rule Baseline)NMSA 3-21-2 / 3-21-6 — Extraterritorial Joint Zoning Authority (EZA/ELUC, SFEZO)Los Alamos County / LANL Federal–County Hybrid GovernanceFederal-Land Jurisdiction Carve-Out (BLM / USFS / NPS / State Trust Lands)Acequia / Community Ditch Overlay (NMSA Ch. 73)
Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
city.home_rule_charter == TruePreempted fields
2 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
zoning_authority_scope | override | plenary_absent_express_preemption | Charter municipalities may exercise all legislative powers and perform all functions not expressly denied by general law or charter — reverses Dillon's Rule default |
inclusionary_zoning_authority | override | permitted | Charter cities can enact IZ, demolition controls, and unusual district types not available to general-law municipalities |
Citation
Authority source
New Mexico Constitution, Article X § 6 (Municipal Home Rule, added 1970)
§ Art. X § 6
Research notes
Charter cities in NM include Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe (city), Grants, Clovis, and a handful of others. Albuquerque's Integrated Development Ordinance (IDO) and Santa Fe's inclusionary zoning (Santa Fe Homes Program / SFHP) rely in part on Art. X § 6 authority. General-law and unincorporated-county jurisdictions remain Dillon's Rule. This is an enabling/empowering overlay rather than a restrictive preemption — modeled here so that city records can record home_rule_charter=true and downstream consumers know to treat charter-city ordinance authority as plenary.