New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
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| Title | Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Records, | |
| Dates (Inclusive) | 1993-1997 | |
| Creator | Bernalillo County (N.M.). Metropolitan Court. | |
| Collection Number | 1999-029 | |
| Size | 3 linear feet | |
| Repository | New Mexico State Records Center and Archives | |
| Language | English. | |
The Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court was established by a legislative act in 1979 (1979 NM Laws, Chp. 346, Sec. 1-14). The same act abolished small claims, municipal, and magistrate courts in Bernalillo County and transferred their functions to the newly-created Metropolitan Court. The Metropolitan Court's jurisdiction generally covers offenses and complaints under ordinances of Bernalillo County and its municipalities, and civil actions involving sums less than $5,000. Because the 1979 legislative act stipulated that Metropolitan Court would be established in counties "with a population of more than two hundred thousand persons in the last federal decennial census," Bernalillo County is the only New Mexican county with a Metropolitan Court as of 1999.
Collection consists of the correspondence of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court's Deputy Court Administrator.
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Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Records, New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bernalillo County (N.M.) Politics and government 1951-
Bernalillo County (N.M.). Metropolitan Court
County courts New Mexico Bernalillo County
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Correspondence. 1993-1994
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Correspondence. 1995-1996
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Correspondence. 1996-1997
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