N.M. Const. art. XX, § 12
For the first twenty years after this constitution goes into effect all laws passed by the legislature shall be published in both the English and Spanish languages and thereafter such publication shall be made as the legislature may provide.
Laws published as enacted. — Requirement of this section relates to publication of laws in the form of their enactment. State v. Armstrong, 1924-NMSC-089, 31 N.M. 220, 243 P. 333.
Succeeding legislature may appropriate for extra services. — When legislature of 1915 appropriated money for translation of code from English into Spanish, succeeding legislature could constitutionally appropriate money to pay for extra services not contemplated by original appropriation. State ex rel. Sedillo v. Sargent, 1918-NMSC-042, 24 N.M. 333, 171 P. 790.
Legislature may require dual publication and appropriate for translation. — Legislature has valid power to provide that all laws passed by it shall be published in both English and Spanish, and any appropriation voted by legislature to pay for translation is valid. 1951-52 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 5332.
Law reviews. — For comment, "Education and the Spanish-Speaking - An Attorney General's Opinion on Article XII, Section 8 of the New Mexico Constitution," see 3 N.M. L. Rev. 364 (1973).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 73 Am. Jur. 2d Statutes § 257.
82 C.J.S. Statutes §§ 63, 66.