Subject to the limitations and in accordance with Article 9 of the constitution of New Mexico and Sections 6-15-1 and 6-15-2 NMSA 1978, a municipality may issue and dispose of negotiable bonds for the purpose of securing funds for: A. erecting and operating natural or artificial gas works; B. erecting and operating electric works; C. constructing, purchasing, rehabilitating or remodeling, or any combination thereof, public buildings, including additions and improvements thereto; D. building, beautifying and improving public parks within or without the municipal boundary, but not beyond the planning and platting jurisdiction of the municipality; E. acquiring land or buildings for playgrounds, recreation centers, zoos and other recreational purposes, and the equipment thereof, or any combina
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Subject to the limitations and in accordance with Article 9 of the constitution of New Mexico and Sections 6-15-1 and 6-15-2 NMSA 1978, a municipality may issue and dispose of negotiable bonds for the purpose of securing funds for: A. erecting and operating natural or artificial gas works; B. erecting and operating electric works; C. constructing, purchasing, rehabilitating or remodeling, or any combination thereof, public buildings, including additions and improvements thereto; D. building, beautifying and improving public parks within or without the municipal boundary, but not beyond the planning and platting jurisdiction of the municipality; E. acquiring land or buildings for playgrounds, recreation centers, zoos and other recreational purposes, and the equipment thereof, or any combination thereof; F. providing proper means for protecting from fire including but not necessarily limited to purchasing apparatus for fire protection and providing, enlarging and improving fire equipment and facilities; G. laying off, opening, constructing, repairing, and otherwise improving municipal alleys, streets, public roads and bridges, or any combination thereof; H. providing apparatus for the collection and disposal of garbage and refuse; I. acquiring, constructing and maintaining garbage and refuse disposal areas and plants within or without the municipal boundary; J. constructing or purchasing a system for supplying water or constructing and purchasing such a system, for the municipality, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the enlargement, improvement, extension or acquisition of the system, and acquisition of water or water rights, necessary real estate or rights-of-way, bridges and easements, and necessary apparatus for a water system, or any combination of the foregoing; K. constructing or purchasing a sewer system or the construction and purchase of a sewer system, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, acquiring, enlarging, improving or extending, or any combination of the foregoing, said system; L. flood control purposes as provided in Section 3-41-1 NMSA 1978; M. constructing, purchasing, rehabilitating or remodeling, or any combination thereof, hospitals, including additions and improvements thereto; N. purchasing, improving or erecting public auditoriums or public buildings of a similar nature for general civic purposes, or for authorizing the improvement or erection of public auditoriums or buildings of a similar nature by agreement, with the officers of the county in which the municipality is located; and O. acquiring, purchasing, constructing, improving, rehabilitating, or remodeling, or any combination thereof, of cemeteries or mausoleums.