Westgate Families v. County Clerk of the Inc. County of Los Alamos

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• noting that Supreme Court construes each part of an act in connection with every other part so as to produce harmonious whole
• because the New Mexico Zoning Enabling Act expressly provides for zoning by representative bodies, it denies an exercise of zoning power by referendum
• “If the facts of a case are not in dispute, but only the legal effect of the facts is presented for determination, then summary judgment may be properly granted.”
• legislative power to rezone property is derived from the state and state statutes mandating zoning by adoption of a municipal ordinance precluded a home rule municipality from varying the statutory procedure by allowing a referendum on a rezoning ordinance

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