NMSA 3-66-5. Collection of event center surcharge; remittance to

3-66-5. Collection of event center surcharge; remittance to municipality. A. Upon the sale of a product or service subject to the event center surcharge, a vendor shall collect the event center surcharge from the purchaser of that product or service on behalf of the municipality and shall act as a trustee for the surcharge receipts. A purchaser of a product or service subject to the event center surcharge shall be charged separately for the event center surcharge from the cost of the product or service, or the vendor shall institute accounting controls or procedures sufficient to identify the amount of the surcharge owed to a municipality for each sale, transaction or exchange subject to the surcharge. Receipts from the event center surcharge shall be remitted by a vendor to the treasurer of the municipality in which the municipal event center at which the vendor sold the product or service is located no later than the tenth day of the month following the collection of the surcharge. B. A treasurer of a municipality shall deposit municipal event center revenues and event center surcharge receipts in a separate account and act as trustee of the revenue on behalf of bondholders pursuant to the Municipal Event Center Funding Act so long as any bonds remain outstanding. History: Laws 2005, ch. 351, § 7.