Some residents in Santa Teresa want to incorporate as a new municipality.
An organizer of incorporation efforts said Tuesday that a provisional government has been established and most of the town's estimated 4,300 residents support the plan.
Santa Teresa Country Club resident Craig Carpenter says documents will be filed within the next four months.
The initiative comes after the councilors in the troubled border town of Sunland Park adopted a resolution last week to explore annexing unincorporated areas adjacent to Sunland Park.
The Santa Teresa Country Club, a private, unincorporated community currently governed by Dona Ana County, is within five miles of Sunland Park's city limits. New Mexico law allows municipalities to annex unincorporated areas within five miles.
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