All outstanding public securities of the state and of all public bodies thereof, and all acts and proceedings heretofore had or taken, or purportedly had or taken, by or on behalf of the state or any public body thereof under law or color of law preliminary to and in the authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment, or any combination thereof, of all such public securities are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, including but not necessarily limited to, the terms, provisions, conditions and covenants of any resolution or ordinance appertaining thereto, the redemption or refunding of public securities before maturity and provisions therefor, including defeasance and discharge of liens arising from or existing by virtue of public securities redeemed or refunded, the levy and collection of rates, tolls and charges, special assessments, and general and other taxes, and the acquisition and application of other revenues, the pledge and use of the proceeds thereof, and the establishment of liens thereon and funds therefore, appertaining to such public securities, except as hereinafter provided, notwithstanding any lack of power, authority or otherwise, and notwithstanding any defects and irregularities in such public securities, acts and proceedings, and in such authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such acts and proceedings appertaining to such public securities all or any part of which have heretofore not been issued nor purportedly issued. Such outstanding public securities are and shall be, and such public securities heretofore not issued nor purportedly issued shall be, after their issuance, binding, legal, valid and enforceable obligations of the state or the public body issuing them in accordance with their terms and their authorizing proceedings, subject to the taking or adoption of acts and proceedings heretofore not had nor taken, nor purportedly had nor taken, but required by and in substantial and due compliance with laws appertaining to any such public securities heretofore not issued nor purportedly issued.
NMS § 6-16-3