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N.M. Stat. § 1-12-65 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 12 / Section 1-12-65
§ 1-12-65. Paper ballots; counting and tallying procedures
Status: in_force

A. The presiding judge and the election judges, assisted by the election clerks, shall count the number of paper ballots that were not tabulated by the electronic vote tabulator, write the number of such ballots on each copy of the certificate of returns for that polling place and place the paper ballots that were not tabulated by the electronic vote tabulator in an envelope provided for that purpose. The envelope shall not be locked in the ballot box but shall instead be sealed with either a numbered seal or a locking device and transmitted directly to the county clerk for machine-tabulation or hand-tallying of the ballots.

B. The presiding judge and the election judges, assisted by the election clerks, shall count the number of machine-tabulated paper ballots with write-in votes, write the number of such ballots on each copy of the certificate of returns for that polling place and place those paper ballots with write-in votes in an envelope provided for that purpose. The envelope shall not be locked in the ballot box but shall instead be sealed with either a numbered seal or a locking device and transmitted directly to the county clerk for manual counting of the write-in votes.

C. The tallying of paper ballots that were not tabulated by the electronic vote tabulator at the polling place and the counting of ballots with write-in votes shall be in accordance with procedures prescribed by the secretary of state.

D. If the county clerk receives a sealed envelope pursuant to Subsection A or B of this section and the absent voter election board has not adjourned, the sealed envelope shall be logged and transmitted to the absent voter election board to be opened and tallied immediately. If the sealed envelope is received by the county clerk after the absent voter election board has adjourned, the sealed envelope shall be logged and transmitted to be opened and tallied by an election board appointed to assist in the preparation of the county canvass report.
N.M. Stat. § 12-10-21 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 10 / Section 12-10-21
§ 12-10-21. Governor's powers not limited
Status: in_force

The Riot Control Act does not limit any other power to maintain the public peace and safety which is vested in the governor.
N.M. Stat. § 21-3-25 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 21-3-25
§ 21-3-25. Restrictions on use of New Mexico highlands university bond proceeds
Status: in_force

That none of the funds derived from the sale of bonds issued under the provisions of this act [ 21-3-13 , 21-3-14 , 21-3-16 through 21-3-28 NMSA 1978 ], except so much thereof as shall be necessary to defray the costs of the issuance thereof and the accrued interest from the date thereof to the time of delivery, shall ever be used or expended for any purpose other than those for which authority to issue the same by this act is given.
N.M. Stat. § 72-13-8 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 13 / Section 72-13-8
§ 72-13-8. Waste of water on surface
Status: in_force

The owner of any artesian well which is being beneficially used or which under existing water rights may be beneficially used, who causes, suffers or permits the waters therefrom after coming to the surface of the earth to waste as herein defined, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Such waste is also hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and in the event of the failure or refusal of the owner of the well to abate the same, within ten (10) days from receipt of notice by registered mail, return receipt requested, from the state engineer, artesian well supervisor or artesian conservancy district, if the well is situated therein, such officials having jurisdiction may abate such nuisance in a summary manner without further notice by properly fitting the well with necessary valves or other devices or by doing whatever shall be necessary to control the flow of water therefrom and prevent such waste, and the cost thereof shall be a lien against the land upon which the well is situated, as well as any land the owner or owners of which have a legal right to the use thereon of all or a part of the water from such well insofar as the interests of the several owners may appear, together with all improvements thereon from the time the work is begun or labor and materials necessary to abate the nuisance are furnished, subject only to regularly assessed taxes and liens of record prior to the time of the commencement of the work; provided, however, a claim of lien therefor under oath of the state engineer, artesian well supervisor or an officer of an artesian conservancy district, as the case may be, is filed in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein such well is situated, within five days from the time of the completion of the work, said claim of lien to be addressed to the owner or owners of the land upon which the well is situated, and to whom it may concern, giving a description of the land to be charged with the lien, the nature of the work, the time commenced and the time completed, together with the cost thereof. Said lien may be foreclosed in the same manner as provided by law for the foreclosure of mortgages at any time after one year but not more than three years from the date of filing the same. The county clerk shall make no charge for filing the claim of lien, and no costs shall be taxed against the plaintiff in any foreclosure proceeding on account thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 22-23A-8 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 23A / Section 22-23A-8
§ 22-23A-8. Fund created
Status: in_force

A. The “Indian education fund” is created in the state treasury. The fund consists of appropriations, gifts, grants and donations and income from investment of the fund. Money in the fund shall not revert. The fund shall be administered by the department, and money in the fund is appropriated to the department to distribute awards to support the Indian Education Act.

B. The department shall ensure that funds appropriated from the Indian education fund shall be used for the purposes stated in the Indian Education Act and shall not be used to correct for previous reductions of program services.

C. The department shall develop procedures and rules for the award of money from the fund. Disbursement of the fund shall be made by warrant of the department of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary of public education.
N.M. Stat. § 53-19-18 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 19 / Section 53-19-18
§ 53-19-18. Indemnification of members and managers
Status: in_force

The articles of organization or an operating agreement may provide for indemnification of a member or manager for judgments, settlements, penalties, fines or expenses incurred in a proceeding to which a person is a party because he is or was a member or manager and for advancement of expenses, including costs of defense, prior to final disposition of such proceeding.
N.M. Stat. § 4-50-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 50 / Section 4-50-2
§ 4-50-2. Tax levy; county flood fund; authority to borrow
Status: in_force

A board of county commissioners, upon certification of the need and estimated cost by the county flood commissioner, may contract to borrow funds through state or federal agencies or through the New Mexico finance authority for flood control purposes and may levy an annual tax at a rate not to exceed one dollar fifty cents ($1.50), or any lower maximum amount required by operation of the rate limitation provisions of Section 7-37-7.1 NMSA 1978 upon a tax imposed under this section, on each one thousand dollars ($1,000) of net taxable value, as that term is defined in the Property Tax Code, of all the taxable property located within five miles of both sides of any river or stream which contributes to or is subject to flood conditions destructive to property or dangerous to human life. Such taxes shall be levied and collected for the purpose of creating a fund which shall be used to construct and maintain dikes, dams, embankments, ditches or such other structures or excavations necessary to prevent flood waters from damaging property or human life within such counties or to repay, according to their terms, any state or federal loans obtained for flood control purposes. Such tax shall be assessed, levied and collected as other taxes are collected and when so collected shall be known as the “county flood fund”, and such fund shall be maintained in such a manner as to keep separate records of all flood control taxes collected from each stream or river drainage area. The taxes collected shall only be used and disbursed for flood control projects in the drainage area for which they were assessed in accordance with the provisions of Sections 4-50-1 through 4-50-9 NMSA 1978 and shall not be transferred to any other fund or purpose.
N.M. Stat. § 53-10-1 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 10 / Section 53-10-1
§ 53-10-1. Purpose of organization; filing statement, articles of association and rules and regulations with county clerk
Status: in_force

Whenever two or more persons shall desire to form an association for the promotion of their mutual pleasure or recreation of any hunting, fishing, camping, golf, country club, or association for a similar purpose, or an association not for the individual profit of the members thereof, and without incorporating the same as a corporation, or maintaining the title of its property in trust for the interest of its several members as they may exist from time to time, the said persons or members desiring to form such an association or club may file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which it may maintain its headquarters and pursue its objects and purposes, a statement containing the name of such association, its objects and purposes, the names and residences of the persons forming such association, together with a copy of its articles of association and any rules and/or regulations governing the transactions of its objects and purposes and prescribing the terms by which its members may maintain or cease their membership therein.
N.M. Stat. § 1-12-66 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 12 / Section 1-12-66
§ 1-12-66. Paper ballots; signature rosters, checklist of voters and tally sheets; disposition
Status: in_force

A. After all certificates have been executed, the presiding judge and the two election judges shall place the checklist of voters and one copy of the certificate of returns in that polling place in the stamped, addressed envelope provided for that purpose and an election judge shall immediately mail it to the secretary of state.

B. The signature roster and the original certificate of returns in that polling place shall be returned to the county clerk. The signature roster and the certificate of returns shall not be placed in the ballot box.

C. Signature rosters, checklists of registered voters, certificates of returns and tally sheets in the custody of the county clerk and the secretary of state may be destroyed only pursuant to Section 1-12-69 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 7-15A-14 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 15A / Section 7-15A-14
§ 7-15A-14. Weight distance tax identification permit fund
Status: in_force

The “weight distance tax identification permit fund” is created in the state treasury. The purpose of the fund is to provide an account from which the department and the department of transportation may pay the costs of issuing and administering weight distance tax identification permits and of enforcing weight distance tax compliance. The fund shall consist of administrative fees collected pursuant to the Weight Distance Tax Act. Money in the fund shall be appropriated to the department and the department of transportation to pay for the cost of issuance and administration of weight distance tax identification permits and of enforcement by the department and the department of transportation of weight distance tax compliance for motor carriers with the provisions of the Weight Distance Tax Act. Disbursements from the fund shall be by warrant of the secretary of finance and administration upon vouchers signed by the secretary or the secretary's authorized representative. Money in the fund shall not revert to the general fund at the end of a fiscal year.
N.M. Stat. § 4-34-8 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 34 / Section 4-34-8
§ 4-34-8. City cooperating; sale of bonds; construction by commissioners; maintenance
Status: in_force

Such bonds shall be sold at par or taken at par in payment for grounds or building, and such bonds shall be delivered to the county commissioners or to such person as they may designate to have charge of the construction and payment for such building. The contract for such construction shall be let by the county commissioners, and said grounds and building shall belong to the county, and the county shall have the right to charge and collect from such city its proper share of the cost of maintenance, repair and insurance thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 12-12-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-12-2
§ 12-12-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Energy Emergency Powers Act:

A. “energy emergency” means an existing or imminent domestic, regional or national shortage of energy resources which may result in the curtailment of essential services or production of essential goods or the disruption of significant sectors of the economy or have a severe impact on the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of this state unless action is taken to conserve or limit the use of the energy form involved and the allocation of available energy resources among users;

B. “energy resource” means petroleum or other liquid fuels, natural or synthetic fuel gas, electricity, coal, synthetic fuel or its components;

C. “energy supply alert” means an anticipated shortfall of available energy resources on a national, regional or local basis which foreseeably could result in an energy emergency unless action is taken to reduce energy uses by the state, its agencies and political subdivisions; and

D. “person” means an individual, partnership, joint venture, private or public corporation, cooperative, association, firm, public utility, political subdivision, municipal corporation, government agency, joint operating agency or any other entity, public or private, however organized.
N.M. Stat. § 77-12-3 — NM Code / Chapter 77 / Article 12 / Section 77-12-3
§ 77-12-3. Parts of lands not to be included without consent
Status: in_force

Such district shall not include any part of the contiguous land held by any person as owner, lessee or contract purchaser, unless it shall include the whole of all such lands of such person, except where such person shall expressly consent thereto by signing and acknowledging said petition.
N.M. Stat. § 5-15-28 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 15 / Section 5-15-28
§ 5-15-28. Bond term expiration
Status: in_force

The terms of bonds issued pursuant to the Tax Increment for Development Act for a district, including refunding bonds, shall expire not more than twenty-five years after the date that the first bonds are issued for that district.
N.M. Stat. § 53-19-11 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 19 / Section 53-19-11
§ 53-19-11. Amendment and restatement of articles of organization
Status: in_force

A. The articles of organization of a limited liability company are amended when articles of amendment are filed with the secretary of state or at any later date or time specified in the articles of amendment if there has been substantial compliance with the requirements of the Limited Liability Company Act. The articles of amendment shall set forth:

(1) the name of the limited liability company and, if different, include any name under which it proposes to transact business in New Mexico;

(2) the date that the articles of organization were filed; and

(3) the amendments of the articles of organization.

B. The articles of organization may be amended in any respect desired, so long as the articles of organization, as amended, contain only provisions that may be lawfully contained in articles of organization at the time of making the amendment.

C. The articles of organization shall be amended to reflect any change in the name of the limited liability company, the latest date on which the limited liability company is to dissolve or whether the limited liability company is to be managed by members or managers.

D. Articles of organization may be restated at any time. Restated articles of organization shall be filed with the secretary of state and shall be designated as such in the heading and shall state either in the heading or in an introductory paragraph the limited liability company's present name and, if it has been changed, all of its former names and the date of the filing of its articles of organization. Restated articles of organization shall supersede the original articles of organization and all prior amendments and restatements.
N.M. Stat. § 1-6-20 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 6 / Section 1-6-20
§ 1-6-20. Creation of absent voter precinct
Status: in_force

A. The board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution creating, for absent voting purposes only, an absent voter precinct for each county.

B. Absent voter precincts shall be identified by the name of the county.
N.M. Stat. § 1-1-1.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 1-1-1.1
§ 1-1-1.1. Purpose of Code
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of the Election Code to secure the secrecy of the ballot, the purity of elections and guard against the abuse of the elective franchise. It is also the purpose of the Election Code to provide for efficient administration and conduct of elections.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-94 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-94
§ 7-9-94. Deduction; gross receipts; military transformational acquisition programs
Status: in_force

A. Receipts from transformational acquisition programs performing research and development, test and evaluation at New Mexico major range and test facility bases pursuant to contracts entered into with the United States department of defense may be deducted from gross receipts through June 30, 2025.

B. As used in this section, “ transformational acquisition program ” means a military acquisition program authorized by the office of the secretary of defense force transformation and not physically tested in New Mexico on or before July 1, 2005.

C. The deduction provided in this section does not apply to receipts of a prime contractor operating facilities designated as a national laboratory by act of congress and is not applicable to current force programs as of July 1, 2005.

D. The department shall compile an annual report on the deduction provided by this section that shall include the number of taxpayers that claimed the deduction, the aggregate amount of deductions claimed and any other information necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the deduction. No later than December 1 of each year that the deduction is in effect, the department shall compile and present the annual report to the revenue stabilization and tax policy committee and the legislative finance committee with an analysis of the cost and benefit to the state of the deduction.
N.M. Stat. § 37-1-2 — NM Code / Chapter 37 / Article 1 / Section 37-1-2
§ 37-1-2. Judgments
Status: in_force

Actions founded upon a judgment of a court of the state may be brought within fourteen years from the date of the judgment and not afterward. Actions founded upon a judgment of a court of record of another state or territory of the United States, or of the federal courts, may be brought within the applicable period of limitation within that jurisdiction, not to exceed fourteen years from the date of the judgment, and not afterward. A judgment obtained through a common law action on a prior judgment or through any other means of revival of a prior judgment shall not be enforceable after fourteen years from the date of the original judgment upon which it is founded.
N.M. Stat. § 2-16-5 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 16 / Section 2-16-5
§ 2-16-5. Report
Status: in_force

The committee shall make a report of its findings and recommendations for the consideration of each session of the legislature. The report and suggested legislation shall be made available to the legislative council on or before December 15 preceding each session.
N.M. Stat. § 22-13C-3 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 13C / Section 22-13C-3
§ 22-13C-3. Meal application availability and clarity
Status: in_force

A. A school shall provide:

(1) a free, printed meal application in every school enrollment packet, or if the school chooses to use an electronic meal application, provide in school enrollment packets an explanation of the electronic meal application process and instructions for how parents or guardians may request a paper application at no cost; and

(2) meal applications and instructions in a language that parents and guardians understand. If a parent or guardian cannot read or understand a meal application, the school shall offer assistance in completing the application.

B. If a school becomes aware that a student who has not submitted a meal application is eligible for free or reduced-fee meals, the school shall complete and file an application for the student under the authority granted by Title 7, Section 245.6(d) of the Code of Federal Regulations .

C. Subsections A and B of this section do not apply to a school that provides free meals to all students in a year in which the school does not collect meal applications from students.

D. The liaison required of a school pursuant to the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act shall coordinate with the nutrition department to make sure that a homeless student receives free school meals and shall be appropriately coded and entered in the student-teacher accountability reporting system. The requirements of this subsection do not apply to a private or religious school.