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N.M. Stat. § 67-3-69 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-69
§ 67-3-69. Power to state highway and transportation department
Status: in_force

In addition to the power and authority elsewhere granted to the state highway and transportation department to enter into cooperative agreements, the department is authorized to enter into agreements with any bureau, department or agency of the United States government dealing with or concerning the planning, design, construction, maintenance or supervision of any public mass transportation program or system, or the operation thereof, in this state. The department may additionally enter into agreements with any other bureau, agency or department of this state; any city, county school district or other political entity of this state; or any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization, to carry out the foregoing.
N.M. Stat. § 33-8-8 — NM Code / Chapter 33 / Article 8 / Section 33-8-8
§ 33-8-8. Inmate compensation
Status: in_force

A. The commission shall establish and periodically review a plan for compensation to inmates engaged in enterprise programs and public works. The compensation shall be in accordance with a graduated schedule based on work conduct, performance, experience, skills and responsibilities. Compensation shall be paid from the fund and credited to the general account of the inmate except as provided by Subsection C of this section. An inmate may draw against his general account during his confinement through the use of coupons, canteen checks or similar plans.

B. Pursuant to the provisions of Article 20, Section 15 of the constitution of New Mexico , if an inmate has a dependent family, his net compensation shall be paid to his family if necessary for its support. The department shall make diligent effort to determine those inmates who have dependent families in need of support.

C. The department shall promulgate necessary rules and regulations:

(1) to implement the provisions of Subsection B of this section in a thorough and equitable manner; and

(2) to provide for deductions from inmate compensation for victim restitution, reasonable costs incident to confinement and for discharge money upon release from confinement. The deductions provided by this subsection shall apply to inmate compensation, including payments pursuant to Section 33-2-26 NMSA 1978 , wages earned pursuant to the provisions of Section 33-8-13 NMSA 1978 , wages earned in work projects certified pursuant to the federal private-sector prison industry enhancement certification program and to wages earned in inmate-release programs; provided that the deductions provided by this paragraph shall not exceed fifty percent of net compensation, payment or wages and that the deduction for victim restitution shall be not less than fifteen percent of net compensation, payment or wages. If the court has not ordered victim restitution, the deduction for victim restitution shall be transmitted to the state treasurer for credit to the crime victims reparation fund.
N.M. Stat. § 72-5-39 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 5 / Section 72-5-39
§ 72-5-39. Illegal application of water; injunction or other relief
Status: in_force

No person shall use the public waters of the state of New Mexico except in accordance with the laws of the state of New Mexico. No person shall divert water or apply water to land without having a valid water right to do so, or apply it to purposes for which no valid water right exists. The state engineer may apply for and obtain an injunction in the district court of any county in which water is being diverted or the land affected is located, against any person, firm or corporation who shall divert water or commence the construction of works by which to divert water, in violation of statute, or who shall cause or permit the application of said water upon lands or to purposes for which no valid water right exists. This provision shall in no way be construed to affect the existing right of a court of equity in the exercise of its general equity powers to grant relief to the state of New Mexico by injunction or otherwise. This section shall not apply to waters within the benefited areas of a conservancy district unless the district refuses or fails to stop or correct the illegal use of water after notification by the state engineer.
N.M. Stat. § 76-4-10 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 4 / Section 76-4-10
§ 76-4-10. Sampling and examination of pesticides or devices; residue analysis
Status: in_force

A. The sampling and examination of pesticides or devices shall be made under the direction of the department for the purpose of determining if they comply with the requirements of the Pesticide Control Act.

B. The sampling of land, including agricultural products that are to be consumed by man or animals, may be made by the department to determine if pesticide residues are present that will cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment or if the residues exceed the tolerance established by the United States environmental protection agency, New Mexico environmental improvement agency [department of environment] or restrictions established by other federal or state regulatory agencies.
N.M. Stat. § 72-19-44 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 19 / Section 72-19-44
§ 72-19-44. Issuance of bonds and incurrence of debt
Status: in_force

The authority is authorized to borrow money in anticipation of taxes or other revenues, or both, and to issue bonds to evidence the amount so borrowed. No bonded indebtedness or any other indebtedness not payable in full within one year, except for interim debentures as provided in Sections 72-19-46 and 72-19-89 through 72-19-91 NMSA 1978 , shall be created by the authority without first submitting a proposition of issuing such bonds to the qualified electors of the authority and being approved by a majority of such electors voting thereon at an election held for that purpose in accordance with Sections 72-19-28 through 72-19-34 NMSA 1978 and all laws amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. Bonds so authorized may be issued in one series or more and may mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their issuance as the board may determine. The total of all outstanding indebtedness at any one time shall not exceed sixty million dollars ($60,000,000) without prior approval of the state legislature.
N.M. Stat. § 15-7-11 — NM Code / Chapter 15 / Article 7 / Section 15-7-11
§ 15-7-11. Temporary transfer of money among funds administered by risk management division
Status: in_force

A. The director of the risk management division of the general services department may transfer money in accordance with this section among the following funds:

(1) the local public body unemployment compensation reserve fund;

(2) the public liability fund;

(3) the public property reserve fund;

(4) the state government unemployment compensation reserve fund;

(5) the surety bond fund;

(6) the workers' compensation retention fund; and

(7) the group self-insurance fund.

B. Money may be transferred among the funds specified in Subsection A of this section only upon the director's written certification that:

(1) the money is required to maintain the financial stability and liquidity of the fund to which the money is to be transferred;

(2) the money is not required to maintain the financial stability and liquidity of any fund from which the money is to be transferred;

(3) the fund to which the money is to be transferred can reasonably be expected to have sufficient balances within one year of the date of the transfer to repay the amount transferred in full plus interest; and

(4) all other requirements of this section will be fulfilled prior to transfer.

C. The secretary of general services and the state board of finance shall approve in advance any transfer of money pursuant to this section.

D. The total amount of money that may be transferred out of a particular fund shall not at any time exceed thirty percent of the total balance deposited in the fund, including any money owed to the fund pursuant to this section.

E. Amounts of money transferred pursuant to this section shall be repaid to any fund from which transferred within one year from the date of transfer, together with interest. Interest shall be calculated on the basis of the average interest earned on money remaining in the fund during the duration of the transfer.

F. If amounts owing any fund cannot be repaid in accordance with this section, the director of the risk management division shall so certify to the secretary of general services and to the state board of finance. Repayment shall then be made as soon as money becomes available therefor.

G. Repayment of money to a particular fund shall not be deemed a transfer subject to the requirements of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 17-6-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 6 / Section 17-6-3
§ 17-6-3. Restrictions on motor vehicle use; recommendations; rules and regulations
Status: in_force

A. When the commission determines that the operation of vehicles within a certain area is or may be damaging to wildlife reproduction, wildlife management or the wildlife habitat of the area, the department, with the concurrence of the private land owner or the land management agency involved, after proper notice, shall hold public meetings in the area affected, on the necessity and desirability of closing such lands to the operation of any vehicles for a stated definite period. Upon finding, after public meetings, that the use of vehicles on such lands is or may be damaging to wildlife reproduction or habitat and that it is necessary and desirable to close such lands to vehicles in order to avoid such damage, the commission shall make and publish an order closing such lands to vehicle operation except on established roads that are marked by appropriate signs.

B. The commission may also recommend to the appropriate land management agency or the legislature that particular areas of land be set aside or made available for recreational vehicles.

C. The commission may also enter into agreements with or recommend to public land management agencies that certain areas be closed to camping during particular open hunting seasons or that camping be permitted only in designated areas during such open hunting seasons.

D. The commission may enter into agreements with private land owners and land management agencies controlling areas that the commission has made recommendations on pursuant to Subsection B of this section. Any such agreement shall stipulate the restrictions, prohibitions and permitted uses of vehicles in such area and the duties of the commission and such private land owner or land management agency relating to the enforcement of the terms of such agreement. Agreements with private land owners may also include provisions for sharing costs of performing any of the functions as set forth in Section 17-6-7 NMSA 1978 .

E. The commission shall adopt and file, in accordance with the State Rules Act, rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of the Habitat Protection Act, including regulations setting out procedures for hearings and notice.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9E-3 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9E / Section 7-9E-3
§ 7-9E-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Laboratory Partnership with Small Business Tax Credit Act:

A. “ contractor ”:

(1) means a person that:

(a) has the capability to provide small business assistance; and

(b) may enter into a contract with a national laboratory to provide small business assistance; and

(2) includes:

(a) a gas, water or electric utility owned or operated by a county, municipality or other political subdivision of the state;

(b) a national, federal, state, Indian or other governmental unit or subdivision, or an agency, department or instrumentality of any of the foregoing; or

(c) an organization that: 1) demonstrates to the department that the organization has been granted exemption from the federal income tax by the United States commissioner of internal revenue as organizations described in Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 , as that section may be amended or renumbered; and 2) has a place of business in New Mexico;

B. “ department ” means the taxation and revenue department, the secretary of taxation and revenue or an employee of the department exercising authority lawfully delegated to that employee by the secretary;

C. “ national laboratory ” means a prime contractor designated as a national laboratory by act of congress that is operating a facility in New Mexico;

D. “ qualified expenditure ” means an expenditure by a national laboratory in providing small business assistance, limited to the following expenditures incurred in providing the assistance:

(1) employee salaries, wages, fringe benefits and employer payroll taxes;

(2) administrative costs related directly to the provision of small business assistance, the total of which is limited to forty-nine percent of employee salaries, wages, fringe benefits and employer payroll taxes;

(3) in-state travel expenses, including per diem and mileage at the internal revenue service standard rates; and

(4) supplies and services of contractors related to the provision of small business assistance;

E. “ rural area ” means an area of the state outside of the exterior boundaries of a class A county that has a net taxable value for rate-setting purposes for any property tax year of more than seven billion dollars ($7,000,000,000);

F. “ small business ” means a business in New Mexico that conforms to the definition of small business found in the federal Small Business Act; 1 and

G. “ small business assistance ” means assistance rendered by a national laboratory related to the transfer of technology, including software, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, environmental, agricultural, information and solar and other alternative energy source technologies. “ Small business assistance ” includes nontechnical assistance related to expanding the New Mexico base of suppliers, including training and mentoring individual small businesses; assistance in developing business systems to meet audit, reporting and quality assurance requirements; and other supplier development initiatives for individual small businesses.
N.M. Stat. § 25-2-17 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 25 / Article 2 / Section 25-2-17
§ 25-2-17. Power of director to publish reports and disseminate information
Status: in_force

A. The director may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees and court orders which have been rendered under the New Mexico Food Act, including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof.

B. The director may also cause to be disseminated such information regarding food as he deems necessary in the interest of public health and the protection of the consumer against fraud. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the director from collecting, reporting and illustrating the results of his investigations.
N.M. Stat. § 47-2-3 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 2 / Section 47-2-3
§ 47-2-3. Organization of real estate trusts
Status: in_force

A real estate trust is established by filing for record with the clerk of the county in which its principal office in this state is located a declaration signed by all of its trustees, which must be at least three in number, and acknowledged before a notary public, which states:

A. that the real estate trust is organized and will be operated in conformity with the Real Estate Trust Act;

B. that the real estate trust has been established to invest in real estate assets and to pay over the net income and profits of the trust estate to the beneficial owners;

C. the location of the principal office of the real estate trust in this state and its mailing address;

D. the name, business address and the residential address of each trustee;

E. the period during which trustees shall hold office and the manner in which they shall be succeeded in office;

F. the number of units into which the beneficial ownership of the trust estate is to be divided and a description of the rights and privileges inuring to the holder of each unit;

G. that the real estate trust will not invest in any asset or take any other investment action unless its beneficial owners number more than one hundred persons, nor while any five of its beneficial owners own, directly or indirectly, an aggregate of more than fifty percent of the real estate trust; and

H. any other provisions for the regulation of the affairs of the real estate trust that the trustees elect to set forth in the declaration.
N.M. Stat. § 6-23-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 23 / Section 6-23-3
§ 6-23-3. Guaranteed utility savings contracts authorized; energy or water savings guarantee required
Status: in_force

A. A governmental unit may enter into a guaranteed utility savings contract with a qualified provider to reduce energy, water or conservation-related operating costs if, after review of the utility efficiency proposal from the qualified provider, the governmental unit finds that:

(1) the amount the governmental unit would spend on the energy or water conservation measures recommended in the proposal is not likely to exceed the cumulative amount of utility cost savings and conservation-related cost savings of all energy or water conservation measures in the proposal over twenty-five years or over a period not to exceed the expected useful life of the most durable measure in the proposal, whichever period of time is less, from the date of installation if the recommendations in the proposal were followed. The normal periodic repair and replacement of components of an energy or water conservation measure that are required after the measure is installed or completed shall not be considered in the amount a governmental unit would spend on the energy or water conservation measure for purposes of this paragraph; and

(2) the qualified provider can provide a written guarantee that the utility cost savings and conservation-related cost savings will meet or exceed the costs of the conservation measures.

B. A guaranteed utility savings contract shall include:

(1) a written guarantee from the qualified provider that annual utility cost savings and conservation-related cost savings shall meet or exceed the cost of the conservation measures; and

(2) a requirement that the qualified provider maintain a direct financial relationship with the governmental unit, irrespective of the source of financing for the energy or water conservation measures to be implemented.

C. A guaranteed utility savings contract may extend beyond the fiscal year in which it becomes effective and may provide for payments over a period of time not to exceed twenty-five years or the expected useful life of the most durable energy or water conservation measure in the contract, whichever period of time is less; provided, however, only utility cost savings, conservation-related cost savings and special funds authorized pursuant to the Public Facility Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation Act or other law shall be pledged for the payments.

D. A governmental unit may enter into an installment payment contract or lease-purchase agreement for the purchase and installation of energy or water conservation measures pursuant to a guaranteed utility savings contract, but only in accordance with the provisions of the Public Facility Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation Act and Section 13-1-150 NMSA 1978 .

E. A governmental unit may enter into a guaranteed utility savings contract pursuant to Section 13-1-129 NMSA 1978 in accordance with the provisions of the Public Facility Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation Act.
N.M. Stat. § 58-10-57 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 10 / Section 58-10-57
§ 58-10-57. Transfer of savings accounts
Status: in_force

Savings accounts are transferable only on the books of the association upon presentation of evidence of transfer satisfactory to the association, accompanied by application for transfer by which the transferee agrees to accept the account subject to the terms and conditions of the savings contract, the bylaws of the association and the provisions of its charter. The association may treat the holder of record of a savings account as the owner for all purposes without being affected by any notice to the contrary unless the association has acknowledged in writing that a pledge of the savings account has been made.
N.M. Stat. § 9-11-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 11 / Section 9-11-8
§ 9-11-8. Division directors
Status: in_force

Each division in the department, whether established by law or order of the secretary, shall be headed by a “director.” Directors shall be appointed by the secretary with the approval of the governor.
N.M. Stat. § 72-18-7 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 18 / Section 72-18-7
§ 72-18-7. Notice of hearing on petition
Status: in_force

A. Immediately after the filing of the petition, the court shall by order fix a place and time for hearing not less than sixty days after the petition is filed, and the clerk of the court shall cause notice by publication to be made of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of the hearing.

B. The notice shall state:

(1) in what court the petition is filed;

(2) a general description of the facilities to be acquired or improved within and for the district;

(3) a general description of the boundaries of the proposed district, with such certainty as to enable a property owner to determine whether or not his property is within the proposed district;

(4) the name proposed for the district; and

(5) the time and place fixed by the court for the hearing on the petition.
N.M. Stat. § 4-23-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 23 / Section 4-23-2
§ 4-23-2. County seat
Status: in_force

The county seat of the said county of Sandoval is hereby established at the town of Bernalillo in said county.
N.M. Stat. § 75-5-1 — NM Code / Chapter 75 / Article 5 / Section 75-5-1
§ 75-5-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 1 through 6 of this act may be cited as the “Natural Lands Protection Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 40-4-11 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 4 / Section 40-4-11
§ 40-4-11. Determination of award of child support; disregard of welfare payments; notice to withhold income
Status: in_force

In any proceeding before a court in which the court has the duty or authority to determine liability of a parent for the support of minor children or the amount of that support, the court:

A. shall make a specific determination and finding of the amount of support to be paid by a parent to provide properly for the care, maintenance and education of the minor children, considering the financial resources of the parent;

B. shall not consider present or future welfare financial assistance payments to or on behalf of the children in making its determination under Subsection A of this section; and

C. for good cause may order the parent liable for support of a minor child to assign to the person or public office entitled to receive the child support that portion of the parent's periodic income or other periodic entitlements to money. The assignment of that portion of the parent's periodic income or other periodic entitlements to money may be ordered by the court by the issuance of a notice to withhold income against the income of the parent. The procedures for the issuance of the notice to withhold income, the content of the notice to withhold income, the duties of the parent liable for child support and the duties of the employer responsible for withholding income shall be the same as provided for in the Support Enforcement Act, 1 except that delinquency in payment under an order for support need not be a pre-existing condition to effectuate the procedures of the Support Enforcement Act for purpose of withholding income under this section.