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N.M. Stat. § 31-1-6 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 31-1-6
§ 31-1-6. Citation in lieu of arrest without a warrant
Status: in_force

A. A law enforcement officer who arrests a person without a warrant for a petty misdemeanor or any offense under Chapter 17 NMSA 1978 may offer the person arrested the option of accepting a citation to appear in lieu of taking the person to jail.

B. A citation issued pursuant to this section shall contain the name and address of the cited person, the offense charged and the time and place to appear. The citation may be a paper citation or an electronic version of a paper citation. Unless the person requests an earlier date, the time specified in the citation shall be at least three days after issuance of the citation. The law enforcement officer shall explain the person's rights not to sign a citation, the effect of not signing the citation, the effect of signing the citation and the effect of failing to appear at the time and place stated on the citation.

C. The person's signature on the citation constitutes a promise to appear at the time and place stated in the citation. One copy of the citation to appear shall be delivered to the person cited, and the law enforcement officer shall keep a duplicate copy for filing with the court as soon as practicable.

D. A law enforcement officer who prepares a citation pursuant to this section may use a paper citation form or an electronic citation form to record the information required by this section. Regardless of the form of citation used, a physical copy of the citation shall be delivered to the person cited as required by this section. An electronic citation may be signed electronically and the law enforcement officer's copy of a citation may be filed with the court electronically.

E. A citation issued pursuant to this section is a valid complaint if the person receives and signs the citation in paper or electronic form.

F. It is a petty misdemeanor for a person signing a citation not to appear at the time and place stated in the citation regardless of the disposition of the offense for which the citation was issued. A written promise to appear may be complied with by appearance of counsel.
N.M. Stat. § 17-6-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 6 / Section 17-6-2
§ 17-6-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Habitat Protection Act:

A. “commission” means the state game commission;

B. “cross-country” means travel over the countryside other than by road;

C. “vehicle” means any motor-powered mechanical device used for conveyance; and

D. “road” means any maintained or unmaintained right-of-way that has been utilized by the public and includes roads, streets, highways and state scenic, recreation or historical trails.
N.M. Stat. § 9-8-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 8 / Section 9-8-1
§ 9-8-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 9, Article 8 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Health Care Authority Department Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 4-27-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 27 / Section 4-27-3
§ 4-27-3. County seat
Status: in_force

The county seat of said county of Sierra is hereby permanently located and established at the town of Hillsborough in said county of Sierra.
N.M. Stat. § 61-14B-8 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 14B / Section 61-14B-8
§ 61-14B-8. Exemptions
Status: in_force

A. Nothing in the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other recognized professions that are licensed, certified or registered under New Mexico law or regulation from rendering services within the scope of their licenses, certificates or registrations, provided that they do not represent themselves as holding licenses in speech-language pathology, audiology or hearing aid dispensing.

B. A person not meeting the requirements for licensure as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist under the provisions of the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act may practice as a speech pathologist or audiologist until July 1, 1997 if:

(1) the person is employed as a speech pathologist or audiologist on a waiver license issued by the public education department prior to the effective date of that act; and

(2) the person is actively seeking the educational requirements for licensure under that act.

C. Nothing in the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act prevents qualified members of other recognized professional groups, such as licensed physicians, dentists or teachers of the deaf, from doing appropriate work in the area of communication disorders consistent with the standards and ethics of their respective professions.

D. Nothing in the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act restricts the activities and services of a speech-language pathology or audiology graduate student at an accredited or approved college or university or an approved clinical training facility; provided that these activities and services constitute part of the student's supervised course of study and that the student is designated as a speech-language pathology or audiology graduate student or other title clearly indicating the training status appropriate to the student's level of training.
N.M. Stat. § 24-1F-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 1F / Section 24-1F-6
§ 24-1F-6. Annual report; policies and procedures
Status: in_force

A. The department of health shall provide an annual report on activities and expenditures conducted pursuant to the Billy Griego HIV and AIDS Act. The report shall be submitted no later than December 15 to the legislature and the governor.

B. The department of health shall develop and annually review policies and procedures pertaining to the Billy Griego HIV and AIDS Act.
N.M. Stat. § 75-3-1 — NM Code / Chapter 75 / Article 3 / Section 75-3-1
§ 75-3-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Weather Control Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 19-4-28 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 4 / Section 19-4-28
§ 19-4-28. Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; powers; office hours; bond
Status: in_force

Said board may, by order, resolution or ordinance, appoint a commission [commissioner] to sell and convey any such real estate, and to affix to any conveyance thereof the seal of such town, and have control of such seal for such purpose, and such conveyance, executed in accordance with such order, shall have the effect to transfer, to the grantee named a title in fee simple to any such real estate so conveyed. Said commissioner may be removed at the will of the board, as often as it may seem fit, by an order entered to that effect, and a new commissioner appointed with like powers. Said commissioner shall be a freeholder in such town, and not a member of the board, and have no personal interest in the land so to be sold. Said commissioner shall, during his term of office, keep open an office in some public and well-known place in such town, from ten o'clock a.m. until noon of each day, Sundays and holidays excepted, for the purpose of receiving payments from and executing deeds to persons who are entitled to deeds by reason of purchase, and who have made improvements upon such land, as hereinafter stated in this chapter. No claimant shall be allowed to suffer on account of the misconduct of such commissioner in the discharge of his duties. Such commissioner shall receive such reasonable fees for his services as said board may prescribe. Before entering upon his duties, such commissioner shall enter into a bond, with good and sufficient securities, to be approved by the board, executed in behalf of the town, with obligations to faithfully account to the board for all money received, and to pay the same over to the town treasury.
N.M. Stat. § 12-2A-13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 2A / Section 12-2A-13
§ 12-2A-13. Headings and titles
Status: in_force

Headings and titles may not be used in construing a statute or rule unless they are contained in the enrolled and engrossed bill or rule as adopted.
N.M. Stat. § 12-10A-5 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 10A / Section 12-10A-5
§ 12-10A-5. Declaring a state of public health emergency; terminating the emergency
Status: in_force

A. A state of public health emergency may be declared by the governor upon the occurrence of a public health emergency. Prior to a declaration of a state of public health emergency, the governor shall consult with the secretary of health. The governor shall authorize the secretary of health, the secretary of public safety and the director to coordinate a response to the public health emergency.

B. A state of public health emergency shall be declared in an executive order that specifies:

(1) the nature of the public health emergency;

(2) the political subdivisions or geographic areas affected by the public health emergency;

(3) the conditions that caused the public health emergency;

(4) the expected duration of the public health emergency, if less than thirty days;

(5) the public health officials needed to assist in the coordination of a public health emergency response; and

(6) any other provisions necessary to implement the executive order.

C. A declaration of a state of public health emergency shall not abrogate any disease-reporting requirements set forth in the Public Health Act.

D. A declaration of a state of public health emergency shall be terminated:

(1) by the governor, after consultation with the secretary of health, upon determining that there is no longer a public health emergency; or

(2) automatically after thirty days, unless renewed by the governor after consultation with the secretary of health.

E. Upon the termination of a state of public health emergency, the secretary of health shall consult with the secretary of public safety and the director to ensure public safety during termination procedures.
N.M. Stat. § 25-2-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 25 / Article 2 / Section 25-2-6
§ 25-2-6. Detention of food believed adulterated or misbranded; condemnation; destruction or correction of defect
Status: in_force

A. Whenever the director finds or has probable cause to believe that any food is adulterated or so misbranded as to be dangerous or fraudulent within the meaning of the New Mexico Food Act, he shall affix to such article a tag or other appropriate marking, giving notice that such article is, or is suspected of being, adulterated or misbranded and has been detained or embargoed and warning all persons not to remove or dispose of such article by sale or otherwise until permission for removal or disposal is given by the director or the court. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or dispose of such detained or embargoed article by sale or otherwise without such permission.

B. When an article detained or embargoed under Subsection A of this section has been found by the director to be adulterated or misbranded, he shall petition the judge of the district court in whose jurisdiction the article is detained or embargoed for a libel for condemnation of such article. When the director has found that an article so detained or embargoed is not adulterated or misbranded, he shall remove the tag or other marking.

C. If the court finds that a detained or embargoed article is adulterated or misbranded, such article shall, after entry of the decree, be destroyed at the expense of the claimant thereof under the supervision of the director, and all court costs and fees and storage and other proper expenses shall be taxed against the claimant of such article or his agent; provided that when the adulteration or misbranding can be corrected by proper labeling or processing of the article, the court, after entry of the decree and after such costs, fees and expenses have been paid and a good and sufficient bond, conditioned that such article shall be so labeled or processed, has been executed, may by order direct that such article be delivered to the claimant thereof for such labeling or processing under the supervision of the director. The expense of such supervision shall be paid by the claimant. Such bond shall be returned to the claimant of the article on representation to the court by the director that the article is no longer in violation of the New Mexico Food Act and that the expenses of such supervision have been paid.

D. Whenever the director shall find in any room, building, vehicle of transportation or other structure, any meat, seafood, poultry, vegetable, fruit or other perishable articles which are unsound or contain any filthy, decomposed or putrid substance, or that may be poisonous or deleterious to health or otherwise unsafe, the same being hereby declared to be a nuisance, he shall forthwith condemn or destroy the same or in any other manner render the same unsaleable as human food.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8-47 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8 / Section 22-8-47
§ 22-8-47. New Mexico government education fund
Status: in_force

A. The “New Mexico government education fund” is created in the state treasury.

B. The New Mexico government education fund shall consist of appropriations by the legislature, gifts, grants and donations.

C. The New Mexico government education fund shall be administered by the department. Money in the fund is appropriated to the department to contract for annual, week-long, high school civics courses focusing on New Mexico state government for boys and girls to be held at varying post-secondary educational institutions in New Mexico.

D. Disbursements from the New Mexico government education fund shall be made by warrant of the department of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary.

E. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain to the credit of the New Mexico government education fund.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-28-9 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 28 / Section 32A-28-9
§ 32A-28-9. Full faith and credit
Status: in_force

The state shall recognize and give full faith and credit to public acts, records and judicial proceedings regarding parentage, nonparentage, adoption and custody decided in an Indian tribe's jurisdiction.
N.M. Stat. § 67-15-2 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 15 / Section 67-15-2
§ 67-15-2. Purpose of act; legislative findings
Status: in_force

A. The purpose of the Clean Highways Act is to accomplish litter control throughout this state by delegating to the state highway department, and providing funds therefor, the authority to conduct a permanent and continuous program to control and remove litter from the roads and highways of this state to the maximum extent possible.

B. The legislature finds that the rapid population growth of New Mexico, the ever-increasing mobility of its people and the large number of annual visitors using the public roads and highways of this state have created a litter problem of major proportions along the roads and highways, constituting a hazard to the safety and health of the citizens of this state and constituting a blight upon the natural beauty of this land.

C. The legislature further finds that there is urgent need to initiate and carry out some form of effective litter control that in its implementation does not place excessive burdens upon the consumers or businesses of this state.
N.M. Stat. § 3-7-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 3-7-1
§ 3-7-1. Methods of annexation
Status: in_force

A. There shall be three methods of annexing territory to a municipality:

(1) the arbitration method as provided in Sections 3-7-5 through 3-7-10 NMSA 1978;

(2) the boundary commission method as provided in Sections 3-7-11 through 3-7-16 NMSA 1978; and

(3) the petition method as provided in Section 3-7-17 NMSA 1978 .

B. Territory may be annexed to a municipality by any one of the three methods of annexation provided for in Sections 3-7-5 through 3-7-18 NMSA 1978 except where limitations of annexation are provided by law. The provisions of this section apply to annexations of all municipalities except those that are otherwise specifically provided by law. The arbitration method of annexation may be used for municipal annexation of a traditional historic community only upon petition of a majority of the qualified electors of the territory within the traditional historic community.
N.M. Stat. § 13-4C-4 — NM Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4C / Section 13-4C-4
§ 13-4C-4. Mediation requirement; exemptions
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsections B, C and D of this section, a person who seeks to resolve a dispute related to the performance of a public works project shall exhaust the mediation procedures set forth in the Public Works Mediation Act before seeking judicial relief in a court of law.

B. A dispute that arises under an arbitration clause of a contract for a public works project that includes a clause in the contract that requires arbitration is exempt from the provisions of the Public Works Mediation Act.

C. The provisions of the Public Works Mediation Act shall not apply to:

(1) any disputes between employers and employees, including disputes arising pursuant to the provisions of the Public Works Minimum Wage Act or the Workers' Compensation Act; or

(2) any disputes regarding an apprenticeship, including disputes arising pursuant to the provisions of Sections 50-7-1 through 50-7-7 NMSA 1978 .

D. All contractual alternative dispute resolution remedies shall be exhausted prior to application of the provisions of the Public Works Mediation Act.
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-424.39 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-424.39
§ 66-3-424.39. Special concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., registration plate
Status: in_force

A. The division shall issue a standardized concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., special registration plate with a logo designed pursuant to Section 66-3-424 NMSA 1978 to recognize the families and friends of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

B. For an initial fee of forty-five dollars ($45.00), which shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fees, the owner of a vehicle may apply for issuance of a concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., special registration plate. The vehicle owner shall pay a renewal fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) each year to retain and renew the concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., special registration plate.

C. The revenue from the additional fee for a concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., special registration plate shall be distributed as follows:

(1) ten dollars ($10.00) of the initial fee collected shall be retained by and is appropriated to the department to defray the cost of making and issuing the special registration plate with the concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., logo; and

(2) thirty-five dollars ($35.00) of the initial registration fee and the entire thirty-five dollars ($35.00) of subsequent renewal fees shall be distributed to the law enforcement protection fund.

D. Beginning on July 1, 2026, and on July 1 of each subsequent year, the department shall compare the number of concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., special registration plates issued or registration renewals for those plates in the previous fiscal year with the average of the number of such plates issued in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

E. By September 1 of a fiscal year in which the department determines that the number of concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., special registration plates issued or registration renewals for those plates in the previous fiscal year is less than fifty percent of the average number of such plates issued in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the department shall stop issuing concerns of police survivors, C.O.P.S., special registration plates.
N.M. Stat. § 7-1-23 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 7-1-23
§ 7-1-23. Disputing liabilities; election of remedies
Status: in_force

A taxpayer may dispute the taxpayer's liability for taxes only by protesting the assessment of taxes as provided in Section 7-1-24 NMSA 1978 without making payment or by claiming a refund as provided in Section 7-1-26 NMSA 1978 after making payment of the taxes the department asserts are owed. The pursuit of one of the two remedies constitutes an unconditional waiver of the right to pursue the other.
N.M. Stat. § 4-44-12.3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 44 / Section 4-44-12.3
§ 4-44-12.3. Legislative intent; uniform salary changes
Status: in_force

A. The intent of the legislature when increasing the maximum salaries of elected county officials is to provide for equitable salary increases.

B. The majority of a board of county commissioners may provide for salary increases for elected county officials; however, a salary increase shall not take effect until the first day of the term of an elected county official who takes office after the date that salary increase is approved.
N.M. Stat. § 65-3-14 — NM Code / Chapter 65 / Article 3 / Section 65-3-14
§ 65-3-14. Drug and alcohol testing program; report of positive test
Status: in_force

A. A motor carrier shall have an in-house drug and alcohol testing program that meets the requirements of 49 C.F.R. part 382 or be a member of a consortium, as defined in 49 C.F.R. part 382.107 , that provides testing that meets the requirements of 49 C.F.R. part 382 .

B. A person or entity specified in 49 C.F.R. part 382.103 , who is not explicitly excepted by New Mexico law, is subject to the provisions of this section and shall report positive test results or a refusal to submit to a test pursuant to provisions in this section. A refusal to submit to a pre-employment test shall not be considered a violation of this section.

C. When a person or entity specified in 49 C.F.R. part 382.103 determines that a positive test result is valid, the person or entity shall report the findings to the motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department. The motor vehicle division shall enter the report of a positive test result or refusal to submit to a test on the reported person's motor vehicle record so that it can be contained in the commercial driver's license information system pursuant to the New Mexico Commercial Driver's License Act.

D. The division shall keep the report of a positive test result or the refusal to submit to a test in the motor vehicle record of the driver for five years from the time the report was received by the motor vehicle division.

E. The division shall seek reports from the federal commercial driver's license drug and alcohol clearinghouse for actions relating to commercial driver's licenses or commercial driver's permits.