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N.M. Stat. § 3-15-9 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 3-15-9
§ 3-15-9. Special election on adoption of charter
Status: in_force

Within five days after the filing with the clerk of the municipality of the charter provided for by Sections 3-15-1 through 3-15-16 NMSA 1978 , and the charter being approved by a majority of the members elected to the governing body of the municipality at a regular or special meeting, the presiding officer of the governing body of the municipality shall by proclamation call a special election for the purpose of submitting to the electors of the municipality the question of whether or not the municipality shall adopt the charter prepared by the charter committee. The special election may be called and held at the same time and in conjunction with the regular election for municipal officers. Should the charter filed with the clerk of the municipality fail to be approved by the governing body of the municipality, the charter shall be returned to the chairman of the charter committee together with a letter of transmittal stating the reason why the charter has been rejected by the governing body. The charter committee shall revise the charter in accordance with their instructions in the letter of transmittal and shall refile the same with the clerk of the municipality within sixty days after the chairman of the charter committee shall have had returned to him the rejected charter. If the charter is then approved, the election proclamation shall be issued, or if not approved, the charter shall be returned by the governing body to the charter committee. This procedure shall continue until a charter is presented and approved by the governing body of the municipality.
N.M. Stat. § 72-19-35 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 19 / Section 72-19-35
§ 72-19-35. Dissolution of authority
Status: in_force

If a remonstrance is received pursuant to Section 7 of the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act denying the board the power to acquire a flood control system or if the first proposal for the issuance of bonds fails to receive a favorable vote by a majority of the qualified electors voting on the proposal, the board shall proceed to dissolve the authority.
N.M. Stat. § 22-2D-1 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 2D / Section 22-2D-1
§ 22-2D-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 64 through 68 of this act may be cited as the “Family and Youth Resource Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 71-6-7 — NM Code / Chapter 71 / Article 6 / Section 71-6-7
§ 71-6-7. Department; duties relating to solar collector standards
Status: in_force

A. The department shall promulgate rules to:

(1) define minimum standards for the durability and reliability of solar collectors; and

(2) establish criteria for testing the durability, reliability and thermal efficiency of solar collectors.

B. In promulgating the rules required by Subsection A of this section, the department shall:

(1) consult with scientists, engineers and individuals in research centers and professional societies such as the American society of testing and materials who are engaged in the construction of, experimentation with and research of solar energy systems in order to make changes, modifications and improvements to the standards and certification program;

(2) consider compliance costs to industry and, insofar as practicable, make efforts to reduce such costs; and

(3) consider similar standards and testing criteria adopted by other states or included in nationally recognized and accepted testing methodologies.

C. The department shall approve testing facilities that meet the criteria established by Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of this section and that have no financial interest in the manufacture, distribution or sale of solar collectors. An approved testing facility that is partially or wholly supported by state funds may collect a reasonable testing fee sufficient to cover the costs of testing.
N.M. Stat. § 1-17-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 17 / Section 1-17-3
§ 1-17-3. Referendum petitions; solicitor of signatures; duty
Status: in_force

Every person who solicits signatures to any petition for referendum shall present a full and correct copy of the law on which the referendum is sought to the person whose signature is solicited.
N.M. Stat. § 31-16A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 16A / Section 31-16A-3
§ 31-16A-3. Program establishment
Status: in_force

Each district attorney shall establish a preprosecution diversion program in his judicial district in accordance with the provisions of the Preprosecution Diversion Act to the extent public or private funds permit.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8-24 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8 / Section 22-8-24
§ 22-8-24. Instructional staff training and experience index; definitions; factors; calculations
Status: in_force

A. For the purpose of calculating the instructional staff training and experience index, the following definitions and limitations shall apply:

(1) “instructional staff” means the personnel assigned to the instructional program of the school district, excluding principals, substitute teachers, instructional aides, secretaries and clerks;

(2) the number of instructional staff to be counted in calculating the instructional staff training and experience index is the actual number of full-time equivalent instructional staff on the October payroll;

(3) the number of years of experience to be used in calculating the instructional staff training and experience index is that number of years of experience allowed for salary increment purposes on the salary schedule of the school district; and

(4) the academic degree and additional credit hours to be used in calculating the instructional staff training and experience index is the degree and additional semester credit hours allowed for salary increment purposes on the salary schedule of the school district.

B. The factors for each classification of academic training by years of experience are provided in the following table:

Years of Experience

Academic Classification

0-2

3-5

6-8

9-15

Over

15

Bachelor's degree or less

.75

.90

1.00

1.05

1.05

Bachelor's degree plus 15 credit hours

.80

.95

1.00

1.10

1.15

Master's degree or bachelor's degree plus 45 credit hours

.85

1.00

1.05

1.15

1.20

Master's degree plus 15 credit hours

.90

1.05

1.15

1.30

1.35

Post-master's degree or master's degree plus 45 credit hours

1.00

1.15

1.30

1.40

1.50

C. The instructional staff training and experience index for each school district shall be calculated in accordance with instructions issued by the state secretary. The following calculations shall be computed:

(1) multiply the number of full-time equivalent instructional staff in each academic classification by the numerical factor in the appropriate “years of experience” column provided in the table in Subsection B of this section;

(2) add the products calculated in Paragraph (1) of this subsection; and

(3) divide the total obtained in Paragraph (2) of this subsection by the total number of full-time equivalent instructional staff.

D. In the event that the result of the calculation of the training and experience index is 1.0 or less, the district's factor shall be no less than 1.0.

E. In the event that a new school district is created, the training and experience index for that district is 1.12.
N.M. Stat. § 50-1-1.4 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 1 / Section 50-1-1.4
§ 50-1-1.4. Meetings of labor and industrial commission; chairman; functions
Status: in_force

A. It shall be the duty of the labor and industrial commission to meet at the call of the chairman; provided, however, that any two members may petition the chairman to call a meeting, and the chairman shall thereupon set a date for the meeting not to exceed five days from receipt of the petition.

B. The commission shall receive reports from the secretary and act in an advisory capacity to the secretary in the enforcement of labor legislation.
N.M. Stat. § 21-13A-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 13A / Section 21-13A-4
§ 21-13A-4. Distribution of funds
Status: in_force

A. Beginning in the budget cycle following the effective date of the Workforce Training Act, the commission [department] shall include in its annual budget an amount calculated to be necessary to implement a workforce training program in the state.

B. During the first year of funding, a base number of students shall be projected by the commission [department] for each community college offering customized training pursuant to the Workforce Training Act after consultation with each community college. To determine the funding to be distributed to each community college, the total appropriation made by the legislature to implement that act shall be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the projected number of student credit hours in customized training at the community college receiving the funding and the denominator of which is the total projected number of student credit hours in customized training at all of the community colleges participating in the workforce training program.

C. Following the first year of implementation of the Workforce Training Act, the commission [department] shall determine the number of students enrolled in customized training at each community college in the state according to the most recent year for which data is available.

D. Using a predetermined credit-hour equivalent of courses normally considered under the tier-2 undergraduate funding level, the amount to be budgeted for the program shall be developed and included in the commission [department] budget for each subsequent fiscal year.

E. Beginning in the second year of implementation of the Workforce Training Act, the funding to be distributed to each community college shall be determined by multiplying the total appropriation made by the legislature to implement the Workforce Training Act by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of student credit hours in customized training at that community college in the prior year and the denominator of which is the total number of student credit hours in customized training in the prior year at all of the community colleges participating in the workforce training program.

F. A community college that previously was not included in the distribution but seeks to participate in the workforce training program for the first time shall negotiate with the commission [department] to establish the base level of funding for the community college based on the projected number of students expected to enroll in customized training and shall be added to the formula to determine the budget expansion to be requested.
N.M. Stat. § 73-14-70 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 14 / Section 73-14-70
§ 73-14-70. Applicability of act
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 73-14-70 through 73-14-88 NMSA 1978 apply only to conservancy districts in existence and having between fifteen thousand and thirty thousand acres within their exterior boundaries on July 1, 1961 and to all conservancy districts formed after that date. The provisions of these sections do not apply to any conservancy district organized to conserve, protect or develop the waters of underground streams, channels, artesian basins, reservoirs or lakes having reasonably ascertainable boundaries where those waters have been placed in beneficial use.
N.M. Stat. § 1-8-21 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 1-8-21
§ 1-8-21. Primary election; methods of placing names on primary ballot
Status: in_force

A. All candidates seeking primary election nomination to a statewide office or the office of United States representative shall file declarations of candidacy with the proper filing officer. Candidates shall file nominating petitions at the time of filing their declarations of candidacy. Candidates who seek, but do not obtain, preprimary convention designation by a major political party may file new declarations of candidacy and nominating petitions pursuant to Section 1-8-33 NMSA 1978 .

B. Except as provided in Subsection C of this section, candidates for any other state or federal office listed in the proclamation issued pursuant to Section 1-8-13 NMSA 1978 shall have their names placed on the primary election ballot by filing declarations of candidacy and nominating petitions with the proper filing officer.

C. Candidates for any county office listed in the proclamation issued pursuant to Section 1-8-13 NMSA 1978 shall have their names placed on the primary election ballot by filing declarations of candidacy and paying a fifty-dollar ($50.00) filing fee or filing a nominating petition containing no fewer than ten signatures for offices elected by district or twenty signatures for offices elected countywide at the time of filing declarations of candidacy with the proper filing officer.
N.M. Stat. § 27-2B-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 2B / Section 27-2B-2
§ 27-2B-2. Legislative findings; purpose of act
Status: in_force

A. The legislature finds that:

(1) the poverty rate in New Mexico is the highest in the nation and has exceeded more than twenty percent of the population for most of the past twenty-five years;

(2) having a job does not provide a guarantee of avoiding poverty as demonstrated by the high percentage of persons in the civilian labor force over sixteen years of age with reported incomes in 1989 that were below the poverty level; and

(3) the diversity of the state, with its residents living in rural and metropolitan areas, reservations and border areas, requires the state to adjust state policies governing economic and social programs for the poor and the working poor to reflect the particular needs of particular locales, not just to create a generic one-size-fits-all program.

B. The legislature finds that education and training are essential to long-term career development.

C. The legislature finds that employment improves the quality of life for parents and children by increasing family income, developing the discipline necessary for self-sufficiency and improving self-esteem, and thus, it is in the public interest to fundamentally alter the state's financial assistance program for needy families with children so both cash and services, including education, job training, child care and transportation provided in accordance with the New Mexico Works Act assist recipients to obtain and keep employment that is sufficient to sustain their families, ensure the dignity of those who receive assistance and strengthen families and families' support for their children.

D. The legislature finds that although most New Mexicans want to work, and in fact New Mexico has been cited as a “like to work” state, not all families can move quickly into the labor force and that regular assessments and key intervention and follow-up can help persons connect to the work force to obtain meaningful work and achieve self-sufficiency.

E. The legislature further finds that the federal act envisions that state and tribal governments will work together to serve participants residing in Indian country, and it is important that the state and the tribal governments work, government to government, to address the issues of availability and delivery of service to the twenty-two tribes and pueblos.

F. The purpose of the New Mexico Works Act is to increase family income through family employment and child support and, by viewing financial assistance as a support service to enable and assist parents to participate in employment rather than as an entitlement, to enable New Mexico to change the culture of the welfare office, both on the part of the department and on the part of the recipients, so that all parties can focus on addressing the barriers to participation in work activities and putting New Mexicans to work.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-17-6 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 17 / Section 59A-17-6
§ 59A-17-6. Rate standards
Status: in_force

A. Rates shall not be excessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory, nor shall an insurer charge any rate that, if continued, will have or tend to have the effect of destroying competition or creating a monopoly.

B. In a competitive market, rates are presumed not to be excessive.

C. In a noncompetitive market, rates are excessive if they are likely to produce a profit that is unreasonably high in relation to the riskiness of the line, kind or class of business, or if expenses are unreasonably high in relation to the services rendered.

D. Rates are inadequate if they are clearly insufficient, together with the investment income attributable to them, to sustain projected losses and expenses in the line, kind or class of business to which they apply.

E. There is unfair discrimination if one rate is unfairly discriminatory in relation to another in the same line, kind or class if it clearly fails to reflect equitably the differences in expected losses and expenses. Rates are not unfairly discriminatory because different premiums result for policyholders with like loss exposures but different expense factors, or like expense factors but different loss exposures, so long as the rates reflect the differences with reasonable accuracy. Rates are not unfairly discriminatory if they are averaged broadly among persons insured under a group, franchise or blanket policy or a mass marketing plan.
N.M. Stat. § 17-3-33 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 17-3-33
§ 17-3-33. Presumption from possession of game or fish without license; showing license to officer
Status: in_force

The possession of game or fish at any time unaccompanied by a proper and valid license, game tag, certificate or permit or invoice, as provided in Chapter 17 NMSA 1978 , shall be prima facie evidence that such game or fish was unlawfully taken and is unlawfully held in possession, and it shall be the duty of every person having possession or control of game or fish to produce the proper license, game tag, certificate, permit or invoice when one is required by Chapter 17 NMSA 1978 on demand of any officer, and to permit the same to be copied by such officer. Violation of any provision of this section is a misdemeanor and is punishable as provided by Section 17-2-10 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-54.2 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-54.2
§ 7-9-54.2. Gross receipts; deduction; spaceport operation; space operations; launching, operating and recovering space vehicles or payloads; payload services; operationally responsive space program services
Status: in_force

A. Receipts from launching, operating or recovering space vehicles or payloads in New Mexico may be deducted from gross receipts.

B. Receipts from preparing a payload in New Mexico are deductible from gross receipts.

C. Receipts from operating a spaceport in New Mexico are deductible from gross receipts.

D. Receipts from the provision of research, development, testing and evaluation services for the United States air force operationally responsive space program may be deducted from gross receipts.

E. As used in this section:

(1) “ operationally responsive space program ” means a program authorized pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2273a ;

(2) “ payload ” means a system, subsystem or other mechanical structure or material to be conveyed into space that is designed, constructed or intended to perform a function in space;

(3) “ space ” means any location beyond altitudes of sixty thousand feet above the earth's mean sea level;

(4) “ space operations ” means the process of commanding and controlling payloads in space; and

(5) “ spaceport ” means an installation and related facilities used for the launching, landing, operating, recovering, servicing and monitoring of vehicles capable of entering or returning from space.

F. Receipts from the sale of tangible personal property that will become an ingredient or component part of a construction project or from performing construction services may not be deducted under this section.
N.M. Stat. § 24-26-10 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 26 / Section 24-26-10
§ 24-26-10. Rules
Status: in_force

The agency 1 shall adopt rules necessary to implement the provisions of the Patient Care Monitoring Act.
N.M. Stat. § 6-21-6.7 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 21 / Section 6-21-6.7
§ 6-21-6.7. Credit enhancement account created; use of account; release of money to the general fund
Status: repealed

A. The “credit enhancement account” is created as a separate account within the authority for use only as provided in this section.

B. All cigarette tax proceeds distributed each month to the authority pursuant to Subsection D of Section 7-1-6.11 NMSA 1978 shall be deposited in the credit enhancement account.

C. Amounts deposited in the credit enhancement account may be pledged irrevocably as additional security for the payment of the principal, interest, premiums and expenses on bonds issued by the authority for:

(1) designing, constructing, equipping and furnishing additions and improvements to the university of New Mexico hospital and the comprehensive cancer center at the university of New Mexico health sciences center; and

(2) land acquisition and the planning, designing, construction and equipping of department of health facilities or improvements to such facilities.

D. The authority shall determine monthly upon receipt of cigarette tax proceeds if the individual amounts of cigarette tax proceeds distributed pursuant to Subsection B or C, respectively, of Section 7-1-6.11 NMSA 1978 are sufficient to meet the monthly amount required for immediate payment or designation for payment of principal, interest, premiums and expenses on bonds additionally secured by the credit enhancement account. Any insufficient amount shall be paid immediately from the credit enhancement account. A payment from the credit enhancement account shall be reimbursed in succeeding months from the individual amount of cigarette tax proceeds distributed pursuant to Subsection B or C, as applicable, of Section 7-1-6.11 NMSA 1978 in excess of the amount required for immediate payment or designation for payment of principal, interest, premiums and expenses on bonds. All money in the credit enhancement account in excess of the monthly amount required for immediate payment or designation for payment of principal, interest, premiums and expenses on bonds shall be transferred monthly by the authority to the general fund.

E. Any law authorizing the imposition, collection or distribution of the cigarette tax or that affects the cigarette tax shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise directly or indirectly modified so as to impair or reduce debt service coverage for any outstanding revenue bonds that may be secured by a pledge of those cigarette tax proceeds distributed to the credit enhancement account, unless the revenue bonds have been discharged in full or provisions have been made for a full discharge.
N.M. Stat. § 3-33-43 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 33 / Section 3-33-43
§ 3-33-43. Improvement district; construction of Sections 3-33-39 through 3-33-42 NMSA 1978
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in Sections 3-33-39 through 3-33-42 NMSA 1978 shall be construed as:

A. increasing the burden or liability of any tract or parcel of land or the owner of any tract or parcel of land; or

B. except for issuance of the refunding bonds, creating any additional liability of the municipality.