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N.M. Stat. § 10-7A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7A / Section 10-7A-3
§ 10-7A-3. Deferred compensation plan; state and local public employees
Status: in_force

A. After the effective date of the Deferred Compensation Act, the board shall review and approve deferred compensation plans for participation by state and local public employees. A deferred compensation plan shall provide for the method of transfer of funds to a plan through written or electronic salary reduction agreements with state and local public employees and shall provide for deferral of only those salary amounts upon which income taxes are eligible for deferral pursuant to federal law.

B. Compensation deferred under any deferred compensation plan shall be included with current income for purposes of computing retirement contributions and benefits.

C. Amounts by which salary is reduced shall be transmitted to the approved deferred compensation carrier.

D. Local public employees may participate in a deferred compensation plan selected by their local public body employer after it takes formal action conforming to board requirements. If the plan selected is different from the plan approved by the board, the board shall have no responsibility concerning the plan. If the plan selected is that approved by the board pursuant to Section 10-7A-5 NMSA 1978 , the provisions of Section 10-7A-8 NMSA 1978 shall apply.
N.M. Stat. § 14-4A-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 14 / Article 4A / Section 14-4A-5
§ 14-4A-5. Small business regulatory advisory commission created; membership; powers and duties
Status: in_force

A. The “small business regulatory advisory commission” is created. The commission shall consist of nine members who are current or former small business owners, five appointed by the governor and two each appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate. Each member shall be from a different geographic region of the state. Members shall serve two-year terms. A member shall not serve more than three consecutive terms. Members shall name the chairperson of the commission. The commission shall meet at the call of the chairperson. A majority of the members constitutes a quorum for the conduct of business. Members are entitled to per diem and mileage as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.

B. The commission is administratively attached to the economic development department, and staff for the commission shall be provided by the department.

C. The commission may:

(1) provide state agencies with input regarding proposed rules that may adversely affect small business;

(2) consider requests from small business owners to review rules adopted by an agency;

(3) review rules promulgated by an agency to determine whether a rule places an unnecessary burden on small business and make recommendations to the agency to mitigate the adverse effects; and

(4) provide an annual evaluation report to the governor and the legislature, including recommendations and evaluations of agencies regarding regulatory fairness for small businesses.

D. The commission does not have authority to:

(1) interfere with, modify, prevent or delay an agency or administrative enforcement action;

(2) intervene in legal actions; or

(3) subpoena witnesses to testify or to produce documents, but it may request witnesses to voluntarily testify or produce documents.
N.M. Stat. § 3-7-15 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 3-7-15
§ 3-7-15. Duties of the municipal boundary commission; authority of commission to annex; order is final; review by certiorari
Status: in_force

A. At the public hearing held for the purpose of determining if the territory proposed to be annexed to the municipality shall be annexed to the municipality, the municipal boundary commission shall determine if the territory proposed to be annexed:

(1) is contiguous to the municipality; and

(2) may be provided with municipal services by the municipality to which the territory is proposed to be annexed.

B. If the municipal boundary commission determines that the conditions set forth in this section are met, the commission shall order annexed to the municipality the territory petitioned to be annexed to the municipality.

C. If the municipal boundary commission determines that only a portion of the territory petitioned to be annexed meets the conditions set forth in this section, the commission may order annexed to the municipality that portion of [the] territory which meets the conditions set forth in this section.

D. If the municipal boundary commission determines that the conditions set forth in this section are not met, the commission shall not order the annexation to the municipality of the territory petitioned to be annexed.

E. Any order of the municipal boundary commission shall be final unless any owner of land within the territory proposed to be annexed, within thirty days after the filing of the final order in the office of the county clerk and the office of the municipal clerk, obtains review of the order by the district court.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-12-13 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 12 / Section 59A-12-13
§ 59A-12-13. Special requirements, title insurance producers
Status: in_force

A. The superintendent shall not issue or permit to continue an insurance producer license for title insurance except for an applicant or a licensee who, in addition to other applicable qualifications and requirements, owns, operates or controls an abstract plant consisting of a set of records in which an entry has been made of all documents or matters that under law impart constructive notice of matters affecting title to real property or any interest therein or encumbrance thereon, which have been filed or recorded in the county for which such title plant is maintained for a period of not less than twenty years immediately prior to date of application for license. Such records shall consist of:

(1) an index or indices in which notations of or references to any documents that describe property affected thereby are posted, entered or otherwise included, according to the property described therein, or copies or briefs of all documents that describe the property affected thereby that are sorted and filed according to such property; and

(2) an index or indices in which all other such documents are posted, entered or otherwise included, according to the name or names of the parties whose title to real property or any interest therein or encumbrances thereon is affected.

B. A license to issue title insurance shall permit the licensee to issue policies only on property located in the county or counties for which the licensee has the necessary abstract plant.
N.M. Stat. § 26-2C-18 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 26 / Article 2C / Section 26-2C-18
§ 26-2C-18. Testing cannabis products; health and safety of employees
Status: in_force

A. A cannabis testing laboratory's testing of cannabis products shall comply with the requirements set forth in applicable law and rules.

B. In consultation with the department of environment and consistent with industry standards, the division shall promulgate rules to:

(1) ensure that testing of cannabis products occurs prior to distribution to cannabis retailers or sales by integrated cannabis microbusinesses;

(2) specify how often licensees shall test cannabis products;

(3) specify which persons bear the cost of testing cannabis products and medical cannabis;

(4) provide for recordkeeping;

(5) establish chain of custody protocols for testing sample transportation;

(6) ensure that testing samples are transported and stored in a manner that prevents degradation, contamination, tampering or diversion;

(7) specify protocols for testing sample collection that ensure accurate test results, including requiring that testing samples be collected by laboratory staff trained in testing sample collection; and

(8) require destruction of a tested batch of cannabis products if the testing samples from the tested batch indicate noncompliance with applicable health and safety standards promulgated by the division, unless remedial measures can bring the cannabis products into compliance with the standards or the cannabis products can be used for research purposes.

C. Beginning no later than April 1, 2022, the division shall identify, in consultation with the department of environment, a set of updated certified reference materials for laboratory testing to be measured against.

D. The division shall work cooperatively with the department of environment to implement inspection of cannabis establishments to ensure the health and safety of employees in accordance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and to determine compliance with rules promulgated by the environmental improvement board.
N.M. Stat. § 13-4-17 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4 / Section 13-4-17
§ 13-4-17. Outstanding contracts and invitations
Status: in_force

The Public Works Minimum Wage Act shall not affect a contract existing or a contract that may be entered into pursuant to invitations for bids that are outstanding at the time of enactment of that act.
N.M. Stat. § 73-12-3 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 12 / Section 73-12-3
§ 73-12-3. Notice of hearing on petition to be published
Status: in_force

When such petition is presented, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners with which such petition is filed, at the next regular or special meeting thereafter or at a special meeting called earlier for the purpose to fix a date for the hearing on said petition, naming in the minutes of such board the day and date thereof, the place of hearing which shall be at the office of said board, and cause the county clerk of said county to publish a notice of such hearing in English for at least two weeks before the time to which the same is to be held in some newspaper of general circulation published in the county where such hearing is to be held, which notice shall contain a copy of said petition and shall state the time and place of such hearing and shall notify all persons affected or interested by or in the organization of such proposed district to appear at such time and place and present to said board any objection, exception or protest to the organization of such proposed district. The last publication of such notice shall be made not less than five days prior to the time fixed by said notice for presenting said petition.
N.M. Stat. § 39-2-7 — NM Code / Chapter 39 / Article 2 / Section 39-2-7
§ 39-2-7. Depositions to perpetuate testimony; taxing costs
Status: in_force

The costs and expenses of taking the depositions shall be audited and allowed by the officer taking the same, and such costs and expenses, together with the fees of recording and copying the same, shall be taxed in favor of the party or parties paying the same, and collected as other costs in the suit or suits in which such depositions, or any part thereof, may be used.
N.M. Stat. § 47-11-7 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 11 / Section 47-11-7
§ 47-11-7. Time share proxy
Status: in_force

No proxy, power of attorney or similar device given by the purchaser of a time share regarding the management of the time share program or its facilities shall exceed one year in duration, but the same may be renewed from year to year.
N.M. Stat. § 29-16-6.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 16 / Section 29-16-6.1
§ 29-16-6.1. Reimbursement of costs
Status: in_force

A. When the DNA testing of samples listed in Section 29-16-6 NMSA 1978 is required, the administrative center shall be reimbursed for the costs of the sample collection and DNA testing:

(1) of unidentified persons by the investigating law enforcement agency;

(2) of unidentified human remains by the state medical investigator or by the investigating law enforcement agency; and

(3) for relatives of, or known reference samples from, a missing person by the relatives of the missing person or by the investigating law enforcement agency.

B. Reimbursements shall be deposited in the fund.
N.M. Stat. § 58-27-20 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 27 / Section 58-27-20
§ 58-27-20. Use of proceeds from sale of bonds
Status: in_force

The proceeds from the sale of any bonds issued under authority of the Border Development Act shall be applied only for the purpose for which the bonds were issued; provided, however, that any accrued interest and premiums received in any such sale shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds sold; and provided, further, that if for any reason any portion of such proceeds are not needed for the purpose for which the bonds were issued, then the balance of the proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the bonds; and provided, further, that any portion of the proceeds from the sale of the bonds or any accrued interest and premium received in any such sale may, in the event the money will not be needed or cannot be effectively used to the advantage of the authority for the purposes provided herein, be invested in short-term, interest-bearing securities if such investment will not interfere with the use of the funds for the primary purpose of the project. The cost of acquiring any project shall be deemed to include the following:

A. the actual cost of construction of any part of a project, including architects', attorneys' and engineers' fees;

B. the purchase price of any part of a project that may be acquired by purchase;

C. the actual cost of the extension of any utility to the project site and all expenses in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of the bonds to finance such acquisition; and

D. the interest on those bonds for a reasonable time prior to construction, during construction and not exceeding six months after completion of construction.
N.M. Stat. § 70-2-37 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 2 / Section 70-2-37
§ 70-2-37. Oil and gas reclamation fund created; disposition of fund
Status: in_force

There is created the “oil and gas reclamation fund”. In addition to other sources, money in the fund may consist of donations. All funds in the oil and gas reclamation fund are appropriated to the energy, minerals and natural resources department for use by the oil conservation division in carrying out the provisions of the Oil and Gas Act.
N.M. Stat. § 67-3-28 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-28
§ 67-3-28. Cooperation with the state, municipalities, counties, school districts, adjoining states and federal agencies
Status: in_force

The department may enter into cooperative agreements with any branch, agency, department, board, instrumentality or institution of the state or United States government; with the respective municipalities, school districts and counties in this state; or with any adjoining state for the construction or improvement of public highways and streets within the control of a branch, agency, department, board, instrumentality or institution of the state or United States government or within a municipality, county, school district or adjoining state for the division between the department and the branch, agency, department, board, instrumentality or institution of the state or United States government, county, school district, municipality or adjoining state of the expense of the project development, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance or repair of public highways, streets and public school parking lots, or for the acquisition of rights-of-way therefor or for materials for the construction or improvement thereof. The department shall bear all costs of the acquisition of rights-of-way for federal-aid interstate roads, both rural and urban.
N.M. Stat. § 28-14-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 28 / Article 14 / Section 28-14-4
§ 28-14-4. Maximum payments
Status: in_force

Not more than three hundred dollars ($300) shall be paid, in addition to the free tuition, for any child for one year.
N.M. Stat. § 76-10-4 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 10 / Section 76-10-4
§ 76-10-4. Neutral zones
Status: in_force

The regents of the agricultural college of New Mexico [New Mexico state university] are further authorized and empowered after proper application and hearing to define such zone or zones and to further define neutral zones between such above-mentioned zones, and to provide that within the neutral zones no plant or plants, fields or plots of plants of a given strain, species or variety, may be grown to maturity or to the state in which buds of the said plants are produced. The purpose of such said neutral zone being to avoid the possibility of cross-pollination or mixing and thereby rendering valueless what would otherwise be pure strains of seed, provided that the said regents may at their discretion permit that within such neutral zones varieties, strains or species not related to crops permitted to be grown within prescribed zones may be planted for the purpose of seed production; provided that such varieties or species are of the kind which will not cross-pollinate or otherwise render impure, pure strains grown in adjoining zones as defined by the said regents.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-37 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-37
§ 10-11-37. Juvenile correctional officer member coverage plan 1; member contribution rate
Status: in_force

A member under juvenile correctional officer member coverage plan 1 shall contribute four percent of salary.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-46-31 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 46 / Section 59A-46-31
§ 59A-46-31. Coordination of benefits
Status: in_force

A. Health maintenance organizations are permitted, but not required, to adopt coordination of benefits provisions to avoid overinsurance and to provide for the orderly payment of claims when a person is covered by two or more group health insurance or health care plans.

B. If health maintenance organizations adopt coordination of benefits, the provisions shall be consistent with the coordination of benefits provisions that are in general use in the state for coordinating coverage between two or more group health insurance or health care plans.

C. To the extent necessary for health maintenance organizations to meet their obligations as secondary carriers under the regulations established by the superintendent, health maintenance organizations shall make payments for services that are:

(1) received from non-participating providers;

(2) provided outside their service areas; or

(3) not covered under the terms of their group contracts or evidence of coverage.
N.M. Stat. § 6-12-7 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 12 / Section 6-12-7
§ 6-12-7. Refunding bond issuance; procedure
Status: in_force

Whenever the state treasurer deems it expedient to issue refunding bonds under the provisions of Sections 6-12-6 through 6-12-14 NMSA 1978 , he shall present to the state board of finance in writing a statement of the outstanding bonds proposed to the [be] refunded, setting out in full and in detail in the statement all data and information necessary to a full and clear understanding of the proposal to refund, whereupon the state board of finance if it considers the proposal to be in the best interest of the state and elects to act favorably upon it shall adopt a resolution which shall be recorded in its permanent records, which resolution shall set out the facts making the issuance of the refunding bonds necessary or advisable, the determination of the necessity or advisability by the board and the amount of the refunding bonds which it is deemed necessary and advisable to issue. The resolution shall fix the rate of interest on the refunding bonds, the dates of the refunding bonds, the denomination or denominations thereof, the maturity dates which shall not be more than twenty years from the date of the refunding bonds, the place or places of payment within or without the state of both principal and interest and shall further set out in full the form of the refunding bonds and coupons, if any; provided that where bonds are issued to refund existing and outstanding bonds which may be redeemed prior to their maturity, as set out in the bonds to be refunded, the date of maturity of those refunding bonds shall not extend beyond the date of final maturity of the bonds to be so refunded.

In the event bonds which may be redeemed prior to their maturity are to be called for refunding prior to their maturity date, the state treasurer shall call the bonds for payment on the dates, under the conditions and in the manner provided in the bonds.
N.M. Stat. § 29-19-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 19 / Section 29-19-2
§ 29-19-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Concealed Handgun Carry Act:

A. “ applicant ” means a person seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun;

B. “ caliber ” means the diameter of the bore of a handgun;

C. “ category ” means whether a handgun is semiautomatic or not semiautomatic;

D. “ concealed handgun ” means a loaded handgun that is not visible to the ordinary observations of a reasonable person;

E. “ department ” means the department of public safety;

F. “ handgun ” means a firearm that will, is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosion and the barrel length of which, not including a revolving, detachable or magazine breech, does not exceed twelve inches; and

G. “ licensee ” means a person holding a valid concealed handgun license issued to him by the department.
N.M. Stat. § 53-16-7 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 16 / Section 53-16-7
§ 53-16-7. Revocation of voluntary dissolution proceedings by consent of shareholders
Status: in_force

By the written consent of all of its shareholders, a corporation may, at any time prior to the issuance of a certificate of dissolution by the commission [secretary of state], revoke voluntary dissolution proceedings. Upon the execution of the written consent, a statement of revocation of voluntary dissolution proceedings shall be executed by the corporation by an authorized officer, which statement shall set forth:

A. the name of the corporation;

B. the names and respective addresses of its officers;

C. the names and respective addresses of its directors;

D. a copy of the written consent signed by all shareholders of the corporation revoking the voluntary dissolution proceedings; and

E. that the written consent has been signed by all shareholders of the corporation or signed in their names by their authorized attorneys.
N.M. Stat. § 24-15-9 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 15 / Section 24-15-9
§ 24-15-9. Duties of passengers
Status: in_force

Every passenger shall have the duty to conduct himself carefully and not to:

A. board or embark upon or disembark from a ski lift except at an area designated for such purpose;

B. drop, throw or expel any object from a ski lift;

C. do any act which shall interfere with the running or operation of a ski lift;

D. use any ski lift unless the passenger has the ability to use it safely without any instruction on its use by the ski area operator or requests and receives instruction before boarding the ski lift;

E. willfully or negligently engage in any type of conduct which contributes to or causes injury to any person;

F. embark on a ski lift without the authority of the ski area operator;

G. use any ski lift without engaging such safety or restraining devices as may be provided; or

H. wear skis without properly securing ski retention devices; or

I. use a ski lift while intoxicated or under the influence of any controlled substance.