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N.M. Stat. § 59A-12-25 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 12 / Section 59A-12-25
§ 59A-12-25. Nonresident insurance producers; retaliation
Status: in_force

A. The superintendent may refuse to issue a license as an insurance producer to a resident of another state or country, who is otherwise qualified under Chapter 59A, Article 12 NMSA 1978 for license as an insurance producer in New Mexico, if under the laws of the other state or country licensed residents of this state are prohibited or prevented from acting as an insurance producer because of their residence.

B. As part of an application for a license, the nonresident applicant shall appoint the superintendent, on a form prescribed and furnished by the superintendent, as agent on whom may be served all legal process issued by a court in this state in any action against or involving the licensee as to transactions under the license. The appointment shall be irrevocable and continue for so long as an action could arise or exist. Duplicate copies of process shall be served upon the superintendent or other individual in apparent charge of the office of superintendent of insurance during the superintendent's absence, accompanied by payment of the process service fee specified in Section 59A-6-1 NMSA 1978 . Upon service the superintendent shall promptly forward a copy by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the licensee at the licensee's last address of record with the superintendent. Process served and copy forwarded as so provided shall for all purposes constitute personal service upon the licensee.

C. The licensee shall likewise file with the superintendent written agreement to appear before the superintendent pursuant to notice of hearing, show cause order or subpoena issued by the superintendent and deposited, postage paid, by certified mail in a letter depository of the United States post office, addressed to the licensee at the licensee's last address of record with the superintendent, and that upon failure of the licensee to appear the licensee thereby consents to any subsequent suspension, revocation or refusal of the superintendent to continue the license.
N.M. Stat. § 62-15-24 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 15 / Section 62-15-24
§ 62-15-24. Waiver of notice
Status: in_force

Whenever any notice is required to be given under the provisions of this act or under the provisions of the articles of incorporation or bylaws of a cooperative, waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time fixed for the giving of such notice, shall be deemed equivalent to such notice. If a person or persons entitled to notice of a meeting shall attend such meeting, such attendance shall constitute a waiver of notice of the meeting, except in case the attendance is for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting shall not have been lawfully called or convened.
N.M. Stat. § 58-18B-1 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 18B / Section 58-18B-1
§ 58-18B-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Low-Income Housing Trust Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 6-13-19 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 13 / Section 6-13-19
§ 6-13-19. Refunding; purposes
Status: in_force

Any bonds issued under the Institution Bond Act, or under any other act permitting payment of state institution bonds from income from the permanent fund and from the income and current fund of a state institution, may be refunded under the terms of resolutions adopted by the governing board of the state institution, subject to any contractual limitations involved with any outstanding bonds, claims or other obligations. The refunding is:

A. to retire and refund all, or any part, of the institution's outstanding bonds, including any interest in arrears or about to become due;

B. to reduce interest costs or effect other economies;

C. to modify or eliminate restrictive contractual limitations relating to issuance of additional bonds or to income from the permanent fund and the income and current fund of the institution; or

D. for any combination of the reasons stated in Subsections A through C of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-23C-4 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 23C / Section 59A-23C-4
§ 59A-23C-4. Health insurance plans subject to the Small Group Rate and Renewability Act
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsections B and C of this section, the provisions of the Small Group Rate and Renewability Act apply to any health benefit plan that provides coverage to one or more employees of a small employer.

B. The provisions of the Small Group Rate and Renewability Act shall not apply to individual health insurance policies that are subject to policy form and premium rate approval as provided in Section 59A-18-12 , 59A-18-13 , 59A-44-16 , 59A-46-8 , 59A-47-25 or 59A-47-26 NMSA 1978 .

C. Any policies or certificates of a master policy that because of solicitation by agents or through the mail or mass media advertising are treated as individual policies and subject to the approvals stated in Subsection B of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 12-12-17 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-12-17
§ 12-12-17. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 12-12-17 through 12-12-30 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 77-8A-2 — NM Code / Chapter 77 / Article 8A / Section 77-8A-2
§ 77-8A-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the New Mexico Sheep and Goat Act:

A. “board” means the New Mexico livestock board;

B. “council” means the New Mexico sheep and goat council;

C. “department” means the New Mexico department of agriculture;

D. “director” means the director of the New Mexico department of agriculture;

E. “handler” means any producer, processor, distributor or other person engaged in handling, marketing or dealing in sheep or haired goats or their products; and

F. “producer” means any person engaged in the business of raising, breeding, feeding or growing sheep or haired goats.
N.M. Stat. § 48-7-23 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 7 / Section 48-7-23
§ 48-7-23. Governmental entity limitation of act
Status: in_force

The provisions of Section 5 of this act shall not apply to the transfer of a real property loan where the funds for the real property loans were provided through the issuance by a governmental entity or instrumentality of bonds the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxation and the transfer fails to conform to state and federal law governing the bonds.
N.M. Stat. § 9-16-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 16 / Section 9-16-7
§ 9-16-7. Division directors
Status: in_force

The superintendent shall appoint, with the approval of the governor, “directors” of the divisions established within the department. The positions so appointed are exempt from the Personnel Act. 1
N.M. Stat. § 8-6-3 — NM Code / Chapter 8 / Article 6 / Section 8-6-3
§ 8-6-3. Duties of treasurer; receipts
Status: in_force

The state treasurer shall receive and keep all money of the state except when otherwise specially provided; disburse the public money upon warrants drawn according to law and not otherwise; keep a just, true and comprehensive account of all money received and disbursed; render the state treasurer's accounts to the financial control division of the department of finance and administration annually, or more often if required; and report to the legislature, at the commencement of each regular session, a detailed statement of the condition of the treasury. The state treasury shall grant duplicate receipts for all money paid into the treasury, and the person receiving the duplicate receipts shall record the entry in the centralized accounting system administered by the department of finance and administration.
N.M. Stat. § 12-11-9 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 11 / Section 12-11-9
§ 12-11-9. Period during which disaster successors may act
Status: in_force

Disaster successors may act in the office to which appointed only:

A. in case of a disaster declared by the chief executive officer of the United States, and the chief executive officer of the state, and as long as a state of martial law is declared to exist or until a duly elected or appointed legislature, fulfilling all constitutional requirements, declares by joint resolution that the disaster emergency period has ended; and

B. the officer or authorized deputy in whose stead they are acting is unavailable; and

C. any disaster successors who are ahead of them in the line of succession to the office are unavailable; and

D. a successor to the office has not been selected and qualified as provided by law, other than the Disaster Succession Act.
N.M. Stat. § 22-34-2 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 34 / Section 22-34-2
§ 22-34-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Student Diabetes Management Act:

A. “ diabetes ” means type one or type two diabetes mellitus; complications related to diabetes mellitus; or prediabetes;

B. “ diabetes care personnel ” means a school employee who volunteers to be trained and is trained in accordance with Section 3 of the Student Diabetes Management Act;

C. “ diabetes medical management plan ” means a document that a student's personal health care practitioner and parent or guardian develops that sets out the health services that the student needs at school and that is signed by the student's health care practitioner and parent or guardian;

D. “ governing body ” means:

(1) the school board of a school district;

(2) the entity that governs a state-chartered or locally chartered charter school; or

(3) the entity that governs a private school;

E. “ health care practitioner ” means a person licensed to provide health care in the ordinary course of business;

F. “ school ” means an elementary, secondary, middle, junior high or high school or any combination of those, including a public school, state-chartered or locally chartered charter school or private school that students attend in person;

G. “ school employee ” means a person employed by a school, a person employed by the department of health or a local health department or by the public education department who is assigned to a school or a contractor designated to provide diabetes management services at a school pursuant to the Student Diabetes Management Act; and

H. “ school nurse ” means a person who:

(1) is a nurse who is authorized pursuant to the Nursing Practice Act to practice as a professional registered nurse;

(2) is licensed by the public education department and the board of nursing as a school nurse; and

(3) provides services as a school nurse at a school.
N.M. Stat. § 31-6-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 31 / Article 6 / Section 31-6-1
§ 31-6-1. Grand jury panels; calling; qualifying
Status: in_force

The district judge may convene one or more grand juries at any time, without regard to court terms. A grand jury shall serve for a period of no longer than three months. The district judge shall summon and qualify as a panel for grand jury service such number of jurors as he deems necessary. Each grand jury shall be composed of twelve regular jurors and a sufficient number of alternates to insure the continuity of the inquiry and the taking of testimony. All deliberations shall be conducted by any twelve jurors, comprised of regular jurors or substituted alternates. No more than twelve jurors may deliberate. No juror may vote on an indictment unless the juror has heard all evidence presented on the charge. The district judge may discharge or excuse members of a grand jury and substitute alternate grand jurors as necessary. The names of jurors summoned for grand jury service shall be drawn from the master jury wheel of the district court for the county.
N.M. Stat. § 6-14-5 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 14 / Section 6-14-5
§ 6-14-5. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Public Securities Limitation of Action Act;

A. “public security” means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness or other obligation for the payment of money, issued by this state or by any public body thereof;

B. “state” means the state of New Mexico and any board, commission, department, corporation, instrumentality or agency thereof; and

C. “public body” of the state means any state educational institution or other state institution, its board of regents or other governing body thereof constituting a body corporate, any county, city, town, village, school district, irrigation district, drainage district, conservancy district, sanitation district, water district, commission, authority or other political subdivision of the state constituting a body corporate.
N.M. Stat. § 76-6-7 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 6 / Section 76-6-7
§ 76-6-7. Inspections authorized; warrants
Status: in_force

A. To effectuate the purposes of the Pest Control Act, the board may, with the consent of the owner or by court order, make reasonable inspection of any premises in this state and any property therein or thereon and may without a warrant stop and inspect, in a reasonable manner, any means of conveyance moving within this state, upon probable cause to believe that it contains or carries any pest, host or other article subject to the Pest Control Act. The board may make any other reasonable inspection of any premises or means of conveyance for which, under the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state, no warrant is required.

B. The appropriate district courts in this state shall have authority to issue orders for such inspections upon a showing by the board that there is probable cause to believe that there exists in or on the property to be inspected a pest, host or other article subject to the Pest Control Act.
N.M. Stat. § 20-5-13 — NM Code / Chapter 20 / Article 5 / Section 20-5-13
§ 20-5-13. Discrimination prohibited; penalty
Status: in_force

No employer or agent thereof shall refuse to hire, penalize or discharge from employment any person because of membership in the state defense force or prevent the member from performing any duty he may be called upon to perform by proper authority. Willful violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 9-11-3 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 11 / Section 9-11-3
§ 9-11-3. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Taxation and Revenue Department Act is to establish a single, unified department to administer all laws and exercise all functions relating to taxation, revenue and vehicles charged to the department.
N.M. Stat. § 73-13-39 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 13 / Section 73-13-39
§ 73-13-39. Powers of receiver of municipal district
Status: in_force

Whenever any receiver is appointed, as provided in the preceding section, he shall enter into such bond as the court may fix, and he shall have the same powers and authority heretofore exercised by the board of directors of such irrigation district, and such additional powers as a court of equity may or can grant.
N.M. Stat. § 7-7-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 7-7-3
§ 7-7-3. Residents; tax imposed; credit for tax paid other state
Status: in_force

A. A tax in an amount equal to the federal credit is imposed on the transfer of the net estate of every resident.

B. If any property of a resident is subject to a death tax imposed by another state for which a credit is allowed by Section 2011, and if the tax imposed by the other state is not qualified by a reciprocal provision allowing the property to be taxed in the state of decedent's domicile, the amount of the tax due under this section shall be credited with the lesser of:

(1) the amount of the death tax paid the other state and credited against the federal estate tax; or

(2) an amount computed by multiplying the federal credit by a fraction, the numerator of which is the value of the property subject to the death tax imposed by the other state and the denominator of which is the value of the decedent's gross estate.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-45 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-45
§ 7-9-45. Deductions
Status: in_force

A. Receipts may only be deducted once from gross receipts or governmental gross receipts when computing the gross receipts tax or governmental gross receipts tax due.

B. The same receipts shall not be both exempt from the gross receipts tax and deducted from gross receipts.

C. The same receipts shall not be both exempt from the governmental gross receipts tax and deducted from governmental gross receipts.
N.M. Stat. § 62-9-2.1 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 9 / Section 62-9-2.1
§ 62-9-2.1. Applications by sewer utilities brought under the Public Utility Act
Status: in_force

Within six months after the effective date of these 1987 amendments to the Public Utility Act, each sewer utility brought within the jurisdiction of the commission by virtue of these 1987 amendments to the Public Utility Act shall file with the commission an application, in such form as may be prescribed by the commission, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity covering its present plant, lines and system. Upon proof of the existence and operation thereof upon the effective date of these 1987 amendments to the Public Utility Act, the commission shall grant to the utility such certificate. The commission shall enter upon a hearing to determine whether the rate or rates of such a sewer utility in effect on the effective date of these amendments to the Public Utility Act are just and reasonable pursuant to Subsection D of Section 62-8-7 NMSA 1978 upon the filing with the commission of protests signed by ten percent or more of the ratepayers receiving sewer service from such a sewer utility. For purposes of this section, each person who receives a separate bill equals one ratepayer and each person who receives multiple bills equals one ratepayer. The protest shall be signed by the person in whose name service is carried. The protests shall be filed no later than sixty days after the filing with the commission of an application by the sewer utility for a certificate of public convenience and necessity as prescribed by this section. Each sewer utility filing an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity under this section shall be required at the time of filing to give written notice to its ratepayers of the filing of its application and the ratepayers' rights to protest its rates under this section.
N.M. Stat. § 50-1-1 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 1 / Section 50-1-1
§ 50-1-1. Commission created; selection, term and qualifications of members
Status: in_force

A. There is created a three-member “labor and industrial commission.” The governor shall appoint two members with the consent of the senate who shall hold office at the pleasure of the governor for terms of four years. One member appointed by the governor shall be a person who, on account of his previous vocation, employment or affiliation can be classed as a representative of employers and the other member appointed by the governor shall be a person who, on account of his previous vocation, employment or affiliation, can be classed as a representative of employees. The third member shall be appointed by the other two members and shall hold office at the pleasure of the appointing members for a term of four years. The third member shall be a person who, on account of his previous vocation, employment or affiliation, cannot be classed as a representative of employers or employees. Not more than two members of the commission shall belong to the same political party. If a vacancy occurs in a position appointed by the governor between sessions of the legislature the position shall be filled by the governor. A person appointed by the governor to fill a vacancy on the commission between sessions shall serve until the next regular legislative session. The governor shall designate a chairman of the commission.

B. Members of the commission shall receive per diem and mileage pursuant to the Per Diem and Mileage Act.
N.M. Stat. § 11-2-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 11 / Article 2 / Section 11-2-4
§ 11-2-4. Council of state governments; joint governmental agency
Status: in_force

The council of state governments is hereby declared to be a joint governmental agency of this state and of the other states which cooperate through it.
N.M. Stat. § 49-4-18 — NM Code / Chapter 49 / Article 4 / Section 49-4-18
§ 49-4-18. Process; how served on board
Status: in_force

Process in all actions or suits against the board of trustees of the land grant-merced shall be served upon the president or, in the president's absence, upon the secretary.
N.M. Stat. § 72-14-23 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 14 / Section 72-14-23
§ 72-14-23. New Mexico irrigation works construction fund created; limitation of liability under act; reparation of damages caused in carrying out powers granted; authority of commission to receive contributions
Status: in_force

A. There is created a fund to be known as the “New Mexico irrigation works construction fund”, which shall consist of the income creditable to the permanent reservoirs for irrigation purposes income fund not otherwise pledged under Section 72-14-19 NMSA 1978 and all other money that may be appropriated by the legislature to the construction fund. The fund shall be a continuing fund and shall not revert to the general fund or to any other fund.

B. Annually, two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) shall be transferred from the New Mexico irrigation works construction fund to the acequia and community ditch infrastructure fund.

C. Annually, one million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred from the New Mexico irrigation works construction fund to the forest land protection revolving fund.

D. The cost of investigations and construction as authorized in Section 72-14-11 NMSA 1978 shall be paid from the New Mexico irrigation works construction fund and also the cost of all preliminary work on any project, and all expenses directly chargeable to such project, prior to the receipt of the proceeds of bonds, shall be paid from the construction fund. The amount of all such expenses on account of any project and such part of the general administrative expenses of the commission and the cost of investigation as shall be properly chargeable, in the opinion of the commission, to such project shall be reimbursed to the construction fund upon the receipt of the proceeds of bonds issued for such project. No liability or obligation shall be incurred under the provisions of Sections 72-14-9 through 72-14-28 NMSA 1978 beyond the extent to which the money has been provided under the authority of those sections. All public and private property damaged or destroyed in carrying out the powers granted under those sections shall be restored or repaired and placed in its original condition, as nearly as practicable, or adequate compensation made therefor out of funds provided by those sections.

E. The commission shall also have authority to pay the cost of such investigations and construction on any project from the New Mexico irrigation works construction fund when contracts in form satisfactory to it have been entered into whereby title to works have been mortgaged, deeded, assigned or transferred by the owner to the commission, and a program for reimbursement of all amounts expended, together with operation and maintenance charges, have been agreed upon; provided that no construction contract shall be entered into without the prior approval of the state board of finance. The commission shall also have authority to receive and accept appropriations and contributions from any source of either money or property or other things of value to be held, used and applied for the purposes provided in Sections 72-14-9 through 72-14-28 NMSA 1978 .