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N.M. Stat. § 30-1-8 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 1 / Section 30-1-8
§ 30-1-8. Time limitations for commencing prosecution
Status: in_force

A person shall not be prosecuted, tried or punished in any court of this state unless the indictment is found or information or complaint is filed within the time as provided:

A. for a second degree felony, within six years from the time the crime was committed;

B. for a third or fourth degree felony, within five years from the time the crime was committed;

C. for a misdemeanor, within two years from the time the crime was committed;

D. for a petty misdemeanor, within one year from the time the crime was committed;

E. for any crime against or violation of Section 51-1-38 NMSA 1978 , within three years from the time the crime was committed;

F. for a felony pursuant to Section 7-1-71.3 , 7-1-72 or 7-1-73 NMSA 1978 , within five years from the time the crime was committed; provided that for a series of crimes involving multiple filing periods within one calendar year, the limitation shall begin to run on December 31 of the year in which the crimes occurred;

G. for an identity theft crime pursuant to Section 30-16-24.1 NMSA 1978 , within five years from the time the crime was discovered;

H. for any crime not contained in the Criminal Code or where a limitation is not otherwise provided for, within three years from the time the crime was committed; and

I. for a capital felony, a first degree violent felony or second degree murder pursuant to Subsection B of Section 30-2-1 NMSA 1978 , no limitation period shall exist and prosecution for these crimes may commence at any time after the occurrence of the crime.
N.M. Stat. § 60-7A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 7A / Section 60-7A-1
§ 60-7A-1. Hours and days of business
Status: in_force

A. Provided that nothing in this section shall prohibit the consumption at any time of alcoholic beverages in guest rooms of hotels, alcoholic beverages shall be sold, served and consumed on licensed premises only from 7:00 a.m. until 2:00 a.m. on the following day.

B. Except as provided in Subsection C of this section, alcoholic beverages may be sold by a dispenser or a retailer in unbroken packages, for consumption off the licensed premises and not for resale from 7:00 a.m. until midnight.

C. The governing body of a local option district that is a class B county with a population greater than seventy thousand and less than seventy-six thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census or that is a municipality located within a class B county with a population greater than seventy thousand and less than seventy-six thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census may pass an ordinance to place restrictions, in addition to those provided in this section, on the hours during which a dispenser or retailer may sell alcoholic beverages in unbroken packages for consumption off the licensed premises and not for resale. The ordinance may restrict sales between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. and shall provide the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., if any, during which a dispenser or retailer may sell alcoholic beverages in unbroken packages for consumption off the licensed premises and not for resale.
N.M. Stat. § 14-4-9 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 4 / Section 14-4-9
§ 14-4-9. Law governing filing of agency rules, documents and publications
Status: in_force

Wherever any law requires an agency to file a rule, pamphlet, document or publication with the librarian of the supreme court law library such shall be accomplished by the delivery and filing as provided in the State Rules Act.
N.M. Stat. § 47-14-7 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 14 / Section 47-14-7
§ 47-14-7. Consent to service of process
Status: in_force

Each entity applying for registration as an appraisal management company shall complete and execute an irrevocable consent to service of process form as prescribed by the board.
N.M. Stat. § 14-13-16 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 13 / Section 14-13-16
§ 14-13-16. Validation of former acknowledgments; 1967 act
Status: in_force

All acknowledgments taken outside the state of New Mexico prior to the passage and approval of this act [this section], before any officer authorized by the laws of this state to take such acknowledgments, under the seal of such officer, and all acknowledgments taken within this state before the passage and approval of this act, before any officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments, notwithstanding any defect in the form of a certificate of acknowledgment or the failure to show the date of the expiration of the commission of the officer before whom such acknowledgment was taken or the failure to show that the seal of said officer was affixed to the instrument acknowledged and/or notwithstanding the failure of such acknowledgment to comply with the provisions of Section 14-13-10 NMSA 1978 , if the marital status of any married woman uniting with her husband in the execution of any instrument may otherwise appear from the body of the instrument so acknowledged, and the record thereof in the office of the county clerk, are hereby confirmed and made valid to the extent as though said certificate of acknowledgment and the record thereof has been in the form prescribed by law.
N.M. Stat. § 19-4-20 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 4 / Section 19-4-20
§ 19-4-20. Disposition of proceeds
Status: in_force

The proceeds received from the sale shall be disposed of as follows:

A. first, to pay the expenses of the sale;

B. second, to discharge any outstanding claims incurred in entering the townsite of the town; and

C. third, the surplus, if any, shall be retained by the town trustees to be used for making improvements within the townsite for public purposes.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-41-45.1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 41 / Section 59A-41-45.1
§ 59A-41-45.1. Recovery from affiliates
Status: in_force

The receiver shall have a right to recover from an affiliate of the insurer property of the insurer transferred to or for the benefit of the affiliate within the five years preceding the initial petition for receivership. No transfer is recoverable under this section if the affiliate shows that, when the transfer was made:

A. the insurer was solvent;

B. the transfer was lawful; and

C. neither the insurer nor the affiliate knew or should have known that the transfer, under then-applicable statutory accounting standards, would:

(1) place the insurer in violation of applicable capital or surplus requirements;

(2) place the insurer below the risk-based capital level as defined in the Risk-Based Capital Act; 1

(3) cause the insurer's filed financial statements not to present fairly the capital and surplus of the insurer; or

(4) otherwise cause the insurer to be in a hazardous financial condition.
N.M. Stat. § 24-15-1 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 15 / Section 24-15-1
§ 24-15-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 24, Article 15 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Ski Safety Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 24-1-13.1 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-13.1
§ 24-1-13.1. Pregnancy; prenatal, delivery and postnatal treatment to a female minor; capacity to consent
Status: in_force

A health care provider shall have the authority, within the limits of his license, to provide prenatal, delivery and postnatal care to a female minor. A female minor shall have the capacity to consent to prenatal, delivery and postnatal care by a licensed health care provider.
N.M. Stat. § 14-14A-32 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 14 / Article 14A / Section 14-14A-32
§ 14-14A-32. Relation to federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
Status: in_force

The Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts modifies, limits and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, but does not modify, limit or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c) , or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b) .
N.M. Stat. § 22-24-4.3 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 24 / Section 22-24-4.3
§ 22-24-4.3. Roof repair and replacement initiative
Status: in_force

A. The council shall develop guidelines for a roof repair and replacement initiative pursuant to the provisions of this section.

B. A school district, desiring a grant award pursuant to this section, shall submit an application to the council. The application shall include an assessment of the roofs on district school buildings that, in the opinion of the school district, create a threat of significant property damage.

C. The public school facilities authority shall verify the assessment made by the school district and rank the application with similar applications pursuant to a methodology adopted by the council.

D. After a public hearing and to the extent that money is available in the fund for such purposes, the council shall approve roof repair or replacement projects on the established priority basis; provided that no project shall be approved unless the council determines that the school district is willing and able to pay the portion of the total cost of the project that is not funded with grant assistance from the fund. In order to pay its portion of the total project cost, a school district may use state distributions made to the school district pursuant to the Public School Capital Improvements Act or, if within the scope of the authorizing resolution, proceeds of the property tax imposed pursuant to that act.

E. The state share of the cost of an approved roof repair or replacement project shall be calculated pursuant to the methodology in Paragraph (5) of Subsection B of Section 22-24-5 NMSA 1978 .

F. A grant made pursuant to this section shall be expended by the school district within two years of the grant allocation.
N.M. Stat. § 30-20B-5 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 20B / Section 30-20B-5
§ 30-20B-5. Injunctive relief
Status: in_force

In addition to the criminal penalties provided in Section 4 of the Demonstrations at Funerals and Memorial Services Act, the court may enjoin conduct prohibited in Section 3 of that act if there is credible evidence that a person is likely to violate Section 3 of the Demonstrations at Funerals and Memorial Services Act. Any surviving member of the deceased person's immediate family who is threatened with loss or injury by reason of a violation described in Section 3 of the Demonstrations at Funerals and Memorial Services Act is entitled to sue for and have injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction against any damage or threatened loss or injury by reason of a violation thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 53-16-20 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 16 / Section 53-16-20
§ 53-16-20. Discontinuance of liquidation proceedings
Status: in_force

The liquidation of the assets and business of a corporation may be discontinued at any time during the liquidation proceedings when it is established that cause for liquidation no longer exists. In such event, the court shall dismiss the proceedings and direct the receiver to redeliver to the corporation all its remaining property and assets.
N.M. Stat. § 48-4-4 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 4 / Section 48-4-4
§ 48-4-4. Limitation on enforcement of liens; manner of enforcement
Status: in_force

No lien provided for in this act shall bind any real estate for a longer period than one (1) year after the same has been filed, unless proceedings be commenced in the district court in and for the county in which the real estate or any of it, described in said lien, is located within that time, to enforce the lien. The proceedings for enforcement of said claims of lien shall be under the rules of pleading, practice and procedure in the district courts and such proceedings shall be had as in the case of the foreclosure of mortgages upon real estate; and the court may allow as part of the costs of foreclosure, the monies paid for the preparation of the claim of lien and for the filing and recording thereof, and reasonable attorney's fees in the district and supreme courts.
N.M. Stat. § 2-9-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 2 / Article 9 / Section 2-9-1
§ 2-9-1. Regular sessions; designation
Status: in_force

The regular session of the legislature convening in January, 1966, shall be designated as the “second session of the twenty-seventh legislature.” Thereafter, the regular session of the legislature convening in the year immediately following every general election shall be designated as the “first session” of the next consecutively numbered legislature, and the regular session convening in the even-numbered year next following such session shall be designated as the “second session” of that same legislature.
N.M. Stat. § 61-9-4.1 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 9 / Section 61-9-4.1
§ 61-9-4.1. License required
Status: in_force

Unless licensed to practice psychology under the Professional Psychologist Act, no person shall engage in the practice of psychology or use the title or represent himself as a psychologist or psychologist associate or use any other title, abbreviation, letters, signs or devices that indicate the person is a psychologist or psychologist associate.
N.M. Stat. § 3-39-16 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 39 / Section 3-39-16
§ 3-39-16. Municipal Airport Zoning Law
Status: in_force

Sections 3-39-16 through 3-39-26 NMSA 1978 , may be cited as the “Municipal Airport Zoning Law.”
N.M. Stat. § 7-1-6.24 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 7-1-6.24
§ 7-1-6.24. Distribution; substance abuse education fund
Status: in_force

A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 shall be made to the substance abuse education fund of the amounts designated pursuant to Section 7-2-30 NMSA 1978 as contributions to that fund.
N.M. Stat. § 21-8-31 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 8 / Section 21-8-31
§ 21-8-31. Director
Status: in_force

The board of regents shall appoint a director of the building materials research and testing institute on the recommendation of the president of the university. Subject to the rules and regulations of the board of regents, the director shall be responsible for the administration and operation of the institute.
N.M. Stat. § 58-18-18 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 18 / Section 58-18-18
§ 58-18-18. Tax exemption
Status: in_force

A. It is determined that the creation of the authority is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for the improvement of their health and welfare and for the promotion of the economy and that those purposes are public purposes. The authority will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the Mortgage Finance Authority Act, and the state covenants with the purchasers and all subsequent holders and transferees of bonds and notes issued by the authority, in consideration of the acceptance of and payment for the bonds and notes, that the bonds and notes of the authority issued pursuant to that act and the income therefrom shall at all times be free from taxation, except for estate or gift taxes and taxes on transfers.

B. The income and operations of the authority and any secondary market facility shall be exempt from taxation of every kind and nature, provided that the authority shall be obligated to pay all ad valorem taxes and special assessments. The authority and any secondary market facility shall pay any recording fee for instruments recorded by it or on its behalf but shall not be required to pay any transfer tax of any kind on account of instruments recorded by it or on its behalf.
N.M. Stat. § 3-29-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 29 / Section 3-29-12
§ 3-29-12. Local administration of association; board of directors
Status: in_force

A. The local administration of the association and the operation and maintenance of the project shall be carried out in each community by a board of directors composed of an odd number of at least three members. Members of the board of directors shall:

(1) be elected annually or as specified in the bylaws of the association;

(2) be members in good standing of the association; and

(3) serve staggered terms of up to four years to ensure that terms will end in different election years.

B. The board of directors shall choose among its members a president, a vice president and a secretary-treasurer or a secretary and a treasurer.

C. Funds sufficient to provide for proper operation and maintenance of the association shall be identified through a rate-setting analysis that will ensure enough revenue to cover yearly expenses and emergencies, a reserve fund for non-major capital items and equitable pay for staff. The rate-setting analysis may be reviewed and changed if necessary on a yearly basis, and the funds shall be obtained by the association by a monthly assessment against the users of the facilities, the assessment to be determined by the board of directors.

D. The board of directors of the association shall have power to do all things necessary in the local administration of any project subject to the provisions of the Sanitary Projects Act.
N.M. Stat. § 3-18-9 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 18 / Section 3-18-9
§ 3-18-9. Census
Status: in_force

A. A municipality may provide for the taking of a census within the municipal boundary but no census shall be taken by the municipality more than once between the years prescribed by law for the census to be taken by the United States of America.

B. Any census taken under the authority of the municipality shall be verified by oath of the person taking the census. The census shall be approved by resolution of the governing body. One copy of the census shall be filed with the clerk of the municipality and one copy shall be filed with the county clerk.
N.M. Stat. § 3-20-13 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 20 / Section 3-20-13
§ 3-20-13. Vacation; rights of utility
Status: in_force

The rights of any utility already existing shall not be affected by any vacation or partial vacation of a plat.
N.M. Stat. § 21-1-26.7 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 21-1-26.7
§ 21-1-26.7. Annual accountability report
Status: in_force

A. The higher education department shall submit an annual accountability report to the governor and to the legislature by December 31. Prior to publication, the department shall distribute a draft of the accountability report to all public post-secondary educational institutions and shall allow comment upon the draft report.

B. The department in consultation with each public post-secondary educational institution shall develop and adopt the content and a format for the report, including the following information:

(1) student progress and success disaggregated by gender and by ethnicity and race as follows:

(a) Caucasian, non-Hispanic;

(b) Hispanic;

(c) African American;

(d) American Indian or Alaska Native;

(e) Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander;

(f) Asian;

(g) two or more races; and

(h) other; provided that if the sample of students in any category enumerated in Subparagraphs (a) through (g) of this paragraph is so small that a student in the sample may be personally identifiable in violation of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the report may combine that sample into the “other” category;

(2) student access and diversity;

(3) affordability and cost of educational services;

(4) public and community service by the institution; and

(5) faculty, compensation and benefits practices, including:

(a) number and percentage of part-time and full-time faculty;

(b) per-credit-hour pay rate for full-time instructors or lecturers and per-credit-hour pay rate for part-time faculty;

(c) percent salary increase for full-time faculty and percent salary increase for part-time faculty; and

(d) description of the institution's policy for offering benefits to full-time faculty and to part-time faculty.

C. The department shall make no funding recommendation, capital outlay recommendation, distribution or certification on behalf of any public post-secondary educational institution that has not submitted the information required pursuant to this section.
N.M. Stat. § 70-11-3 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 11 / Section 70-11-3
§ 70-11-3. Director
Status: in_force

There shall be a director for the office of interstate natural gas markets. The director shall be experienced in the areas of natural gas resources and marketing and may be the director of natural gas programs.
N.M. Stat. § 76-12-15 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 12 / Section 76-12-15
§ 76-12-15. Officers
Status: in_force

The officers of every such association shall be a president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary and a treasurer and such other officers as may be authorized in the bylaws. The president and at least one of the vice presidents must be members and directors of the association. The office of secretary and treasurer may be combined. The treasurer may be other than a member of the association and as such shall not be considered as an officer, but as a function [functionary] of the board of directors. Officers shall be elected by the directors in the manner and for such terms as the bylaws provide.
N.M. Stat. § 3-17-4 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 17 / Section 3-17-4
§ 3-17-4. Ordinances; roll call vote; adoption
Status: in_force

A. If a majority of all the members of the governing body vote in favor of adopting the ordinance or resolution, it is adopted. The municipal clerk shall record in the minutes book the vote of each member of the governing body on each ordinance or resolution.

B. Within three days after the adoption of an ordinance or resolution, the mayor shall validate the ordinance or resolution by endorsing “Approved” upon the ordinance or resolution and signing the ordinance or resolution.
N.M. Stat. § 11-16-5 — NM Code / Chapter 11 / Article 16 / Section 11-16-5
§ 11-16-5. Procedure for home state
Status: in_force

A. Upon receipt of a report from the licensing authority of an issuing state reporting the failure of a person to comply with the terms of a citation, the licensing authority of the home state shall:

(1) notify the person;

(2) initiate a suspension action in accordance with the home state's suspension procedures; and

(3) suspend the person's license privileges until satisfactory evidence of compliance with the terms of the citation has been furnished by the issuing state to the home state licensing authority.

B. Due process safeguards shall be accorded to alleged violators.

C. Upon receipt of a report of conviction from the licensing authority of the issuing state, the licensing authority of the home state shall enter the conviction as though it occurred in the home state for the purposes of the suspension of license privileges.

D. The licensing authority of the home state shall:

(1) maintain a record of actions taken; and

(2) make reports to issuing states as provided in the compact manual.
N.M. Stat. § 48-3-25 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 3 / Section 48-3-25
§ 48-3-25. Enforcement of lien
Status: in_force

Three (3) months after the debt for which the lien is claimed becomes due, the lien claimant may enforce such lien by either a suit to foreclose the lien or by a sale as hereinafter provided.
N.M. Stat. § 74-10-50 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 10 / Section 74-10-50
§ 74-10-50. Incontestable recital in securities
Status: in_force

Any resolution authorizing, or other instrument appertaining to, any securities under the Solid Waste Authority Act may provide that each security authorized by such a resolution shall recite that it is issued under authority of that act. Such recital shall conclusively impart full compliance with all of the provisions of that act, and all securities issued containing such recital shall be incontestable for any cause whatsoever after their delivery for value.