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N.M. Stat. § 69-25A-16 — NM Code / Chapter 69 / Article 25A / Section 69-25A-16
§ 69-25A-16. Coal exploration
Status: in_force

A. Coal exploration operations which substantially disturb the natural land surface shall be conducted in accordance with exploration regulations issued by the commission. Such regulations shall include, at a minimum: the requirement that prior to conducting any exploration under this section, any person must file with the director notice of intention to explore and such notice shall include a description of the exploration area and the period of supposed exploration; and provisions for reclamation in accordance with the performance standards in Section 19 of the Surface Mining Act of all lands disturbed in exploration, including excavations, roads, drill holes and the removal of necessary facilities and equipment.

B. Information submitted to the director pursuant to this section as confidential concerning trade secrets or privileged commercial or financial information which relates to the competitive rights of the person or entity intended to explore the described area shall not be available for public examination.

C. Any person who conducts any coal exploration activities which substantially disturb the natural land surface in violation of this section or regulations issued pursuant thereto shall be subject to the provisions of Section 22 of the Surface Mining Act.

D. No operator shall remove more than two hundred fifty tons of coal without the specific written approval of the director.
N.M. Stat. § 12-12-30 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-12-30
§ 12-12-30. Cleanup of orphan hazardous materials; department recourse; appeal
Status: in_force

The department may assess charges against a party identified as responsible for orphan hazardous materials, for costs the department incurs in cleanup of the orphan hazardous materials and for damage to state property. Amounts received in payment of assessments for cleanup of the orphan hazardous materials shall be deposited in the orphan material recovery fund. Amounts received in payment of assessments for damage to state property shall be used to repair the damage. A person who is assessed charges pursuant to this section may appeal the assessment to the district court pursuant to the provisions of Section 39-3-1.1 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 2-8F-44 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 8F / Section 2-8F-44
§ 2-8F-44. Senate district thirty-eight
Status: in_force

Senate district thirty-eight is composed of Dona Ana county precincts 7 through 10, 14, 16 through 19, 23, 31, 37 through 40, 49, 53 through 58, 78, 79, 82, 96, 98, 101, 108, 145 through 148, 150, 151, 154 through 156, 184 and 187.
N.M. Stat. § 21-7-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 21-7-12
§ 21-7-12. Meetings of board of regents; quorum
Status: in_force

The meetings of the board may be called in such manner as the board of regents may prescribe, and the majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time.
N.M. Stat. § 24-6B-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6B / Section 24-6B-4
§ 24-6B-4. Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions of Section 8 of the Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education in the manner provided in Section 5 of the Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act by:

A. the donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and is:

(1) emancipated; or

(2) authorized pursuant to state law to apply for an instruction permit because the donor is at least fifteen years of age;

B. an agent of the donor, unless the power of attorney for health care or other record prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift;

C. a parent of the donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or

D. the donor's guardian.
N.M. Stat. § 6-17-1.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 17 / Section 6-17-1.1
§ 6-17-1.1. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in Chapter 6, Article 17 NMSA 1978 , “state educational institution” means the following:

A. the university of New Mexico;

B. the New Mexico state university;

C. the New Mexico highlands university;

D. the western New Mexico university;

E. the eastern New Mexico university;

F. the New Mexico institute of mining and technology;

G. the northern New Mexico state school;

H. the New Mexico military institute;

I. the New Mexico school for the deaf;

J. the New Mexico school for the visually handicapped;

K. the San Juan college;

L. the New Mexico junior college;

M. the Santa Fe community college; and

N. any post-secondary technical, vocational and area vocational institutes as defined in Sections 21-16-2 and 21-17-2 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 47-13-3 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 13 / Section 47-13-3
§ 47-13-3. Cause of action, termination or rescission
Status: in_force

A. No cause of action shall arise against a seller, lessor or landlord of real property, including a participant in an exchange of real property and any agents involved in such a transaction for failure to disclose to any person who, by voluntary or involuntary transfer, acquires a legal or equitable interest in the real property, including any leasehold interest or security interest for an obligation, in any action at law or in equity because of the failure to disclose that the real property was or is suspected to have been the site of the incidents described in Section 2 of the Real Estate Disclosure Act or was owned, occupied or suspected of being occupied by persons exposed to, infected with or diagnosed to be suffering from the diseases described in Section 2 of that act.

B. The failure to make a disclosure of any of the facts or suspicions as set forth in Section 2 of the Real Estate Disclosure Act shall not be deemed to be grounds for termination or rescission of any sale, lease, exchange or any transaction in which an interest in the real property has been or will be conveyed to another.
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-16.1 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-16.1
§ 66-3-16.1. Prohibited acts; penalties
Status: in_force

A. Any person who provides false information in order to acquire, or who assists an unqualified person to acquire, a special registration plate or parking placard as provided in Section 66-3-16 NMSA 1978 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978 .

B. Any person, other than the person to whom a special registration plate or a parking placard was issued, who in the absence of the holder of the plate or placard, parks in a designated accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation while displaying the plate or placard, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978 .

C. A special registration plate or parking placard displayed on a vehicle parked in a designated accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation in the absence of the holder of that plate or placard is subject to immediate seizure by a law enforcement official and if seized shall be delivered to the division within seventy-two hours. Failure to surrender the parking placard on demand of a law enforcement officer is a petty misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100).
N.M. Stat. § 38-5-13 — NM Code / Chapter 38 / Article 5 / Section 38-5-13
§ 38-5-13. Drawing and qualifying trial jury
Status: in_force

The district court of each county shall maintain a list of the names of the jurors duly empaneled and present for the trial of a case. The judge shall cause the names to be randomly selected until sufficient names have been drawn to provide the number of jurors required for the trial. The name and number of each juror shall be announced. Twelve or six jurors shall compose a petit jury in the district courts for the trial of civil causes. Twelve jurors shall compose a petit jury in criminal and children's court cases. Magistrate and metropolitan jury court selection shall be conducted in accordance with supreme court rules.
N.M. Stat. § 24-14A-6.1 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 14A / Section 24-14A-6.1
§ 24-14A-6.1. Web site; public access; data
Status: in_force

By January 1, 2018, the department shall ensure that the public is provided with access, free of charge, to a user-friendly, searchable and easily accessible web site on which the department shall post and update on a regular basis cost, quality and such other information it publishes pursuant to the Health Information System Act. The web site shall be accessible through the sunshine portal. The department shall adopt and promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 73-6-37 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 6 / Section 73-6-37
§ 73-6-37. Commissioners; report; remonstrance
Status: in_force

Any interested party may appear and remonstrate against said report or any material part thereof. All remonstrances shall be in writing, be verified on oath, be filed at least five days before the day fixed for hearing and shall set forth the facts upon which they are based.
N.M. Stat. § 3-5-1 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 3-5-1
§ 3-5-1. Municipal consolidation; commissioners; ordinances; special election; declaration of consolidation; payment of bonded indebtedness or judgment levy
Status: in_force

A. Whenever any two or more contiguous municipalities wish to consolidate as one municipality, the governing body of each municipality shall appoint three commissioners who shall prepare the terms for consolidation and submit the terms for consolidation to the respective governing bodies. If each governing body approves the terms for consolidation, it shall adopt an ordinance declaring approval of the terms for consolidation and shall provide for an election on the question of consolidation. The election shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Local Election Act.

B. If a majority of the votes cast in each municipality favors consolidation, the governing body of each municipality shall declare, by ordinance, that consolidation has been approved between the municipalities and proceed to consolidate under the terms for consolidation. The municipal clerk of each municipality shall notify the secretary of finance and administration and the secretary of taxation and revenue that the consolidation has been approved by the electorate. If the question of consolidating the municipalities fails to receive a majority vote favoring consolidation in any one of the municipalities, the consolidation shall fail.

C. If on the day of the election on consolidation any municipality proposing to consolidate has outstanding indebtedness or a judgment payable from a tax on property and the consolidation is approved, a tax sufficient to pay the interest and principal on such indebtedness or judgment shall continue to be levied on the property within the boundary of the municipality as it existed on the day of the election on the question of consolidation. Indebtedness created by the issuance of revenue bonds and the current obligations of each municipality shall be assumed by the consolidated municipality. The consolidated municipality may refund the indebtedness of the municipalities that are consolidated.

D. Certified copies of the entire proceedings for consolidation shall be filed with the clerk of the municipality so consolidated, the county clerk and the secretary of state. When certified copies of the consolidation have been filed as required in this section, the consolidation is complete.
N.M. Stat. § 72-8-4 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 8 / Section 72-8-4
§ 72-8-4. Unauthorized use or waste of water; constructing works without permit
Status: in_force

The unauthorized use of water to which another person is entitled, or the willful waste of surface or underground water to the detriment of another or the public, shall be a misdemeanor. It shall also be a misdemeanor to begin to carry on any construction of works for storing or carrying water until after the issuance of permit to appropriate such waters provided that management of water for beneficial use shall not be considered waste.
N.M. Stat. § 9-23-2 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 23 / Section 9-23-2
§ 9-23-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Aging and Long-Term Services Department Act is to create a single, unified department to administer all laws and exercise all functions formerly administered by the state agency on aging and to administer laws and exercise functions of the human services department [health care authority department], the department of health and the children, youth and families department that relate to aging, adults with disabilities or long-term care services.
N.M. Stat. § 51-1-8.1 — NM Code / Chapter 51 / Article 1 / Section 51-1-8.1
§ 51-1-8.1. Voluntary withholding of federal income tax
Status: in_force

A. Every individual filing a new claim for unemployment compensation shall, at the time of filing such claim, be advised in writing that:

(1) unemployment compensation is subject to federal, state and local income tax;

(2) requirements exist pertaining to estimated tax payments;

(3) the individual may elect to have federal income tax deducted and withheld from the individual's unemployment compensation payments at the amount specified in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and

(4) the individual is permitted to change a previously elected withholding status one time during each benefit year.

B. Amounts deducted and withheld from unemployment compensation shall remain in the fund until transferred to the federal internal revenue service.

C. The division shall follow all procedures specified by the United States department of labor and the federal internal revenue service pertaining to the deducting and withholding of income tax.

D. Amounts shall be deducted and withheld under this section only after amounts are deducted and withheld for any overpayments of unemployment compensation, child support obligations or any other amounts required to be deducted and withheld under the Unemployment Compensation Law.

E. The provisions of this section apply to unemployment compensation payments made after December 31, 1996.
N.M. Stat. § 7-14-5 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 14 / Section 7-14-5
§ 7-14-5. Time of payment of tax
Status: in_force

The tax shall be paid to the department by the applicant for the certificate of title at the time of application for issuance of the certificate.
N.M. Stat. § 9-19-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 19 / Section 9-19-3
§ 9-19-3. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Department of Public Safety Act is to establish a single, unified department to consolidate state law enforcement and safety functions in order to provide better management, real coordination and more efficient use of state resources and manpower in responding to New Mexico's public safety needs and problems and to improve the professionalism of the state's law enforcement and investigative functions and personnel.
N.M. Stat. § 70-5-4 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 5 / Section 70-5-4
§ 70-5-4. Acts concerning LP gas or CNG subject to commission rules and regulations
Status: in_force

The selling, offering for sale, constructing, assembling, repairing, equipping, installing, filling with fuel, storage of fuel within, dispensing of fuel from or transporting fuel within containers described in Section 70-5-3 NMSA 1978 without the containers having been designed, constructed, assembled, equipped, maintained, tested and inspected as specified by the rules and regulations of the commission pursuant to the LPG and CNG Act [this article] shall be a violation of the LPG and CNG Act and shall be subject to the fines, penalties and restrictions provided.
N.M. Stat. § 42A-1-15 — NM Code / Chapter 42A / Article 1 / Section 42A-1-15
§ 42A-1-15. Rules of civil procedure
Status: in_force

Unless specifically provided to the contrary in the Eminent Domain Code, or unless inconsistent with its provisions, the Rules of Civil Procedure for the District Courts govern matters pursuant to that act.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-35-10 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 35 / Section 59A-35-10
§ 59A-35-10. Issuance, denial of permit
Status: in_force

A. The superintendent shall expeditiously examine a newly-filed registration statement and make such investigation of the registrant and related matters as he deems advisable.

B. Unless the superintendent finds that the permit should be denied on any of the grounds stated in Subsection C of this section, he shall promptly issue to the registrant a securities permit in appropriate form covering the offering of securities.

C. The superintendent may deny a permit on the ground that:

(1) the registration statement is incomplete and has not been completed within a reasonable time allowed therefor by the superintendent and communicated to the registrant;

(2) the proposed sale or issuance of securities would be in violation of law;

(3) the conditions or circumstances of the registrant or insurer, or the terms and conditions of the offering, would make the offering unfair or inequitable as to existing or proposed security holders or investors;

(4) funds proposed to be secured by the offering are inadequate or excessive for the purposes intended;

(5) proposed costs of the offering are excessive;

(6) any of the individuals associated or to be associated in the registrant or insurer or any affiliate thereof, or the ultimate controlling stockholder or owner of the registrant, issuer or insurer is not of good reputation as to business affairs or financial responsibility;

(7) the existing or proposed insurer would not be able to qualify for or continue to hold a certificate of authority to transact insurance in this state for any of the reasons stated in Section 59A-5-13 NMSA 1978;

(8) if an insurance holding corporation, its plan of capitalization or security options or financing are such as would be prohibited under the Insurance Code as to a newly formed domestic stock insurer;

(9) there is material variance, adverse to the registrant, as between information furnished by the registrant in the registration statement and that determined by the superintendent on investigation;

(10) information proposed to be furnished investors is incomplete, untrue, or would tend to mislead; or

(11) grant of the permit would be contrary to the best interest of the people of New Mexico, for reasons stated in the order denying the permit.

D. The superintendent shall deny the permit if the securities are of, or for financing, a foreign insurer not qualified for authority to transact insurance in New Mexico.

E. The superintendent's order denying a permit shall state the grounds therefor and be delivered to the registrant or mailed addressed to registrant at its address last of record with the superintendent.
N.M. Stat. § 31-4-31 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 31 / Article 4 / Section 31-4-31
§ 31-4-31. Transfer under treaty; governor
Status: in_force

When a treaty is in effect between the United States and a foreign country providing for the transfer of convicted criminal offenders who are citizens or nationals of foreign countries to the foreign countries of which they are citizens or nationals, the governor is authorized, subject to the terms of such treaty, to act on behalf of the state of New Mexico and to consent to the transfer of the convicted criminal offender.
N.M. Stat. § 22-1-13 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 1 / Section 22-1-13
§ 22-1-13. Career technical education fund created
Status: in_force

The “career technical education fund” is created as a nonreverting fund in the state treasury until the end of the pilot project. The fund consists of appropriations, gifts, grants and donations. The department shall administer the fund, and money in the fund is appropriated to the department to carry out the career technical education pilot project. The fund shall be administered by the department, and money in the fund is appropriated to the department to provide grants to school districts, charter schools and secondary schools funded by the federal bureau of Indian education participating in the pilot project. Expenditures from the fund shall be on warrants of the secretary of finance and administration on vouchers signed by the secretary of public education or the secretary's designated representative.
N.M. Stat. § 3-60A-36 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 60A / Section 3-60A-36
§ 3-60A-36. Revenue bonds; acquisition of project
Status: in_force

A. The local government may also provide that:

(1) the project and improvements to be constructed, if any, shall be constructed by the local government, the user, the user's designee or any one or more of them on real estate owned by the local government, the user or the user's designee, as the case may be; and

(2) the bond proceeds shall be disbursed by the trustee bank or trust company during construction upon the estimate, order or certificate of the user or the user's designee.

B. The project, if and to the extent constructed on real estate not owned by the local government, may be conveyed or leased or an easement in the real estate granted to the local government at any time.
N.M. Stat. § 4-42-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 42 / Section 4-42-6
§ 4-42-6. Licensed professional surveyor; interference with
Status: in_force

If a licensed professional surveyor appointed by the board of county commissioners shall be molested or prevented from doing or performing any of the surveyor's official duties by means of threats or improper interference of any person, the surveyor shall call on the sheriff or other peace officer of the county, who shall accompany the surveyor and afford the surveyor all necessary protection against any person thus threatening or improperly interfering with the surveyor while performing official duties. The person so offending shall, on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) and be liable for all damages caused to any person by the hindrance of the surveyor and for all the expenses that may accrue in consequence of the attendance of the sheriff or officer and the delay of the surveyor.
N.M. Stat. § 34-1-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 34 / Article 1 / Section 34-1-1
§ 34-1-1. Court sessions to be public
Status: in_force

Except as provided in the Children's Code and in other laws making specific provisions for exclusion of the public, all courts of this state shall be held openly and publicly, and all persons whatsoever shall be freely admitted to the courts and permitted to remain so long as they shall observe good order and decorum.
N.M. Stat. § 69-2-7 — NM Code / Chapter 69 / Article 2 / Section 69-2-7
§ 69-2-7. Geothermal energy source; reports
Status: reserved

A. Any person drilling a hole on state lands to a depth of ten feet or more who encounters or whose drill cuts into a geothermal energy source of one hundred degrees centigrade or more shall, within ninety days from the date of the penetration, report in writing to the director the depth, location and nature of the geothermal energy source.

B. As used in this section:

(1) “ geothermal energy ” means the natural heat of the earth or the energy, in whatever form, below the surface of the earth present in, resulting from or created by or that may be extracted from, this natural heat;

(2) “ state lands ” includes all land owned by the state, all land owned by school districts, beds of navigable rivers and lakes, submerged lands and lands in which mineral rights or geothermal resources have been reserved to the state; and

(3) “ director ” means the director of the bureau of geology and mineral resources.