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N.M. Stat. § 30-23-5 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 23 / Section 30-23-5
§ 30-23-5. Unlawful speculation in claims against state
Status: in_force

Unlawful speculation in claims against state consists of any public officer or public employee directly or indirectly buying, selling, bartering, dealing in or speculating in or with any certificate, warrant or other evidence of indebtedness issued by the state, a municipality or other political subdivision, unless such certificate, warrant or other evidence of indebtedness shall have been lawfully issued to such person in payment of his salary or in consideration for services rendered by such person for supplies furnished by him.

Whoever commits unlawful speculation in claims against state is guilty of a misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 73-21-43 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 21 / Section 73-21-43
§ 73-21-43. Validation; existing districts
Status: in_force

All districts previously created under the provisions of the Water and Sanitation District Act and all proceedings previously taken by the districts, including any elections that may have been held in the districts on the question of the issuance of bonds and that have carried, are validated, ratified and confirmed. Where district bonds have been previously approved by the voters but not yet issued, the bonds may be issued under the provisions of the Water and Sanitation District Act, and where the bonds are to be general obligations of the issuing district, the bonds shall be payable from taxes to be levied on all taxable property in the district as required by the Water and Sanitation District Act. All bonds approved by the voters and to be issued shall, when issued, constitute valid obligations of the districts in accordance with their terms.
N.M. Stat. § 35-15-8 — NM Code / Chapter 35 / Article 15 / Section 35-15-8
§ 35-15-8. Judgment on appeal; recovery on bond
Status: in_force

If the judgment of the municipal court in the action is affirmed or rendered against the defendant on appeal, the district court shall enter judgment imposing the same, a greater or a lesser penalty as that imposed in the municipal court in the action. If the defendant fails to appear at the time set for hearing of the appeal in the district court without a sufficient showing for a continuance, the district court shall affirm the judgment and sentence of the municipal court and render judgment against the defendant and his sureties on the appeal bond. When the municipal court has imposed a jail sentence upon the defendant, the district court shall issue a bench warrant for the immediate arrest and confinement of the defendant.
N.M. Stat. § 6-10-51 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 10 / Section 6-10-51
§ 6-10-51. To cover all moneys lawfully intrusted to treasurers
Status: in_force

All moneys, whether belonging to the state of New Mexico or to any county thereof, or to any city, town, village, municipal school district, union high school district, independent rural school district, rural school district or to any other special or other district, board or institution, when lawfully in the possession or custody or under the control of the state treasurer, or of any county, city, town or village treasurer, or of any person acting as treasurer of any board in control, shall be considered to be moneys of and belonging to the state of New Mexico, or of the county, city, town, village or board in control for which such treasurer or person so in possession lawfully acts.
N.M. Stat. § 33-1-4.1 — NM Code / Chapter 33 / Article 1 / Section 33-1-4.1
§ 33-1-4.1. Vulnerable offenders program; prevention of victimization
Status: in_force

A. The corrections department may develop and implement a special program for certain male and female offenders who have been identified by the department as being vulnerable offenders who, if not provided with a special program, would be vulnerable to victimization by inmates and subject to unusual or extraordinary mental or physical harassment, intimidation, harm or injury.

B. Vulnerability shall be determined by factors such as age, mental health or special education needs. If an offender is less than twenty-one years of age, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the offender is vulnerable. A vulnerable offenders program shall not result in the diminution of civil rights for vulnerable offenders.
N.M. Stat. § 13-4-18 — NM Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4 / Section 13-4-18
§ 13-4-18. Construction contract performance and payment bonds
Status: in_force

A. When a construction contract is awarded in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), the following bonds or security shall be delivered to the state agency or local public body and shall become binding on the parties upon the execution of the contract. If a contractor fails to deliver the required performance and payment bonds, the contractor's bid shall be rejected, its bid security shall be enforced to the extent of actual damages. Award of the contract shall be made pursuant to the Procurement Code in the following manner:

(1) a performance bond satisfactory to the state agency or local public body, executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this state and said surety to be approved in federal circular 570 as published by the United States treasury department or the state board of finance or the local governing authority, in an amount equal to one hundred percent of the price specified in the contract; and

(2) a payment bond satisfactory to the state agency or local public body, executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this state and said surety to be approved in federal circular 570 as published by the United States treasury department or the state board of finance or the local governing authority, in an amount equal to one hundred percent of the price specified in the contract, for the protection of all persons supplying labor and material to the contractor or its subcontractors for the performance of the work provided for in the contract.

B. The state purchasing agent or the central purchasing office may reduce the amount of the performance bond required prior to solicitation to not less than fifty percent of the contract price if it is determined to be less costly or more advantageous to the state agency or local public body to self-insure a part of the performance of the contractor.

C. The state purchasing agent or the central purchasing office may reduce the amount of the payment bond required prior to solicitation of not less than fifty percent of the contract price if it is determined that it is in the best interest of the state agency or local public body to do so. Factors to be considered in order to make such a determination include, but are not limited to:

(1) the value and number of subcontracts to be awarded by the contractor; and

(2) the value of the contract.

D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the state agency or local public body to require a performance bond or other security in addition to those bonds, or in circumstances other than specified in Subsection A of this section.

E. For contracts under twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) the state agency or local public body may impose in its sole and complete discretion the requirements of Subsections A, B and C of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-47-43 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 47 / Section 59A-47-43
§ 59A-47-43. Coverage of colorectal cancer screening
Status: in_force

A. An individual or group health policy, health care plan or certificate of health insurance that is delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state shall provide coverage for colorectal screening for determining the presence of precancerous or cancerous conditions and other health problems. The coverage shall make available colorectal cancer screening, as determined by the health care provider in accordance with the evidence-based recommendations established by the United States preventive services task force.

B. Coverage for colorectal screening may be subject to deductibles and coinsurance consistent with those imposed on other benefits under the same policy, plan or certificate.

C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident-only or limited or specified-disease policies.
N.M. Stat. § 7-12-15 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 12 / Section 7-12-15
§ 7-12-15. County and municipality recreational fund; distribution
Status: in_force

A. There is created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the “county and municipality recreational fund.” At the end of each month the state treasurer shall distribute all sums remaining in the county and municipality recreational fund to each county and municipality in the state as follows:

(1) to each county in the proportion that the sales of cigarettes made within the county borders, exclusive of sales within any municipality in that county, bears to the total sales of cigarettes in the state during such month; and

(2) to each municipality in the proportion that the sales of cigarettes made within the municipality during such month bears to the total sales of cigarettes in the state for such month.

B. The funds distributed to the counties and municipalities under this section shall be used for recreational facilities and salaries of instructors and other employees necessary to the operation of such facilities. Such recreational facilities shall be for the use of all persons, and juveniles and elderly persons shall not be excluded. Each county or municipality shall establish a fund to be known as the “recreational fund” into which all moneys received from the county and municipality recreational fund shall be deposited. As used in this section, “juvenile” means every person under the age of majority and “elderly person” means every person over the age of sixty years.
N.M. Stat. § 73-8-52 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 8 / Section 73-8-52
§ 73-8-52. Dissolution of district; petition; election; restrictions
Status: in_force

When a majority of the resident freeholders owning one-third in area of the lands, or evidence of title to lands so owned within the limits of any such drainage district, shall petition the board of directors to call a special election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said district a proposition to vote on the dissolution of such drainage district, setting forth in the petition that all bills, claims and obligations of every nature whatsoever have been fully satisfied and paid, and that the necessity for a continuance of such organization no longer exists, it shall be the duty of the board, if satisfied as to the correctness of the showing made by the petition to call an election setting forth its object, and to cause notice thereof to be published in the manner and for the time prescribed by this act, designating the time and places for the holding of the election, as by this act required. At such election the ballots used shall bear the words “For dissolution ․․․ Yes” and “For dissolution ․․․ No,” or words equivalent thereto.

Provided, the board of directors shall be without jurisdiction to entertain the petition or to call the election hereinbefore mentioned so long as contract with the United States, by this act authorized, remains in force, without the written consent of the secretary of the interior filed with the county clerk of the county wherein the office of the district is located.
N.M. Stat. § 73-25-13 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 25 / Section 73-25-13
§ 73-25-13. Powers of governmental units
Status: in_force

A governmental unit, for the purpose of aiding the financing, construction, operation or maintenance of a regional transit system, may:

A. sell, lease, loan, donate, grant, convey, assign, transfer and otherwise dispose to the district real or personal property or interests therein;

B. enter into agreements with a person for the joint financing, construction, operation or maintenance of a regional transit system. Upon compliance with applicable constitutional or charter limitations, the governmental unit may agree to make payments, without limitation as to amount except as set forth in the agreement, from revenues received from one or more fiscal years, to the district or a person to defray the costs of the financing, construction, operation or maintenance of a regional transit system; and

C. transfer to the district a contract that may have been awarded by the governmental unit for construction, operation or maintenance of a regional transit system.
N.M. Stat. § 21-1B-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 1B / Section 21-1B-2
§ 21-1B-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Post-Secondary Education Articulation Act:

A. “ articulation ” means the transfer of courses that fulfill a graduation requirement for a student's chosen degree program;

B. “ department ” means the higher education department;

C. “ general education core curriculum ” means the group of lower-division courses approved by the department as fulfilling general education requirements that are accepted by all institutions for transfer purposes;

D. “ institution ” means an accredited, public post-secondary educational institution operating in the state;

E. “ meta-major ” means fifteen credits of lower-division courses that are developed in consultation with the faculty and approved by the department and that include general education courses and prerequisite courses and that can articulate to multiple degree programs and can include courses across the institution that address diversity;

F. “ transfer ” means the transfer of course credits from one institution to another; and

G. “ transfer module ” means a list of lower-division courses established by the department that fulfill graduation requirements for a specific degree program.
N.M. Stat. § 70-12-9 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 12 / Section 70-12-9
§ 70-12-9. Emergency situations
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provisions of the Surface Owners Protection Act to the contrary, no notice, surface use and compensation agreement or bond shall be required in emergency situations for activities to protect health, safety or the environment.
N.M. Stat. § 36-1-18 — NM Code / Chapter 36 / Article 1 / Section 36-1-18
§ 36-1-18. Duties of district attorney
Status: in_force

A. Each district attorney shall:

(1) prosecute and defend for the state in all courts of record of the counties of his district all cases, criminal and civil, in which the state or any county in his district may be a party or may be interested;

(2) represent the county before the board of county commissioners of any county in his district in all matters before the board whenever requested to do so by the board, and he may appear before the board when sitting as a board of equalization without request;

(3) advise all county and state officers whenever requested; and

(4) represent any county in his district in all civil cases in which the county may be concerned in the supreme court or court of appeals, but not in suits brought in the name of the state.

B. A district attorney may contract with an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo within the boundaries of the district attorney's judicial district for the purpose of authorizing the district attorney or his staff to:

(1) serve as a tribal prosecutor; or

(2) prosecute alleged violations of tribal codes by tribal members in tribal courts.
N.M. Stat. § 29-7-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 7 / Section 29-7-3
§ 29-7-3. New Mexico law enforcement standards and training council
Status: in_force

A. The “New Mexico law enforcement standards and training council” is created and is administratively attached to the New Mexico law enforcement academy of the department of public safety, which shall provide staff support for the council.

B. The council shall develop and promulgate training requirements, curricula and methods; professional development programs; and performance standards for law enforcement officers and public safety telecommunicators at all levels, including basic, field training officer programs, advanced, specialized and instructor training to be consistent throughout New Mexico.

C. The council consists of:

(1) the director of the academy and the directors of the accredited regional law enforcement training facilities, who serve ex officio; and

(2) eleven members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate, consisting of:

(a) one attorney employed in a district attorney's office;

(b) one attorney employed by the public defender department;

(c) one certified police chief of a New Mexico Indian nation, tribe or pueblo;

(d) two New Mexico state-certified public safety telecommunicators, one of whom shall be from an agency that offers fire and medical telecommunications services and one of whom shall be from a public safety agency serving a rural part of the state;

(e) two members who have experience and specialize in providing adult education;

(f) two citizen-at-large members, one of whom has behavioral health expertise and neither of whom is an active or retired law enforcement officer or public safety telecommunicator or has a familial or financial connection to an active or retired law enforcement officer or public safety telecommunicator or any agency or department for which a law enforcement officer or public safety telecommunicator works;

(g) a sheriff who is a New Mexico state-certified law enforcement officer; and

(h) a municipal law enforcement manager who is a New Mexico-state certified law enforcement officer in a command position.

D. An appointed council member shall serve and have all the duties, responsibilities and authority of that office during the period prior to the final action by the senate in confirming or rejecting the appointments. Vacancies on the council shall be filled by appointment by the governor with the consent of the senate for the remainder of the unexpired term.

E. Appointments to the council shall be for staggered terms of four years or less made in such manner that the terms of not more than four members expire on July 1 of each year.

F. Members of the council are entitled to receive, for their service as members of the council, per diem and mileage as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act. 1
N.M. Stat. § 9-22-16 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 22 / Section 9-22-16
§ 9-22-16. Power to act as a personal representative or conservator
Status: in_force

A. The department may act as a:

(1) personal representative of a deceased veteran;

(2) conservator of the estate of a minor child of a veteran;

(3) conservator of the estate of an incompetent veteran; or

(4) conservator of the estate of a person who is a bona fide resident of New Mexico and who is certified by the United States veterans' administration as having money due from the veterans' administration, the payment of which is dependent upon the appointment of a conservator for the person.

B. A fee shall not be allowed or paid to the department for acting as a personal representative or conservator.

C. When the department is appointed as a personal representative in the last will of a veteran, the court or officer authorized to grant testamentary letters in the state shall, upon the proper application, grant testamentary letters to the department. When application is made to a court or officer having authority to grant letters of administration with the will annexed upon the estate of a veteran or upon the estate of a deceased veteran who may have died intestate, and there is no person entitled to the letters who is qualified, competent, willing or able to accept such administration, the court or officer may, at the request of a party interested in the estate, grant letters of administration to the department. A court or officer having authority to grant letters of guardianship of an infant may, upon the same application as is required by law for the appointment of a guardian of such an infant, appoint the department as conservator of the estate of an infant who is the child of a veteran. A court having jurisdiction to appoint a conservator of the estate of an incompetent may appoint the department to be such conservator when the incompetent is a veteran. A court having jurisdiction over a person who is a resident of New Mexico, and who is certified by the United States veterans' administration as having money due from the veterans' administration, the payment of which is dependent upon the appointment of a conservator for the person, may appoint the department to be the conservator.

D. The court or officer may make orders respecting the department as the personal representative or conservator and may require the department to render all accounts that the court or officer might lawfully require if the personal representative or conservator were a natural person.
N.M. Stat. § 21-14A-5.1 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 14A / Section 21-14A-5.1
§ 21-14A-5.1. Title to property acquired
Status: in_force

All property acquired using the proceeds of a bond issue and all property acquired by gift, devolution or bequest shall be taken in the name of the local school board in the district in which the property is situate. All property held by the local school board pursuant to this section shall be used solely for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Off-Campus Instruction Act until such time as the off-campus instruction program ceases to exist. At such time, the property so held by the local school board may be used for other purposes within the scope of authority of the local school board. No real property may be acquired pursuant to this section after July 1, 1998.
N.M. Stat. § 63-1-16 — NM Code / Chapter 63 / Article 1 / Section 63-1-16
§ 63-1-16. Meetings of directors; call; notice
Status: in_force

When no provision is made in the bylaws for regular meetings of the directors and the mode of calling special meetings, all meetings of the directors must be called by special notice in writing, to be given to each director by the secretary, on the order of the president, or if there be no president, on the order of any two directors. Such orders and notice shall be recorded in the journal of the proceedings of the board of directors.
N.M. Stat. § 47-3-10 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 3 / Section 47-3-10
§ 47-3-10. Transfer
Status: in_force

Unless the document of conveyance otherwise specifies, upon the transfer of any realty on which a solar right exists or upon the transfer of any realty benefited by a filed declaration contesting a solar right, that solar right or declaration contesting the solar right shall be transferred with the realty and shall be enforceable by the vendee in the same manner and to the same extent to which it was enforceable by the vendor. A solar right is appurtenant to the real property upon which the solar collector is situated. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a person from agreeing to relinquish a solar right or a potential solar right. Nothing in this section shall affect any transfer of solar rights made prior to the effective date of the Solar Recordation Act pursuant to Paragraph (3) of Subsection B of Section 47-3-4 NMSA 1978 or any local solar rights ordinance.
N.M. Stat. § 2-7F-73 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 7F / Section 2-7F-73
§ 2-7F-73. Representative district sixty-seven
Status: in_force

Representative district sixty-seven is composed of Colfax county precincts 10, 17, 18, 21 and 22; Curry county precincts 1, 3, 10 through 16, 21, 31, 32, 34, 40 and 43; Harding county; Quay county; San Miguel county precinct 15; and Union county.