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N.M. Stat. § 2-7F-58 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 2 / Article 7F / Section 2-7F-58
§ 2-7F-58. Representative district fifty-two
Status: in_force

Representative district fifty-two is composed of Dona Ana county precincts 7 through 12, 54, 71 through 73, 77, 79, 80, 104, 110, 114, 120, 149 and 152 through 160.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-20A-10 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 20A / Section 59A-20A-10
§ 59A-20A-10. Rules and standards
Status: in_force

The superintendent may:

A. promulgate rules to implement the provisions of the Viatical Settlements Act;

B. establish standards for evaluating reasonableness of payments under viatical settlement contracts, including regulation of discount rates used to determine the amount paid in exchange for assignment, transfer, sale, devise or bequest of a benefit under a life insurance policy;

C. establish appropriate licensing requirements and standards for continued licensure for providers and brokers;

D. require a bond or other mechanism for financial accountability for viatical settlement providers; and

E. adopt rules governing the relationship and responsibilities of both insurers and providers and brokers during the viatication of a life insurance policy or certificate.
N.M. Stat. § 34-6-28 — NM Code / Chapter 34 / Article 6 / Section 34-6-28
§ 34-6-28. Operation; rules
Status: in_force

The district judge of each judicial district may adopt rules governing the administration of each district court. In judicial districts having more than one district judge, the power to adopt rules shall be exercised jointly by all judges of the district, with the decision of a majority of the judges of the district required for adoption of any rule. Rules adopted under this section shall not conflict with any statute, rule of the supreme court or regulation of the administrative office of the courts.
N.M. Stat. § 7-31-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 31 / Section 7-31-7
§ 7-31-7. Price increase subject to approval of agency of United States of America, state of New Mexico or court; refund
Status: in_force

When an increase in the value of any product is subject to the approval of any agency of the United States of America or the state of New Mexico or any court, the increased value shall be subject to this tax. In the event the increase in value is disapproved, either in whole or in part, then the amount of tax which has been paid on the disapproved part of the value shall be considered excess tax. Any person who has paid any such excess tax may apply for a refund of that excess tax in accordance with the provisions of Section 7-1-26 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 19-13-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 19 / Article 13 / Section 19-13-5
§ 19-13-5. Leases; applications; limitations
Status: in_force

A. Leases may be issued by the commissioner according to such terms and conditions not inconsistent with the provisions of the Geothermal Resources Act which the commissioner determines to be in the best interest of the state.

B. An application for a lease on state lands shall not be made for less than six hundred forty acres nor more than two thousand five hundred sixty acres and shall embrace a reasonably compact area. A lease on state lands may only be issued for a parcel less than six hundred forty acres if the parcel is isolated from or not contiguous with other parcels of land available for a lease. The commissioner may provide for compensatory agreements on those parcels of state lands which he determines should be subjected to such an agreement rather than a lease. No person, association or corporation, except as otherwise provided in the Geothermal Resources Act, shall take, hold, own or control at one time whether acquired directly from the commissioner or otherwise, any direct or indirect interests in state geothermal leases exceeding fifty-one thousand two hundred acres.

C. The commissioner shall issue a lease to the first qualified applicant under regulations adopted by the commissioner.
N.M. Stat. § 40-2-4 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 2 / Section 40-2-4
§ 40-2-4. Execution of marriage settlement and separation contracts
Status: in_force

All contracts for marriage settlements and contracts for separation, must be in writing, and executed and acknowledged or proved in like manner as a grant of land is required to be executed and acknowledged or proved.
N.M. Stat. § 67-8-6 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 8 / Section 67-8-6
§ 67-8-6. Payment of direction sign expenses
Status: in_force

The expenses of erecting and replacing such index boards shall be paid out of the road fund.
N.M. Stat. § 7-38-21.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 38 / Section 7-38-21.1
§ 7-38-21.1. Protests; state-assessed property; election of remedies
Status: in_force

A. A property owner may protest the value or classification determined by the department for the property owner's property for property taxation purposes, the allocation of value of the property to a particular governmental unit or a denial of a claim for an exemption by:

(1) filing a petition of protest with the administrative hearings office, as provided in the Property Tax Code; or

(2) filing a claim for refund with a district court after paying the property owner's taxes as provided in the Property Tax Code.

B. The initiation of a protest under Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of this section is an election to pursue that remedy and is an unconditional and irrevocable waiver of the right to pursue the alternative remedy provided in Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 66-6-8 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 6 / Section 66-6-8
§ 66-6-8. Bus registration; agricultural labor fees
Status: in_force

A. A bus that has a normal seating capacity of forty passengers or less and that is used exclusively for the transportation of agricultural laborers may be registered upon payment to the division of a fee of thirty-three dollars ($33.00).

B. In addition to the registration fee imposed by this section, there is imposed at the time of registration an annual tire recycling fee of fifty cents ($.50) per wheel that is in contact with the ground on each vehicle subject to a registration fee pursuant to this section.

C. Application for registration of a bus pursuant to this section shall be made in the form prescribed by the division and shall be accompanied by an affidavit that the bus will be used exclusively for the transportation of agricultural laborers. Upon registration, the bus is exempt from tariff-filing requirements of the department of transportation.
N.M. Stat. § 2-7F-52 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 2 / Article 7F / Section 2-7F-52
§ 2-7F-52. Representative district forty-six
Status: in_force

Representative district forty-six is composed of Santa Fe county precincts 1 through 8, 11, 20, 22 through 27, 33, 40, 59 through 61, 79, 82, 87, 90, 92, 118, 119, 121, 122, 128, 130, 146, 152, 153, 155, 159, 160 and 177.
N.M. Stat. § 47-1-16 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 1 / Section 47-1-16
§ 47-1-16. Instrument of conveyance; prima facie evidence of joint tenancy
Status: in_force

An instrument conveying or transferring title to real or personal property to two or more persons as joint tenants, to two or more persons and to the survivors of them and the heirs and assigns of the survivor, or to two or more persons with right of survivorship, shall be prima facie evidence that such property is held in a joint tenancy and shall be conclusive as to purchasers or encumbrancers for value. In any litigation involving the issue of such tenancy a preponderance of the evidence shall be sufficient to establish the same.
N.M. Stat. § 67-3-53 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-53
§ 67-3-53. Reversion of suspense fund balances
Status: in_force

If any monies remain in said “state highway suspense fund” for a period of five years without such a determination of the respective rights of said contractor and creditors thereto, the same shall revert to the state of New Mexico and be covered back into the state road fund.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-43-1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 43 / Section 59A-43-1
§ 59A-43-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This article may be cited as the “Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Law”.
N.M. Stat. § 61-5A-25 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 5A / Section 61-5A-25
§ 61-5A-25. Protected actions and communications
Status: in_force

A. No member of the board or the committee or any ad hoc committee appointed by the board or the committee shall bear liability or be subject to civil damages or criminal prosecutions for any action undertaken or performed within the proper functions of the board or the committee.

B. All written and oral communication made by any person to the board or the committee relating to actual or potential disciplinary action, which includes complaints made to the board or the committee, shall be confidential communications and are not public records for the purposes of the Public Records Act. All data, communications and information acquired, prepared or disseminated by the board or the committee relating to actual or potential disciplinary action or its investigation of complaints shall not be disclosed except to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of the board or the committee or in a judicial appeal from the actions of the board or the committee or in a referral of cases made to law enforcement agencies, national database clearinghouses or other licensing boards.

C. Information contained in complaint files is public information and subject to disclosure when the board or the committee acts on a complaint and issues a notice of contemplated action or reaches a settlement prior to the issuance of a notice of contemplated action.

D. No person or legal entity providing information to the board or the committee, whether as a report, a complaint or testimony, shall be subject to civil damages or criminal prosecutions.
N.M. Stat. § 4-55A-40 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 55A / Section 4-55A-40
§ 4-55A-40. Street and road improvement fund authorization
Status: in_force

In the case of creation of a county improvement district in accordance with the provisions of the County Improvement District Act, the board of county commissioners of any county may, by ordinance, establish a street and road improvement fund into which may be transferred all or any part of the distributions of such amounts of the tax revenues distributed to the county under the provisions of Section 7-1-6.9 NMSA 1978 as the board has, in any ordinance, determined necessary for use as a fund in the financing of improvement projects described in Subsection A of Section 4-55A-4 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 63-3-36 — NM Code / Chapter 63 / Article 3 / Section 63-3-36
§ 63-3-36. Construction and maintenance of highway crossings
Status: in_force

A. Subject to the provisions of Subsection B hereof, every railroad company in this state shall construct and maintain in good condition, at its own expense, good and sufficient crossings at all places in this state where its railroad crosses public highways, city, town or village streets at grade, now or hereafter to be opened for public use. Such crossings shall be constructed of planks, macadam, concrete or other suitable material in such manner as to be level with the top of the rails for a reasonable distance on each side of each rail.

B. Any highway-railroad crossing at grade that may hereafter be constructed or reconstructed by the state highway department will be a full plank crossing of a material approved by the state highway department and railroad, to be installed by the railroad company at the state highway department's expense. If a joint investigation of railroad and highway engineers shows that a highway-railroad crossing at grade should be reconstructed, then the highway department shall pay the railroad for the initial full plank crossing. Said constructed or reconstructed crossing will be maintained in good condition at the railroad company's own expense.
N.M. Stat. § 42-2-7 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 2 / Section 42-2-7
§ 42-2-7. Service; personal or by publication
Status: in_force

A. Personal service, either within or without the state, of the petition, notice of condemnation and the notice of the preliminary order of entry, if any, shall be made and had in the manner as provided in the Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 4(e), Subsections 1 to 6 inclusive, or as they may be amended.

B. If the name or residence of any owner be unknown, or if the owners or any of them do not reside within the state, or cannot be found therein, and are not served as hereinbefore provided, the required service and notice shall be given by publication of notice thereof for two consecutive weeks, the last publication to be at least three days prior to any default date, in a newspaper published in the county in which the proceedings are pending, if one is published in that county; if no newspaper is published in such county, then a newspaper published in another county, having a general circulation in the county wherein such proceedings are pending. When the address of any defendant who resides out of state is known to the petitioner, the publication shall be made as aforesaid and in addition, a copy of the petition and required notice thereof and the notice of the preliminary order entered, if any, shall be mailed to said defendant at such address, at least ten days prior to any default date on the preliminary order.

C. Personal service outside the state of any pleading or notice shall be equivalent to publication and mailing, and such personal service of the notice of entry of a preliminary order shall commence the running of the ten-day period within which objections may be made to the granting of a permanent order. Return of such service shall be by affidavit of the person making the same.
N.M. Stat. § 50-16-3 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 16 / Section 50-16-3
§ 50-16-3. Accumulated sick leave; application to family caregiving
Status: in_force

A. An employer that provides eligible employees with sick leave for an eligible employee's own illness or injury or to receive health care shall permit its eligible employees to use accrued sick leave to care for their family members in accordance with the same terms and procedures that the employer imposes for any other use of sick leave by eligible employees.

B. An eligible employee's employer shall not discharge or threaten to discharge, demote, suspend or retaliate or discriminate in any manner, including using the employee's use of caregiver leave as a factor in the employee's performance evaluation, against an eligible employee because that employee requests or uses caregiver leave in accordance with the employer's general sick leave policy, files a complaint with the workforce solutions department for violation of the Caregiver Leave Act, cooperates in an investigation or prosecution of an alleged violation of the Caregiver Leave Act or opposes any policy or practice established pursuant to the Caregiver Leave Act.

C. Nothing in this section shall require an employer to provide sick leave to its employees.

D. The provisions of the Caregiver Leave Act are nonexclusive and cumulative and are in addition to any other rights or remedies afforded by contract or under other provision of law. The Caregiver Leave Act does not prohibit an employer from providing greater sick leave benefits than are provided pursuant to that act.

E. The secretary of workforce solutions shall adopt and promulgate rules to implement the provisions of the Caregiver Leave Act. These rules shall include, at a minimum, grievance procedures for according eligible employees recourse for violations of the Caregiver Leave Act.
N.M. Stat. § 4-26-2 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 26 / Section 4-26-2
§ 4-26-2. Espanola precinct attached to Rio Arriba county
Status: in_force

That all of precinct number sixteen of Santa Fe county, known as Espanola precinct, be and the same is hereby detached from Santa Fe county and made a part of Rio Arriba county and attached to precinct number seven of said Rio Arriba county.
N.M. Stat. § 72-20-64 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 20 / Section 72-20-64
§ 72-20-64. Interest coupons
Status: in_force

Except for any bonds that are registrable for payment of interest, interest coupons payable to bearer and appertaining to the bonds shall be issued and shall bear the original or facsimile signature of the chair.
N.M. Stat. § 61-6A-9 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 6A / Section 61-6A-9
§ 61-6A-9. Fees
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 61-1-34 NMSA 1978 , the board shall establish a schedule of reasonable administrative and licensing fees, but an individual fee shall not exceed four hundred dollars ($400).
N.M. Stat. § 59A-10-14 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 10 / Section 59A-10-14
§ 59A-10-14. Title; separation; accounting
Status: in_force

A. Title to the trusteed assets of such an alien insurer shall be vested in the trustee and its successors for the purposes of the trust deposit, and the trust agreement shall so provide.

B. The trustee shall keep the trusteed assets separate from its other assets, and shall maintain a record thereof sufficient to identify the trusteed assets at all times.

C. The trustee shall from time to time file with the superintendent its statement, in such form as the superintendent may designate or approve, certifying the character of the assets and the amounts and market value thereof. If the trustee fails to file the statement within a reasonable time after request therefor by the superintendent, the superintendent shall revoke the insurer's certificate of authority and immediately give written notice of such revocation to each other state in which, known to the superintendent, the insurer is transacting insurance business as either an authorized insurer or surplus line insurer.
N.M. Stat. § 24-7C-5 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 7C / Section 24-7C-5
§ 24-7C-5. Waiting period
Status: in_force

A prescription for medical aid in dying medication shall:

A. not be filled until forty-eight hours after the prescription for medical aid in dying medication has been written, unless the qualified individual's prescribing health care provider has medically confirmed that the qualified individual may, within reasonable medical judgment, die before the expiration of the waiting period identified herein, in which case, the prescription may be filled once the prescribing health care provider affirms that all requirements have been fulfilled pursuant to Section 3 of the End-of-Life Options Act; and

B. indicate the date and time that the prescription for medical aid in dying medication was written and indicate the first allowable date and time when it may be filled.
N.M. Stat. § 25-7-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 25-7-6
§ 25-7-6. Adulterated or mislabeled products and stop-sale orders
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale adulterated or mislabeled milk or dairy products. Milk or dairy products that contain any unwholesome substance or fail to conform in physical or chemical composition to the definitions or standards prescribed by the Dairy Act or by regulation of the board shall be deemed adulterated. Milk or dairy products as defined by the Dairy Act or by regulation of the board that are labeled with an identifying name other than those so defined, or bear a name that has been defined but contains a food product that does not conform in physical or chemical composition with the definition provided by the Dairy Act or regulation of the board, shall be deemed adulterated. Any milk or dairy product which contains a product differing in content from the product described on its label, or bears an identifying name other than those defined by the Dairy Act or by regulation of the board shall be deemed mislabeled. The department may issue and enforce a stop-sale order on any adulterated or mislabeled product.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-2-4.1 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 2 / Section 32A-2-4.1
§ 32A-2-4.1. Adult jails and lockups used as temporary holding facilities; reports
Status: in_force

A. A child arrested and detained for an alleged delinquent act may be temporarily held in an adult jail or lockup for no longer than six hours. A child who is detained in an adult jail or lockup shall be placed in a setting that is physically segregated by sight and sound from adult offenders. After six hours, the child may be placed or detained pursuant to the provisions of Section 32A-2-12 NMSA 1978 .

B. An adult jail or lockup used as a temporary holding facility for alleged delinquent offenders shall file an annual report regarding its compliance with federal requirements. The juvenile justice advisory committee and the department shall determine the format of the annual reports.
N.M. Stat. § 7-7-9 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 7-7-9
§ 7-7-9. Administration not applied for; application or waiver by the department
Status: in_force

A. If no person interested in the estate of a decedent applies for letters testamentary or of administration within thirty days after the death of the decedent, the department may apply to the probate court having jurisdiction for the appointment of an administrator and after a hearing, the probate court shall appoint an administrator of the estate of the decedent.

B. If the administration of the estate of a decedent is not necessary, the department may waive administration. The department shall not waive administration until the taxes due under the Estate Tax Act are paid.
N.M. Stat. § 61-31-18 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 31 / Section 61-31-18
§ 61-31-18. Impaired social workers
Status: in_force

The license of any social worker to practice in this state shall be subject to restriction, suspension or revocation in case of inability of the licensee to practice social work with reasonable skill and safety to clients by reason of one or more of the following:

A. mental disability; or

B. habitual or excessive use of controlled substances, as defined in the Controlled Substances Act, or alcohol.