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N.M. Stat. § 4-2-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 4-2-4
§ 4-2-4. Road and bridge bonds
Status: in_force

The county of Catron may issue bonds for the purpose of constructing and repairing public roads and bridges in an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, which bonds shall be issued in the manner as provided by the constitution of New Mexico, payable absolutely thirty years from their date, and at the option of said county twenty years from their date.
N.M. Stat. § 19-10-20 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 19 / Article 10 / Section 19-10-20
§ 19-10-20. Cancellation of lease for nonpayment or nonperformance of requirements by lessee; notice
Status: in_force

The commissioner is hereby authorized to cancel any lease issued as provided herein for nonpayment of rentals or nonperformance by the lessee of any provision or requirement of the lease; provided, however, that before any such cancellation shall be made the commissioner must mail to the lessee or assignee by registered letter, addressed to the post-office address of such lessee or assignee shown by the records of the office of the commissioner, a notice of intention to cancel said lease, specifying the default for which the lease is subject to cancellation, and if within thirty (30) days after the mailing of said notice to the lessee or assignee he shall remedy the default specified in such notice, then no cancellation of the said lease shall be entered by the commissioner but otherwise the said cancellation shall be made and all rights of the lessee or assignee under the lease shall thereupon terminate. The mailing of the notice as provided in this section shall constitute notice of the intention of the commissioner to cancel the lease and no proof of receipt of such notice shall be necessary or required. All notices required to be given hereunder on account of failure to pay rentals shall be mailed within ninety (90) days after said rentals shall have become delinquent, and as to all leases under the terms of which rentals are delinquent as of the effective date of this amendment said notices shall be mailed within ninety (90) days from the effective date hereof.
N.M. Stat. § 6-21-6.16 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 21 / Section 6-21-6.16
§ 6-21-6.16. Charter school facility loans; charter school facility revolving fund; created; reports
Status: in_force

A. The New Mexico finance authority may receive and review applications for charter school facility loans pursuant to this section. The authority shall adopt rules to govern the application procedures and requirements for disbursing charter school facility loans and for determining the eligibility of charter schools for loans. The authority may make loans to a charter school for the purchase, construction, expansion or renovation of facilities or to pay off lease-purchase agreements; provided that an application shall include:

(1) evidence that any lease-purchase agreements are in accordance with the Public School Lease Purchase Act;

(2) evidence that a charter school's charter has been renewed at least once; and

(3) a review of the last two audits of the charter school.

B. The authority may consult with the applicant's authorizer in evaluating applications; provided that a final determination shall be made solely by the authority.

C. Receipts from the repayment of principal or interest accrued on the charter school facility loans made and other fees or charges paid to the New Mexico finance authority in connection with charter school facility loans shall be deposited in the charter school facility revolving fund.

D. The “charter school facility revolving fund” is created within the New Mexico finance authority. The fund consists of appropriations, gifts, grants, donations and money otherwise accruing to the fund. The fund shall be administered by the authority as a separate account and may consist of such subaccounts as the authority deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the fund. The authority may establish procedures for administering the fund in accordance with the provisions of this section. Balances in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to any other fund.

E. Money in the charter school facility revolving fund is appropriated to the New Mexico finance authority to make charter school facility loans and to pay the reasonably necessary administrative and other costs incurred by the authority in evaluating, processing, originating and servicing loans.

F. Money in the charter school facility revolving fund that is not needed for immediate disbursement, including money held in reserve, may be deposited or invested in the same manner as other funds administered by the New Mexico finance authority.

G. Prior to December 1, 2023 and each December 1 thereafter, the New Mexico finance authority shall submit a report to the New Mexico finance authority oversight committee. The report shall provide details regarding any loans made pursuant to this section.

H. The New Mexico finance authority may exercise any power provided to the authority in the New Mexico Finance Authority Act to assist in the administration of this section; provided that the power is consistent with the provisions of that act.
N.M. Stat. § 74-6-3.1 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 6 / Section 74-6-3.1
§ 74-6-3.1. Legal advice
Status: in_force

A. In the exercise of any of its powers or duties, the water quality control commission shall act with independent legal advice. The manner in which such advice is provided shall be determined by the commission, but from among one of the following:

(1) the office of the attorney general;

(2) independent counsel hired by the commission, whether full- or part-time; or

(3) another state agency whose function is sufficiently distinct from the department of environment and each constituent agency to assure independent, impartial advice.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this section, attorneys from constituent agencies may act for the water quality control commission in lawsuits filed against or on behalf of the commission, and the attorney general may, at the request of the commission, file and defend lawsuits on behalf of the commission.
N.M. Stat. § 7-8A-5 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 8A / Section 7-8A-5
§ 7-8A-5. Dormancy charge
Status: in_force

A holder may deduct from property presumed abandoned a charge imposed by reason of the owner's failure to claim the property within a specified time only if there is a valid and enforceable written contract between the holder and the owner under which the holder may impose the charge and the holder regularly imposes the charge, which is not regularly reversed or otherwise canceled. The amount of the deduction is limited to an amount that is not unconscionable.
N.M. Stat. § 74-6-15 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 6 / Section 74-6-15
§ 74-6-15. Confidential information; penalties
Status: in_force

A. Records, reports or information obtained by the commission or a constituent agency pursuant to the Water Quality Act shall be generally available to the public. All ambient water quality data and all effluent data obtained by the commission or a constituent agency shall be available to the public. Records, reports or information or particular parts of the records, reports or information shall be held confidential, if a person can demonstrate to the commission or constituent agency that the records, reports or information or particular parts of the records, reports or information, if made public, would divulge confidential business records or methods or processes entitled to protection as trade secrets. Except that the record, report or information may be disclosed:

(1) to officers, employees or authorized representatives of the commission or a constituent agency concerned with carrying out the purposes and provisions of the Water Quality Act;

(2) to officers, employees or authorized representatives of the United States government; or

(3) when relevant in any proceeding pursuant to the Water Quality Act or the federal act.

B. The commission shall promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of this section, including regulations specifying business records entitled to protection as confidential.

C. An officer, employee or authorized representative of the commission or a constituent agency who knowingly or willfully publishes, divulges, discloses or makes known any information that is required to be considered confidential pursuant to this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both.
N.M. Stat. § 48-3-7 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 3 / Section 48-3-7
§ 48-3-7. Liens for board, feed, shelter or pasture; priority
Status: in_force

A. Innkeepers, livery stable keepers, lessors and agistors and those who board others for pay or furnish feed, shelter or pasture for the property and stock of others shall have a lien on the property and stock of such guest or guests and lessees or of those to whom feed or shelter has been furnished until the same is paid, and shall have the right to take and retain possession of such property and stock until the indebtedness is paid.

B. It shall be unlawful for a lessee or owner to remove livestock from the leased premises, feedlot or pasture without the consent of the lessor feedlot operator or agistor unless the amount due for pasturage or feed be paid.

C. The liens provided for in this section shall not take precedence over prior filed or recorded chattel mortgages, duly filed or recorded as provided by law, unless the holder of such mortgage shall expressly so consent in writing; provided that the giving of such written consent shall not affect the rights or priority under a prior mortgage as against a subsequent mortgage but the rights, liens and priorities of all such mortgages shall be and remain the same as if no such written consent had been given.

D. An agistor shall retain his lien, notwithstanding the fact that he has relinquished possession of the livestock, if prior to relinquishment, he has filed for record with the clerk of the county in which the livestock are situate a statement declaring his intention to retain the lien and containing a description of the livestock on which the lien is claimed.

E. For the purposes of this section, “agistor” means a person or entity whose primary business is to board, feed and care for livestock of others for a fee.

F. The notice which an agistor is required to file to protect his lien claim under this section shall contain the following:

(1) name of the agistor;

(2) location by general description and county of the feedlot in which the livestock are boarded;

(3) identification of livestock by quantity, owner and other identifying information to permit an identification as to which livestock the lien applies; and

(4) signature of the agistor and the date on which the notice was served.

G. Within fifteen days after the agistor releases the lien he shall file a release of lien in the manner provided for filing of termination statements under the Uniform Commercial Code.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-17-32 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 17 / Section 59A-17-32
§ 59A-17-32. Examination of advisory and joint underwriting organizations, joint reinsurance pools and residual market mechanisms
Status: in_force

A. To be informed about any matter related to enforcement of provisions of the Insurance Code, the superintendent may examine the affairs and condition of any advisory or joint underwriting organization, joint reinsurance pool or residual market mechanism. The superintendent shall examine every advisory organization and conduct the examinations at intervals established by rules promulgated by the superintendent.

B. In lieu of all or part of an examination, or in addition to an examination, the superintendent may order an independent audit by certified public accountants or actuarial evaluation by actuaries approved by the superintendent, or may accept the report of an audit already made by certified public accountants or actuarial evaluation by actuaries approved by the superintendent, or the report of an examination made by the insurance supervisory official of another state.

C. Conduct of the examination, examiners and other personnel used by the superintendent in making the examinations, payment of costs of the examination by the examinee, examination report and review and adoption and the examination in general shall be subject to the applicable provisions of Chapter 59A, Article 4 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 58-5-1 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 5 / Section 58-5-1
§ 58-5-1. Board of directors; oaths
Status: in_force

A. A board member, when initially elected, shall take an oath that:

(1) he will, so far as the duty devolves upon him, diligently and honestly administer the affairs of the bank and will not knowingly violate or willingly permit to be violated any of the provisions of the Banking Act; and

(2) he is the owner, in good faith and in his own right or jointly with his spouse, of the number of shares of stock required by law standing in his name on the books of the corporation and that the stock is not hypothecated or in any way pledged as security for any loan or debt.

B. The oath, subscribed by the board member making it and certified by the notary public before whom it was taken, shall be immediately transmitted to the director of the division and shall be filed and preserved in his office.
N.M. Stat. § 73-12-41 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 12 / Section 73-12-41
§ 73-12-41. Owner shall file petition for exclusion
Status: in_force

The owner or owners in fee of any lands constituting a portion of any irrigation district may file with the board of directors of the district, a petition praying that such lands may be excluded and taken from said district. The petition shall describe the lands which the petitioners desire to have excluded, but the description of such lands need not be more particular than required when lands are entered in the assessment book by the county assessor. Such petition must be acknowledged in the same manner and form as is required in case of a conveyance of land.
N.M. Stat. § 22-19-10 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 19 / Section 22-19-10
§ 22-19-10. Proceeds of bond sales; retirement fund
Status: in_force

A. Proceeds from the sale of bonds or other special obligations issued by a local school board pursuant to the School Revenue Bond Act shall be deposited into a separate account to be used solely for the specific purposes for which the money was borrowed. All costs incident to issuing and selling bonds or other special obligations may be paid out of the proceeds of this account.

B. A local school board, at the time of issuing any bonds or other special obligations, shall establish a fund to be known as the “retirement fund”. All net income from the income project and all proceeds remaining after completion of the income project shall be deposited into the retirement fund. All proceeds in the retirement fund shall be used solely for the purpose of repaying the principal, interest and service charges on any bonds or other special obligations issued for the income project.
N.M. Stat. § 22-2-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 2 / Section 22-2-1
§ 22-2-1. Secretary and department; general powers
Status: in_force

A. The secretary is the governing authority and shall have control, management and direction of all public schools, except as otherwise provided by law.

B. The department may:

(1) adopt, promulgate and enforce rules to exercise its authority and the authority of the secretary;

(2) enter into contracts to carry out its duties;

(3) apply to the district court for an injunction, writ of mandamus or other appropriate relief to enforce the provisions of the Public School Code or rules promulgated pursuant to the Public School Code; and

(4) waive provisions of the Public School Code as authorized by law.
N.M. Stat. § 29-15-1 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 15 / Section 29-15-1
§ 29-15-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 29, Article 15 [ 29-15-1 to 29-15-12 NMSA 1978 ] may be cited as the “Missing Persons Information and Reporting Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 21-1-32 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 21-1-32
§ 21-1-32. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of this act to provide for the compilation and utilization of an accounting, budgeting and reporting manual for institutions of higher learning for the purpose of ensuring full disclosure and consistent reporting of all financial data.
N.M. Stat. § 10-4-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 4 / Section 10-4-1
§ 10-4-1. Local officers subject to removal
Status: in_force

Any officer of a political subdivision of the state elected by the people and any officer appointed to fill out the unexpired term of any such officer may be removed from office on any of the grounds mentioned in and according to the provisions of Sections 10-4-1 through 10-4-29 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 22-14-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 14 / Section 22-14-2
§ 22-14-2. Vocational education; state governing authority
Status: in_force

A. The commission is the governing authority and shall establish policies for the conduct of all programs of the state and state plans established relating to vocational education unless otherwise provided by law.

B. The commission is the sole agency of the state for the administration or for the supervision of the administration of any state plan relating to vocational education or for any federal aid funds, except as may otherwise be provided by law.

C. The commission may delegate to the department its administrative functions relating to vocational education.
N.M. Stat. § 3-66-11 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 66 / Section 3-66-11
§ 3-66-11. Severability
Status: in_force

If any part or application of the Municipal Event Center Funding Act is held invalid, the remainder or its application to other situations or persons shall not be affected.
N.M. Stat. § 30-11-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 30 / Article 11 / Section 30-11-1
§ 30-11-1. Libel
Status: in_force

Libel consists of making, writing, publishing, selling or circulating without good motives and justifiable ends, any false and malicious statement affecting the reputation, business or occupation of another, or which exposes another to hatred, contempt, ridicule, degradation or disgrace.

Whoever commits libel is guilty of a misdemeanor.

The word “malicious,” as used in this article, signifies an act done with evil or mischievous design and it is not necessary to prove any special facts showing ill-feeling on the part of the person who is concerned in making, printing, publishing or circulating a libelous statement against the person injured thereby.

A. A person is the maker of a libel who originally contrived and either executed it himself by writing, printing, engraving or painting, or dictated, caused or procured it to be done by others.

B. A person is the publisher of a libel who either of his own will or by the persuasion or dictation, or at the solicitation or employment for hire of another, executes the same in any of the modes pointed out as constituting a libel; but if anyone by force or threats is compelled to execute such libel he is guilty of no crime.

C. A person is guilty of circulating a libel who, knowing its contents, either sells, distributes or gives, or who, with malicious design, reads or exhibits it to others.

D. The written, printed or published statement to come within the definition of libel must falsely convey the idea either:

(1) that the person to whom it refers has been guilty of some penal offenses;

(2) that he has been guilty of some act or omission which, though not a penal offense, is disgraceful to him as a member of society, and the natural consequence of which is to bring him into contempt among honorable persons;

(3) that he has some moral vice or physical defect or disease which renders him unfit for intercourse with respectable society, and as such should cause him to be generally avoided;

(4) that he is notoriously of bad or infamous character; or

(5) that any person in office or a candidate therefor is dishonest and therefore unworthy of such office, or that while in office he has been guilty of some malfeasance rendering him unworthy of the place.

E. It shall be sufficient to constitute the crime of libel if the natural consequence of the publication of the same is to injure the person defamed although no actual injury to his reputation need be proven.

F. No statement made in the course of a legislative or judicial proceeding, whether true or false, although made with intent to injure and for malicious purposes, comes within the definition of libel.
N.M. Stat. § 52-3-40 — NM Code / Chapter 52 / Article 3 / Section 52-3-40
§ 52-3-40. Autopsy in death claims
Status: in_force

A. On the filing of a claim for compensation for death from an occupational disease where an autopsy is necessary to ascertain the cause of death, it may be ordered by the workers' compensation judge and shall be made by a qualified person designated by the workers' compensation judge. Any interested person may designate a licensed physician to attend the autopsy, and the findings of the person performing the autopsy shall be filed with the workers' compensation judge and be a public record. All proceedings for compensation shall be suspended upon the refusal of a claimant or claimants to permit the autopsy when so ordered.

B. When an autopsy has been performed pursuant to any order of the workers' compensation judge, no cause of action therefor shall be against any person, firm or corporation participating in or requesting the autopsy.
N.M. Stat. § 4-33-5 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 33 / Section 4-33-5
§ 4-33-5. Counting and canvassing of votes
Status: in_force

The ballots cast shall be counted by the election officials and the results thereof certified to the county commissioners. Within three days after the election held as herein provided, the county commissioners shall meet and canvass the votes cast and if a majority of those voting shall have voted for the annexation, the area as described in the petition shall be annexed to the other county as provided in said petition.
N.M. Stat. § 3-29-17.3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 29 / Section 3-29-17.3
§ 3-29-17.3. Service of process on association
Status: in_force

The registered agent appointed by an association shall be an agent of the association upon whom any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the association may be served. Nothing in this section limits or affects the right for process, notice or demand to be served upon an association in any other manner permitted by law.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-78 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-78
§ 10-11-78. Municipal police member coverage plan 4; member contribution rate
Status: in_force

A member under municipal police member coverage plan 4 shall contribute twelve and thirty-five hundredths percent of salary starting with the first full pay period in the calendar month in which municipal police member coverage plan 4 becomes applicable to the member, except that a member whose annual salary is greater than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall contribute:

A. prior to July 1, 2022, thirteen and eighty-five hundredths percent of salary;

B. beginning July 1, 2022 and continuing through June 30, 2023, fourteen and thirty-five hundredths percent of salary;

C. beginning July 1, 2023 and continuing through June 30, 2024, fourteen and eighty-five hundredths percent of salary;

D. beginning July 1, 2024 and continuing through June 30, 2025, fifteen and thirty-five hundredths percent of salary; and

E. beginning July 1, 2025 and thereafter, fifteen and eighty-five hundredths percent of salary.