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N.M. Stat. § 59A-25-11 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 25 / Section 59A-25-11
§ 59A-25-11. Claims administration
Status: in_force

A. All claims shall be promptly reported to the insurer or its designated claim representative, and the insurer shall maintain adequate claim files. All claims shall be settled as soon as possible and in accordance with the terms of the insurance contract.

B. All claims shall be paid either by draft drawn upon the insurer or by check of the insurer to the order of the claimant to whom payment of the claim is due pursuant to the policy provisions, or upon direction of such claimant to one specified.

C. No plan or arrangement shall be used whereby any person other than the insurer or its designated claim representative shall be authorized to settle or adjust claims. The creditor shall not be designated as claim representative for the insurer in adjusting claims; provided, that a group policyholder may, by arrangement with the insurer, draw drafts or checks in payment of claims due to the group policyholder subject to audit and review by the insurer.
N.M. Stat. § 1-8-34 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 1-8-34
§ 1-8-34. Primary Election Law; nominating petition; withdrawals and additions; copies made available
Status: in_force

A. A nominating petition when filed shall not be withdrawn nor added to, nor shall any person be permitted to revoke his signature thereon. A nominating petition shall be complete when filed. The proper filing officer shall not permit additions to or withdrawals from a nominating petition after it is filed nor shall any person be permitted to revoke his signature on a petition after it has been filed.

B. The original nominating petition shall remain in the filing officer's office and copies shall be made available by the filing officer for a nominal cost.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-41-10 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 41 / Section 59A-41-10
§ 59A-41-10. “Impairment” defined
Status: in_force

“Impairment” exists as to:

A. a stock, mutual, reciprocal, or foreign Lloyds insurer, when its basic capital is less than that required to be maintained by it under Section 83 of the Insurance Code;

B. a domestic Lloyds insurer, when its surplus is less than as required under Section 83 or Article 38 of the Insurance Code;

C. a nonprofit health care plan, when its assets are in amount less than the sum of its required trust deposit, required reserves and other liabilities;

D. a prepaid dental care plan, when its assets are in amount less than the sum of its required bond or deposit in lieu thereof, its required reserves, and its other liabilities;

E. a motor club, when its assets are in amount less than the sum of its required bond or deposit in lieu thereof, its required reserves, and its other liabilities; and

F. any other corporation, when its assets are in amount less than the sum of its surplus required, if any, to be maintained, its paid-in capital stock, if any, and its other liabilities.
N.M. Stat. § 72-18-43 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 18 / Section 72-18-43
§ 72-18-43. Effect of extraterritorial functions
Status: in_force

All of the powers, privileges, immunities and rights, exemptions from laws, ordinances and rules, all pension, relief, disability, workmen's compensation and other benefits which apply to the activity of officers, agents or employees of a district or any such public body when performing their respective functions within the territorial limits of the respective public agencies apply to them to the same degree and extent while engaged in the performance of any of their functions and duties extraterritorially.
N.M. Stat. § 6-34-9 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 34 / Section 6-34-9
§ 6-34-9. Opportunity enterprise financing
Status: in_force

A. The authority shall receive and review applications for opportunity enterprise financing. If the authority determines that an enterprise development project is eligible for financing, the authority may enter into a contract with the opportunity enterprise partner to provide financing to that partner, which shall be used to complete that project.

B. The authority shall ensure that all zoning, permitting and other regulatory requirements will be met by the enterprise development project and that the enterprise development project will create or expand economic development opportunities within the state.

C. Financing shall not be subject to repayment if the terms of the contract for financing are carried out by the opportunity enterprise partner. A property associated with the enterprise development project shall be the property of the authority and shall be a property available for lease as provided in Section 10 of the Opportunity Enterprise Act. The authority may enter into agreements with the general services department or other state agency or entity approved by the board to administer and maintain the property as required by the Opportunity Enterprise Act.

D. As provided in rules adopted by the board, upon completion of an enterprise development project, the authority shall allow the opportunity enterprise partner responsible for the completion of that project an opportunity to obtain an opportunity enterprise lease for that property as provided in Section 10 of the Opportunity Enterprise Act; provided that any breach of the terms of the contract for opportunity enterprise financing may preclude that opportunity enterprise partner from leasing the property, and in that event, the property shall be made available for lease to other opportunity enterprise partners.
N.M. Stat. § 3-39-10 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 39 / Section 3-39-10
§ 3-39-10. Sale, exchange and details of bonds
Status: in_force

A. Bonds may be sold at public or private sale at, above or below par and at a price which results in a net effective interest rate which does not exceed the maximum permitted by the Public Securities Act or, in the case of municipalities having a population of one hundred thousand or more persons, may be exchanged for property to be used in connection with an airport facility.

B. If any municipal officer whose signature appears on any bond ceases to be an officer before delivery of the bonds, the signature is valid for all purposes as if the officer had remained in office until delivery.

C. All bonds are fully negotiable as provided by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code unless the instrument authorizing the bonds expressly provides to the contrary.
N.M. Stat. § 74-3-10 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 3 / Section 74-3-10
§ 74-3-10. Exemptions
Status: in_force

A. Nothing contained in the Radiation Protection Act shall be construed as authorizing the agency or the board to limit the kind and amount of radiation that may be applied to a person for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes by or under the direction of a licensed physician.

B. The Radiation Protection Act shall not apply to the transportation of any radioactive material in conformity with regulations of the department of transportation or other agency of the federal government having jurisdiction, or to any material or equipment owned by the United States and being used, stored or transported by or for the United States or any department, agency or instrumentality thereof, except to the extent required or permitted by the authority in control of such materials or equipment.

C. The Radiation Protection Act shall not apply to the mining, extraction, processing, storage or transportation of radioactive ores or uranium concentrates that are regulated by the United States bureau of mines or any other federal or state agency having authority unless the authority is ceded by such agency to the board.
N.M. Stat. § 22-11-30.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 11 / Section 22-11-30.1
§ 22-11-30.1. Educational retirement; qualified excess benefit
Status: in_force

The educational retirement board, by rule, may establish and maintain a qualified excess benefit arrangement under Section 415(m) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for employees hired before July 1, 1999. The amount of annual benefit that would be payable but for the limitation imposed by Section 415 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to an employee hired before July 1, 1999 shall be paid from a qualified excess benefit arrangement established and maintained pursuant to this section.
N.M. Stat. § 58-33-5 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 33 / Section 58-33-5
§ 58-33-5. Confidentiality of participant and account information; application of other laws
Status: in_force

A. Information obtained by the board that is proprietary or information about covered employees or participants in the New Mexico retirement plan marketplace is confidential and not subject to inspection pursuant to the Inspection of Public Records Act.

B. Individual account information of New Mexico work and save program participants, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, personal identification information, investments, contributions and earnings, is confidential and shall be maintained as confidential:

(1) except to the extent necessary to administer New Mexico work and save in a manner consistent with the New Mexico Work and Save Act, the tax laws of this state and the Internal Revenue Code; or

(2) unless the person who provides the information or is the subject of the information expressly agrees in writing to the disclosure of the information.
N.M. Stat. § 7-13-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 13 / Section 7-13-6
§ 7-13-6. Returns by wholesalers; exception
Status: in_force

Wholesalers shall file information returns in form and content as prescribed by the department on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month following the month in which gasoline is sold in New Mexico. The department may require that the information returns be provided through electronic means as long as an exception is provided for wholesalers with limited amounts of fuel sold. Sales of gasoline in quantities of thirty-five gallons or more delivered into the fuel tanks of aircraft are not wholesale sales for the purposes of this section, and information returns on such sales need not be filed with the department.
N.M. Stat. § 13-7-17 — NM Code / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 13-7-17
§ 13-7-17. Pharmacy benefits; prescription synchronization
Status: in_force

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers a prescription drug benefit shall allow an enrollee to fill or refill a prescription for less than a thirty-day supply of the prescription drug, and apply a prorated daily copayment or coinsurance for the fill or refill, if:

(1) the prescribing practitioner or the pharmacist determines the fill or refill to be in the best interest of the patient;

(2) the patient requests or agrees to receive less than a thirty-day supply of the prescription drug; and

(3) the reduced fill or refill is made for the purpose of synchronizing the patient's prescription drug fills.

B. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers a prescription drug benefit shall not:

(1) deny coverage for the filling of a chronic medication when the fill is made in accordance with a plan to synchronize multiple prescriptions for the enrollee pursuant to Subsection A of this section established among the group health plan, the prescribing practitioner and a pharmacist. The group health plan shall allow a pharmacy to override any denial indicating that a prescription is being refilled too soon for the purposes of medication synchronization; and

(2) prorate a dispensing fee to a pharmacy that fills a prescription with less than a thirty-day supply of prescription drug pursuant to Subsection A of this section. The group health plan shall pay in full a dispensing fee for a partially filled or refilled prescription for each prescription dispensed, regardless of any prorated copayment or coinsurance that the enrollee may pay for prescription synchronization services.
N.M. Stat. § 62-2-6 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 2 / Section 62-2-6
§ 62-2-6. Directors; qualifications; election
Status: in_force

The corporate powers of any corporation formed under this article shall be exercised by a board of not less than three directors who shall be stockholders of the company, and a majority of them citizens of the United States, and at least one-third of whom shall be residents of this state. Such directors shall be elected annually, after the expiration of the term of the directors named in the articles of incorporation, at such time and place, and upon such notice, and in such mode as the bylaws of the company may provide; but all such elections shall be by ballot, and each stockholder, either in person or by proxy, shall be entitled to as many votes as he owns shares of stock, and the persons receiving the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected. When a vacancy occurs in the office of director by death, resignation or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the year in such manner as the bylaws shall prescribe. Should there be no election of directors, on the day fixed in the bylaws for such election, such election may be held at such other time as the bylaws may designate, and the directors in office may continue to act until their successors are elected.
N.M. Stat. § 21-12-13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 12 / Section 21-12-13
§ 21-12-13. Fund created
Status: in_force

The “legislative scholarship fund” is created. No money appropriated to the legislative scholarship fund or accruing to it through gifts, grants or bequests shall be transferred to another fund; provided that up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) may be transferred annually to the Luciano “Lucky” Varela opportunity scholarship fund. The legislative scholarship fund shall not revert at the end of any fiscal year. Any interest earned from investment of the legislative scholarship fund shall be credited to the legislative scholarship fund for the purpose of implementing the General Richard T. Knowles legislative scholarship program. Money in the legislative scholarship fund is appropriated to the New Mexico military institute.
N.M. Stat. § 17-1-9 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 17-1-9
§ 17-1-9. Powers and duties of reserve conservation officers
Status: in_force

A. Under the supervision of the department of game and fish and subject to such restrictions as may be provided by the state game commission, reserve conservation officers shall have authority to enforce laws and valid regulations of the state game commission relating to game and fish and perform such duties with respect to wildlife management and conservation education as may be assigned to them from time to time by the department of game and fish. When on duty, reserve conservation officers shall be covered by the Workmen's [Workers'] Compensation Act. Reserve conservation officers shall have only the rights of private citizens in the enforcement of laws other than those relating to game and fish.

B. For the purpose of calculating the amount of reserve conservation officer's disability or death benefits pursuant to the Workmen's [Workers'] Compensation Act, the officer's average weekly wages shall be deemed to be the base wage of a wildlife management officer II as classified by the personnel board.
N.M. Stat. § 61-29-1 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 29 / Section 61-29-1
§ 61-29-1. Prohibition
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for a person to engage in the business or act in the capacity of real estate associate broker or qualifying broker within New Mexico without a license issued by the commission. A person who engages in the business or acts in the capacity of an associate broker or a qualifying broker in New Mexico, except as otherwise provided in Section 61-29-2 NMSA 1978 , with or without a New Mexico real estate broker's license, has thereby submitted to the jurisdiction of the state and to the administrative jurisdiction of the commission and is subject to all penalties and remedies available for a violation of any provision of Chapter 61, Article 29 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 12-1-11 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 1 / Section 12-1-11
§ 12-1-11. Issuance of debentures
Status: in_force

The New Mexico compilation commission is authorized to anticipate the proceeds of the collection of any or all of the taxes or fees on civil actions hereinabove provided for by the issuance and sale of New Mexico compilation commission debentures, in such amounts not to exceed outstanding at any one time, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), issuable at such times and bearing such rate of interest, not exceeding four percent (4%) per annum, as the commission may determine. The debentures may be issued in serial form and shall mature at stated periods not exceeding ten (10) years from the date of issuance. The debentures shall be, signed by the president of the commission, attested by its secretary, countersigned by the treasurer of the state of New Mexico, and in such form as may be provided by the attorney general.
N.M. Stat. § 58-3-1 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 3 / Section 58-3-1
§ 58-3-1. Interest on accounts
Status: in_force

A. A state bank may maintain time and savings deposit accounts and pay interest on balances therein at rates which need not be uniform. The director of the financial institutions division may, by general regulation, fix maximum rates of interest.

B. Time or savings account deposits shall be repaid to depositors under regulations adopted by the board of directors from time to time. These shall be available at the bank for inspection by depositors upon request, and depositors shall be so informed.
N.M. Stat. § 24-7A-18 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 7A / Section 24-7A-18
§ 24-7A-18. Severability
Status: in_force

If any provision of the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of that act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of that act are severable.
N.M. Stat. § 48-6-5 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 6 / Section 48-6-5
§ 48-6-5. Distress warrant
Status: in_force

When any rent or advances shall become due, or the tenant shall be about to remove from such leased or rented premises, or to remove his property from such premises, it shall be lawful for the person to whom the rent or advances are payable, his agent, attorney, assigns, heirs or legal representatives, to apply to a magistrate of the precinct where the premises are situated, or in which the property upon which a lien for rents or advances exist, may be found, or to any magistrate having jurisdiction of the cause of action, for a warrant to seize the property of such tenant; provided, that when a distress warrant shall be issued by any magistrate, other than the magistrate of the precinct in which the rented premises may be situated, or in which the defendant may reside, such warrant shall be made returnable to, and the affidavit and bond upon which it is issued shall be transmitted by, the magistrate issuing such distress warrant, to the magistrate of the precinct in which the rented premises may be situated, or in which the defendant may reside.
N.M. Stat. § 3-4-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 3-4-1
§ 3-4-1. Disincorporation; petition; notice of election
Status: in_force

A. If one-fourth of the registered voters of a municipality petition the board of county commissioners of the county in which the municipality is situated to disincorporate the municipality, the board of county commissioners shall, within fourteen days after the petition has been certified as valid, adopt an election resolution calling for a special election to be held within the municipality on the question of disincorporating the municipality. At the top of each page of a disincorporation petition, the following heading shall be printed in substantially the following form:

“PETITION TO DISINCORPORATE THE MUNICIPALITY OF․․․․․․

We, the undersigned registered voters of the municipality of ․․․․․․, pursuant to Section 3-4-1 NMSA 1978, petition the board of county commissioners of․․․․․․county to conduct a special election on the question of disincorporating the municipality of․․․․․․

Date

Name--Printed

Address

Usual

As Registered

As Registered

Signature.”

The day for holding the election shall not be less than fifty days or more than sixty days after the board of county commissioners adopts the election resolution.

B. Notice of the election shall be published as required in the Local Election Act.
N.M. Stat. § 22-13-3 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 13 / Section 22-13-3
§ 22-13-3. Early childhood education programs required
Status: in_force

A. In accordance with state board [department] regulations, every local school board shall establish and conduct early childhood education programs.

B. The state department shall adopt and promulgate regulations providing for:

(1) minimum standards for the conduct of early childhood education programs; and

(2) qualifications of any person teaching in those programs.

C. The cost of operating early childhood education programs shall be included in the budget prepared for the school district.

D. As used in this section, “early childhood education programs” means kindergarten programs for every child who has attained his fifth birthday prior to September 1 of the school year, except for those children who are eligible for and participating in federal headstart programs in any class B county with a population in excess of ninety-five thousand, established by a local school board for the development or enrichment of persons within the school district.

E. The provisions of this section shall be effective with the 1988-89 school year, and waivers may be granted upon the request of the parent or legal guardian pursuant to Section 22-12-2 NMSA 1978 .