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N.M. Stat. § 66-3-424.31 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-424.31
§ 66-3-424.31. Special blood donor recognition registration plate
Status: in_force

A. The department shall issue a standardized special registration plate with a logo as specified in Section 66-3-424 NMSA 1978 recognizing blood donors.

B. For a fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00), which is in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fees, the owner of a vehicle may apply for issuance of a special blood donor recognition registration plate. The owner shall apply for and pay the fee each year to retain and renew the special blood donor recognition plate.

C. The revenue from the additional fee for the special blood donor recognition registration plate shall be distributed as follows:

(1) ten dollars ($10.00) of the additional fee collected shall be retained by and is appropriated to the department to defray the cost of making and issuing the special blood donor recognition registration plate; and

(2) twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of the additional fee collected shall be distributed to and is appropriated to the department of health for the purpose of funding blood donation outreach and education.
N.M. Stat. § 1-21A-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 21A / Section 1-21A-7
§ 1-21A-7. Monitored secured containers; requirements
Status: in_force

A. A county clerk who has received a written request from an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo for one or more monitored secured containers on or near Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land shall evaluate the population on the Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land, the distance voters have to travel and the number of monitored secured containers and early voting locations on or near the Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land. The county clerk shall respond in writing to the Indian nation, tribe or pueblo regarding the provision of monitored secured containers on or near Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land within thirty days of receiving the written request.

B. An Indian nation, tribe or pueblo whose written request to a county clerk for monitored secured containers is denied may appeal that decision by submitting the written request along with the denial letter from the county clerk to the secretary of state, along with any response to the denial letter from the Indian nation, tribe or pueblo. The secretary of state may place a monitored secured container on or near Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land in response to an appeal submitted by an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo.

C. A monitored secured container located on or near Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land shall comply with all requirements for monitored secured containers provided in the Election Code. If a monitored secured container is located on Indian nation, tribal or pueblo land, the Indian nation, tribe or pueblo shall provide the facility and services necessary for the monitored secured container.
N.M. Stat. § 27-9-2 — NM Code / Chapter 27 / Article 9 / Section 27-9-2
§ 27-9-2. Implementation
Status: in_force

The secretary of human services shall, by regulation, specify the areas in which the programs shall operate, specify the services to be provided, establish eligibility criteria of persons to be served and provide for cost sharing, where possible, with individuals and participating communities.
N.M. Stat. § 72-17-83 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 17 / Section 72-17-83
§ 72-17-83. Limitations upon issuance
Status: in_force

No bonds may be refunded hereunder unless the holders thereof voluntarily surrender them for exchange or payment, or unless they either mature or are callable for prior redemption under their terms within ten years from the date of issuance of the refunding bonds. Provision shall be made for paying the bonds within said period of time. No maturity of any bonds refunded may be extended over fifteen years, nor may any interest thereon be increased to any rate exceeding six percent per annum. The principal amount of the refunding bonds may exceed the principal amount of the refunded bonds if the aggregate principal and interest costs of the refunding bonds do not exceed such unaccrued costs of the bonds refunded. The principal amount of the refunding bonds may also be less than or the same as the principal amount of the bonds refunded so long as provision is duly and sufficiently made for their payment.
N.M. Stat. § 7-1-82 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 7-1-82
§ 7-1-82. Transfer, assignment, sale, lease or renewal of liquor license
Status: in_force

A. The director of the alcoholic beverage control division of the regulation and licensing department shall not allow the transfer, assignment, lease or sale of any liquor license pursuant to the provisions of the Liquor Control Act 1 until the director receives written notification from the secretary or secretary's delegate that:

(1) the licensee or any person authorized to use the license is not a delinquent taxpayer as provided in Section 7-1-16 NMSA 1978 only with respect to the liquor excise tax or the gross receipts tax; or

(2) the transferee, assignee, buyer or lessee has entered into a written agreement with the secretary or secretary's delegate in which the transferee, assignee, buyer or lessee has assumed full liability for payment of all taxes due or that may become due from the licensee with respect to the liquor excise tax or the gross receipts tax.

B. The director of the alcoholic beverage control division of the regulation and licensing department shall not allow the renewal of any liquor license pursuant to the provisions of the Liquor Control Act until the director receives notification from the secretary or secretary's delegate that on a certain date:

(1) the licensee is not a delinquent taxpayer as provided in Section 7-1-16 NMSA 1978 only with respect to the liquor excise tax or the gross receipts tax; and

(2) there are no unfiled tax returns due from the licensee with respect to the liquor excise tax or the gross receipts tax.
N.M. Stat. § 40-3-10.1 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 3 / Section 40-3-10.1
§ 40-3-10.1. Unreasonable debt
Status: in_force

The court, at the time of the final decree of dissolution of marriage, may declare, as between the parties, a debt to be unreasonable if it was incurred by a spouse while the spouse was living apart and the debt did not contribute to the benefit of both spouses or their dependents.
N.M. Stat. § 22-15-5 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 15 / Section 22-15-5
§ 22-15-5. Instructional material fund
Status: in_force

A. The state treasurer shall establish a nonreverting fund to be known as the “instructional material fund”. The fund consists of appropriations, gifts, grants, donations and any other money credited to the fund. The fund shall be administered by the department, and money in the fund is appropriated to the department to carry out the provisions of the Instructional Material Law.

B. The instructional material fund shall be used for the purpose of paying for the cost of purchasing instructional material pursuant to the Instructional Material Law. Transportation charges for the delivery of instructional material to a school district, a state institution or a private school as agent and emergency expenses incurred in providing instructional material to students may be included as a cost of purchasing instructional material. Charges for rebinding of used instructional material that appears on the multiple list pursuant to Section 22-15-8 NMSA 1978 may also be included as a cost of purchasing instructional material.
N.M. Stat. § 26-1-15 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 26 / Article 1 / Section 26-1-15
§ 26-1-15. Dangerous drugs; veterinary use; limitations
Status: in_force

A. A dangerous drug intended for veterinary use which is not safe for animal use except under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian and for which adequate directions for use cannot be prepared, shall bear the legend “CAUTION: federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian” and the label shall meet the requirements of the federal act. Such drugs may be sold or distributed by a person possessing a limited license issued by the board under Subsection B of Section 61-11-14 NMSA 1978 , on the order of a licensed veterinarian, provided adequate records of receipt and distribution are kept as required in the New Mexico Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act.

B. Drugs which are exempted by the federal act for veterinary use without a prescription shall be labeled to indicate that the drug is for veterinary use and the label shall meet the requirements of the federal act.
N.M. Stat. § 57-18-8 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 18 / Section 57-18-8
§ 57-18-8. Bond required
Status: in_force

Before any license is issued, except a deputy weighmaster license, the applicant shall execute and deliver to the director a surety bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or other proof of financial responsibility that the board may set by regulation. The bond shall be executed by the applicant as principal and by a corporate surety company qualified and authorized to do business in this state as a surety. The bond shall be conditioned upon the faithful and honest compliance with the provisions of the Weighmaster Act. The bond shall run to the state in favor of every person availing himself of the services and certifications issued by the weighmaster or any of his deputies.
N.M. Stat. § 67-3-11 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-11
§ 67-3-11. Rule-making power
Status: in_force

The state transportation commission is hereby authorized to make all rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of Chapter 67 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 7-15A-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 15A / Section 7-15A-4
§ 7-15A-4. Responsibility for payment of tax
Status: in_force

The tax shall be paid by the registrant, owner or operator of a motor vehicle registered in this state to which the tax applies.
N.M. Stat. § 19-7-46 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 7 / Section 19-7-46
§ 19-7-46. Satisfaction of debt for which assignment of grazing or agricultural lease or purchase contracts given as security; filing of release
Status: in_force

When any lease debt or evidence of debt secured by an assignment for collateral security of grazing or agricultural leases of state lands or purchase contracts shall have been fully satisfied, it shall be the duty of the mortgagee, trustee or the assignee of such debt or evidence or [of] debt as the case may be to cause the full satisfaction thereof, to be entered of record in the office of the state commissioner of public lands.
N.M. Stat. § 4-44-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 44 / Section 4-44-4
§ 4-44-4. Class A counties; salaries
Status: in_force

The annual salaries of elected officers of a class A county shall not exceed, for:

A. county commissioners, thirty-nine thousand one hundred six dollars ($39,106) each;

B. treasurer, eighty-six thousand six hundred twenty-six dollars ($86,626);

C. assessor, eighty-six thousand six hundred twenty-six dollars ($86,626);

D. sheriff, ninety thousand three hundred thirty-eight dollars ($90,338);

E. county clerk, eighty-six thousand six hundred twenty-six dollars ($86,626); and

F. probate judge, thirty-eight thousand one hundred fourteen dollars ($38,114).
N.M. Stat. § 13-4-20 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4 / Section 13-4-20
§ 13-4-20. Additional bond in case of insolvency of sureties
Status: in_force

Whenever in its judgment any surety on such bond shall be insolvent, or for any cause is not a proper or sufficient surety, the obligee may require the contractor to furnish a new or additional bond or security within ten days; and thereupon, if the obligee shall so order, all work on said contract shall cease until such new or additional bond or security shall be furnished. If not furnished within said time, the obligee may at its option take over and complete said work as the agent and at the expense of the contractor and sureties, either doing the work on force account or letting the same by contract, and shall be entitled to use any equipment, materials and supplies of the delinquent contractor in completing said work.
N.M. Stat. § 58-11-22 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 11 / Section 58-11-22
§ 58-11-22. Central credit unions
Status: in_force

Central credit unions may be organized under the Credit Union Act, and such credit unions organized under prior law are subject to that act. In addition to the members referred to in Section 58-11-21 NMSA 1978 , the membership of a central credit union may include:

A. executive officers, board members, committee members and employees of credit unions organized under any credit union act or the executive officers, directors and employees of an employer with insufficient numbers or with executive officers, directors and employees who do not desire to form or conduct the affairs of a separate credit union;

B. persons in the field of membership of liquidated credit unions that have entered into or are about to enter into voluntary or involuntary liquidation proceedings; and

C. members of the immediate families of members qualified pursuant to Subsection A or B of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 61-4-12 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 4 / Section 61-4-12
§ 61-4-12. Penalties
Status: in_force

A. Each of the following acts constitutes a misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both:

(1) practice of chiropractic or an attempt to practice chiropractic without a license;

(2) obtaining or attempting to obtain a license or practice in the profession for money or any other thing of value by fraudulent misrepresentation;

(3) willfully falsifying any oath or affirmation required by the Chiropractic Physician Practice Act;

(4) practicing or attempting to practice under an assumed name; or

(5) advertising or attempting to attract patronage in any unethical manner prohibited by the rules and regulations of the board.

B. Any second violation of the act constitutes a fourth degree felony.
N.M. Stat. § 3-57-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 57 / Section 3-57-6
§ 3-57-6. Petition to district court
Status: in_force

Whenever a petition is filed in the district court which:

A. seeks the annexation of territory to a municipality in a class A county;

B. is signed by an owner of land in such territory or by the authorized agent of any local public body;

C. is accompanied by a map which shall show the external boundary of the territory proposed to be annexed and the relationship of such territory to the existing boundary of the municipality;

D. names as respondents the county and the board of county commissioners of the county;

E. states that there exists in such territory a particular hazard to the health of persons residing within or without such territory; and

F. alleges that such hazard would be removed or materially alleviated by such municipality upon annexation, and that no other adequate and speedy remedy for the removal or material alleviation of such hazard is available, the district court shall set a date for a nonjury trial to consider the merits of such petition.
N.M. Stat. § 51-1-47 — NM Code / Chapter 51 / Article 1 / Section 51-1-47
§ 51-1-47. Applicability of act to governmental entities
Status: repealed

The provisions of Laws 1977, Chapter 227, as amended, shall apply to all governmental entities of New Mexico to the extent such entities are constitutionally required by federal law to pay unemployment benefits to public employees as a condition of obtaining approval of the state unemployment compensation plan. If the federal Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976 ( Public Law 94-566 ) is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid in its application or stayed during the pendency of legal proceedings, the coverage of public employees of this state under the Unemployment Compensation Law is automatically stayed. Upon entry of a final judgment declaring the Federal Unemployment Compensation Law to be unconstitutional, the provisions of Laws 1977, Chapter 227, as amended, are repealed.
N.M. Stat. § 19-12-11 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 12 / Section 19-12-11
§ 19-12-11. State investment officer may purchase state land office debentures; approval; private sale; interest rates
Status: in_force

Any debentures authorized by the Land Office Building Act may be purchased by the state investment officer as an investment for the permanent funds in his hands, with the approval of the officials whose approval is required by the constitution for the investment of permanent funds. The purchase by the state investment officer may be made at private sale without the necessity of advertising and at interest rates not to exceed the per annum rate prescribed by law.
N.M. Stat. § 13-4C-11 — NM Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4C / Section 13-4C-11
§ 13-4C-11. Costs
Status: in_force

A. The costs of a mediation session shall be borne equally by all interested persons properly notified of a mediation session. When an interested person who has been properly notified of a mediation session fails to appear for that session or fails to remain for the duration of a session, that interested person shall be wholly responsible for the costs of the mediation session.

B. When a person files a lawsuit subsequent to exhausting the procedures set forth in the Public Works Mediation Act, the court may assess costs against any interested person who was properly notified of a mediation session and who failed to pay his share of the costs of the mediation session.

C. The mediator shall determine whether a person is an interested person for the purpose of sharing the costs of a mediation session.
N.M. Stat. § 12-12A-13 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12A / Section 12-12A-13
§ 12-12A-13. Uniformity of application and construction
Status: in_force

In applying and construing the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
N.M. Stat. § 19-4-4 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 4 / Section 19-4-4
§ 19-4-4. Title to townsite vested in probate judge in trust; suit to determine rights; execution of deeds
Status: in_force

Any land embraced in any townsite which has been entered as provided by the laws of the United States and the title of which is vested in the probate judge, in trust for the use and benefit of the several occupants of the land embraced within the said townsite, which has not been conveyed to the occupants, their heirs, executors, successors or assigns, who were entitled to the same at the time the entry of such land was made, or at the time patent was received from the United States, by reason of the failure of said probate judge to give notice of such entry, or the receiving of said patent, or by reason of such occupants, their heirs, executors, successors and assigns failing to make the statement and filing the same as required by law, then in such case any such occupant, or the heirs, executors, successors or assigns of any such occupant, may file a suit in the district court in the county wherein such land is situated, to have his or its interest in the said land, at the time of such entry, or the receiving of such patent, or the successor in title to the right of such occupant, declared and ascertained. The probate judge shall be made a party defendant and the said district court, upon a hearing, shall adjudicate and determine the interest of such occupant at the time of such entry, or the receiving of such patent, or the interest of the heirs, executors, successors and assigns of such occupant, and entering a decree declaring the interest of such occupant. Upon the entering by the said district court of the decree declaring the interest of such occupant, or his or its successors in title, the probate judge of the county shall immediately thereafter make, execute and deliver to the parties so declared to be entitled to any part of the land embraced within the said townsite, a deed for his or its respective interest.
N.M. Stat. § 66-6-9 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 6 / Section 66-6-9
§ 66-6-9. Fee for fertilizer trailers
Status: in_force

In lieu of the registration fee provided for in Section 66-6-3 NMSA 1978 , the division shall collect a registration fee of seven dollars ($7.00) for each trailer used on the highways of this state by any commercial fertilizer company solely for the delivery or distribution of liquid fertilizer to a farmer; provided the trailer has an empty weight not in excess of three thousand five hundred pounds.
N.M. Stat. § 22-11-6 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 11 / Section 22-11-6
§ 22-11-6. Board; powers; duties
Status: in_force

A. The board shall:

(1) properly and uniformly enforce the Educational Retirement Act;

(2) hire employees and delegate administrative authority to these employees;

(3) make an actuarial report on the financial operation of the Educational Retirement Act to the legislature at each regular session every odd-numbered year;

(4) accept donations, gifts or bequests to the fund; and

(5) adopt regulations pursuant to the Educational Retirement Act.

B. The board may:

(1) select and contract for the services of one or more custodial banks. For purposes of this subsection, “ custodial bank ” means a financial institution with the general fiduciary duties to manage, control and collect the assets of an investment fund, including receiving all deposits and paying all disbursements as directed by staff, safekeeping of assets, coordination of asset transfers, timely settlement of securities transactions and accurate and timely reporting by individual account and in total; and

(2) contract for legal services for litigation matters on a contingent fee basis, subject to the provisions of the Procurement Code; provided that:

(a) the board shall submit each proposed contract to the attorney general for review of the contingency fee. The attorney general shall review a proposed contract within thirty days after receiving the contract. The review shall take into account the complexity of the factual and legal issues presented by the claims to be pursued under the contract. If the attorney general advises the board that the proposed contingency fee is not reasonable, the board may nevertheless approve the contract and the contingency fee if no fewer than four members vote for approval;

(b) each prospective contractor seeking to represent the board on a contingency fee basis shall file with the board the disclosure required by Section 13-1-191.1 NMSA 1978 disclosing all campaign contributions made to the governor, attorney general, state treasurer or any member of the board, or to a political committee that is intended to aid or promote the nomination or election of any candidate to a state office if the committee is: 1) established by any of the foregoing persons or their agents; 2) established in consultation with or at the request of any of the foregoing persons or their agents; or 3) controlled by one of the foregoing persons or their agents; and

(c) nothing in this paragraph shall prejudice or impair the rights of a qui tam plaintiff pursuant to the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act.
N.M. Stat. § 72-5A-8 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 5A / Section 72-5A-8
§ 72-5A-8. Stored water not public; stored water not subject to forfeiture; use or exchange of recovered water
Status: in_force

A. Water added to an aquifer or system of aquifers to be stored for subsequent diversion and application to beneficial use pursuant to a project permit is not public water and is not subject to forfeiture pursuant to Section 72-5-28 or 72-12-8 NMSA 1978 .

B. A permittee may use water recovered only for the same purposes for which the water was authorized before it was stored, unless an application for a change in the purpose of use, place of use or point of diversion is filed and approved pursuant to Section 72-5-23 , 72-5-24 or 72-12-7 NMSA 1978 , as applicable.