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N.M. Stat. § 1-22-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 22 / Section 1-22-4
§ 1-22-4. Regular local election; proclamation; publication
Status: in_force

A. Between one hundred twenty and one hundred fifty days before the next regular local election, each local government shall notify the county clerk of the county in which the primary administrative office of the local government is situate of all local government positions that are to be filled at the next regular local election. Each county clerk shall inform the secretary of state of all positions to be filled no later than one hundred twelve days before the regular local election.

B. The secretary of state shall by resolution issue a public proclamation in Spanish and English calling a regular local election. The proclamation shall be issued and filed by the secretary of state in the office of the secretary of state ninety days preceding the date of the regular local election, and upon filing the proclamation, the secretary of state shall post the proclamation and certify it to each county clerk. The proclamation may be amended no later than eleven days before the filing date for the regular local election.

C. The proclamation shall specify:

(1) the date when the election will be held;

(2) each elective office, local governing body and judicial position to be filled;

(3) the date on which declarations of candidacy are to be filed;

(4) the date on which declarations of intent to be a write-in candidate are to be filed; and

(5) the municipalities subject to a ranked-choice voting runoff election and those subject to a top-two runoff election and the date of the top-two runoff election should one be necessary.

D. After receipt of the proclamation from the secretary of state, the county clerk shall post the entire proclamation on the county clerk's website and, not less than seventy-five days before the date of the election, shall publish portions of the proclamation relevant to the county at least once in a newspaper of general circulation within the county. The publication of the proclamation shall conform to the requirements of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 1 and shall specify:

(1) the date when the election will be held;

(2) for each local government situated in whole or in part in the county, each elective executive, local governing body and judicial position to be filled by voters of any precinct in the county;

(3) the date on which declarations of candidacy are to be filed and the date on which declarations of intent to be a write-in candidate are to be filed;

(4) the location, days and hours for voting at the office of the county clerk;

(5) the location, days and hours for early voting at each alternate voting location and mobile alternate voting location;

(6) the location, date and hours for voting at each election day polling place; and

(7) the date certificates of registration shall be subscribed and sworn as required by law.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-43-3 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 43 / Section 59A-43-3
§ 59A-43-3. Scope
Status: in_force

A. This article applies to all kinds of direct insurance except life, health, annuities, title guaranty, surety (other than fidelity), credit, mortgage guaranty, ocean marine, surplus line and other coverages written by insurers other than authorized insurers or written by Mexican casualty insurers pursuant to Article 40 of the Insurance Code.

B. This article also does not apply as to motor club coverages or services nor as to any coverage issued by any person not organized under laws providing expressly for formation of insurers nor engaged in business as such an insurer.
N.M. Stat. § 18-13-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 13 / Section 18-13-5
§ 18-13-5. Articles of incorporation and bylaws
Status: in_force

The initial board shall prepare and file articles of incorporation and bylaws. The articles shall state as the purposes of the trust:

A. the preservation of significant historic landscapes in the state;

B. the identification of sites in the state deserving of inclusion in the historic landscape system; and

C. the development of a historic landscape system that provides opportunities for persons to appreciate and better understand the history and development of the state.
N.M. Stat. § 17-2-21 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 2 / Section 17-2-21
§ 17-2-21. Sale or disposition of game or fish after seizure; invoice furnished purchaser or donee; disposition of proceeds of sale
Status: in_force

All game and fish seized under the game laws shall without unnecessary delay be sold by the officer making such seizure, or by the state warden [director of the department of game and fish], except when such sale is impracticable or likely to incur expenses exceeding the proceeds, in which case the same shall be donated to some charitable institution or needy person not concerned in the unlawful killing, or possession thereof. The officer making such seizure shall sign and give to each purchaser or donee an invoice stating the time and place of disposition, the kind and weight as near as may be of the game or fish disposed of and the name of the purchaser or donee. Such invoice shall authorize possession, transportation and use within the state, and storage for thirty days from date. The proceeds from such sale, after deducting the cost of seizure and sale shall, if made by the state warden [director] or any deputy [conservation officer] under salary, be paid into the game protection fund, but if made by a deputy warden [conservation officer] not under salary, or any other officer, shall be paid one-half to the officer making such seizure.
N.M. Stat. § 30-17-1 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 17 / Section 30-17-1
§ 30-17-1. Improper handling of fire
Status: in_force

Improper handling of fire consists of:

A. setting fire, or causing or procuring a fire to be set to any inflammable vegetation or forest material, growing or being on the lands of another person and without the permission of the owner thereof;

B. allowing fire to escape or spread from the control of the person having charge thereof without using reasonable and proper precaution to prevent such fire from escaping or spreading;

C. burning any inflammable vegetation or forest material, whether upon his own land or that of another person, without using proper and reasonable precaution at all times to prevent the escape of such fire;

D. leaving any campfire burning and unattended upon the lands of another person; or

E. causing a fire to be started in any inflammable vegetation or forest material, growing or being upon the lands of another person, by means of any lighted cigar, cigarette, match or other manner, and leaving such fire unquenched.

Provided, nothing herein shall constitute improper handling of fire where the fire is a backfire set for the purpose of stopping the progress of a fire then actually burning.

Whoever commits improper handling of fire is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 58-18C-7 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 18C / Section 58-18C-7
§ 58-18C-7. Use of funds; eligible activities
Status: in_force

Money from the fund and matching funds from other sources may be used to finance in whole or in part any loans or grant projects that will provide affordable housing. Money from the fund may also be used to reimburse the authority for actual expenses incurred in administering the fund in an amount not to exceed five percent of total funds disbursed from the fund.
N.M. Stat. § 8-5-3 — NM Code / Chapter 8 / Article 5 / Section 8-5-3
§ 8-5-3. Action in civil and criminal cases
Status: in_force

That upon the failure or refusal of any district attorney to act in any criminal or civil case or matter in which the county, state or any department thereof is a party or has an interest, the attorney general be, and he is hereby, authorized to act on behalf of said county, state or any department thereof, if after a thorough investigation, such action is ascertained to be advisable by the attorney general. Provided, that the attorney general shall, upon direction of the governor, investigate any matter or matters in any county of the state in which the county, state or any department may be interested. After such investigation, the attorney general be, and he is hereby authorized to take such action as, in his opinion, conditions warrant. The cost of such investigation shall be paid out of the general fund of the county wherein such investigation shall have been made, and the costs of any prosecution arising out of such investigation shall be paid as are the costs in cases prosecuted by district attorneys.
N.M. Stat. § 67-3-15 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-15
§ 67-3-15. Duty to advise towns, villages and counties; highway system for state
Status: in_force

The commission shall, when requested, advise towns, villages and counties with regard to the construction and maintenance of any road or bridge, and shall select, lay out and construct a system of prospective state highways.
N.M. Stat. § 60-7B-13 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 7B / Section 60-7B-13
§ 60-7B-13. Stocking alcoholic beverages in wet bars in hotel guest rooms prohibited; room service
Status: in_force

A. It is a violation of the Liquor Control Act for the proprietor or manager of a hotel to stock alcoholic beverages in a wet bar located in any guest room or sleeping room in the hotel unless the alcoholic beverages are contained in a locked compartment, the key to which may be made available to a guest after he has produced evidence of his age and identity by any document that contains a picture of the guest issued by a federal, state, county or municipal government, or subdivision or agency thereof, including but not limited to a motor vehicle driver's license or an identification card issued to a member of the armed forces.

B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent:

(1) the consumption of alcoholic beverages by any person in a hotel guest room or sleeping room; or

(2) the sale or delivery of alcoholic beverages through room service to persons in hotel guest rooms or sleeping rooms; provided any employee of a hotel proprietor or manager delivering alcoholic beverages to a sleeping room may require that an identity card showing proof of age be shown to assure that alcoholic beverages are not sold, delivered or served to a minor in violation of the Liquor Control Act.

C. As used in this section, “wet bar” means a refrigerator, ice chest, cabinet, cupboard, pantry or similar container or storage area that is customarily used to store alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverages for consumption.
N.M. Stat. § 7-24A-8 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 24A / Section 7-24A-8
§ 7-24A-8. Collection of county gasoline tax
Status: in_force

The county shall collect the county gasoline tax imposed by the County and Municipal Gasoline Tax Act. Every person subject to the imposition of the county gasoline tax shall file a return on forms provided by and with the information required by the county and shall pay the tax due on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month following the month in which the gasoline is sold at retail within the boundaries of the county.
N.M. Stat. § 77-3-18 — NM Code / Chapter 77 / Article 3 / Section 77-3-18
§ 77-3-18. Liens for expenses and for damages for communicating disease
Status: in_force

All expenses incurred in and by the inspection and quarantine of livestock under Section 77-3-17 NMSA 1978 shall be a lien on such livestock to secure the payment thereof in favor of the board, as an indemnity for the expenses so incurred. All loss and damages incurred and suffered by any person, company or corporation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be lien on the livestock so unlawfully imported in favor of the person, company or corporation so incurring or suffering such loss or damage. All liens covered by this section shall take precedence and priority over any other lien or encumbrance on any such livestock existing at the time of their unlawful importation as aforesaid or at any time subsequent thereto. All such liens shall subsist and become effective as security for ultimate payment without any other act or proceeding whatever and after judgment any such lien may be foreclosed by sale of the livestock on execution.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-44-20 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 44 / Section 59A-44-20
§ 59A-44-20. Nonforfeiture benefits; cash surrender values; certificate loans and other options
Status: in_force

A. For certificates issued prior to one year after the effective date of this act, the value of every paid-up nonforfeiture benefit and the amount of any cash surrender value, loan or other option granted shall comply with the provisions of law applicable immediately prior to the effective date of this act.

B. For certificates issued on or after one year from the effective date of this act for which reserves are computed on the commissioner's 1941 standard ordinary mortality table, the commissioner's 1941 standard industrial table, the commissioner's 1958 standard ordinary mortality table, or the commissioner's 1980 standard mortality table or any more recent table made applicable to life insurers, every paid-up nonforfeiture benefit and the amount of any cash surrender value, loan or other option granted shall not be less than the corresponding amount ascertained in accordance with the laws of this state applicable to life insurers issuing policies containing like benefits based upon such tables.
N.M. Stat. § 50-6-5 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 6 / Section 50-6-5
§ 50-6-5. Prohibited occupations for children under eighteen
Status: in_force

No child under the age of eighteen years shall be employed or permitted to labor in any mine or quarry underground or at or about any place where explosives are used. However, children under the age of eighteen years but not under the age of fourteen years may be employed to separate mica if blasting is done during periods when there is nobody working, and the mica is subsequently removed from the blasting area to another site for operation.
N.M. Stat. § 53-16-9 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 16 / Section 53-16-9
§ 53-16-9. Filing statement of revocation of voluntary dissolution proceedings
Status: in_force

An original of the statement of revocation of voluntary dissolution proceedings, whether by consent of shareholders or by act of the corporation, together with a copy, which may be signed, photocopied or conformed, shall be delivered to the commission [secretary of state]. If the commission [secretary of state] finds that the statement conforms to law, it shall, when all fees have been paid:

A. endorse on the original and copy the word “filed” and the month, day and year of the filing;

B. file the original in its office; and

C. return the file-stamped copy to the corporation or its representative.
N.M. Stat. § 4-44-21 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 44 / Section 4-44-21
§ 4-44-21. No compensation except as provided by law
Status: in_force

No county officer shall accept or receive to his own use, or for or on account of any deputy or deputies, clerk or clerks appointed by him or employed in his office, or for or on account of expenses incurred by him of [or] by any such deputy or deputies, clerk or clerks, or for or on account of his office, any salary, compensation, allowance, fees or emoluments in any form whatsoever, other than [as] authorized by law.
N.M. Stat. § 7-1-8.7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 7-1-8.7
§ 7-1-8.7. Information that may be revealed to other states or multistate administrative bodies
Status: in_force

An employee of the department may reveal return information to:

A. an authorized representative of another state or an authorized representative of a local government of another state who is charged under the laws of that state with the responsibility for administration of that state's tax laws; provided that the receiving state or local government has entered into a written agreement with the department to use the return information for tax purposes only and that the receiving state has enacted a confidentiality statute and penalty similar to Sections 7-1-8 and 7-1-76 NMSA 1978 to which the representative is subject;

B. the multistate tax commission, the federation of tax administrators or their authorized representatives; provided that the return information is used for tax purposes only and is revealed by the multistate tax commission or the federation of tax administrators only to states that have met the requirements of Subsection A of this section; and

C. another jurisdiction pursuant to an international fuel tax agreement; provided that the return information is used for tax purposes only.
N.M. Stat. § 62-15-9.2 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 15 / Section 62-15-9.2
§ 62-15-9.2. Limitation on liability and indemnification of officers and trustees
Status: in_force

A. Cumulative to any other provision of the Rural Electric Cooperative Act as now or hereafter enacted, the bylaws of a cooperative may provide that a trustee shall not be personally liable to the cooperative or to its members for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a trustee unless:

(1) the trustee has breached or failed to perform the duties of his office in compliance with Section 62-15-9.1 NMSA 1978; and

(2) the breach or failure to perform constitutes willful misconduct or recklessness; or in the case of a trustee of a cooperative actively engaged in the generation and transmission of electric power, negligence, willful misconduct or recklessness. Such a provision in the bylaws shall, however, only eliminate the liability of a trustee for action taken as a trustee or any failure to take action as a trustee at meetings of the board of trustees or of a committee of the board of trustees, or by virtue of action of the trustees without a meeting as may be permitted by the Rural Electric Cooperative Act as now or hereafter enacted, on or after the date when such provision in the bylaws becomes effective.

B. Cumulative to any other power granted by the Rural Electric Cooperative Act as now or hereafter enacted, each cooperative shall have the power to indemnify any trustee or officer or former trustee or officer of the cooperative or any person serving or having served at the request of the cooperative as a director, trustee, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of any cooperative, corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated association, other incorporated or unincorporated enterprise or employee benefit plan or trust against reasonable expenses, costs and attorneys' fees actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense of any action, suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, in which he is made a party by reason of holding or having held such an office or position. The indemnification may include any amounts paid to satisfy a judgment or to compromise or settle a claim. The trustee, officer or other person shall not be indemnified if he shall be adjudged to be liable on the basis that he breached or failed to perform the duties of his office or position and the breach or failure to perform constitutes willful misconduct or recklessness. Advance indemnification to such persons may be allowed for reasonable expenses to be incurred in connection with the defense of the action, suit or proceeding, provided that the trustee, officer or other person shall reimburse the cooperative if it is subsequently determined that he was not entitled to indemnification. Each cooperative may make any other indemnification as authorized by the articles of incorporation or bylaws or by resolution adopted by the members after notice.
N.M. Stat. § 40-7A-2 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 7A / Section 40-7A-2
§ 40-7A-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Child Placement Agency Licensing Act is to facilitate the licensing of child placement agencies for the placement of abused, neglected, dependent or homeless children in a stable and loving environment where a healthy and normal parent-child relationship may exist between the foster or adoptive parent and the child.
N.M. Stat. § 72-2-14 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 2 / Section 72-2-14
§ 72-2-14. Subpoena power
Status: in_force

The state engineer or any examiner appointed by the state engineer to conduct hearings is hereby empowered to subpoena witnesses, to require their attendance and giving of testimony and to require the production of books, papers and records in any proceeding before the state engineer.
N.M. Stat. § 33-1-19 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 33 / Article 1 / Section 33-1-19
§ 33-1-19. Use of funds
Status: in_force

A. The funds created in or pursuant to Section 33-1-18 NMSA 1978 shall be used by the corrections department or the board of finance for the purpose of acquiring, designing, constructing or equipping, by lease or lease-purchase, or by financing the ownership by the corrections department through the issuance of bonds or other obligations by the corrections department or the board of finance, or other means, a corrections department central office complex, a personnel training academy, a special incarceration alternative facility, correctional facilities or any combination of these facilities, and for paying the expenses relating to the lease, lease-purchase or financing of these facilities. Before any of the funds created in Section 33-1-18 NMSA 1978 may be used for any such purpose, the state board of finance shall approve the proposed facility and the proposed use of the funds.

B. The funds created in or pursuant to Section 33-1-18 NMSA 1978 shall be used so that available appropriations are devoted to the following projects:

(1) payment for the corrections department central office complex;

(2) a correctional facility in Guadalupe county of not less than five hundred fifty and not more than two thousand two hundred beds;

(3) a correctional facility in Lea, Chaves or Santa Fe county of not less than one thousand two hundred and not more than two thousand two hundred beds; and

(4) design and construction of a support services building, a laundry and an infirmary at the penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

C. The use of funds designated in Subsection B of this section for a correctional facility in Guadalupe county and a correctional facility in Lea, Chaves or Santa Fe county is contingent upon construction of both facilities, so that one of the facilities shall not be constructed unless both of the facilities are constructed, as nearly as possible, simultaneously.

D. Any balance at the end of any fiscal year in the special funds created in Section 33-1-18 NMSA 1978 that are not needed to pay leases, loans, bonds or other financing instruments in that fiscal year may be appropriated by the legislature for expenditure in succeeding fiscal years by the corrections department for corrections purposes.
N.M. Stat. § 1-6-23 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 6 / Section 1-6-23
§ 1-6-23. Absent voter precinct polling place; hours on election day and subsequent days
Status: in_force

The county clerk or statutorily appointed supervisor of the election shall determine the hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. during which the absent voter precinct polling place shall be open for delivery and registering of absentee ballots on the five days preceding election day and the hours during which the absent voter precinct polling place shall be open for the delivery, registering and counting of ballots on election day and subsequent days until all ballots are counted; provided that the absent voter precinct polling place opens at 7:00 a.m. on election day.
N.M. Stat. § 31-2-6 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 2 / Section 31-2-6
§ 31-2-6. Certified copies of law to be distributed
Status: in_force

Upon the passage and approval by the governor of this act it shall be the duty of the secretary of state (or other officer) to certify a copy of this act to the executive department of each of the states of the United States.