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N.M. Stat. § 74-4-13 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 4 / Section 74-4-13
§ 74-4-13. Imminent hazards; authority of director; penalties
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Hazardous Waste Act, whenever the secretary is in receipt of evidence that the past or current handling, storage, treatment, transportation or disposal of solid waste or hazardous waste or the condition or maintenance of a storage tank may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment, he may bring suit in the appropriate district court to immediately restrain any person, including any past or present generator, past or present transporter or past or present owner or operator of a treatment, storage or disposal facility, who has contributed or is contributing to such activity, to take such other action as may be necessary or both. A transporter shall not be deemed to have contributed or to be contributing to such handling, storage, treatment or disposal taking place after such solid waste or hazardous waste has left the possession or control of such transporter if the transportation of such waste was under a sole contractual arrangement arising from a published tariff and acceptance for carriage by common carrier by rail and such transporter has exercised due care in the past or present handling, storage, treatment, transportation and disposal of such waste. The secretary may also take other action, including but not limited to issuing such orders as may be necessary to protect health and the environment.

B. Any person who willfully violates or fails or refuses to comply with any order of the secretary under Subsection A of this section may in an action brought in the appropriate district court to enforce such order be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each day in which the violation occurs or the failure to comply continues.

C. Upon receipt of information that there is hazardous waste at any site which has presented an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health or the environment, the secretary shall provide immediate notice to the appropriate local government agencies. In addition, the director shall require notice of such endangerment to be promptly posted at the site where the waste is located.
N.M. Stat. § 65-6-1 — NM Code / Chapter 65 / Article 6 / Section 65-6-1
§ 65-6-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 65, Article 6 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Ambulance Standards Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 67-3-34 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-34
§ 67-3-34. Federal aid road project; document execution
Status: in_force

Whenever a federal aid road project has been approved by the state transportation commission, the secretary is hereby authorized to execute and sign for and on behalf of the commission the project agreement and modifications thereof and all required documents in connection with such project. The agreements, modifications and documents so executed and signed shall be binding upon the state and upon the department to the same extent as if they had been signed by every member of the commission.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8-23.5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8 / Section 22-8-23.5
§ 22-8-23.5. Fine arts education program units
Status: in_force

The number of fine arts education program units is determined by multiplying the full-time-equivalent MEM in programs implemented in accordance with the provisions of the Fine Arts Education Act by the cost differential factor of 0.055 for fiscal year 2024 and succeeding fiscal years.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-21-21 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 21 / Section 59A-21-21
§ 59A-21-21. Conversion privilege; death benefit
Status: in_force

A group life insurance policy shall contain in substance a provision that if a person insured under the group policy, or the insured dependent of a covered person, dies during the period within which he would have been entitled to have an individual policy issued to him in accordance with Sections 416 or 417 above and before such an individual policy shall have become effective, the amount of life insurance which he would have been entitled to have issued to him under such individual policy shall be payable as a claim under the group policy, whether or not application for the individual policy or the payment of the first premium therefor has been made.
N.M. Stat. § 21-22A-7 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 22A / Section 21-22A-7
§ 21-22A-7. Contracts; legal assistance; enforcement
Status: in_force

The general form of the contract provided for in Section 21-22A-6 NMSA 1978 shall be prepared and approved by the attorney general and signed by the loan recipient and a designee of the department on behalf of the state. The department is vested with full and complete authority and power to sue in its own name for any balance due the state from any loan recipient on any such contract.
N.M. Stat. § 27-6A-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 6A / Section 27-6A-2
§ 27-6A-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of the Low Income Water, Sewer and Solid Waste Service Assistance Act:

A. to assure that water, sewer or solid waste user rate increases do not force many low-income individuals to discontinue necessary water, sewer or solid waste service; and

B. to increase the availability or affordability of basic water, sewer and solid waste service to low-income individuals by providing assistance to meet the cost of basic water, sewer and solid waste service.
N.M. Stat. § 35-5-4 — NM Code / Chapter 35 / Article 5 / Section 35-5-4
§ 35-5-4. Criminal actions; disposition of final order and fine receipt
Status: in_force

A. Upon disposition of any criminal action in the magistrate court, the magistrate shall complete the final order on criminal complaint and deliver the original to the defendant. Whenever fines or costs are received by a magistrate in any criminal action, he shall complete the criminal fine receipt, require the defendant's acknowledgment of receipt of the form on all copies and deliver the original to the defendant. The magistrate shall file and retain the second copies of the final order and fine receipt.

B. If any person refuses to accept the original fine receipt, the magistrate shall note the circumstances of the refusal on the form.
N.M. Stat. § 27-11-14 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 11 / Section 27-11-14
§ 27-11-14. Maintenance of services; payment for ongoing services
Status: in_force

A. Following the referral of a medicaid provider or subcontractor based on a determination of a credible allegation of fraud, and during the pendency of a dispute between the department and a medicaid provider or subcontractor regarding an alleged overpayment, including an overpayment based in whole or in part on a credible allegation of fraud, the department shall not terminate or deny the medicaid provider's or subcontractor's continued participation in the state's medicaid program if the medicaid provider or subcontractor:

(1) submits to a prepayment review of claims for ongoing services;

(2) demonstrates that its employees have completed remedial training or education required by the department to prevent the submission of claims for payment to which the medicaid provider or subcontractor is not entitled; and

(3) engages an independent third party approved by the department to temporarily manage or provide technical assistance to the medicaid provider or subcontractor following the referral or during the pendency of the dispute.

B. The department shall not unreasonably withhold approval of a third party proposed by the medicaid provider or subcontractor pursuant to Paragraph (3) of Subsection A of this section.

C. A medicaid provider or subcontractor that complies with the requirements of Subsection A of this section shall be reimbursed for each clean claim for ongoing services within ten calendar days of receipt if submitted electronically or thirty calendar days if submitted manually.
N.M. Stat. § 58-13A-14 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 13A / Section 58-13A-14
§ 58-13A-14. Criminal penalties
Status: in_force

A. Any person who willfully violates any provision of the Model State Commodity Code is guilty of a third degree felony.

B. Any person who willfully and knowingly violates any rule or order of the director under the Model State Commodity Code is guilty of a third degree felony.

C. The director may refer such evidence as is available concerning violations of the Model State Commodity Code or any rule or order of the department of [to] the attorney general or the proper district attorney, who may, with or without such a reference from the director, institute the appropriate criminal proceedings under that code.
N.M. Stat. § 67-3-31 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-31
§ 67-3-31. County roads; improvement or construction; state aid; duties of state highway engineer
Status: in_force

Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county desires that any main traveled road or roads in such county included among those adopted by the state transportation commission as a system of state roads shall be improved or constructed under the provisions of Chapter 67 NMSA 1978 , written application shall be made by the board of county commissioners to the secretary for such improvement or construction and for state aid therefor. If the board of county commissioners of any county fails to apply for state aid during the year for which such aid is available, that county shall thereby forfeit its right to its portion of state aid for that year, and the funds apportioned to that county for the year shall remain in and be a part of the state road fund for the succeeding year. If upon receipt of such application the state transportation commission is satisfied, after investigation, that the proposed improvement should be made or undertaken and that the county will be able to pay its portion of the cost and that state funds will be available to pay the state's portion of the cost, it may approve the same and undertake such work of improvement in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 67 NMSA 1978 . The secretary or one of his assistants shall proceed to view the road or part thereof proposed to be improved and make all surveys, plans, specifications and estimates of cost for its construction out of such materials as may be decided upon by the secretary; provided, that whenever in the judgment of the state transportation commission it is desirable to proceed with the improvement of any road in the system of state roads, for the improvement of which the county commissioners of the county in which the same is located shall have failed or declined to make application as provided in this section, it is lawful for the secretary to proceed with the improvement of any such road without application from the board of county commissioners and to pay the entire cost of such improvement from the portion of the state road fund made available under the provisions of Chapter 67 NMSA 1978 for expenditure wholly within the discretion of the state transportation commission and from the state apportionment of funds under the act of congress referred to in Section 67-3-33 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 59A-16-10 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 16 / Section 59A-16-10
§ 59A-16-10. Defamation
Status: in_force

A. No person shall make, publish, disseminate or circulate, directly or indirectly, or aid, abet, counsel, procure or encourage the making, publishing, disseminating, transmission or circulation to another, of any oral or written statement or any pamphlet, circular, article or literature which is false, or maliciously critical of, or derogatory as to financial condition or otherwise as to an insurer or organization proposing to become an insurer, and which is calculated to injure such insurer, or proposed insurer, or any person engaged or proposing to engage in any of the business of or with an insurer.

B. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to the penalties prescribed by Section 18 (general penalty) of the Insurance Code.
N.M. Stat. § 7-4-12 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 4 / Section 7-4-12
§ 7-4-12. Valuation of property for inclusion in property factor
Status: in_force

Property owned by the taxpayer is valued at its original cost. Property rented by the taxpayer is valued at eight times the net annual rental rate. Net annual rate is the annual rental paid by the taxpayer less any annual rental rate received by the taxpayer from subrentals.
N.M. Stat. § 73-16-22 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 16 / Section 73-16-22
§ 73-16-22. Special proceedings to enforce collections
Status: in_force

In the event of any default in the payment of the interest or principal of any bonds issued, and if the said district or its proper officers shall fail or neglect to enforce the payment of any unpaid assessment, the holder of such bonds may, for himself and for the benefit of all others similarly situated, enforce the said liens by suit or action against the land or lands, property or properties, on which such assessment has not been paid, and against the said district; or may apply for the appointment of a receiver to collect the assessment and enforce the liens aforesaid; and the proceeds of such assessments and collections shall be applied, after payment of costs, first to overdue interest, and then to payment pro rata of all bonds issued by the said board which are then due and payable; and the said receiver may be directed by suit to foreclose the lien of said assessments on said property and the suits so brought by the receiver shall be conducted in all matters as suits for the collection of debts and foreclosure of liens under mortgages and trust deeds, and the decrees in such suits and the deeds issued pursuant thereto, shall have the same presumption in their favor; provided, however, that when all such sums have been paid, the receiver shall be discharged, and the affairs of the district conducted by the board as hereinbefore provided.

In any special proceeding commenced under the provisions of this section, the district, and all land and all property or properties on which assessments have not been paid, may be made joint defendants, but separate judgments shall be entered and enforced.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9A-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9A / Section 7-9A-2
§ 7-9A-2. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

It is the purpose of the Investment Credit Act to provide a favorable tax climate for manufacturing businesses and to promote increased employment in New Mexico.
N.M. Stat. § 67-11-3 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 11 / Section 67-11-3
§ 67-11-3. Agreement to reroute streets or county highways
Status: in_force

The state transportation commission is authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with the authority exercising jurisdiction over the street or highway and, in accordance with the terms of this agreement, when essential, to close any street or highway or to reroute such street or highway over and under or to reroute to a connection with the freeway or controlled-access highway.
N.M. Stat. § 11-7-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 11 / Article 7 / Section 11-7-5
§ 11-7-5. Notice of transfer
Status: in_force

Whenever the compact administrator receives a request for the transfer of a patient from an institution in this state to an institution in another party state, and he determines that the transfer is in the best interest of the patient, he shall give notice of the proposed transfer to the patient, the spouse of the patient, the parents of the patient and the adult children of the patient. This notice shall also notify these people of the right, if requested, to a court hearing on the proposed transfer and shall contain a request for written consent from these people for the transfer. The notice shall be in writing, and the respondents shall be given fourteen days from the date of mailing of the notice to consent or object to the transfer, or to request a court hearing. No transfer shall be made if there is any written objection or request made to the compact administrator except upon order of the court after hearing. However, no transfer shall be made if the compact administrator receives written objections from all these people. No transfer shall be made of a patient ordered hospitalized by any court unless written notice of the proposed transfer has been given to that court.
N.M. Stat. § 29-2-29 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 2 / Section 29-2-29
§ 29-2-29. State police; group life insurance
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10-7-4 NMSA 1978 and in addition to all other benefits provided commissioned officers, the department shall provide life insurance coverage in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each state police officer to be paid to his designated beneficiary. The coverage shall include double indemnity provisions for death incurred in line of duty. The coverage shall be provided by a group term insurance policy, the premium for which shall be paid out of state funds appropriated to the department of public safety.
N.M. Stat. § 19-10-27 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 10 / Section 19-10-27
§ 19-10-27. Lands sold on deferred payments with reservation of minerals or classified as mineral lands prior to full payment or issuance of patent; limited patent
Status: in_force

Where state lands have been sold heretofore, or may be sold hereafter on any deferred payment plan under contract containing a reservation to the state of the minerals therein contained and before the payment of the total purchase price, such land shall have been leased for mineral purposes as in this act provided; or where before the payment of the full amount of the purchase price shall have been made or patent issued, the land shall be known, classified or reported as mineral lands, or where, by reason of proximity to known mineral lands or productive oil and gas wells, the commissioner of public lands shall deem such lands to be of probable mineral character and valuable as such, he shall make proper notation on the records of his office designating the said lands as mineral lands. The commissioner of public lands is hereby authorized to issue to the purchaser of any such mineral land or lands so classified as mineral, upon full payment of the purchase price according to the terms of the contract, a limited patent only, which shall contain reservation to the state of New Mexico to all the minerals in the said lands, together with the right to the state or its grantees, to prospect for, mine and remove the same; and such lands shall, notwithstanding the issuance of such patent, be subject to lease under the provisions of this act;

Provided, that no lease for such lands shall be issued and no person shall be authorized to prospect for, mine or remove any minerals until an indemnity bond shall be given or waiver of the same filed, as set forth in Section 5 of this act.
N.M. Stat. § 18-6-26 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 6 / Section 18-6-26
§ 18-6-26. Remains designated for reburial
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise designated by the department, remains shall be reburied in the reburial grounds unless a descendant group that demonstrates a relationship to the remains requests otherwise.
N.M. Stat. § 17-3-12 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 17-3-12
§ 17-3-12. Accounting for licenses
Status: in_force

When a license vendor is unable to account for hunting and fishing licenses issued to him, the state game commission shall determine the extent of liability of the vendor and the decision of the commission shall be final.
N.M. Stat. § 5-3-11 — NM Code / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 5-3-11
§ 5-3-11. Counties authorized to issue bonds and erect public auditoriums
Status: in_force

The board of county commissioners of the several counties in this state having a population of twenty-five thousand are hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of such counties for the purpose of acquiring suitable sites for public auditoriums within their counties, and for the building of such auditoriums. Such public auditoriums are declared to be necessary public buildings.
N.M. Stat. § 50-4A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 4A / Section 50-4A-1
§ 50-4A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Promoting Financial Independence for Victims of Domestic Abuse Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 18-6-8.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 6 / Section 18-6-8.1
§ 18-6-8.1. Review of proposed state undertakings
Status: in_force

The historic preservation division of the office of cultural affairs shall periodically furnish copies of the official register, or relevant sections of the official register, to state agencies and departments and shall periodically advise state agencies and departments of the status of the division's program of cultural property identification and registration. The head of any state agency or department having direct or indirect jurisdiction over any land or structure modification which may affect a registered cultural property shall afford the state historic preservation officer a reasonable and timely opportunity to participate in planning such undertaking so as to preserve and protect, and to avoid or minimize adverse effects on, registered cultural properties.
N.M. Stat. § 6-29-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 29 / Section 6-29-1
§ 6-29-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Tribal Infrastructure Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 73-12-35 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 12 / Section 73-12-35
§ 73-12-35. Terms on which lands may be included
Status: in_force

The board of directors to whom such petition is presented may require as a condition precedent to the granting of the same that the petitioners shall severally pay to such district such respective sums, as nearly as the same can be estimated by the board, as said petitioners or their grantors would have been required to pay for their pro rata share of all bonds and the interest thereon which may have previously thereto be [been] issued by said district had such lands been included in such district at the time the same was originally formed or when said bonds were so issued; and said board may require such petitioners to pay for such further sums as the board may deem just on account of irrigation works or water rights paid for otherwise than by issue of bonds.
N.M. Stat. § 7-27-5.13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 27 / Section 7-27-5.13
§ 7-27-5.13. Educational institution research and development facilities revenue bonds
Status: in_force

No more than ten percent of the book value of the severance tax permanent fund may be invested in educational institution revenue bonds described in this section.

A. The revenue bonds shall have been issued by one of the following educational institutions:

(1) the university of New Mexico;

(2) the New Mexico state university;

(3) the New Mexico highlands university;

(4) the western New Mexico university;

(5) the eastern New Mexico university; and

(6) the New Mexico institute of mining and technology.

B. The revenue bonds shall have been issued under the authority of Chapter 6, Article 17 NMSA 1978 .

C. The revenue bonds shall have been issued to provide funds for the construction, furnishing and equipping of a research or development facility, including any infrastructure improvements necessary to the construction of the facility. The facility shall be one that will:

(1) provide space for operations of an already funded research or development project;

(2) be income-producing when completed and occupied; and

(3) provide both the local community in which it is located and the state generally with economic benefits including, but not limited to, employment for students of post-secondary educational institutions.