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N.M. Stat. § 4-38-35 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 38 / Section 4-38-35
§ 4-38-35. Federal aid for airports; gifts
Status: in_force

The respective boards of county commissioners are authorized and empowered to seek and obtain, if possible, from the United States government, or any department or agency thereof, financial aid and assistance to carry into effect the purposes hereof. Such boards are also authorized and empowered in their discretion to accept gifts and donations of any kind or character from any source whatsoever, including, but not limited to a site for such airports.
N.M. Stat. § 14-4-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 14 / Article 4 / Section 14-4-2
§ 14-4-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the State Rules Act:

A. “ agency ” means any agency, board, commission, department, institution or officer of the state government except the judicial and legislative branches of the state government;

B. “ person ” includes individuals, associations, partnerships, companies, business trusts, political subdivisions and corporations;

C. “ proceeding ” means a formal agency process or procedure that is commenced or conducted pursuant to the State Rules Act;

D. “ proposed rule ” means a rule that is provided to the public by an agency for review and public comment prior to its adoption, amendment or repeal, and for which there is specific legal authority authorizing the proposed rule;

E. “ provide to the public ” means for an agency to distribute rulemaking information by:

(1) posting it on the agency website, if any;

(2) posting it on the sunshine portal;

(3) making it available in the agency's district, field and regional offices, if any;

(4) sending it by electronic mail to persons who have made a written request for notice from the agency of announcements addressing the subject of the rulemaking proceeding and who have provided an electronic mail address to the agency;

(5) sending it by electronic mail to persons who have participated in the rulemaking and who have provided an electronic mail address to the agency;

(6) sending written notice that includes, at a minimum, an internet and street address where the information may be found to persons who provide a postal address; and

(7) providing it to the New Mexico legislative council for distribution to appropriate interim and standing legislative committees;

F. “ rule ” means any rule, regulation, or standard, including those that explicitly or implicitly implement or interpret a federal or state legal mandate or other applicable law and amendments thereto or repeals and renewals thereof, issued or promulgated by any agency and purporting to affect one or more agencies besides the agency issuing the rule or to affect persons not members or employees of the issuing agency, including affecting persons served by the agency. An order or decision or other document issued or promulgated in connection with the disposition of any case or agency decision upon a particular matter as applied to a specific set of facts shall not be deemed such a rule, nor shall it constitute specific adoption thereof by the agency. “Rule” does not include rules relating to the management, confinement, discipline or release of inmates of any penal or charitable institution, the New Mexico boys' school, the girls' welfare home or any hospital; rules made relating to the management of any particular educational institution, whether elementary or otherwise; or rules made relating to admissions, discipline, supervision, expulsion or graduation of students from any educational institution; and

G. “ rulemaking ” means the process for adoption of a new rule or the amendment, readoption or repeal of an existing rule.
N.M. Stat. § 48-10-6 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 10 / Section 48-10-6
§ 48-10-6. Trustee of deed of trust; qualification
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, the trustee of a deed of trust shall be:

(1) an organization doing business under the laws of New Mexico as a bank, trust company, savings and loan association, escrow company or title insurance company including an agent or underwriter;

(2) an individual who is a member of the state bar of New Mexico;

(3) an organization which is licensed, chartered or regulated by the federal deposit insurance corporation, the comptroller of the currency, the federal savings and loan insurance corporation, the federal home loan bank, the bureau of federal credit unions or any successors; or

(4) the parent corporation of any association or corporation referred to in this subsection or any subsidiary corporation all the stock of which is owned by or held solely for the benefit of any such association or corporation referred to in this subsection.

B. No trustee of a deed of trust or parent corporation or subsidiary corporation of a corporate trustee which is a trustee of a deed of trust shall be the beneficiary of the deed of trust.
N.M. Stat. § 31-6-2 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 6 / Section 31-6-2
§ 31-6-2. Foreman of grand jury
Status: in_force

The jurors shall select one of their number as foreman of the grand jury. The foreman shall preside over the sessions of the grand jury. The foreman shall administer oaths to witnesses. The foreman will sign all reports, indictments or other undertakings of the grand jury. The foreman may appoint one member of the grand jury as a clerk to aid in the keeping of notes or minutes and the tallying of votes during secret sessions when no persons other than grand jury members may be present. The foreman may recess the sessions of the grand jury and reconvene them. The foreman, for good cause, may request the court to excuse or discharge individual grand jurors and to replace them with alternate grand jurors as necessary to continue the work of the grand jury.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-46-1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 46 / Section 59A-46-1
§ 59A-46-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 59A, Article 46 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Health Maintenance Organization Law”.
N.M. Stat. § 22-21-1 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 21 / Section 22-21-1
§ 22-21-1. Prohibiting sales to the department, to school districts and to school personnel; exception; penalty
Status: in_force

A. A member of the commission, a member of a local school board, a member of the governing body of a charter school, the secretary, an employee of the department or a school employee shall not, directly or indirectly, sell or be a party to any transaction to sell any instructional material, furniture, equipment, insurance, school supplies or work under contract to the department, school district or public school with which such person is associated or employed. No such person shall receive any commission or profit from the sale or any transaction to sell any instructional material, furniture, equipment, insurance, school supplies or work under contract to the department, school district or public school with which the person is associated or employed.

B. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a person making a sale in the regular course of business who complies with the provisions of Sections 13-1-21 , 13-1-21.2 and 13-1-22 NMSA 1978 . The provisions of this section shall not apply in cases in which school employees contract to perform special services with the department, school district or public school with which they are associated or employed during time periods wherein service is not required under a contract for instruction, administration or other employment.

C. No member of the commission, member of a local school board, member of the governing body of a charter school, the secretary, employee of the department or school employee shall solicit or sell or be a party to a transaction to solicit or sell insurance or investment securities to any employee of the department or any employee of the school district whom such person supervises. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit a financial institution from requiring the purchase of insurance in connection with a loan or offering and selling such insurance in accordance with the provisions of the New Mexico Insurance Code. 1

D. No state employee who supervises or exercises control over school districts or charter schools, which supervision or control includes but is not limited to school programs, capital outlay and operating budgets, shall enter into any business relationship with an employee of a local school district or charter school over which the state employee exercises supervision or control.

E. Any person violating any provision of this section is guilty of a fourth degree felony under the Criminal Code. 2 The department may suspend or revoke the licensure of a licensed school employee for violation of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 27-2C-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 2C / Section 27-2C-5
§ 27-2C-5. Reporting
Status: in_force

The department shall report the savings from the pharmaceutical supplemental rebates for the preceding fiscal year to the legislative health and human services committee by November 1 of each year.
N.M. Stat. § 11-8-5 — NM Code / Chapter 11 / Article 8 / Section 11-8-5
§ 11-8-5. Powers; Article IV
Status: in_force

In addition to authority conferred on the commission by other provisions of the compact, the commission shall have authority to:

A. collect, correlate, analyze and interpret information and data concerning educational needs and resources;

B. encourage and foster research in all aspects of education, but with special reference to the desirable scope of instruction, organization, administration, and instructional methods and standards employed or suitable for employment in public educational systems;

C. develop proposals for adequate financing of education as a whole and at each of its many levels;

D. conduct or participate in research of the types referred to in this article in any instance where the commission finds that such research is necessary for the advancement of the purposes and policies of this compact, utilizing fully the resources of national associations, regional compact organizations for higher education and other agencies and institutions, both public and private;

E. formulate suggested policies and plans for the improvement of public education as a whole, or for any segment thereof, and make recommendations with respect thereto available to the appropriate governmental units, agencies and public officials;

F. do such other things as may be necessary or incidental to the administration of any of its authority or functions pursuant to this compact.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-52-16 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 52 / Section 59A-52-16
§ 59A-52-16. Flammable liquids rules; nationwide standards; definition
Status: in_force

A. The state fire marshal shall adopt rules for the safe vehicular transportation, storage, handling and use of flammable and combustible liquids; provided that the state fire marshal shall not adopt any rule conflicting with the jurisdiction of the department of environment over the regulation of storage tanks pursuant to the Hazardous Waste Act or the Ground Water Protection Act.

B. The rules shall be in keeping with the latest generally recognized safety standards for flammable and combustible liquids. Rules in substantial conformity with the published standards of the national fire protection association for vehicular transportation, storage, handling and use of flammable and combustible liquids shall be deemed to be in substantial conformity with the generally accepted and recognized standards of safety concerning the same subject matter.

C. The rules shall include reasonable provisions under which facilities in service prior to the effective date of the rules and not in strict conformity therewith may be continued in service. Nonconforming facilities in service prior to the adoption of the rules that are found by the state fire marshal to constitute a distinct hazard to life or property may not be excepted from the rules or permitted to continue in service. For guidance in enforcement, the rules may delineate those types of nonconformities that should be considered distinctly hazardous and those nonconformities that should be evaluated in light of local conditions. If the need for compliance with any rule is conditioned on local factors, the rules shall provide that reasonable notice be given to the proprietor of the facility affected of intention to evaluate the need for compliance and of the time and place at which the proprietor may appear and offer evidence thereon.

D. As used in Chapter 59A, Article 52 NMSA 1978 , the term “ flammable liquid ” means any liquid having a flash point below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, and “combustible liquid” means any liquid having a flash point at or above one hundred degrees Fahrenheit and below two hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
N.M. Stat. § 10-2-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 2 / Section 10-2-12
§ 10-2-12. Insufficient bond of county or precinct officer; new bond required; failure to provide; procedure; decree of vacancy by district court
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each county at each regular meeting thereof on the first day of each meeting to examine and inquire into the sufficiency of all the official bonds given or to be given by any county or precinct officer as required by law, and if it shall appear that any one or more of the securities on the official bond of any county officer has or have removed from the county, died, or become insolvent, or of doubtful solvency, the said board of county commissioners shall cause such county or precinct officer to be summoned to appear before the said board on a day to be named in said summons, to show cause why he should not be required to give a new bond with sufficient security, and if at the appointed time he shall fail to satisfy said board as to the sufficiency of the present security, an order shall be entered of record by said board requiring such county or precinct officer, to file in the office of the county clerk within twenty days, a new bond to be approved as required by law, unless the number and pecuniary ability of other securities on said bond shall be such as to satisfy the board that the bond is sufficient, notwithstanding one or more of the securities on said bond may have removed, be dead, insolvent or of doubtful solvency, in which case the bond in question may be, in the discretion of the board, held sufficient. In the event any such bond is found insufficient, and a new bond is not filed as ordered, the fact shall be certified by the board of county commissioners to the district court of the county, and shall also be certified to the district attorney of the judicial district wherein such county is located; and it shall thereupon become the duty of the district attorney to cause a hearing to be had in said district court for the purpose of adjudicating and declaring a vacancy in such office, in the event the district court determines, after a hearing, that the bond is in fact insufficient, and such officer fails within five days after the district court has so found to file a new bond with sufficient surety as required by law. Upon the entry of such decree of vacancy it shall thereupon become the duty of the appointing power to fill such office in the manner provided by law.
N.M. Stat. § 4-42-4 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 42 / Section 4-42-4
§ 4-42-4. Licensed professional surveyor; office and records
Status: in_force

A licensed professional surveyor appointed by the board of county commissioners shall keep two books of records that shall be furnished the surveyor by the board of county commissioners for that purpose, which books the surveyor shall transmit to the surveyor's successor in office. One book shall contain the calculations by latitudes and departures of all surveys made by the surveyor or the surveyor's deputies, and each calculation shall have a corresponding number with the plat and field notes to which it refers in the book of records. The other book shall be a book of records and so constituted as to have the left page for diagrams and plats and the right page for notes and remarks, and each diagram and plat shall be numbered progressively. The field notes of the survey so recorded shall contain a full statement of the surveys, with the variations of the magnetic needle, length of lines and location of corners, with description of such corners and description of all witness trees and other marks used as witness marks for such corners, with size, distance and course.
N.M. Stat. § 42-2-10 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 2 / Section 42-2-10
§ 42-2-10. Intervention
Status: in_force

All persons in occupation of, or having or claiming an interest in, any of the property described in the petition or in the damages, if any, for the taking thereof, though not named, may appear, plead and defend, each in respect to his own property or interest, or that claimed by him, in like manner as if named in the petition, at any time prior to trial.
N.M. Stat. § 3-45-17 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 45 / Section 3-45-17
§ 3-45-17. Additional remedies conferrable to an obligee
Status: in_force

A city shall have the power by its resolution, trust indenture, lease or other contract to confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, or holding a lease, the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in such resolution or instrument, by suit, action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction:

A. to cause possession of any housing project or any part hereof to be surrendered to any such obligee, which possession may be retained by such bondholder or trustee so long as the city shall continue in default;

B. to obtain the appointment of a receiver of any housing project of said city or any part thereof and of the rents and profits therefrom. If such receiver be appointed, he may enter and take possession of such housing project or any part thereof and, so long as the city shall continue in default, operate and maintain the same, and collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues or other charges thereafter arising therefrom, and shall keep such moneys in a separate account or accounts and apply the same in accordance with the obligations of said city as the court shall direct; and

C. to require said city and the officers and agents thereof to account for the money actually received as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-46-24 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 46 / Section 59A-46-24
§ 59A-46-24. Fees
Status: in_force

Every health maintenance organization subject to the provisions of the Health Maintenance Organization Law shall pay to the superintendent all applicable fees specified in Section 59A-6-1 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 20-8-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 20 / Article 8 / Section 20-8-4
§ 20-8-4. Local armory boards; members
Status: in_force

There are created local armory boards for each local armory. The management and control of each local armory shall be the responsibility of its local armory board subject to the guidance, direction and supervision of the state armory board. The senior commander of the national guard units occupying the armory, as chairman; one enlisted member serving in the armory as secretary-treasurer; and one resident of the locality who is not a member of the national guard, shall constitute the board for that locality. Discretionary appointments to each board shall be made by the adjutant general and shall be for a term of two years. Members shall serve without compensation but shall be paid per diem and mileage as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act. Each local armory board shall:

A. manage and control its local armory subject to the guidance, supervision and direction of the state armory board and such regulations as the state armory board may promulgate;

B. maintain a local checking account;

C. administer and contract for armory rentals as it deems appropriate within regulations promulgated by the state armory board;

D. administer and account to the state armory board for all revenues therefrom;

E. transmit all revenues, less actual and reasonable expenses of the board and operations costs of its armory rentals, to the state armory board fund quarterly or more frequently;

F. report to the adjutant general annually, in September, on the physical condition of its local armory including recommendations for improvements, repair and maintenance; and

G. participate in the semi-annual meeting of the armory board council.
N.M. Stat. § 34-3A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 34 / Article 3A / Section 34-3A-3
§ 34-3A-3. Court of appeals building commission; duties
Status: in_force

A. The court of appeals building commission has care, custody and control of the court of appeals building and its grounds, along with all court of appeals equipment, furniture and fixtures housed in the building. The court of appeals shall report and record all these assets as required by state audit rules.

B. With respect to the property under the care, custody and control of the court of appeals pursuant to Subsection A of this section, the court of appeals building commission shall:

(1) provide for the design, construction, maintenance, repair, cleaning, heating, cooling and lighting of that property; and

(2) subject to legislative appropriation, hire employees as necessary and fix their compensation and terms of employment; provided that no compensation shall be paid to a person who is compensated by another agency of the state.
N.M. Stat. § 5-15-23 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 15 / Section 5-15-23
§ 5-15-23. Protection from impairment
Status: in_force

If the provisions set forth in the Tax Increment for Development Act impair the ability of a municipality, county or other public body to meet its principal or interest payment obligations for revenue bonds or general obligation bonds outstanding prior to the effective date of the Tax Increment for Development Act that are secured by the pledge of all or part of the municipality, county or other public body's revenue gross receipts tax or property tax, then the amount otherwise payable to the district pursuant to the Tax Increment for Development Act shall be paid instead to the municipality, county or public body in an amount sufficient to meet any required payment.
N.M. Stat. § 28-7-5 — NM Code / Chapter 28 / Article 7 / Section 28-7-5
§ 28-7-5. Interference with rights of blind; penalty
Status: in_force

A person, firm or corporation or the agent of a person, firm or corporation who denies or interferes with admittance to or enjoyment of the public facilities enumerated in Section 28-7-3 NMSA 1978 or otherwise interferes with the rights of a blind or visually impaired person or a person who has a physical disability enumerated in the White Cane Law is guilty of a misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 62-15-26.1 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 15 / Section 62-15-26.1
§ 62-15-26.1. Distribution cooperative utilities organized in other states; application
Status: in_force

A distribution cooperative utility organized pursuant to the laws of another state and providing bundled services in this state on April 1, 1999 to not more than twenty percent of its total customers may file an application with the commission seeking approval of its election to be governed by the laws related to electric restructuring of the state where the utility was organized. The commission shall approve the application if the distribution cooperative utility:

A. does not provide supply service to other than its service customers in this state; and

B. remains subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the commission for bundled service provided in this state.
N.M. Stat. § 13-4-16 — NM Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4 / Section 13-4-16
§ 13-4-16. Construction of act
Status: in_force

Sections 13-4-10 through 13-4-17 NMSA 1978 shall not be construed to supersede or impair a more stringent requirement under any authority granted by federal law to provide for the establishment of specified wage rates.