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N.M. Stat. § 66-1-4.12 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 1 / Section 66-1-4.12
§ 66-1-4.12. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Motor Vehicle Code:

A. “ natural gas vehicle ” means a vehicle operated by an engine that primarily uses natural gas;

B. “ neighborhood electric car ” means a four-wheeled electric motor vehicle that has a maximum speed of more than twenty miles per hour but less than twenty-five miles per hour and complies with the federal requirements specified in 49 CFR 571.500 ;

C. “ nonrepairable vehicle ” means a vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration that:

(1) has no resale value except as a source of parts or scrap metal or that the owner irreversibly designates as a source of parts or scrap metal or for destruction;

(2) has been substantially stripped as a result of theft or is missing all of the bolts on sheet metal body panels, all of the doors and hatches, substantially all of the interior components and substantially all of the grill and light assemblies and has little or no resale value other than its worth as a source of a vehicle identification number that could be used illegally; or

(3) is a substantially burned vehicle that has burned to the extent that there are no more usable or repairable body or interior components, tires and wheels or drive train components or that the owner irreversibly designates for destruction or as having little or no resale value other than its worth as a source of scrap metal or as a source of a vehicle identification number that could be used illegally;

D. “ nonrepairable vehicle certificate ” means a vehicle ownership document conspicuously labeled “NONREPAIRABLE” issued to the owner of the nonrepairable vehicle;

E. “ nonresident ” or “ non-domiciled ” means every person who is not a resident of this state;

F. “ nonresident commercial driver's instruction permit ” or “ non-domiciled commercial driver's instruction permit ” means a commercial driver's instruction permit issued by another state to a person domiciled in that state or by a foreign country to a person domiciled in that country;

G. “ nonresident commercial driver's license ” or “ non-domiciled commercial driver's license ” means a commercial driver's license issued by another state to a person domiciled in that state or by a foreign country to a person domiciled in that country; and

H. “ nonresident's operating privilege ” means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident by the laws of this state pertaining to the operation by the nonresident of a motor vehicle, or the use of a motor vehicle owned by the nonresident, in this state.
N.M. Stat. § 24-17-13 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 17 / Section 24-17-13
§ 24-17-13. Right to organize and participate
Status: in_force

A. Residents have the right to organize a resident association and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of keeping themselves informed of the operation of the facility or for the purpose of other mutual aid or protection. A provider shall take appropriate steps to encourage and facilitate the establishment of a resident association in each facility. At a minimum, these steps shall include the posting in conspicuous places of written notices of the right of residents to organize into a resident association and to use the facility for association meetings.

B. The administration of an operating facility shall meet at least quarterly with the resident association, if one exists, or with interested residents if there is no resident association. The following procedures shall apply:

(1) the provider shall notify all residents at least seven days in advance of each meeting;

(2) the provider shall post the meeting agenda in a conspicuous place and make copies of it available; and

(3) if the resident association requests, the provider shall ensure that a member or an authorized representative of the board of directors, a general partner or a principal owner attends the meeting.
N.M. Stat. § 3-32-5.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 32 / Section 3-32-5.1
§ 3-32-5.1. Small communities; definition; attracting physicians
Status: in_force

It is the legislative intent that small communities have the power to issue municipal revenue bonds for the purpose of constructing office facilities for physicians as a method of attracting physicians. Therefore, for the purposes of Sections 3-32-3 , 3-32-5 and Subsection F of Section 3-32-1 NMSA 1978 , “small municipality” means an incorporated municipality having a population of less than fifteen thousand as shown by the last preceding official United States census. For limited purposes stated in this section, physicians offices are allowed even though the physicians operate as a profit-making enterprise.
N.M. Stat. § 5-10-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 10 / Section 5-10-5
§ 5-10-5. Economic development department; technical assistance
Status: in_force

At the request of a local or regional government, the department shall provide technical assistance in the development of an economic development plan or economic development project or technical assistance to cultural facilities with respect to economic development projects.
N.M. Stat. § 30-2-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 30 / Article 2 / Section 30-2-6
§ 30-2-6. Justifiable homicide by public officer or public employee
Status: in_force

A. Homicide is justifiable when committed by a public officer or public employee or those acting by their command and in their aid and assistance:

(1) in obedience to any judgment of a competent court;

(2) when necessarily committed in overcoming actual resistance to the execution of some legal process or to the discharge of any other legal duty;

(3) when necessarily committed in retaking felons who have been rescued or who have escaped or when necessarily committed in arresting felons fleeing from justice; or

(4) when necessarily committed in order to prevent the escape of a felon from any place of lawful custody or confinement.

B. For the purposes of this section, homicide is necessarily committed when a public officer or public employee has probable cause to believe he or another is threatened with serious harm or deadly force while performing those lawful duties described in this section. Whenever feasible, a public officer or employee should give warning prior to using deadly force.
N.M. Stat. § 29-2-16 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 2 / Section 29-2-16
§ 29-2-16. State police school; compensation
Status: in_force

A. Before entering upon the appointee's duties, every appointee to the New Mexico state police shall be required to attend a school of instruction approved by the secretary. A uniform course of instruction shall be given all trainees governing the operation, maintenance and temporary roadside repair of motor vehicles, the laws of the state that the appointee may be called on to enforce and other instruction as the secretary may require. Attendance at the school or other course of instruction as may be prescribed renders the person attending subject to the control of the New Mexico state police during attendance.

B. The secretary may, within the budgetary means of the New Mexico state police, allow subsistence and compensation for trainees attending the school of instruction at the New Mexico state police headquarters or elsewhere.

C. This section shall not apply to members of the former motor transportation division or the former special investigations division.
N.M. Stat. § 72-19-89 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 19 / Section 72-19-89
§ 72-19-89. Issuance of interim debentures and pledge of bonds as collateral security
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any limitation or other provision in the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act, whenever a majority of the qualified electors of the authority voting on a proposal to issue bonds has authorized the authority to issue bonds for any purpose authorized in that act, the authority is authorized to borrow money without any other election in anticipation of taxes, the proceeds of the bonds or any other revenues of the authority, or any combination thereof, and to issue interim debentures to evidence the amount so borrowed. Interim debentures may mature at such time not exceeding a period of time equal to the estimated time needed to effect the purpose for which the bonds are so authorized to be issued, plus two years, as the board may determine. Except as otherwise provided in this section and in Sections 72-19-90 and 72-19-91 NMSA 1978 , interim debentures shall be issued as provided in that act for securities in Sections 72-19-47 through 72-19-80 NMSA 1978 . Taxes, other revenues of the authority, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing proceeds of bonds to be thereafter issued or reissued or bonds issued for the purpose of securing the payment of interim debentures may be pledged for the purpose of securing the payment of the interim debentures. Any bonds pledged as collateral security for the payment of any interim debentures shall mature at such time as the board may determine, but in no event exceeding forty years from the date of either any of such bonds or any of such interim debentures, whichever date is the earlier. Any such bonds pledged as collateral security shall not be issued in an aggregate principal amount exceeding the aggregate principal amount of the interim debenture secured by a pledge of such bonds nor shall they bear interest at any time which with any interest accruing at the same time on the interim debenture so secured exceeds six percent per year.
N.M. Stat. § 5-9-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 5-9-1
§ 5-9-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 1 through 15 of this act may be cited as the “Enterprise Zone Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 61-16-17 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 16 / Section 61-16-17
§ 61-16-17. Recovery on bond
Status: in_force

The state of New Mexico for the purpose of recovery of fines and penalties hereunder, and any person purchasing at any auction hereunder for the satisfaction of any civil judgment in an action for misrepresentation or fraud, or arising out of any violation of this act, shall have a right of action upon the bond required by Section 6 hereof. Such action shall be brought in the name of the state of New Mexico only or in the name of the state of New Mexico to the use of the party entitled to recover upon said bond, as the case may be.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-3B-4 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 3B / Section 32A-3B-4
§ 32A-3B-4. Protective custody; restrictions; time limitations
Status: in_force

A. A law enforcement officer who takes a child into protective custody shall, with all reasonable speed:

(1) inform the child of the reasons for the protective custody; and

(2) contact the department.

B. When the department is contacted by a law enforcement officer who has taken a child into protective custody, the department shall refer the child to community based services and may:

(1) accept custody of the child and designate an appropriate placement in the community for the child; or

(2) return the child to the child's parent, guardian or custodian if the child's safety is assured.

C. A child taken into protective custody shall not be placed in or transported in a law enforcement vehicle or any other vehicle that contains an adult placed under arrest, unless circumstances exist in which any delay in transporting the child to an appropriate facility would be likely to result in substantial danger to the child's physical safety. When such circumstances exist, the circumstances shall be described in writing by the driver of the vehicle and submitted to the driver's supervisor within two days after the driver transported the child.

D. A child taken into protective custody shall not be held involuntarily for more than two days, unless a petition to extend the custody is filed pursuant to the provisions of the Family in Need of Court-Ordered Services Act or the Abuse and Neglect Act. 1

E. When a petition is filed or any time thereafter, the children's court or district court may issue an ex-parte custody order based upon a sworn written statement of facts showing that probable cause exists to believe that protective custody of the child is necessary.

F. The protective custody order shall be served on the respondent by a person authorized to serve arrest warrants and shall direct the law enforcement officer to take custody of the child and deliver the child to a place designated by the court.

G. The Rules of Evidence do not apply to the issuance of an ex-parte custody order.
N.M. Stat. § 57-3A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 3A / Section 57-3A-3
§ 57-3A-3. Injunctive relief
Status: in_force

A. Actual or threatened misappropriation may be enjoined. Upon application to the court, an injunction shall be terminated when the trade secret has ceased to exist but the injunction may be continued for an additional reasonable period of time in order to eliminate commercial advantage that otherwise would be derived from the misappropriation.

B. In exceptional circumstances, an injunction may condition future use upon payment of a reasonable royalty for no longer than the period of time for which use could have been prohibited. Exceptional circumstances include, but are not limited to, a material and prejudicial change of position prior to acquiring knowledge or reason to know of misappropriation that renders a prohibitive injunction inequitable.

C. In appropriate circumstances, affirmative acts to protect a trade secret may be compelled by a court order.
N.M. Stat. § 76-4-21 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 4 / Section 76-4-21
§ 76-4-21. Expiration date of licenses
Status: in_force

The board shall set by regulation the expiration date for the annual pesticide registration or any license provided for in the Pesticide Control Act.
N.M. Stat. § 21-23-5 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 23 / Section 21-23-5
§ 21-23-5. Duties of the department
Status: in_force

A. The department is charged with oversight of all private post-secondary educational institutions operating within the state.

B. The department shall provide for the registration of all regionally accredited colleges and universities operating in the state pursuant to the Post-Secondary Educational Institution Act.

C. The department shall provide for the licensure of all career schools and all nonregionally accredited colleges and universities operating in the state pursuant to the Post-Secondary Educational Institution Act.
N.M. Stat. § 24-7A-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 7A / Section 24-7A-3
§ 24-7A-3. Revocation of advance health-care directive
Status: in_force

A. An individual, while having capacity, may revoke the designation of an agent either by a signed writing or by personally informing the supervising health-care provider. If the individual cannot sign, a written revocation must be signed for the individual and be witnessed by two witnesses, each of whom has signed at the direction and in the presence of the individual and of each other.

B. An individual, while having capacity, may revoke all or part of an advance health-care directive, other than the designation of an agent, at any time and in any manner that communicates an intent to revoke.

C. A health-care provider, agent, guardian or surrogate who is informed of a revocation shall promptly communicate the fact of the revocation to the supervising health-care provider and to any health-care institution at which the patient is receiving care.

D. The filing of a petition for or a decree of annulment, divorce, dissolution of marriage or legal separation revokes a previous designation of a spouse as agent unless otherwise specified in the decree or in a power of attorney for health care. A designation revoked solely by this subsection is revived by the individual's remarriage to the former spouse, by a nullification of the divorce, annulment or legal separation or by the dismissal or withdrawal, with the individual's consent, of a petition seeking annulment, divorce, dissolution of marriage or legal separation.

E. An advance health-care directive that conflicts with an earlier advance health-care directive revokes the earlier directive to the extent of the conflict.
N.M. Stat. § 7-16B-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 16B / Section 7-16B-2
§ 7-16B-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

To encourage the use of alternative fuel for the propulsion of motor vehicles on the roads of New Mexico, thereby increasing the market for supplies of New Mexico natural gas and reducing harmful environmental emissions, it is the purpose of the Alternative Fuel Tax Act to provide for fair taxation of alternative fuel used for such purposes.
N.M. Stat. § 33-8-2 — NM Code / Chapter 33 / Article 8 / Section 33-8-2
§ 33-8-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Corrections Industries Act:

A. “ commission ” means the corrections industries commission;

B. “ department ” means the corrections department;

C. “ enterprise ” means a manufacturing, agricultural or service operation or group of closely related operations within the bounds of a facility but does not include standard facility maintenance activities and services;

D. “ facility ” means a place under the jurisdiction of the department at which individuals are confined pursuant to court order;

E. “ fund ” means the corrections industries revolving fund;

F. “ local public body ” means all political subdivisions of the state and their agencies, instrumentalities and institutions supported wholly or in part by funds derived from public taxation; and

G. “ state agency ” means the state or any of its branches, agencies, departments, boards, instrumentalities or institutions supported wholly or in part by funds derived from public taxation.
N.M. Stat. § 47-14-15.1 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 14 / Section 47-14-15.1
§ 47-14-15.1. Automated valuation models used to estimate collateral value for mortgage lending purposes
Status: in_force

A. Automated valuation models shall adhere to quality control standards designed to:

(1) ensure a high level of confidence in the estimates produced by automated valuation models;

(2) protect against the manipulation of data;

(3) seek to avoid conflicts of interest;

(4) require random sample testing and reviews; and

(5) account for any other such factor that the board determines to be appropriate.

B. The board, in consultation with the staff of the appraisal subcommittee and the appraisal standards board of the appraisal foundation, shall promulgate rules to implement the quality control standards required under this section.
N.M. Stat. § 3-7-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 3-7-5
§ 3-7-5. Annexation; arbitration; resolution of intent
Status: in_force

If the governing body of a municipality desires to annex contiguous territory, the governing body may, by resolution, declare that the benefits of municipal government are or can be made available within a reasonable time to the territory proposed to be annexed and that it desires to annex such territory. A copy of the resolution with a copy of a plat of the territory proposed to be annexed shall be filed with the county clerk.
N.M. Stat. § 9-4A-2 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 4A / Section 9-4A-2
§ 9-4A-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Cultural Affairs Department Act is to create a single, unified department to administer all laws and exercise all functions formerly administered and executed by the office of cultural affairs.
N.M. Stat. § 21-5-21 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 21-5-21
§ 21-5-21. State treasurer's duty to establish interest and retirement fund
Status: in_force

It is hereby made the duty of the treasurer of this state, upon receiving written notice from the secretary and treasurer of said board that it has issued bonds as provided for herein, to forthwith forward and pay over to the secretary and treasurer of said board out of the income from the permanent funds of said college, a sum sufficient to make and establish the income (interest) and retirement fund, as herein provided, and annually thereafter to pay over a sufficient amount for said purpose, to the end that said interest and retirement fund shall at all times be kept in the proper amount. In the event there should not be sufficient undistributed income from permanent funds of said institution, then said state treasurer shall use so much of the income and current fund of said institution in his hands as shall be necessary to establish and at all times maintain said interest and retirement fund.
N.M. Stat. § 4-25-7 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 25 / Section 4-25-7
§ 4-25-7. Change of name
Status: in_force

That the name of the county of Jefferson, heretofore created, is hereby changed to San Miguel county.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-3B-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 3B / Section 32A-3B-5
§ 32A-3B-5. Notification to family; release from protective custody
Status: in_force

A. When the department takes a child into protective custody and the child is not released to the child's parent, guardian or custodian, the department shall provide written notice as soon as possible, and in no case later than twenty-four hours, to the child's parent, guardian or custodian, with a statement of the reasons for taking the child into protective custody.

B. When the department releases a child placed in protective custody to the family, the department shall refer the family for voluntary family services.

C. When the department releases a child from protective custody and the child's parent, guardian or custodian refuses to allow the child to return home, the department shall file a petition pursuant to the provisions of the Abuse and Neglect Act.

D. If the department is not releasing the child to the parent, guardian or custodian within two days, the department shall notify the tribe if the child is an Indian child.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-1-22 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 1 / Section 32A-1-22
§ 32A-1-22. Medical cannabis program; removal of children; family services intervention; school enrollment; medical care
Status: in_force

A. An individual's participation in the state's medical cannabis program established pursuant to the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act shall not in itself constitute grounds for:

(1) intervention, removal or placement into state custody of a child in that individual's care pursuant to the Abuse and Neglect Act; or

(2) the provision of state prevention, diversion or intervention services to that individual's family pursuant to the Voluntary Placement and Family Services Act.

B. A person shall not be denied custody of or visitation or parenting time with a child, and there is no presumption of neglect or child endangerment, for conduct allowed under the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act.

C. A school shall not refuse to enroll or otherwise penalize a person solely for conduct allowed pursuant to the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act, unless failing to do so would cause the school to lose a monetary or licensing-related benefit under federal law or regulation.

D. For the purposes of medical care, including an organ transplant, a qualified patient's use of cannabis pursuant to the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act shall be considered the equivalent of the use of any other medication under the direction of a physician and shall not be considered to constitute the use of an illicit substance or otherwise disqualify a qualified patient from medical care.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8E-2 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8E / Section 22-8E-2
§ 22-8E-2. Definition
Status: in_force

As used in the Charter School District Act of 2005, “ charter school district ” means an existing school district that operates under a charter approved by the department, that is nonreligious, that does not charge tuition and that does not have admission requirements in addition to those found in the Public School Code.