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N.M. Stat. § 73-21-10 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 21 / Section 73-21-10
§ 73-21-10. Filing decree
Status: in_force

Within thirty days after the said district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of the court shall transmit to the county clerk and recorder in each of the counties in which the district or a part thereof may be or extend, copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating said district. The same shall be filed in the same manner as articles of incorporation are now required to be filed under the general laws concerning corporations; and the clerk and recorder in each county shall receive a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for filing and preserving the same.
N.M. Stat. § 27-14-2 — NM Code / Chapter 27 / Article 14 / Section 27-14-2
§ 27-14-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Medicaid False Claims Act is to deter persons from causing or assisting to cause the state to pay medicaid claims that are false and to provide remedies for obtaining treble damages and civil recoveries for the state when money is obtained from the state by reason of a false claim.
N.M. Stat. § 60-7A-8 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 7A / Section 60-7A-8
§ 60-7A-8. Sales to wholesalers
Status: in_force

Unless he has a wholesaler's license, no New Mexico manufacturer shall sell or offer for sale any alcoholic beverages manufactured within this state to any person in New Mexico other than wholesalers licensed under the provisions of the Liquor Control Act.
N.M. Stat. § 74-9-4 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 9 / Section 74-9-4
§ 74-9-4. Plan; requirement
Status: in_force

As a basis for developing a comprehensive solid waste management program, the director shall prepare and submit to the board for approval a solid waste management plan no later than December 31, 1992. The plan shall be comprehensive and integrated and shall include consideration of the following activities with the priorities indicated:

A. first, source reduction and recycling;

B. second, environmentally safe transformation; and

C. third, environmentally safe landfill disposal.
N.M. Stat. § 64-1-13.1 — NM Code / Chapter 64 / Article 1 / Section 64-1-13.1
§ 64-1-13.1. Air service assistance program created
Status: in_force

An air service assistance program is created to provide assistance to airlines in the establishment of regional air service for small communities to and from hub airports in the southwest United States. The division shall administer the air service assistance program and shall establish regulations for eligibility for assistance, including the maximum amount a recipient may receive.
N.M. Stat. § 17-1-5.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 17-1-5.1
§ 17-1-5.1. Conservation services division; duties
Status: in_force

A. The “conservation services division” is created within the department of game and fish.

B. The conservation services division is responsible for:

(1) management, enhancement, research and conservation of public wildlife habitat;

(2) the lease, purchase, enhancement and management of state wildlife habitat;

(3) assisting landowners in improving wildlife habitats;

(4) development of educational programs related to conservation of wildlife and the environment, including the expanded dissemination of wildlife publications; and

(5) communication and consultation with federal and other state agencies, local governments and communities, private organizations and affected interests responsible for habitat, wilderness, recreation, water quality and environmental protection to ensure comprehensive conservation services for hunters, anglers and nonconsumptive wildlife users.
N.M. Stat. § 9-19-6.3 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 19 / Section 9-19-6.3
§ 9-19-6.3. Secretary; power to manage a criminal records database
Status: in_force

The secretary may create, access, maintain and otherwise manage a criminal records database that merges criminal records data from multiple databases and gives courts and law enforcement agencies access to comprehensive criminal background records of criminal suspects and defendants.
N.M. Stat. § 76-4-12 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 4 / Section 76-4-12
§ 76-4-12. Judicial action after “stop sale, use or removal” order
Status: in_force

A. After service of a “stop sale, use or removal” order is made upon any person, that person or the registrant or the department may file an action in a court of competent jurisdiction, in the county in which a violation of the Pesticide Control Act or regulations adopted thereunder is alleged to have occurred, for an adjudication of the alleged violation. The court in such action may issue temporary or permanent injunctions, mandatory or restraining, and such intermediate orders as it deems necessary or advisable. The court may order condemnation of any pesticide or device that does not meet the requirements of the Pesticide Control Act or regulations adopted thereunder.

B. If the pesticide or device is condemned, it shall, after entry of decree, be disposed of by destruction or sale as the court directs. However, the pesticide or device shall not be sold contrary to the provisions of the Pesticide Control Act or regulations adopted thereunder. Upon payment of the costs of the condemnation proceedings and the execution and delivery of a bond as prescribed by the court to assure the pesticide or device shall not be sold or disposed of contrary to the provisions of the Pesticide Control Act or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, the court may direct that the pesticide or device be delivered to the owner thereof for relabeling, reprocessing or otherwise bringing the product into compliance.

C. When a decree of condemnation is entered against the pesticide or device, court costs, fees, storage and other proper expenses shall be awarded against the person, if any, appearing as claimant of the pesticide or device.
N.M. Stat. § 30-7-7 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 7 / Section 30-7-7
§ 30-7-7. Unlawful sale, possession or transportation of explosives
Status: in_force

Unlawful sale, possession or transportation of explosives consists of:

A. knowingly selling or possessing any explosive or causing such explosive to be transported without having plainly marked in large letters in a conspicuous place on the box or package containing such explosive the name and explosive character thereof and the date of manufacture. For the purpose of this subsection, the term “explosive” is as defined in Section 2 of the Explosives Act, but shall not include:

(1) explosive materials in medicine and medicinal agents in the forms prescribed by the official United States pharmacopoeia or the national formulary;

(2) small arms ammunition and components thereof;

(3) commercially manufactured black powder in quantities not to exceed fifty pounds, percussion caps, safety and pyrotechnic fuses, quills, quick and slow matches and friction primers intended to be used solely for sporting, recreational or cultural purposes as defined in Section 921(a)(4) [FN1] of Title 18 of the United States Code , or in antique devices as exempted from the term “destructive device” in Section 921(a)(16) [FN2] of Title 18 of the United States Code ; or

(4) explosive materials transported in compliance with the regulations of the United States department of transportation and agencies thereof; or

B. knowingly transporting or taking any explosive upon or into any vehicle belonging to a common carrier transporting passengers. For the purpose of this subsection, the term “explosives” is as defined in Section 2 of the Explosives Act, but shall not include:

(1) explosive materials in medicines and medicinal agents in the forms prescribed by the official United States pharmacopoeia or the national formulary;

(2) small arms ammunition or components thereof; or

(3) explosive materials transported in compliance with the regulations of the United States department of transportation and agencies thereof.

Whoever commits unlawful sale, possession or transportation of explosives as set forth in Subsection A of this section is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

Whoever commits unlawful transportation of explosives as set forth in Subsection B of this section is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-12A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 12A / Section 59A-12A-3
§ 59A-12A-3. License required; penalty
Status: in_force

A. No administrator shall perform or provide any service, function, duty or activity respecting any insurance, plan, self-insurance or alternatives to insurance in an administrative or management capacity in this state or with respect to risks located or partially located in this state or on behalf of persons in this state unless licensed as an administrator under the Insurance Code.

B. Licensing procedures for administrators shall be in accordance with Chapter 59A, Article 11 NMSA 1978 .

C. In addition to any applicable denial, suspension or revocation of a license, refusal to continue license or administrative fine, violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) and by forfeiture to the state of an amount equal to all compensation for services as administrator received or to be received by the violator by reason of the prohibited transactions.
N.M. Stat. § 20-12-23 — NM Code / Chapter 20 / Article 12 / Section 20-12-23
§ 20-12-23. Contempt toward officials
Status: in_force

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, a member of congress, the United States secretary of defense, the secretary of a military department, the secretary of the United States department of transportation or the governor or legislature of any state, territory, commonwealth or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-4-15 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 4 / Section 32A-4-15
§ 32A-4-15. Petition; authorization to file
Status: in_force

A petition alleging neglect or abuse shall not be filed unless the children's court attorney has determined and endorsed upon the petition that the filing of the petition is in the best interests of the child. The children's court attorney shall, upon request of a person authorizing the filing of a petition, furnish legal services in connection with the authorization and preparation of the petition and the representation of the petitioner if the petitioner so requests.
N.M. Stat. § 9-2A-8.2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 2A / Section 9-2A-8.2
§ 9-2A-8.2. Prohibition on employment for individuals with substantiated allegations of child abuse or neglect; prohibition on convicted felons; disciplinary action; confidentiality of abuse and neglect records
Status: in_force

A. No employee, staff member or volunteer at the department, including prospective employees, having direct unsupervised contact with department clients, nor the superiors of any such employee, staff member or volunteer, shall have been the subject of a substantiated allegation of child abuse or neglect.

B. No employee, staff member or volunteer at the department who has direct unsupervised contact with department clients, or the superiors of an employee, staff member or volunteer at the department who has direct unsupervised contact with department clients, shall have been convicted of a felony offense that is directly related to the job duties of the employee by a court of this state, any other state or the United States.

C. Any employee or staff member subject to the Personnel Act who has been the subject of a substantiated allegation of abuse or neglect as investigated and determined by the department may be subject to increased supervision or disciplinary action under the Personnel Act. 1 Upon appeal of a disciplinary action to the personnel board pursuant to this section, the personnel board shall defer to the record of the administrative hearing affirming a substantiated allegation of abuse or neglect, if one exists, in determining whether the action taken by the agency was with just cause.

D. An employee or a staff member of the department subject to dismissal under this section shall have no right to progressive discipline as a condition precedent to discipline under this section.

E. In any appeal of an employee or staff member to the personnel board as provided by the Personnel Act, records that are otherwise confidential pursuant to the Abuse and Neglect Act shall be discoverable by the parties and admissible as to any relevant fact; provided that any identifying information related to the reporting party, any other party providing information and information the department finds would be likely to endanger the life or safety of any person providing information to the department may be redacted.
N.M. Stat. § 7-2-29 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 7-2-29
§ 7-2-29. Finding
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that it is in the public interest to provide additional funds to ensure that substance abuse educational programs are provided in New Mexico schools. This act provides a means by which additional substance abuse education funds may be provided from a voluntary check-off designation of tax refunds due the taxpayer on the state income tax form. It is the intent of the legislature that this program of income tax refund check-off is supplemental to any other funding and is in no way intended to take the place of the funding that would otherwise be appropriated for this purpose.
N.M. Stat. § 19-1-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 19-1-12
§ 19-1-12. State land office; expenses; how paid
Status: in_force

All salaries and expenses of the state land office as authorized by annual appropriation of the legislature shall be paid from the state lands maintenance fund upon vouchers in duplicate, approved by the commissioner, numbered consecutively, setting forth the accounts covered and duly itemized. One copy of the voucher shall be retained in the state land office and the other copy shall be filed with the department of finance and administration. Warrants for the payment of the voucher shall be drawn by the secretary of finance and administration upon the state lands maintenance fund.
N.M. Stat. § 6-9-4 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 9 / Section 6-9-4
§ 6-9-4. Violation and penalty
Status: in_force

Any person who with intent to defraud uses on a public security or an instrument of payment:

A. a facsimile signature, or any reproduction of it, of any authorized officer; or

B. any facsimile seal, or any reproduction of it, of this state or any of its departments, agencies or other instrumentalities or of any of its political subdivisions is guilty of a felony.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-20A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 20A / Section 59A-20A-3
§ 59A-20A-3. License requirements; fees
Status: in_force

A. A person shall not operate as a provider or broker without a license from the superintendent.

B. Application for a provider or broker license shall be made to the superintendent by the applicant on a form prescribed by the superintendent.

C. An application or renewal shall be accompanied by the applicable fee as specified in Section 59A-6-1 NMSA 1978 .

D. Licenses may be renewed from year to year on the anniversary date of licensure upon payment of the annual renewal fee. Failure to pay the fee by the renewal date shall result in revocation of the license.

E. The applicant shall provide information on forms required by the superintendent. The superintendent may require the applicant to fully disclose the identity of all stockholders, partners, officers, members and employees and representatives, and the superintendent may refuse to issue a license if not satisfied that a stockholder, partner, officer, member, employee or representative who may materially influence the applicant's conduct meets the standards of the Viatical Settlements Act.

F. A license issued to an applicant authorizes all members, officers, representatives and designated employees to act as providers or brokers, as applicable, under the license, and all those persons shall be named in the application and any supplements to the application.

G. Upon the filing of an application and the payment of the license fee, the superintendent may make an investigation of each applicant and issue a license if the superintendent finds that the applicant:

(1) has provided a detailed plan of operation;

(2) is competent and trustworthy and intends to act in good faith in the capacity provided by the license applied for;

(3) has a good business reputation and has had experience, training or education so as to be qualified in the business for which licensure is sought; and

(4) if not a natural person, provides a certificate of good standing from the state of its domicile.

H. The superintendent shall not issue a license to an applicant unless a written designation of an agent for service of process is filed and maintained with the superintendent or the applicant has filed with the superintendent the applicant's written irrevocable consent that any action against the applicant may be commenced by service of process on the superintendent.
N.M. Stat. § 62-9-1.1 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 9 / Section 62-9-1.1
§ 62-9-1.1. Additional authority with respect to water and sewer utilities
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Public Utility Act, or any provision of the Municipal Code, or any privilege granted under either act, if any municipality that has not elected to come within the terms of the Public Utility Act, as provided in Section 62-6-5 NMSA 1978 , constructs or extends or proposes to construct or extend its water or sewer line or system or water pumping station or reservoir into a geographical area described in a certificate of public convenience and necessity granted by the commission to a public utility rendering the same type of service, the commission, on complaint of the public utility claiming to be injuriously affected thereby, shall, after giving notice to the municipality and affording the municipality an opportunity for a hearing with respect to the issue of whether its water or sewer line, plant or system actually intrudes or will intrude into the area certificated to the public utility, determine whether such intrusion has occurred or will occur. If the commission determines such an intrusion has occurred or will occur, the municipality owning or operating the water or sewer utility shall cease and desist from making such construction or extension in the absence of written consent of the public utility involved and approval of the commission.

B. The authority and jurisdiction conferred by Subsection A of this section shall be in addition and cumulative to the independent authority of the commission to determine territorial disputes between public utilities and between mutual domestic water consumer associations and public utilities as provided in Section 62-9-1 NMSA 1978 , which provisions shall govern the resolution of a territorial dispute between a municipality that has elected to come within the terms of the Public Utility Act, as provided in Section 62-6-5 NMSA 1978 , and any other public utility rendering the same type of service. Provided, however, in the event that a certificate of public convenience and necessity granted to such a municipality overlaps, or conflicts with, a valid certificate previously issued by the commission and exercised within the term required under Section 62-9-4 NMSA 1978 , the municipal utility shall be permitted to continue operation of its plant, line and system in existence upon the effective date of this 1991 act and the other public utility may continue service in the area covered by its certificate, subject to the other provisions of the Public Utility Act.

C. For purposes of this section, “municipality” means any municipality that has a population of more than two hundred thousand as determined in the most recent federal decennial census and is located in a class A county.
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-803 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-803
§ 66-3-803. Visibility distance and mounted height of lamps
Status: in_force

A. Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within which such lamps or devices shall be visible, said provisions shall apply during the times stated in Section 66-3-802 NMSA 1978 in respect to a vehicle without load when upon a straight, level, unlighted highway under normal atmospheric conditions unless a different time or condition is expressly stated.

B. Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the mounted height of lamps or devices it shall mean from the center of such lamp or device to the level ground upon which the vehicle stands when such vehicle is without a load.
N.M. Stat. § 1-8-45 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 1-8-45
§ 1-8-45. Independent candidates for general or United States representative elections; definition
Status: in_force

A. As used in the Election Code, an independent candidate means a person who:

(1) is a candidate for any state or county office to be voted on at a general election:

(a) whose certificate of voter registration shows affiliation with no qualified political party on the date of the secretary of state's general election proclamation and, if applicable, shows residence on the date of the secretary of state's proclamation in the district or county of the office for which the person is a candidate; and

(b) who has complied with the nomination procedures set forth in the Election Code for independent candidates;

(2) is a candidate for United States senator or United States representative:

(a) whose certificate of voter registration, if any, shows affiliation with no qualified political party on the date of the secretary of state's general election proclamation;

(b) who will be a resident of New Mexico when elected; and

(c) who has complied with the nomination procedures set forth in the Election Code for independent candidates; or

(3) is a candidate for the office of president or vice president who:

(a) has complied with the nomination procedures set forth in the Election Code for independent candidates; and

(b) was not a major party candidate for the same office on the primary election ballot.

B. No person shall become an independent candidate for any office, and the person's name shall not be printed on the general election ballot, unless the person complies with the requirements of this section.

C. Any voter may challenge the candidacy of any person seeking to become an independent candidate for any office for the reason that the person does not meet the requirements of this section or because the nominating petitions, if required, do not meet the requirements of Section 1-8-31 NMSA 1978 by filing a petition in the district court within ten days after the last day for filing a declaration of candidacy. The district court shall hear and render a decision on the matter within ten days after the filing of the petition. The decision of the district court may be appealed to the supreme court within five days after the decision is rendered. The supreme court shall hear and render a decision on the appeal forthwith.
N.M. Stat. § 2-4-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 2-4-3
§ 2-4-3. Report to legislature
Status: in_force

Said commissioners shall report to the legislature from time to time, giving the result of their investigations, and making such recommendations with respect to the adoption of uniform legislation as they may deem proper.
N.M. Stat. § 28-16A-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 28 / Article 16A / Section 28-16A-1
§ 28-16A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 28, Article 16A NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Developmental Disabilities Act”.