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N.M. Stat. § 40-14-14 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 14 / Section 40-14-14
§ 40-14-14. Birth certificates
Status: in_force

A. Within thirty days after an adoption decree is entered, the petitioner shall prepare an application for a birth certificate in the new name of the adoptee showing the petitioner as the adoptee's parent and shall provide the application to the clerk of the court. The clerk of the court shall forward the application:

(1) for a person born in the United States, to the appropriate vital statistics office of the place, if known, where the adoptee was born; or

(2) for all other persons, to the state registrar of vital statistics. In the case of the adoption of a person born outside the United States, if requested by the petitioner, the court shall make findings, based on evidence from the petitioner and other reliable state or federal sources, on the date and place of birth of the adoptee. The findings shall be certified by the court and included with the application for a birth certificate.

B. The state registrar of vital statistics shall prepare a birth record in the new name of the adoptee in accordance with vital statistics laws.
N.M. Stat. § 6-12-2 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 12 / Section 6-12-2
§ 6-12-2. Certificates of indebtedness and interest; treasurer may borrow to pay
Status: in_force

Whenever the money in the funds is insufficient to meet the outstanding certificates of indebtedness and interest coupons as they mature, it shall be the duty of the state treasurer to borrow temporarily a sufficient sum to make such payment, and for such purposes the said treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to make and negotiate the necessary loan on the best terms obtainable, at a rate of interest not to exceed six per centum per annum; provided, that any surplus money in the interest on deposits fund and any surplus of any other fund on hand not otherwise appropriated shall be first used to pay said deficit before borrowing money to make such payments. The secretary of finance and administration shall countersign any and all necessary papers for the negotiation of such loan, and charge the proceeds to the treasurer, and the treasurer shall redeem such paper out of the interest fund whenever there shall be money in such fund available.
N.M. Stat. § 3-18-31 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 18 / Section 3-18-31
§ 3-18-31. Sale of gasoline; authority of the municipality
Status: in_force

The governing body of the municipality may provide, by ordinance, for the monitoring and inspection of gasoline sales through pumps of service stations located within the territorial boundaries of the municipality in order to monitor the sale of gasoline within its municipality.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-47-33 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 47 / Section 59A-47-33
§ 59A-47-33. Other provisions applicable
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Insurance Code other than Chapter 59A, Article 47 NMSA 1978 shall not apply to health care plans except as expressly provided in the Insurance Code and that article. To the extent reasonable and not inconsistent with the provisions of that article, the following articles and provisions of the Insurance Code shall also apply to health care plans, their promoters, sponsors, directors, officers, employees, agents, solicitors and other representatives; and, for the purposes of such applicability, a health care plan may therein be referred to as an “insurer”:

A. Chapter 59A, Article 1 NMSA 1978;

B. Chapter 59A, Article 2 NMSA 1978;

C. Chapter 59A, Article 4 NMSA 1978;

D. Subsection C of Section 59A-5-22 NMSA 1978;

E. Sections 59A-6-2 through 59A-6-4 and 59A-6-6 NMSA 1978;

F. Section 59A-7-11 NMSA 1978;

G. Chapter 59A, Article 8 NMSA 1978;

H. Chapter 59A, Article 10 NMSA 1978;

I. Section 59A-12-22 NMSA 1978;

J. Chapter 59A, Article 16 NMSA 1978;

K. Chapter 59A, Article 18 NMSA 1978;

L. Chapter 59A, Article 19 NMSA 1978;

M. Subsections B through E of Section 59A-22-5 NMSA 1978;

N. Section 59A-22-14 NMSA 1978;

O. Section 59A-22-34.1 NMSA 1978;

P. Section 59A-22-39 NMSA 1978;

Q. Section 59A-22-40 NMSA 1978;

R. Section 59A-22-40.1 NMSA 1978;

S. Section 59A-22-41 NMSA 1978;

T. Section 59A-22-42 NMSA 1978;

U. Section 59A-22-43 NMSA 1978;

V. Section 59A-22-44 NMSA 1978;

W. Section 59A-22-50 NMSA 1978;

X. Sections 59A-34-7 through 59A-34-13 , 59A-34-17 , 59A-34-23 , 59A-34-33 , 59A-34-40 through 59A-34-42 and 59A-34-44 through 59A-34-46 NMSA 1978;

Y. the Insurance Holding Company Law, 1 except Section 59A-37-7 NMSA 1978;

Z. Section 59A-46-15 NMSA 1978;

AA. the Patient Protection Act 2 ; and

BB. the Surprise Billing Protection Act.
N.M. Stat. § 70-1-3 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 1 / Section 70-1-3
§ 70-1-3. Forfeiture of oil, gas or mineral lease; release from record
Status: in_force

Whenever any oil, gas or other mineral lease heretofore or hereafter executed shall become forfeited, it shall be the duty of the lessee, his, or its heirs, executors, administrators, successors or assigns, within thirty days from the date this act shall take effect, if the forfeiture occurred prior thereto, and within thirty days from the date of the forfeiture of any and all other leases, to have such lease released from record in the county where the leased land is situated, without cost to the owner thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 29-10-4 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 10 / Section 29-10-4
§ 29-10-4. Confidentiality of arrest records
Status: in_force

Arrest record information that reveals confidential sources, methods, information or individuals accused but not charged with a crime and that is maintained by the state or any of its political subdivisions pertaining to any person charged with the commission of any crime is confidential and dissemination or revealing the contents of the record, except as provided in the Arrest Record Information Act or any other law, is unlawful.
N.M. Stat. § 75-10-6 — NM Code / Chapter 75 / Article 10 / Section 75-10-6
§ 75-10-6. Conservation projects; procedures
Status: in_force

A. All conservation projects shall be maintained to protect the public health and welfare and shall be for:

(1) preserving and conserving water quality and quantity;

(2) protecting agricultural production on working farms, ranches and other agricultural lands;

(3) protecting and restoring New Mexico's forests and watersheds;

(4) conserving wildlife habitat;

(5) maintaining natural areas;

(6) providing outdoor recreation opportunities, including hunting and fishing; or

(7) preserving cultural and historic sites with natural resource heritage value.

B. The department, working with the committee, landowners, conservationists and other interested persons, shall establish criteria for evaluating possible conservation projects. Criteria shall include:

(1) the degree to which the conservation project serves the purposes of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act;

(2) the amount of matching financial support for the conservation project from sources other than the state;

(3) the technical qualifications of the applicant and its ability to complete and maintain the proposed conservation project;

(4) the degree to which the conservation project fosters and integrates with existing conservation plans, strategies and initiatives;

(5) the potential for benefits at landscape and ecosystem scale;

(6) the potential for improved public access for outdoor recreation opportunities, including hunting and fishing;

(7) the potential for economic benefits of the completed conservation project; and

(8) other measurements and requirements required by the department and the committee.

C. The committee shall receive applications for conservation projects and shall evaluate them against the department's criteria. The committee may reject any incomplete applications or applications that do not meet the established criteria. After review, the committee shall make its recommendations on all evaluated conservation projects to the department.
N.M. Stat. § 65-3-5 — NM Code / Chapter 65 / Article 3 / Section 65-3-5
§ 65-3-5. Violation of act; penalty
Status: in_force

A. Any person who violates the provisions of the Motor Carrier Safety Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or thirty days in jail, or both.

B. The director may, by regulation, authorize a penalty assessment program to impose penalties under the provisions of the Motor Carrier Safety Act.
N.M. Stat. § 24-17-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 17 / Section 24-17-2
§ 24-17-2. Findings and purpose
Status: in_force

A. The legislature finds that continuing care communities are an important and growing alternative for the provision of long-term residential, social and health maintenance needs for the elderly; however, the legislature also finds that severe consequences to residents may result when a provider becomes insolvent or unable to provide responsible care.

B. The purpose of the Continuing Care Act is to provide for disclosure and the inclusion of certain information in continuing care contracts in order that residents may make informed decisions concerning continuing care; to provide protection for residents; and to ensure the solvency of communities.
N.M. Stat. § 19-10-30 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 10 / Section 19-10-30
§ 19-10-30. Rules and regulations authorized
Status: in_force

The commissioner of public lands shall be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to adopt such uniform and reasonable rules and regulations and to prepare such uniform forms of leases as he may deem necessary to carry into effect the terms and provisions of this act and not inconsistent herewith.
N.M. Stat. § 25-5-7 — NM Code / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 25-5-7
§ 25-5-7. Publication of regulations
Status: in_force

All orders, rules and regulations adopted by the board pursuant to this act shall be published at least twice in at least one daily newspaper of general circulation printed and published in this state, and shall become effective upon such date after publication as the board shall fix.
N.M. Stat. § 63-9H-9 — NM Code / Chapter 63 / Article 9H / Section 63-9H-9
§ 63-9H-9. Regulation of individual contracts to facilitate competition
Status: in_force

A. In accordance with the provisions of this section, the commission shall regulate the rates, charges and service conditions for individual contracts for rural public telecommunications services in a manner that authorizes the provision of all or any portion of a public telecommunications service under stated or negotiated terms to any person or entity that has acquired or is preparing to acquire, through construction, lease or any other form of acquisition, similar public telecommunications services from an alternate source.

B. At any time, the provider of rural public telecommunications services may file a verified application with the commission for authorization to provide a public telecommunications service on an individual contract basis. The application shall describe the telecommunications services to be offered, the party to be served and the parties offering the service, together with other information and in a form that the commission may prescribe. Such additional information shall be reasonably related to the determination of the existence of a competitive offer.

C. An application is deemed approved when filed unless the commission denies it. The commission shall approve or deny any such application within ten days after filing or a different period established by the commission, not to exceed sixty days, giving consideration to the requirements of any contract negotiations. If the commission has not acted on any application within the time period established, the application is deemed granted. The commission shall deny the application only upon a finding that the application fails to set forth prescribed information or that the subject or comparable services are not being offered to the customer by parties other than the applicant or that the contract fails to cover the costs of the service.

D. Within ten days after the conclusion of negotiations, the provider of rural public telecommunications services shall file with the commission the final contract or other evidence of the service to be provided, together with the charges and other conditions of the service, which shall be maintained by the commission on a confidential basis subject to an appropriate protective order.
N.M. Stat. § 28-22-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 28 / Article 22 / Section 28-22-2
§ 28-22-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the New Mexico Religious Freedom Restoration Act:

A. “ free exercise of religion ” means an act or a refusal to act that is substantially motivated by religious belief; and

B. “ government agency ” means the state or any of its political subdivisions, institutions, departments, agencies, commissions, committees, boards, councils, bureaus or authorities.
N.M. Stat. § 3-38A-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 38A / Section 3-38A-8
§ 3-38A-8. Lien for hospitality fee; payment; certificate of liens
Status: in_force

A. The hospitality fee imposed by a municipality constitutes a lien in favor of that municipality upon the personal and real property of the proprietor providing tourist accommodations in that municipality. The lien may be enforced as provided in Sections 3-36-1 through 3-36-7 NMSA 1978 . Priority of the lien shall be determined from the date of filing.

B. Under process or order of court, no person shall sell the property of any proprietor of a tourist accommodation without first ascertaining from the clerk or treasurer of the municipality in which the tourist accommodation is located the amount of any hospitality fee due the municipality. The hospitality fee due the municipality shall be paid from the proceeds of the sale before payment is made to the judgment creditor or to any other person with a claim on the sale proceeds.

C. The clerk or treasurer of the municipality shall furnish upon request to any person a certificate showing the amount of all liens in the records of the municipality against a proprietor of a tourist accommodation pursuant to the Hospitality Fee Act.
N.M. Stat. § 6-4-2 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 4 / Section 6-4-2
§ 6-4-2. General fund created
Status: in_force

There is created a fund to be known as the “general fund” to which the state treasurer shall credit all revenues not otherwise allocated by law. Expenditures from this fund shall be made only in accordance with appropriations authorized by the legislature.
N.M. Stat. § 10-9-22 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 9 / Section 10-9-22
§ 10-9-22. Unlawful acts prohibited
Status: in_force

It is unlawful to:

A. make any false statement, certificate, mark or rating with regard to any test, certification or appointment made under the Personnel Act;

B. directly or indirectly give, pay, offer, solicit or accept any money or other valuable consideration or secure or furnish any special or secret information for the purpose of affecting the rights or prospects of any person with respect to employment in the service.
N.M. Stat. § 10-5-8 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 5 / Section 10-5-8
§ 10-5-8. Control of office; bond of agent in charge; discretionary reinstatement; institution of removal proceedings
Status: in_force

Whenever the secretary of finance and administration assumes control of any office as hereinabove provided, the secretary may assign any employee of the department of finance and administration to perform the duties of the official suspended by the secretary.

The secretary of finance and administration may reinstate a suspended official of any local public body whenever the suspended official has made a proper showing satisfactory to the secretary that he is able and willing to conduct his office as provided by law, and that no loss will be suffered by the local public body.

In all cases where there shall be grounds for removal of such official, the secretary of finance and administration may cause removal proceedings to be instituted and prosecuted by the attorney general or district attorney, in the manner now provided by law for the institution and prosecution of such proceedings by the district attorney.
N.M. Stat. § 29-16-3 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 16 / Section 29-16-3
§ 29-16-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the DNA Identification Act:

A. “ administrative center ” means the part of a law enforcement agency crime laboratory that participates in the national DNA index system and that administers and operates the DNA identification system;

B. “ CODIS ” means the federal bureau of investigation's national DNA index system for storage and exchange of DNA records submitted by forensic DNA laboratories;

C. “ covered offender ” means any person:

(1) convicted of a felony offense as an adult pursuant to state, federal or military law;

(2) convicted as an adult pursuant to youthful offender or serious youthful offender proceedings under the Children's Code 1 or pursuant to comparable or equivalent proceedings under state, federal or military law; or

(3) required to register as a sex offender pursuant to the provisions of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act; 2

D. “ department ” means the department of public safety;

E. “ DNA ” means deoxyribonucleic acid as the basis of human heredity;

F. “ DNA identification system ” means the DNA identification system established pursuant to the DNA Identification Act;

G. “ DNA oversight committee ” means the DNA identification system oversight committee;

H. “ DNA records ” means the results of DNA testing and related information;

I. “ DNA testing ” means a forensic DNA analysis that includes restriction fragment length polymorphism, polymerase chain reaction or other valid methods of DNA typing performed to obtain identification characteristics of samples;

J. “ fund ” means the DNA identification system fund;

K. “ missing persons DNA identification system ” means the missing persons DNA identification system established by the DNA Identification Act;

L. “ sample ” means a sample of biological material sufficient for DNA testing; and

M. “ sex offender DNA identification system ” means the sex offender DNA identification system established by the DNA Identification Act.
N.M. Stat. § 30-1-9 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 1 / Section 30-1-9
§ 30-1-9. Tolling of time limitation for prosecution for crimes
Status: in_force

A. If after any crime has been committed the defendant shall conceal himself, or shall flee from or go out of the state, the prosecution for such crime may be commenced within the time prescribed in Section 1-8, after the defendant ceases to conceal himself or returns to the state. No period shall be included in the time of limitation when the party charged with any crime is not usually and publicly a resident within the state.

B. When

(1) an indictment, information or complaint is lost, mislaid or destroyed;

(2) the judgment is arrested;

(3) the indictment, information or complaint is quashed, for any defect or reason; or

(4) the prosecution is dismissed because of variance between the allegations of the indictment, information or complaint and the evidence; and a new indictment, information or complaint is thereafter presented, the time elapsing between the preferring of the first indictment, information or complaint and the subsequent indictment, information or complaint shall not be included in computing the period limited for the prosecution of the crime last charged; provided that the crime last charged is based upon and grows out of the same transaction upon which the original indictment, information or complaint was founded, and the subsequent indictment, information or complaint is brought within five years from the date of the alleged commission of the original crime.
N.M. Stat. § 3-45-15 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 45 / Section 3-45-15
§ 3-45-15. Certification of attorney general
Status: in_force

A city may submit to the attorney general of the state any bonds to be issued hereunder after all proceedings for the issuance of such bonds have been taken. Upon the submission of such proceedings to the attorney general, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to examine into and pass upon the validity of such bonds and the regularity of all proceedings in connection therewith. If such bonds and proceedings conform to the provisions of the Municipal Housing Law and are otherwise regular in form and if such bonds when delivered and paid for will constitute binding and legal obligations enforceable according to the terms thereof, the attorney general shall certify in substance upon the back of each of said bonds that it is issued in accordance with the constitution and laws of New Mexico.
N.M. Stat. § 57-8-6 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 8 / Section 57-8-6
§ 57-8-6. Violation of act; penalty; injunction
Status: in_force

Any person violating any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), and the district court shall have jurisdiction in equity on the complaint of the secretary of state, the attorney general or any rightful holder of stamps of the offering company to restrain the violation of any of said provisions.
N.M. Stat. § 73-7-49 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 7 / Section 73-7-49
§ 73-7-49. Annexed lands; assessments; notice; hearing
Status: in_force

The commissioners shall file their report of such assessments in court. The court shall by order require said owners to show cause at a time and place therein fixed not less than twenty days after service of said order, why said report of assessment should not be confirmed and on such hearing the court shall either amend, confirm or reject such report of assessments.
N.M. Stat. § 5-18-7 — NM Code / Chapter 5 / Article 18 / Section 5-18-7
§ 5-18-7. Special assessment; lien created
Status: in_force

A. The district board may impose a special assessment on property within the district to facilitate the financing of renewable energy improvements to the property. The special assessment shall be sufficient in the case of each property to pay the costs of the financing of the renewable energy improvements, including the costs of bond issuance, debt service and administrative costs of the district and the municipality or county in which the district is located.

B. The special assessment shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as property taxes are levied and collected, except to the extent that the district board has provided for other imposition and collection procedures. Money derived from the imposition of the special assessment shall be kept separately from other funds of the governing body.

C. A special assessment shall constitute a lien on the property, which shall be effective during the period in which the assessment is imposed and shall have priority over all other liens except liens for ad valorem property taxes.

D. The obligation to pay the special assessment may be prepaid and permanently satisfied, and the district board shall specify the conditions under which this may be achieved.