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N.M. Stat. § 73-13-28 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 13 / Section 73-13-28
§ 73-13-28. Assessor-collector and treasurer; appointment; bond of assessor-collector; salary; deputies
Status: in_force

It shall become the duty of the board of directors of any such district after deciding to take over the duties of levying, assessing and collecting of the taxes of such district to appoint an assessor-collector and treasurer of such district; provided, that one person may be appointed to all of such offices. The person or persons appointed to such offices shall hold the same at the pleasure of the board.

The assessor-collector shall qualify by making and entering into a good and sufficient bond signed by a surety company, authorized to do business in this state, such bond to be subject to the approval of the board of directors and of the district judge of the district in which the office of the irrigation district is located, the amount thereof to be fixed by such board of directors, but such bond shall be in a sum not less than the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as assessor-collector, and for the paying over to the treasurer or to a legal depository all funds or sums of money and other things of value coming into his hands as such assessor-collector. The board of directors may require additional bond or additional security at any time the same be advisable in their judgment. Such assessor-collector shall receive in full compensation for his service such salary as shall be fixed by the board of directors not exceeding the rate of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars per annum.

One or more deputies may be appointed by the board of directors to assist the assessor-collector and treasurer, for such period of time as the board may direct, and when so appointed, such deputy shall perform such duties as the board of directors may order, and may be removed at any time, at the pleasure of the board of directors. Any such deputy shall give bond in such amount as the board of directors may require, which shall be conditioned as the bond of the assessor-collector is conditioned.

Such assessor-collector shall perform such other duties as the board of directors shall determine, and the board shall fix his additional compensation, if any, therefor.
N.M. Stat. § 9-22-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 22 / Section 9-22-4
§ 9-22-4. Department established
Status: in_force

The “veterans' services department” is created in the executive branch. The department is a cabinet department and includes the following divisions:

A. the administrative services division;

B. the field services division;

C. the health care coordination division; and

D. the state benefits division.
N.M. Stat. § 27-11-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 11 / Section 27-11-1
§ 27-11-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 27, Article 11 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Medicaid Provider and Managed Care Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 38-1-11 — NM Code / Chapter 38 / Article 1 / Section 38-1-11
§ 38-1-11. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the Unauthorized Insurers Process Act.
N.M. Stat. § 12-2A-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 2A / Section 12-2A-2
§ 12-2A-2. Common and technical usage
Status: in_force

Unless a word or phrase is defined in the statute or rule being construed, its meaning is determined by its context, the rules of grammar and common usage. A word or phrase that has acquired a technical or particular meaning in a particular context has that meaning if it is used in that context.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-2-30 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 2 / Section 32A-2-30
§ 32A-2-30. Indigency standard; fee schedule; reimbursement
Status: in_force

A. The court shall use a standard adopted and information provided by the public defender department to determine indigency of children in proceedings on petitions alleging delinquency.

B. The court shall use a fee schedule adopted by the public defender department when appointing attorneys to represent children in proceedings on petitions alleging delinquency.

C. The court shall order reimbursement from the parents or guardians of a child who has received or desires to receive legal representation or another benefit under the Public Defender Act 1 after a determination is made that the child was not indigent according to the standard for indigency of children adopted by the public defender department.

D. Any amounts recovered pursuant to this section shall be paid to the state treasurer for credit to the general fund.
N.M. Stat. § 19-4-41 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 4 / Section 19-4-41
§ 19-4-41. Commissioner; sale; notice by publication; deeds; fees
Status: in_force

The judge of said district court in all cases other than those mentioned in the preceding section shall appoint a commissioner who shall be a resident of the county in which such townsite is situate to make sale of the lots, blocks, parts or parcels of such townsite not covered by the provisions of the preceding section, either at public or private sale. In case of public sale such commissioner shall give notice thereof by publication for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper published at the county seat of the county where such townsite is situate, and by posting three notices at public places within the limits of such townsite. In no case shall any of the lots, blocks, parts or parcels of land be sold for less than their appraised value. Whenever the lands for sale in the hands of the commissioner can be disposed of for more than or at their appraised value the same shall be sold by him within ninety days from the day of his appointment. Upon the payment to such commissioner of the purchase price of any lot or lots, block or blocks, parts or parcels of land such commissioner shall give a receipt to the purchaser or purchasers for the purchase price, containing a description of the lands sold to such purchaser or purchasers; and upon the presentation of such receipt to the probate judge of the county where the land so sold is situate and in whom the title thereto is vested, such probate judge shall forthwith make, deliver and execute a sufficient deed to the purchaser or purchasers for the lands described in such receipt. Such commissioner shall receive for his fees and in full payment for his services five per centum of the purchase price on all lands sold by him. The probate judge shall receive for executing a deed under the provisions of this chapter the sum of two and fifty one-hundredths dollars ($2.50). The receipt of the commissioner shall be filed in the office of the county clerk and recorded, for which filing and record the county clerk shall charge the sum of one dollar ($1.00). The judge of the probate court shall receive five per centum on all moneys received by him under the provisions of Section 19-4-40 NMSA 1978 . Such commissioner shall give a bond for the faithful performance of his duties in such sum as the district court may designate.
N.M. Stat. § 53-19-54 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 19 / Section 53-19-54
§ 53-19-54. Transactions not constituting transacting business
Status: in_force

A. The following activities of a foreign limited liability company, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of the Limited Liability Company Act:

(1) maintaining, defending or settling any proceeding;

(2) holding meetings of its members or carrying on any other activities concerning its internal affairs;

(3) maintaining bank accounts;

(4) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of the foreign limited liability company's own securities or interests or appointing and maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities or interests;

(5) selling through independent contractors;

(6) soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside New Mexico before they become contracts;

(7) creating as borrower or lender or acquiring indebtedness or mortgages or other security interests in real or personal property;

(8) securing or collecting debts or enforcing rights in property securing debts;

(9) investing in or acquiring, in transactions outside New Mexico, royalties and other nonoperating mineral interests; executing division orders, contracts of sale and other instruments incidental to the ownership of such nonoperating mineral interests; and, in general, owning, without more, real or personal property;

(10) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature; or

(11) transacting business in interstate commerce.

B. A foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting business in New Mexico solely because it:

(1) owns a controlling interest in a corporation or a foreign corporation that transacts business in New Mexico;

(2) is a limited partner of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership that is transacting business in New Mexico; or

(3) is a member or manager of a limited liability company or foreign limited liability company that is transacting business in New Mexico.

C. This section does not apply in determining the contracts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability company to service of process or taxation in New Mexico or to regulation under any other law of New Mexico.
N.M. Stat. § 3-29-21 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 29 / Section 3-29-21
§ 3-29-21. Exemptions from Special District Procedures Act provisions
Status: in_force

An association formed pursuant to the provisions of the Sanitary Projects Act may be formed exclusively as provided in that act, and formation of the association shall be exempt from all review and requirements set forth in the Special District Procedures Act.
N.M. Stat. § 72-19-23 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 19 / Section 72-19-23
§ 72-19-23. Levy and collection of taxes
Status: in_force

To levy and collect taxes, the board shall determine in each year the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, taking into consideration other sources of revenue of the authority, and shall fix a rate of levy, without limitation as to rate or amount, except for the limitation in Subsection I of Section 22 of the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act and for any constitutional limitation, which, when levied upon the net taxable value, as that term is defined in the Property Tax Code, of all property subject to property taxation within the authority, and together with other revenues, will raise the amount required by the authority annually to supply funds for paying expenses of organization and the costs of acquiring, improving, equipping, operating and maintaining any project or facility of the authority, and promptly to pay in full, when due, all interest on and principal of bonds and other securities of the authority, and in the event of accruing defaults or deficiencies, an additional levy may be made as provided in Section 24 of the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act.
N.M. Stat. § 4-27-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 27 / Section 4-27-2
§ 4-27-2. Boundary between Sierra and Grant counties
Status: in_force

That the boundary line between the counties of Sierra and Grant be, and the same is hereby located, fixed and established as follows:

beginning at a point where the line between townships 12 and 13 south of the New Mexico principal base line intersects the one hundred and eighth (108th) meridian west of Greenwich, and running thence eastwardly along the said line between said townships 12 and 13 south, to the summit of the Sierra Mimbres, or Black range, and thence southwardly along the summit of said Sierra Mimbres, or Black range, to Mule springs in Mule pass in Cook's canyon range, and thence east-southeast to the southwest corner of township 19 south of range 7 west of the New Mexico principal base and meridian.
N.M. Stat. § 36-3-2 — NM Code / Chapter 36 / Article 3 / Section 36-3-2
§ 36-3-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Immigration and Nationality Law Practice Act is to prevent the unauthorized practice of law by nonlawyers who hold themselves out as immigration consultants rendering services in immigration, nationality or citizenship matters and who are outside pertinent federal regulations regulating the practice of immigration law.
N.M. Stat. § 1-20-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 20 / Section 1-20-4
§ 1-20-4. Unlawful opening of ballot box
Status: in_force

Unlawful opening of a ballot box consists of opening any ballot box or inspecting or removing the contents thereof without lawful authority, or conspiring with others to have the same done.

Whoever commits unlawful opening of a ballot box is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
N.M. Stat. § 76-11-1 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 11 / Section 76-11-1
§ 76-11-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 76, Article 11 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “New Mexico Fertilizer Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 1-2-9 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 1-2-9
§ 1-2-9. Election board; standby list
Status: in_force

A. Not less than twenty-one days prior to the date for appointing members of election boards, the county clerk shall publish a notice once in a newspaper of general circulation to the effect that election boards are to be appointed for the specified number of precincts, stating the number of persons composing each board and that applications for the standby list will be accepted at the county clerk's office.

B. The county clerk shall then compile from the individual applicants a standby list of election board members. The persons on the standby list shall have the same qualifications and comply with the same requirements as provided for election board members.
N.M. Stat. § 9-2A-16 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 2A / Section 9-2A-16
§ 9-2A-16. Functions of juvenile justice advisory committee and department
Status: in_force

A. The juvenile justice advisory committee shall have policymaking, planning and review powers over only the following functions pursuant to the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974: 1

(1) in conjunction with the department, approval of a comprehensive state plan and modifications reflecting statewide goals, objectives and priorities for the expenditure of federal funds received under that act;

(2) approval or disapproval of applications or amendments submitted by eligible entities pursuant to that act;

(3) in conjunction with the department, assurance that fund accounting, auditing and evaluation of programs and projects funded pursuant to that act comply with federal requirements and state law;

(4) in conjunction with the department, receive and review annual reports from adult jails and lockups regarding compliance with federal requirements that apply when a juvenile is temporarily held in an adult jail or lockup. The juvenile justice advisory committee and the department shall determine the format of the annual reports;

(5) assistance to the governor, the legislature and entities created or funded pursuant to that act in developing new or improved approaches, policies or legislation designed to improve juvenile justice in New Mexico; and

(6) provision of technical assistance by the department to eligible entities pursuant to that act.

B. All budgetary, evaluation, monitoring and grants administration functions required pursuant to the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 shall be carried out by the department.
N.M. Stat. § 5-8-43 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 8 / Section 5-8-43
§ 5-8-43. Purpose; transfer of development rights
Status: in_force

A. The purpose of this section is to:

(1) clarify an application of existing authority;

(2) provide guidelines for counties and municipalities to regulate transfers of development rights consistent with comprehensive plans;

(3) encourage the conservation of ecological, agricultural and historical land; and

(4) require public notification of transfers of development rights.

B. A municipality or county may, by ordinance, provide for voluntary transfer of all or partial development rights from one parcel of land to another parcel of land.

C. The ordinance shall identify on a zoning map areas from which development rights may be transferred and areas to which development rights may be transferred.

D. The ordinance shall provide for:

(1) the voluntary transfer of a development right from one parcel of land to increase the intensity of development of another parcel of land;

(2) joint powers agreements, if applicable, for administration of transfers of development rights across jurisdictional boundaries;

(3) the method of transfer of development rights, including methods of determining the accounting for the rights transferred;

(4) the reasonable rules to effect and control transfers and ensure compliance with the provisions of the ordinance; and

(5) public notification to the areas to which development rights may be transferred.

E. Transference of a development right shall be in writing and executed by the owner of the parcel from which the development right is being transferred and acknowledged by the transferor. A development right shall not be subject to condemnation.

F. As used in this section, “ development right ” means the rights permitted to a lot, parcel or area of land under a zoning ordinance or local law respecting permissible use, area, density or height of improvements executed thereon, and development rights may be calculated and allocated in accordance with density or height limitations or any criteria that will effectively quantify a development right in a reasonable and uniform manner.

G. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize a municipality or a county to impair existing property rights.
N.M. Stat. § 61-5C-6 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 5C / Section 61-5C-6
§ 61-5C-6. Enforcement
Status: in_force

The New Mexico board of dental health care shall initiate disciplinary proceedings for willful and persistent noncompliance with the provisions of the Dental Amalgam Waste Reduction Act.
N.M. Stat. § 24-1-5.12 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-5.12
§ 24-1-5.12. Rural emergency hospital licensure; licensing requirements
Status: in_force

A. The department shall promulgate rules to establish a rural emergency hospital license that enables certain hospitals to apply to receive federal health care reimbursement as rural emergency hospitals.

B. The department shall only issue a rural emergency hospital license to a health facility that:

(1) on December 27, 2020, was:

(a) designated as a critical access hospital by the centers for medicare and medicaid services; or

(b) licensed as a hospital with less than fifty licensed beds and located in a county in a rural area as defined in Section 1886(d)(2)(D) or Section 1886(d)(8)(E) of the federal Social Security Act;

(2) provides rural emergency hospital services in the facility twenty-four hours per day and is staffed twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week with a physician, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist or physician assistant;

(3) has a transfer agreement in effect with a level I or level II trauma center;

(4) does not have an annual average patient length of stay over twenty-four hours; and

(5) meets any other requirements that the department finds necessary to implement state licensure and satisfy centers for medicare and medicaid services requirements for reimbursement as a rural emergency hospital.

C. A health facility that applies to the department for licensure as a rural emergency hospital shall include with the licensure application:

(1) an action plan for initiating rural emergency hospital services, including a detailed transition plan that lists the specific services that the facility will retain, modify, add and discontinue;

(2) a description of services that the facility intends to provide on an outpatient basis; and

(3) any other information required by rules of the department.

D. A rural emergency hospital shall not have inpatient beds, but a rural emergency hospital may have a unit that is a distinct part of the hospital that is licensed as a skilled nursing facility and provides post-hospital extended care services.

E. For the purposes of this section:

(1) “ department ” means the department of health; and

(2) “ rural emergency hospital ” means a health facility that provides emergency and observational care and meets the licensure requirements outlined in Subsection B of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 74-4G-2 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 4G / Section 74-4G-2
§ 74-4G-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Voluntary Remediation Act is to provide incentives for the voluntary assessment and remediation of contaminated property, with state oversight, and to remove future liability of lenders and landowners.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-75 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-75
§ 7-9-75. Deduction; gross receipts tax; sale of certain services performed directly on product manufactured
Status: in_force

Receipts from selling the service of combining or processing components or materials may be deducted from gross receipts if the sale is made to a person engaged in the business of manufacturing who delivers a nontaxable transaction certificate to the seller. The buyer delivering the nontaxable transaction certificate must have the service performed directly upon tangible personal property which he is in the business of manufacturing or upon ingredients or component parts thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-54.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-54.1
§ 7-9-54.1. Deduction; gross receipts from sale of aerospace services to certain organizations
Status: in_force

A. Receipts from performing or selling an aerospace service for resale may be deducted from gross receipts if the sale is made to a buyer who delivers a nontaxable transaction certificate or provides alternative evidence pursuant to Section 7-9-43 NMSA 1978 . The buyer shall separately state the value of the aerospace service purchased in the buyer's charge for the aerospace service on its subsequent sale to an organization or, if the buyer is an organization, on the organization's subsequent sale to the United States, and the subsequent sale shall be in the ordinary course of business of selling aerospace services to an organization or to the United States.

B. As used in this section:

(1) “ aerospace services ” means research and development services sold to or for resale to an organization for resale by the organization to the United States air force; and

(2) “ organization ” means an organization described in Subsection A of Section 7-9-29 NMSA 1978 other than a prime contractor operating facilities in New Mexico designated as a national laboratory by act of congress.
N.M. Stat. § 3-60A-37 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 60A / Section 3-60A-37
§ 3-60A-37. Revenue bonds; limited obligation
Status: in_force

In making agreements or provisions, a local government shall not obligate itself except with respect to the project and the application of the revenues and revenue bond proceeds from the project.