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N.M. Stat. § 21-12-16 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 12 / Section 21-12-16
§ 21-12-16. Public safety education; scholarships
Status: in_force

A. The board of regents of the New Mexico military institute may establish a public safety officer education program for students interested in careers in public safety.

B. Subject to available funding, the board of regents of the New Mexico military institute may offer public safety officer education scholarships to New Mexico residents who enroll in the public safety officer education program. With the advice of the department of public safety, the board of regents shall establish criteria for awarding the public safety officer education scholarships and, with the cooperation of the department of public safety, may establish internship programs with public safety agencies for scholarship recipients.
N.M. Stat. § 15-5A-6 — NM Code / Chapter 15 / Article 5A / Section 15-5A-6
§ 15-5A-6. Municipally authorized districts
Status: in_force

Municipalities with a population greater than fifty thousand that choose to authorize their own districts shall pass a local ordinance stating minimum requirements for establishing the arts and cultural district, and any municipally authorized arts and cultural district shall meet the criteria contained in Subsection C of Section 4 of the Arts and Cultural District Act.
N.M. Stat. § 29-15-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 15 / Section 29-15-3
§ 29-15-3. Missing persons information clearinghouse; function
Status: in_force

A. The “missing persons information clearinghouse” is established in the department of public safety. The department of public safety shall provide for the administration of the clearinghouse. The department of public safety may adopt rules to carry out the provisions of the Missing Persons Information and Reporting Act in the manner prescribed in Subsection E of Section 9-1-5 NMSA 1978 .

B. The clearinghouse is a central repository of information on missing persons and shall be used by all law enforcement agencies, including tribal agencies, in this state.

C. The clearinghouse shall:

(1) establish a system of intrastate communication of information relating to missing persons;

(2) provide a centralized file for the exchange of information on missing persons and unidentified human remains within the state;

(3) communicate with the national crime information center for the exchange of information on missing persons suspected of interstate travel;

(4) collect, process, maintain and disseminate accurate and complete information on missing persons;

(5) provide a statewide toll-free telephone line for the reporting of missing persons and for receiving information on missing persons;

(6) disseminate to custodians, law enforcement agencies, the public education department, the children, youth and families department and the general public information that explains how to prevent child abduction and what to do if a child becomes missing;

(7) compile statistics relating to the incidence of missing persons within the state;

(8) provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies and social services agencies pertaining to missing persons;

(9) establish a media protocol for disseminating information pertaining to missing persons; and

(10) host the annual missing in New Mexico event.

D. The clearinghouse shall print and distribute posters, flyers and other forms of information containing descriptions of missing persons.

E. The department of public safety may accept public or private grants, gifts and donations to assist the department in carrying out the provisions of the Missing Persons Information and Reporting Act.
N.M. Stat. § 21-13-8 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 13 / Section 21-13-8
§ 21-13-8. Community college board
Status: in_force

A. Community college board members shall be qualified electors and residents of the community college district.

B. Community college board members shall be elected for staggered terms of six years. Elections shall be held pursuant to the Local Election Act.

C. All vacancies caused in any other manner than by the expiration of the term of office shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members. An individual appointed by the remaining members of the board to fill a vacancy in office shall serve until the next community college board election, at which time candidates shall file for and be elected to fill the vacant position to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.

D. A community college board shall select from its members a chair and secretary who shall serve in these offices until the next regular community college board election. After each community college board election, the members shall proceed to reorganize.
N.M. Stat. § 61-28B-24 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 28B / Section 61-28B-24
§ 61-28B-24. Confidential communications
Status: in_force

Except by permission of the client for whom a certificate or permit holder performs a service or the heir, successor or personal representative of the client, a certificate holder shall not voluntarily disclose information communicated to him by the client relating to and in connection with a service rendered to the client by him. Such information shall be deemed confidential; provided that nothing in this section shall prohibit the disclosure of information required to be disclosed by a standard of the public accounting profession in reporting on the examination of a financial statement or prohibit disclosure in a court proceeding, in an investigation or proceeding pursuant to the 1999 Public Accountancy Act, in an ethical investigation conducted by a private professional organization or in the course of a peer review, or to another person active in the organization performing a service for that client on a need-to-know basis or to a person in the entity who needs this information for the sole purpose of assuring quality control.
N.M. Stat. § 45-2A-12 — NM Code / Chapter 45 / Article 2A / Section 45-2A-12
§ 45-2A-12. Survival
Status: in_force

An individual who does not survive the testator by thirty days or more is treated as if the individual predeceased the testator.
N.M. Stat. § 19-1-2.1 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 19-1-2.1
§ 19-1-2.1. Confidential information; penalty
Status: in_force

The provisions of any confidential contract, reserve data or other confidential information required to be submitted under any lease or rule or regulation of the commissioner of public lands, and which is clearly marked as confidential by the person from whom submission is required, shall be held confidential by the commissioner, his employees and his agents. Any person who willfully violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent statistical information from being derived from the information available to the commissioner or its use in public hearings before the commissioner or in appeals from decisions of the commissioner for which such information is essential. This section shall not be construed to protect any information, even if otherwise considered confidential under this section, if such information is also available from public, non-confidential sources. Notwithstanding the provisions of any act requiring meetings of public bodies to be open, the commissioner may close that part of any meeting where confidential information covered by this section is discussed.
N.M. Stat. § 66-12-5.1 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 12 / Section 66-12-5.1
§ 66-12-5.1. Fees
Status: in_force

The division shall establish and impose reasonable registration fees for the purposes of the Boat Act.
N.M. Stat. § 6-10-41 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 10 / Section 6-10-41
§ 6-10-41. Suspense account unearned money; transfer
Status: in_force

All unearned moneys deposited in a suspense account with the state treasurer by any state officer or state agency shall, as soon as the same shall become the absolute property of the state of New Mexico, be transferred out of said suspense account to the proper fund by the warrant of the secretary of finance and administration based upon a voucher of the proper state official or agency, as the case may be.

Whenever it shall be finally determined that any moneys so deposited in a suspense account should be returned, repaid or refunded to the person, firm or corporation from whom the same were received, such moneys shall be paid out of the suspense account of the state treasurer upon a warrant drawn by the secretary of finance and administration based upon a voucher from the proper state official or agency, as the case may be.
N.M. Stat. § 2-7F-24 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 7F / Section 2-7F-24
§ 2-7F-24. Representative district eighteen
Status: in_force

Representative district eighteen is composed of Bernalillo county precincts 101, 102, 214 through 216, 223, 235, 241 through 246, 251 through 256, 273, 274, 338, 341 through 344, 351 through 353, 355 through 358, 381 and 382.
N.M. Stat. § 7-10-2 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 10 / Section 7-10-2
§ 7-10-2. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Gross Receipts Tax Registration Act is to ensure that all persons doing business with the state, whether leasing property employed in New Mexico, performing services in New Mexico or selling property in New Mexico, are registered with the department for payment of the gross receipts tax.
N.M. Stat. § 62-10-13 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 10 / Section 62-10-13
§ 62-10-13. Fees
Status: in_force

Witnesses who are summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage as are paid to witnesses in the courts of record of general jurisdiction. Witnesses whose depositions are taken pursuant to the provisions of this act, and the officer taking the same, shall be entitled to the same fees as are paid for like services in such courts.
N.M. Stat. § 66-6-22.2 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 6 / Section 66-6-22.2
§ 66-6-22.2. Adjustments of disbursements from the motor vehicle suspense fund
Status: in_force

A. The provisions of this section apply to disbursements from the motor vehicle suspense fund.

B. If the secretary determines that a prior disbursement from the fund is erroneous, the secretary shall, pursuant to law, rules or procedures of the department of finance and administration, adjust future disbursements by the amount necessary to correct the error.

C. The secretary may, in lieu of recovering the entire erroneous amount from the next disbursement, recover an excess disbursement of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in installments from current and future disbursements pursuant to a written agreement whenever the amount of the disbursement decrease exceeds ten percent of the average disbursement amount for that recipient for the twelve months preceding the month in which the secretary's determination is made; provided that, for the purposes of this subsection, the “average disbursement amount” shall be the arithmetic mean of the disbursement amounts within the twelve months immediately preceding the month in which the determination is made.

D. Except for the provisions of this section, if the amount by which a disbursement would be adjusted pursuant to Subsection B of this section is one thousand dollars ($1,000) or less, no adjustment shall be made.

E. In the event an adjustment authorized by this section requires a disbursement for which there is no equal offsetting receipt, the general fund disbursement shall be reduced by the difference between the offsetting receipt and the adjustment.
N.M. Stat. § 22-11-32 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 11 / Section 22-11-32
§ 22-11-32. Adjustment of benefits
Status: in_force

A. If retirement or disability benefits cause a decrease in the amount of monetary payments due to a member or beneficiary from any public agency, the retirement or disability benefits shall be reduced to result in the maximum total benefits to the member or beneficiary.

B. If there is a change in the effect of retirement or disability benefits on any monetary payments due to a member or beneficiary from any public agency, the retirement or disability benefits shall be adjusted to result in the maximum total benefits to the member or beneficiary. In no event shall the retirement or disability benefits be increased in an amount greater than that authorized by the Educational Retirement Act.

C. The provisions of this section are mandatory and are not subject to option or election by any member or beneficiary. Each member or beneficiary shall inform the director of all facts necessary for the director to carry out the provisions of this section.

D. If the director, in good faith, seeks to ascertain all facts necessary to comply with provisions of this section, but payment of retirement or disability benefits is made without making an adjustment as provided by this section, neither the board, the director or any public officer or employee shall be liable because of the payment.

E. As used in this section:

(1) “retirement or disability benefits” means retirement or disability benefits payable to a member or beneficiary pursuant to the Educational Retirement Act;

(2) “public agency” includes the federal government, any department or agency of the federal government, any state and any department, agency and political subdivision of a state; and

(3) “total benefits” means retirement or disability benefits plus any other monetary payments due to the member or beneficiary from any public agency.
N.M. Stat. § 26-4-10 — NM Code / Chapter 26 / Article 4 / Section 26-4-10
§ 26-4-10. Countries other than Canada allowed by federal law
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Act may be extended to any other country allowed by federal law to import prescription drugs into the United States, at the discretion of the department.
N.M. Stat. § 22-4-17 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 4 / Section 22-4-17
§ 22-4-17. Annexation of area for school district purposes; resolutions; approval; filing
Status: in_force

A. Whenever it becomes economically feasible for students residing in one school district to attend school in another school district, whether or not that school district is within the same county as the school district of residence, the local school boards of the school districts may provide for annexation of the appropriate area by resolution of each of the local school boards concerned. The resolutions shall be submitted to the state board [department] of education for its approval.

B. Prior to adopting such resolution, the local school board proposing to annex the area within another school district shall furnish an accurate legal description of the area to be annexed and the net taxable value of the property within the area to the chief, public school finance division [secretary of public education]. The chief [secretary] shall furnish to each local school board concerned a statement of the financial implication of the annexation.

C. After resolutions are adopted by each of the local school boards concerned and approved by the state board [department] of education, copies of the resolutions shall be filed with:

(1) the county commission of the county where the principal office of each local school board is located and the county commissions of those other counties in which area is affected;

(2) the county assessor of the county where the principal office of each local school board is located and the county assessors of those other counties in which area is affected;

(3) state board of education; and

(4) department of finance and administration.
N.M. Stat. § 9-15-55 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 15 / Section 9-15-55
§ 9-15-55. Minority business assistance fund created
Status: in_force

The “minority business assistance fund” is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of appropriations, gifts, grants, donations and bequests made to the fund. Income from the fund shall be credited to the fund and money in the fund shall not revert or be transferred to any other fund at the end of a fiscal year. Money in the fund is subject to appropriation by the legislature to the department for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of the Minority Business Assistance Act. Expenditures from the fund shall be made on warrant of the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary of economic development.
N.M. Stat. § 3-51-31 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 51 / Section 3-51-31
§ 3-51-31. Real property in more than one district; objections; notice; hearing
Status: in_force

Objections to the organization of a district in whole or in part within the boundaries of a preexisting district shall be heard at the provisional order hearing called pursuant to Section 3-51-11 NMSA 1978 . The notice of hearing to be served and published pursuant to that section shall state that part or all of the property included within the proposed boundaries, as the case may be, is included within a preexisting district. If the governing body determines that the purposes of the Greater Municipality Parking Law will best be accomplished by such district including lands of another district, it shall approve the additional district.
N.M. Stat. § 3-39-4 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 39 / Section 3-39-4
§ 3-39-4. Municipal airports
Status: in_force

The governing body of any municipality may:

A. acquire by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, and may establish, construct, improve, maintain and operate an airport or any airport facility either inside or outside the limits of the municipality;

B. insure or provide for insurance of any airport facility of the municipality;

C. provide or arrange for services in connection with any airport facility;

D. acquire by eminent domain either inside or outside the limits of the municipality any property necessary or desirable under the Municipal Airport Law in accordance with the procedure set forth by law;

E. sell, lease or otherwise dispose of or allow the use of any real or personal property or any interest acquired or used for the purposes included in the Municipal Airport Law;

F. enact any ordinance, rule or regulation not inconsistent with state or federal law or regulation which provides for the safety, health, prosperity, morals, order, comfort, convenience or welfare of the inhabitants of the municipality and of the general public or for the orderly and efficient management or operation of the airport or any airport facility, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof, all with respect to its airport or any of its airport facilities either inside or outside the limits of the municipality; and

G. perform any other act necessary to carry out the provisions of the Municipal Airport Law.
N.M. Stat. § 72-17-78 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 17 / Section 72-17-78
§ 72-17-78. Limitations upon liabilities
Status: in_force

Neither the directors nor any person executing securities issued hereunder shall be liable personally on the securities by reason of the issuance thereof. Securities issued pursuant to this act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the state or of any municipality or other public body and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the state or of any such municipality or other public body, either legal, moral or otherwise, and nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize the authority to incur any indebtedness on behalf of or in any way to obligate the state or any municipality or other public body, except the authority and except as herein otherwise expressly stated or necessarily implied.
N.M. Stat. § 19-10-6 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 10 / Section 19-10-6
§ 19-10-6. Shut-in oil wells; conditions
Status: in_force

A. If, after notice and public hearing, the commissioner finds that because of a severe reduction in the price of oil the beneficiaries of state trust lands are ultimately better served if oil wells are allowed to be temporarily shut in rather than produced at a low price, he may promulgate a regulation which allows such wells to be shut in.

B. Any regulation promulgated under Subsection A of this section shall automatically expire two years from its effective date unless it is either extended by the commissioner after a subsequent notice and public hearing or terminated sooner by a subsequent regulation of the commissioner after finding that the price of oil is no longer severely reduced; provided, that any such termination shall not be effective until thirty days after the commissioner has by certified mail sent notice of the prospective termination to each lessee whose lease is being extended by the operation of this section.

C. Any oil and gas lease issued by the commissioner of public lands and maintained in good standing according to the terms and conditions thereof and all applicable statutes and regulations shall not expire if:

(1) there is, currently in effect, a regulation promulgated under Subsection A of this section;

(2) there is a well capable of producing oil located upon some part of the lands included in the lease and such well is shut in because of the severe reduction in the price of oil;

(3) the lessee timely notifies the commissioner in writing within thirty days of the date the well is first shut in; and

(4) the lessee timely pays an annual shut-in royalty within ninety days from the date the well was first shut in and thereafter before each anniversary of the date the well was first shut in. The amount of the shut-in royalty shall be twice the annual rental due by the lessee under the terms of the lease but not less than three hundred twenty dollars ($320) per well per year. If the other requirements of this subsection are satisfied, the timely payment of the shut-in royalty shall be considered for all purposes the same as if oil were being produced in paying quantities until the next anniversary of the date the well was first shut in.
N.M. Stat. § 39-4-10 — NM Code / Chapter 39 / Article 4 / Section 39-4-10
§ 39-4-10. Execution against sureties
Status: in_force

No execution shall issue against any security on any promissory note, bond, bond for costs, appeal bond or other obligation for the payment of money or property, until execution shall have been first issued against the principal in any such note or obligation, and levied upon all the real estate or other property of said principal, which may be within the jurisdiction of the court, in which the judgment may have been rendered: provided, that whenever the plaintiff in any such execution shall file in the court, in which the judgment is pending, an affidavit in relation to such security or securities similar to the one required by law to be filed previous to issuing an attachment, then in such case execution shall issue simultaneously against the principal and the security against whom the said affidavit be filed.
N.M. Stat. § 31-21-2 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 21 / Section 31-21-2
§ 31-21-2. Clothing, money and transportation furnished to prisoners on release from correctional facility
Status: in_force

Upon the release of any prisoner from a correctional facility of the corrections department:

A. the superintendent shall provide him with suitable clothing as required and:

(1) in the case of release on parole, transportation to his place of employment if within this state, or if not within this state, then to any place within this state; or

(2) in the case of all other types of release, transportation to his home, if within the state, or if not within this state, then to the place of his conviction or to any other place within the state; and

B. the superintendent may provide him with not more than one hundred dollars ($100) and, in case of an exceptional situation, with the prior approval of the secretary of corrections, an additional amount not to exceed three hundred fifty dollars ($350) for purchase of transportation to a location in another state within the continental limits of the United States.
N.M. Stat. § 12-8A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8A / Section 12-8A-1
§ 12-8A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 12, Article 8A NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Governmental Dispute Prevention and Resolution Act”.