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N.M. Stat. § 9-7A-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 7A / Section 9-7A-7
§ 9-7A-7. Organizational units of the department; powers and duties specified by law; access to information
Status: in_force

Those organizational units of the department and the officers of those units specified by law shall have all of the powers and duties enumerated in the specific laws involved. However, the carrying out of those powers and duties shall be subject to the direction and supervision of the secretary, and he shall retain the final decision-making authority and responsibility for the administration of any laws as provided in Subsection B of Section 6 of the Department of Environment Act. The department shall have access to all records, data and information of other state departments, agencies and institutions, including its own organizational units, not specifically held confidential by law.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-4-10 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 4 / Section 32A-4-10
§ 32A-4-10. Basic rights
Status: in_force

A. A child subject to the provisions of the Children's Code is entitled to the same basic rights as an adult, except as otherwise provided in the Children's Code.

B. At the inception of an abuse or neglect proceeding, counsel shall be appointed for the parent, guardian or custodian of the child. The appointed counsel shall represent the parent, guardian or custodian who is named as a party until an indigency determination is made at the custody hearing. Counsel shall also be appointed if, in the court's discretion, appointment of counsel is required in the interest of justice.

C. At the inception of an abuse and neglect proceeding, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for a child under fourteen years of age. If the child is fourteen years of age or older, the court shall appoint an attorney for the child. No officer or employee of an agency that is vested with the legal custody of the child shall be appointed as guardian ad litem of or attorney for the child. Only an attorney with appropriate experience shall be appointed as guardian ad litem of or attorney for the child.

D. When reasonable and appropriate, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem or attorney who is knowledgeable about the child's particular cultural background.

E. When a child reaches fourteen years of age, the child's guardian ad litem shall continue as the child's attorney; provided that the court shall appoint a different attorney for the child if:

(1) the child requests a different attorney;

(2) the guardian ad litem requests to be removed; or

(3) the court determines that the appointment of a different attorney is appropriate.

F. The court shall assure that the child's guardian ad litem zealously represents the child's best interest and that the child's attorney zealously represents the child.

G. A person afforded rights under the Children's Code shall be advised of those rights at that person's first appearance before the court on a petition under the Children's Code.
N.M. Stat. § 7-42-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 42 / Section 7-42-4
§ 7-42-4. Date payment due; reporting location instructions
Status: in_force

A. The cannabis excise tax is to be paid on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month following the month in which the taxable sale occurs.

B. The reporting location for reporting the sale of cannabis products shall be at the following locations:

(1) if the cannabis product is received by the purchaser at the New Mexico location of the cannabis retailer, the location of the cannabis retailer;

(2) if the cannabis product is not received by the purchaser at a location of the cannabis retailer, the location indicated by instructions for delivery to the purchaser, or the purchaser's donee, when known to the cannabis retailer;

(3) if Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection do not apply, the location indicated by an address for the purchaser available from the business records of the cannabis retailer that are maintained in the ordinary course of business; provided that use of the address does not constitute bad faith;

(4) if Paragraphs (1) through (3) of this subsection do not apply, the location for the purchaser obtained during consummation of the sale, including the address of a purchaser's payment instrument if no other address is available; provided that use of this address does not constitute bad faith; or

(5) if Paragraphs (1) through (4) of this subsection do not apply, including a circumstance in which the cannabis retailer is without sufficient information to apply those standards, the location from which the cannabis product is shipped or transmitted.
N.M. Stat. § 7-38-47 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 38 / Section 7-38-47
§ 7-38-47. Property taxes are personal obligation of owner of property
Status: in_force

Property taxes imposed are the personal obligation of the person owning the property on the date on which the property was subject to valuation for property taxation purposes and a personal judgment may be rendered against him for the payment of property taxes that are delinquent together with any penalty and interest on the delinquent taxes. The sale or transfer of property after its valuation date does not relieve the former owner of personal liability for the property taxes imposed for that tax year.
N.M. Stat. § 4-53-3 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 53 / Section 4-53-3
§ 4-53-3. County special district commission
Status: in_force

A. There shall be created in each county of the state a “county special district commission” consisting of five members selected as follows:

(1) two members appointed by the board of county commissioners, each of whom shall represent the county and shall be a county officer;

(2) two members appointed by the mayors or chief executives of all municipalities within the county at a joint meeting, each of whom shall represent the municipalities and shall be a city officer; and

(3) one member appointed by the other four members of the commission, who shall be chairman of the commission and shall represent the general public in the county. If within five days following their appointment, the four other members of the commission fail to appoint the fifth member of the commission, the district court of the county in which the commission is located shall appoint the fifth member of the commission within ten days following the date of the appointment of the four other members of the commission.

B. The term of each member shall be four years and until the appointment and qualification of his successor, except that the term of each county officer and each city officer shall expire upon the termination of his county or city office. Any city or county member may be removed by his appointing authority.

C. Vacancies on the commission shall be filled for the unexpired term by the appointing authority which originally appointed the member whose position has become vacant. Commission members shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed the actual amounts for their reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings and in performing the duties of their office, which amounts shall not exceed the amounts permitted for such purposes in the Per Diem and Mileage Act.

D. Prior to establishment of a commission in a county, any proposals for the creation of a special district, or petition for the merger, consolidation or dissolution of an existing special district shall be submitted to the county clerk as otherwise provided in the Special District Procedures Act. Upon receipt of the proposal or petition the clerk shall immediately notify the board of county commissioners of the county and each of the governing authorities of all municipalities in the county of such receipt. The counties and municipalities shall then proceed to establish a commission.
N.M. Stat. § 77-10-4 — NM Code / Chapter 77 / Article 10 / Section 77-10-4
§ 77-10-4. Notice to board of receipt of livestock; contents; fees
Status: in_force

Immediately on receipt of any livestock at the livestock auction market, the operator shall give written notice to the board in such form as the board may prescribe, stating the kind and number and description of the livestock received. At the same time, the operator shall collect and remit to the board or agent for the board the inspection fees prescribed by law for each head of livestock received. All money paid to the board shall be deposited to the proper board fund.
N.M. Stat. § 9-15-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 15 / Section 9-15-12
§ 9-15-12. Commission; powers and duties
Status: in_force

The commission shall:

A. develop and recommend policies and provide policy and program guidance for the department;

B. review, modify and approve annual updates to the state's five-year economic development plan generated by the department;

C. advise, assist and promote the department on matters relating to technology, technology-based new business development and technology commercialization projects;

D. review federal technology-based programs requiring state matching funds and authorize any expenditure or pledge of the state match fund for such programs; and

E. establish such rules and regulations for its own operations as are necessary to achieve the purposes of the Economic Development Department Act. Rules and regulations of the commission shall be adopted in the same procedural manner as rules and regulations of the department are adopted and shall be filed in accordance with the State Rules Act. 1
N.M. Stat. § 6-21-31 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 21 / Section 6-21-31
§ 6-21-31. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

The New Mexico finance authority oversight committee shall:

A. monitor and oversee the operation of the New Mexico finance authority;

B. meet on a regular basis to receive and review reports from the authority on implementation of the provisions of the New Mexico Finance Authority Act and to review and approve regulations proposed for adoption pursuant to that act;

C. monitor and provide assistance and advice on the public project financing program of the New Mexico finance authority;

D. oversee and monitor state and local government capital planning and financing and take testimony from state and local officials on state and local capital needs;

E. provide advice and assistance to the New Mexico finance authority and cooperate with the executive branch of state government and local governments on planning, setting priorities for and financing of state and local capital projects;

F. undertake an ongoing examination of the statutes, constitutional provisions, regulations and court decisions governing state and local government capital financing in New Mexico; and

G. report its findings and recommendations, including recommended legislation or necessary changes, to the governor and to each session of the legislature. The report and proposed legislation shall be made available on or before December 15 each year.
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-1010.1 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-1010.1
§ 66-3-1010.1. Off-highway motor vehicle safety training organization; approval and certification
Status: in_force

A. An off-highway motor vehicle safety training organization that offers and conducts an off-highway motor vehicle safety training course shall be approved and certified by the department. Applicants for approval and certification shall submit an application to the department for consideration.

B. The department may approve and certify an organization that meets the minimum criteria established by the department for an off-highway motor vehicle safety training organization. Each approval and certification shall be renewed annually.
N.M. Stat. § 10-9-20 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 9 / Section 10-9-20
§ 10-9-20. Oaths; testimony; records; refusal
Status: in_force

The board has the power to administer oaths, subpoena witnesses and compel the production of books and papers pertinent to any investigation or hearing authorized by the Personnel Act. Refusal to testify before the board on matters pertaining to personnel is grounds for dismissal from the service.
N.M. Stat. § 76-7-7 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-7-7
§ 76-7-7. Order and notice of district election
Status: in_force

A. Upon determination by the board of county commissioners that the proposed noxious weed control district is necessary for the reclamation or safeguarding of the lands specified in the original or modified petition, they shall order an election for the purpose of submitting to the resident taxpaying voters the issue of whether or not the district shall be created.

B. Notice of the election for the creation of the noxious weed control district shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the county or counties in which the proposed district lies at least once a week for two consecutive weeks, the last insertion to be not less than thirty days prior to the proposed referendum election.
N.M. Stat. § 31-30-9 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 30 / Section 31-30-9
§ 31-30-9. Reports
Status: in_force

A. Each grantee shall report to the department and the commission by November 1 of each year regarding the:

(1) purpose and amount of each grant received by the grantee for the previous fiscal year; and

(2) processes, outputs and outcomes resulting from each grant approved by the department for the previous fiscal year, including relevant data as required by department rules.

B. Each year through 2027, the department and the commission shall report to the legislature by December 1 regarding the awards and outcomes of each grantee.
N.M. Stat. § 3-34-3 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 34 / Section 3-34-3
§ 3-34-3. Street improvement fund; repurchasing bonds or certificates; pledging income
Status: in_force

A. The governing body may, by ordinance approved by three-fourths of all the members of the governing body and irrepealable during the term of the contract and for a period not exceeding twenty-one years, contract:

(1) to repurchase bonds or assignable certificates authorized in Section 3-33-24 NMSA 1978 for the construction of a street, alley, curb, gutter or sidewalk project with the money in the street improvement fund; or

(2) to pledge the income of the street improvement fund to pay the interest and principal of bonds or assignable certificates when default in payment may occur by reason of nonpayment of any assessment levied for the payment of a street, alley, curb, gutter or sidewalk project authorized in Section 3-33-3 NMSA 1978 .

B. The municipality may anticipate the annual income to be received by the street improvement fund. The amount contracted or pledged to be expended each year as authorized in this section shall not exceed the amount that is accumulated in the street improvement fund.

C. The ordinance authorized in this section shall state that:

(1) all disbursements made pursuant to the contract shall be paid solely from the street improvement fund and from no other source;

(2) the obligations created by the contract are not general obligations of the municipality; and

(3) the contracting parties may not look to any other fund for the performance of the contractual obligation.

D. In the event of disbursement from the street improvement fund pursuant to the obligations created by the contract, the municipality shall be subrogated for the benefit of the street improvement fund to all the rights and remedies of the holders of the securities upon which payment is made.
N.M. Stat. § 3-50-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 50 / Section 3-50-12
§ 3-50-12. Form and sale of bonds
Status: in_force

Bonds of a city issued hereunder, shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in any one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding six percent per annum, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution, its trust indenture, or the bonds so issued may provide.

The bonds shall be sold for cash at not less than par at either public or private sale.

In case any of the officers of the city whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officers had remained in office until such delivery. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding any bonds issued pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law shall be fully negotiable.

In any suit, action or proceedings involving the validity or enforceability of any bond of a city or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the city to aid in financing a parking facility project to provide additional facilities for parking motor vehicles off the public streets shall be conclusively presumed to have been issued for a parking facility project of such character, and said project shall be conclusively deemed to have been planned, located and constructed in accordance with the purposes and provisions of the Municipal Parking Law.
N.M. Stat. § 44-1-30 — NM Code / Chapter 44 / Article 1 / Section 44-1-30
§ 44-1-30. Detention officer refusing to furnish copies; forfeiture
Status: in_force

Any officer, or other person, refusing to deliver a copy of any order, warrant, process or other authority, by which he detains any person, to anyone who demands such copy and tenders the fees thereof, shall forfeit two hundred dollars [($200)] to the person so detained.
N.M. Stat. § 57-16A-7 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 16A / Section 57-16A-7
§ 57-16A-7. Resale of returned motor vehicle
Status: in_force

No motor vehicle which has not been properly repaired pursuant to the provisions of Subsection B of Section 3 of the Motor Vehicle Quality Assurance Act, or pursuant to a similar law of another state, may be resold in New Mexico unless the manufacturer provides full written disclosure of the reason for the return to any prospective buyer.
N.M. Stat. § 1-1-16.2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 1-1-16.2
§ 1-1-16.2. New registrant
Status: in_force

As used in the Election Code, “ new registrant ” means a person who was not registered to vote in the state at the time the person registered to vote.
N.M. Stat. § 47-11-2 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 11 / Section 47-11-2
§ 47-11-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the New Mexico Time Share Act:

A. “commission” means the New Mexico real estate commission;

B. “developer” means any person creating or engaged in the business of selling ten or more of its own time shares and includes any person who controls, is controlled by or is in common control with the developer and who is engaged in creating or selling time shares for the developer;

C. “enrolled” means having a paid membership in an exchange program or a membership in an exchange program evidenced by written acceptance or confirmation of membership;

D. “exchange company” means any person operating an exchange program;

E. “exchange program” means any opportunity or procedure for the assignment or exchange of time shares among purchasers in the same or another time share project;

F. “managing agent” means a person who undertakes the duties, responsibilities and obligations of the management of a time share program;

G. “person” means one or more natural persons, corporations, partnerships, associations, trusts, other entities or any combination thereof;

H. “purchaser” means any person, other than a developer or lender, who owns or acquires an interest or proposes to acquire an interest in a time share;

I. “time share” means a right to occupy a unit or any of several units during five or more separated time periods over a period of at least five years, including renewal options, whether or not coupled with a freehold estate or an estate for years in a time share project or a specified portion thereof, including, but not limited to, a vacation license, prepaid hotel reservation, club membership, limited partnership interest or vacation bond;

J. “time share program” means any arrangement for time shares whereby real property has been made subject to a time share;

K. “time share project” means any real property that is subject to a time share program;

L. “time share salesperson” means a person, other than a person who has at least a fifteen percent interest in the developer, who sells or offers to sell on behalf of a developer a time share to a purchaser; and

M. “time share unit” or “unit” means a living space in a time share project that is divided into time shares and designated for separate occupancy or use.
N.M. Stat. § 50-4-29 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 4 / Section 50-4-29
§ 50-4-29. Relation to other laws
Status: in_force

Any standards relating to minimum wage, maximum hour or other working conditions in effect at the date of the passage of this act by or under any other law of this state, which are more favorable to employees than those applicable to such employees under this act, shall not be deemed to be amended, rescinded or otherwise affected by this act but shall continue in full force and effect.
N.M. Stat. § 29-3B-1 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 3B / Section 29-3B-1
§ 29-3B-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 12 through 15 of this act may be cited as the “Accurate Eyewitness Identification Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 7-8A-19 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 8A / Section 7-8A-19
§ 7-8A-19. Periods of limitation
Status: in_force

(a) The expiration, before or after the effective date of the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (1995), of a period of limitation on the owner's right to receive or recover property, whether specified by contract, statute or court order, does not preclude the property from being presumed abandoned or affect a duty to file a report or to pay or deliver or transfer property to the administrator as required by the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (1995).

(b) An action or proceeding may not be maintained by the administrator to enforce the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (1995) in regard to the reporting, delivery, or payment of property more than ten years after the holder specifically identified the property in a report filed with the administrator or gave express notice to the administrator of a dispute regarding the property. In the absence of such a report or other express notice, the period of limitation is tolled. The period of limitation is also tolled by the filing of a report that is fraudulent.
N.M. Stat. § 10-2-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 2 / Section 10-2-5
§ 10-2-5. Recording of bonds required
Status: in_force

The bonds given by all persons elected or appointed to office in this state shall be recorded.
N.M. Stat. § 20-5-2 — NM Code / Chapter 20 / Article 5 / Section 20-5-2
§ 20-5-2. Regulations
Status: in_force

The adjutant general shall prescribe regulations governing the recruiting, organization, administration, equipment, facilities, training and discipline of the state defense force. Such regulations shall, to the extent practicable, conform to regulations governing the army national guard and shall be consistent with federal law and regulations pertaining to state defense forces.
N.M. Stat. § 53-4-16 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 4 / Section 53-4-16
§ 53-4-16. Application of voting provisions herein to voting by mail
Status: in_force

If an association has provided for voting by mail, any provision herein referring to votes cast by the members shall be construed to include the votes cast by mail.
N.M. Stat. § 28-4-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 28 / Article 4 / Section 28-4-7
§ 28-4-7. Agency staff
Status: in_force

The director shall hire such staff as is necessary, all of whom shall be subject to the Personnel Act. 1