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N.M. Stat. § 60-2D-13 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 2D / Section 60-2D-13
§ 60-2D-13. License; refusal to issue
Status: in_force

The commission, using the procedures of the Uniform Licensing Act: 1

A. when dealing with a general bicycle-racing license, shall refuse to issue a license if the applicant:

(1) as an individual or, if a partnership, joint venture or corporation, if any partner, joint venturer, officer or director has been convicted of any crime which if committed in New Mexico is or would have been a felony or of the violation of any law of the United States or of any state concerning gambling or racing or of any rule or regulation of this or any other racing commission; or

(2) fails to pay the required fees or any other payment required by the Bicycle Racing Act;

B. when dealing with a pari-mutuel bicycle-racing license, shall refuse to issue the license for the reasons given in Subsection A of this section or, in addition, if the applicant:

(1) is not a bona-fide resident of New Mexico;

(2) is a foreign corporation;

(3) is a corporation and does not have a provision in its charter that none of the voting stock of the corporation shall be sold, mortgaged or otherwise pledged or transferred without ten days' prior written notice to the commission;

(4) is a corporation any of the voting stock of which is held for an undisclosed principal, unless the corporation is listed on a national stock exchange and the named stockholder is a recognized nominee; or

(5) refuses to agree that he will not thereafter sell, mortgage or otherwise pledge or dispose of any of the assets listed and described on the application for license without giving the commission ten days' written notice;

C. when dealing with a general bicycle-racing license, may refuse to issue the license if the applicant makes any false or fraudulent statement of a material nature in the application; or

D. when dealing with a pari-mutuel bicycle-racing license, may refuse to issue the license for the reason given in Subsection C of this section or if:

(1) the financial standing of the applicant and his ability or, if a partnership, joint venture or corporation, the financial standing of the partnership, joint venture or corporation or the ability of the partners, joint venturers, officers or directors of the corporation are such that in the opinion of the commission it is not in the best interest of the state to grant the license;

(2) the sentiments of the residents of the area and the county in which it is proposed to conduct the bicycle-racing meet are against the license; or

(3) for any other reason it is not in the best interest of the state, the racing industry and the area and county in which it is proposed to conduct the bicycle-racing meets to grant the license.
N.M. Stat. § 4-55A-10 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 55A / Section 4-55A-10
§ 4-55A-10. Improvement district; petition method; requirements; distribution of costs; notice of hearing
Status: in_force

A. Whenever the owners of sixty-six and two-thirds percent or more of the total assessed valuation of the property described in Subsection C of Section 4-55A-3 NMSA 1978 , but exclusive of any land owned by the United States or the state of New Mexico, petition the board in writing to create an improvement district and construct the improvement described in the petition, the board may:

(1) create the improvement district;

(2) select the type of material and method of construction to be used; and

(3) proceed with the construction of the improvement as authorized in Section 4-55A-14 NMSA 1978 after complying with the requirements for a preliminary hearing required in this section. A governing body of a municipality, board of county commissioners or local board of education may sign a petition seeking the improvement for any land under its control. The submission of separate petitions for any one improvement district within a six-month period shall be considered as a single petition.

B. The board may:

(1) pay the cost of the improvement;

(2) assess the cost of the improvement against the benefiting tracts or parcels of land;

(3) pay part of the cost of the improvement and assess part of the cost of the improvement against the benefiting tracts or parcels of land; or

(4) impose an improvement district property tax pursuant to the County Improvement District Act.

C. If any part or all of the cost of the improvement sought to be constructed as authorized in this section is to be assessed against the benefiting tracts or parcels of land or paid for by the imposition of an improvement district property tax, the board shall hold a preliminary hearing on the proposed improvement district and give notice of the preliminary hearing.
N.M. Stat. § 31-6-14 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 31 / Article 6 / Section 31-6-14
§ 31-6-14. Multiple representation
Status: in_force

A lawyer or lawyers who are associated in practice shall not continue multiple representation of clients in a grand jury proceeding if the exercise of the lawyer's independent professional judgment on behalf of one of the clients will be or is likely to be adversely affected by his representation of another client. If the court determines that this principle is violated, it may order separate representation of witnesses, giving appropriate weight to an individual's right to counsel of his own choosing.
N.M. Stat. § 4-3A-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 3A / Section 4-3A-6
§ 4-3A-6. Unpaid taxes
Status: in_force

The county of Cibola is entitled to all unpaid taxes, which remain unpaid at the effective date of this act upon property within the area embraced by the county of Cibola and any funds in the hands of the treasurer of Valencia county at the time this act becomes effective, or which thereafter come into the treasurer's hands which are properly transferable by the treasurer of Valencia county to the treasurer of Cibola county, shall be transferred in the regular course in the administration of the office upon the demand from such authority to receive same.
N.M. Stat. § 3-28-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 28 / Section 3-28-3
§ 3-28-3. Certificate of association
Status: in_force

The incorporators of an association formed under Chapter 3, Article 28 NMSA 1978 shall execute a certificate setting forth:

A. the name of the association. No name shall be assumed that is in use by another association or corporation in this state or so nearly similar as to lead to uncertainty or confusion;

B. the names of the incorporators;

C. the location of its principal office in this state;

D. the objects and purposes of the association, the county or counties in which its operations are to be carried on and the general description of the lands, reservoir, pipelines and water or natural gas supply systems to be used under the management of the association;

E. the amount of capital stock and number and denomination of the shares or, if the incorporators do not desire to issue shares of stock, the plan and manner of acquiring membership and of providing funds or means for the acquisition, construction, improvement and maintenance of its works and for its necessary expenses;

F. the period, if any, limited for the duration of the association; and

G. the number of members to serve upon the board of directors of the association and the duration of their offices, and it may name the persons who shall serve as the board of directors for the first three months or until their successors are duly appointed and qualified.

The certificate or any amendment thereof may also contain any provision not inconsistent with the law of this state that the incorporators may choose to insert for the regulation and conduct of the affairs of the association extending its membership, enlarging or changing the scope of its operations, creating and enforcing a lien upon the reservoirs, works, water rights and pipelines of the association or its members for the cost of the acquisition, construction, repair, improvement and maintenance of same, collecting the necessary funds for expenses and purposes of the association, defining or limiting its powers and for its dissolution and the distribution or other disposition of its property.
N.M. Stat. § 27-11-15 — NM Code / Chapter 27 / Article 11 / Section 27-11-15
§ 27-11-15. Disposition of recovered medicaid funds
Status: in_force

A. Overpayments collected pursuant to the Medicaid Provider and Managed Care Act on behalf of the state shall be remitted to the department for deposit in the general fund to be used for the state's medicaid program.

B. The department shall not enter into a contract to pay any portion of funds recovered by the state from a medicaid provider, a managed care organization or a subcontractor to any other person unless expressly authorized or required to do so by state or federal law.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-44-46 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 44 / Section 59A-44-46
§ 59A-44-46. Fraternal benefit societies; certificate provisions relating to individuals who are eligible for medical benefits under the medicaid program
Status: in_force

A. Each individual or group policy or certificate of accident or health insurance issued by a society that is delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state shall include provisions that require benefits paid on behalf of a child or other insured person under the policy or certificate to be paid to the human services department when:

(1) the human services department has paid or is paying benefits on behalf of the child or other insured person under the state's medicaid program pursuant to Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 1396, et seq. ;

(2) payment for the services in question has been made by the human services department to the medicaid provider; and

(3) the society is notified that the insured individual receives benefits under the medicaid program and that benefits must be paid directly to the human services department.

B. The notice required under Paragraph (3) of Subsection A of this section may be accomplished through an attachment to the claim by the human services department for insurance benefits when the claim is first submitted by the human services department to the society.

C. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, checks in payment for claims pursuant to any individual or group policy or certificate of accident or health insurance for health care services provided to persons who are also eligible for benefits under the medicaid program and provided by medical providers qualified to participate under the policy or certificate shall be made payable to the provider. The society may be notified that the insured individual is eligible for medicaid benefits through an attachment to the claim by the provider for insurance benefits when the claim is first submitted by the provider to the society.

D. No individual or group policy or certificate of accident or health insurance issued by a society that is delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state on or after the effective date of this section shall contain any provision denying or limiting insurance benefits because services are rendered to an insured who is eligible for or who has received medical assistance under the medicaid program of this state.
N.M. Stat. § 30-4-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 30 / Article 4 / Section 30-4-3
§ 30-4-3. False imprisonment
Status: in_force

False imprisonment consists of intentionally confining or restraining another person without his consent and with knowledge that he has no lawful authority to do so.

Whoever commits false imprisonment is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
N.M. Stat. § 3-16-17 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 16 / Section 3-16-17
§ 3-16-17. Substitution of combined organization in pending court proceedings
Status: in_force

If any action, suit or proceeding is pending in any court for or against the city or county at the time the combined municipal organization becomes operative, the combined municipal organization shall be substituted as plaintiff or defendant, as the case may be, in such action, suit or proceeding, and the same shall proceed as if the claim, right, debt or demand upon which the action, suit or proceeding was founded, had originally existed in favor of or against the combined municipal organization.
N.M. Stat. § 6-21-19 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 21 / Section 6-21-19
§ 6-21-19. Bonds; legal investments for public officers and fiduciaries
Status: in_force

The bonds issued under the authority of the New Mexico Finance Authority Act shall be legal investments in which all insurance companies, banks and savings and loan associations organized under the laws of the state, public officers and public bodies and all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds.
N.M. Stat. § 60-14-6 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 14 / Section 60-14-6
§ 60-14-6. Bonding requirements; dealers, brokers, salespersons, manufacturers, repairmen and installers
Status: in_force

A. The division, with the approval of the committee, may by regulation require each dealer, broker, salesperson, manufacturer, repairman and installer to furnish and maintain with the division a consumer protection bond underwritten by a corporate surety authorized to transact business in New Mexico, in a sum to be determined by regulation and in such form, and with either unit or blanket coverage, as required by regulation, to be conditioned upon the dealer, broker, salesperson, manufacturer, repairman or installer complying with the provisions of the Manufactured Housing Act and any other law applying to the licensee, and also as indemnity for any loss sustained by any person damaged:

(1) as a result of a violation by the licensee of any provision of the Manufactured Housing Act or of any regulation of the division adopted pursuant to that act;

(2) as a result of a violation of any regulation adopted by the division;

(3) by fraud of a licensee in the execution or performance of a contract; or

(4) by misrepresentation or the making of false promises through the advertising or the agents of a licensee.

B. The consumer protection bond may include provisions for the indemnification for any loss sustained by any consumer as the result of the refusal, failure or inability to transfer good and sufficient legal title to the consumer by the transferor or any other party claiming title.

C. The committee may attach and disburse for cause any consumer protection bond furnished to the division pursuant to this section. The division, subject to the approval of the committee, shall adopt the necessary rules and regulations to administer the provisions of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 3-52-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 52 / Section 3-52-12
§ 3-52-12. Legal investments
Status: in_force

Bonds are legal investments for savings banks and insurance companies under the laws of this state. They are bonds, notes or other obligations of a municipal subdivision of this state, issued pursuant to a law of this state, for the purposes of investment or purchase by the state investment officer.
N.M. Stat. § 19-3-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 19-3-12
§ 19-3-12. Occupying or denying others use of public land; penalty
Status: in_force

Any person who shall, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, be found occupying, or trying to deprive others of the free use and pasturing upon the public land, under the pretext of a deed, upon conviction thereof before any court having jurisdiction in the matter, shall be fined in a sum of not less than ten dollars [($10.00)], and shall besides, be liable for the damages caused thereto.
N.M. Stat. § 10-4-10 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 4 / Section 10-4-10
§ 10-4-10. Guilty plea; judgment; denial or refusal to plead; trial
Status: in_force

If the defendant pleads guilty, the court must render judgment of conviction against him. If he denied the matters charged or refuses to answer the accusation, the court must immediately, or at such time as it may appoint, proceed to try the accusation.
N.M. Stat. § 21-22F-11 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 22F / Section 21-22F-11
§ 21-22F-11. Reports
Status: in_force

The commission [department] shall make an annual report to the governor and the legislature, prior to each regular session, of its activities, including the loan repayment awards granted, the names and addresses of participating attorneys and their employers who are in public service employment pursuant to the Public Service Law Loan Repayment Act and the names of participating attorneys who are not employed in public service employment, the reason they are not employed in public service employment and the amounts owed and paid on loans and loan repayment awards.
N.M. Stat. § 9-17-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 17 / Section 9-17-3
§ 9-17-3. General services department; creation; transfer and merger of division functions; merger and creation of divisions
Status: in_force

A. The “general services department” is created. The department shall consist of those divisions created by law or executive order, as modified by executive order pursuant to Subsection C of this section, including:

(1) the administrative services division;

(2) the facilities management division;

(3) the purchasing division;

(4) the risk management division; and

(5) the transportation services division.

B. The secretary of general services is empowered to organize the department and the divisions specified in Subsection A of this section and may transfer or merge functions between divisions in the interest of efficiency and economy.

C. The governor is empowered to merge divisions of the department or to create additional divisions by executive order in the interest of efficiency or economy.
N.M. Stat. § 47-8-21 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 8 / Section 47-8-21
§ 47-8-21. Relief of owner liability
Status: in_force

A. Unless otherwise agreed, upon termination of the owner's interest in the dwelling unit, including but not limited to terminations of interest by sale, assignment, death, bankruptcy, appointment of receiver or otherwise, the owner is relieved of all liability under the rental agreement and of all obligations under the Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Act as to events occurring subsequent to written notice to the resident of the termination of the owner's interest. The successor in interest to the owner shall be liable for all obligations under the rental agreement or under the Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Act. Upon receipt by the resident of written notice of the termination of the owner's interest in the dwelling unit, the resident shall pay all future rental payments, when due, to the successor in interest to the owner.

B. Unless otherwise agreed, a manager of premises that include a dwelling unit is relieved of liability under the rental agreement and the Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Act as to events occurring after written notice to the resident of the termination of his management.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-20A-4 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 20A / Section 59A-20A-4
§ 59A-20A-4. License denial, suspension, revocation or refusal to renew
Status: in_force

A. The superintendent may deny, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew the license of a provider or broker if the superintendent finds that:

(1) there was any material misrepresentation in the application for the license;

(2) the licensee, including any officer, partner, member, key management personnel or representative of the licensee, has been convicted of fraudulent or dishonest practices, is subject to a final administrative action or is otherwise shown to be untrustworthy or incompetent;

(3) the licensee has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere, or been found guilty of, any felony or a misdemeanor involving fraud or moral turpitude, regardless of whether a judgment of conviction has been entered by the court;

(4) the licensee no longer meets the requirements for initial licensure;

(5) the licensee has performed any act prohibited by the Viatical Settlements Act;

(6) the provider demonstrates a pattern of unreasonable payments to viators;

(7) the provider has entered into a viatical settlement contract that has not been approved in accordance with the Viatical Settlements Act;

(8) the provider has failed to honor contractual obligations set out in a viatical settlement contract; or

(9) the provider has assigned, transferred or pledged a viaticated policy to a person other than another provider licensed in New Mexico or a financing entity.

B. Before the superintendent suspends, revokes or refuses to renew the license of a provider or broker, the superintendent shall conduct a hearing in accordance with Chapter 59A, Article 4 NMSA 1978 .

C. Any person aggrieved by denial of an application may request a hearing before the superintendent in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 59A, Article 4 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 21-14A-5.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 14A / Section 21-14A-5.1
§ 21-14A-5.1. Title to property acquired
Status: in_force

All property acquired using the proceeds of a bond issue and all property acquired by gift, devolution or bequest shall be taken in the name of the local school board in the district in which the property is situate. All property held by the local school board pursuant to this section shall be used solely for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Off-Campus Instruction Act until such time as the off-campus instruction program ceases to exist. At such time, the property so held by the local school board may be used for other purposes within the scope of authority of the local school board. No real property may be acquired pursuant to this section after July 1, 1998.
N.M. Stat. § 22-19A-12 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 19A / Section 22-19A-12
§ 22-19A-12. Tax exemption; no charge against state
Status: in_force

Bonds are exempt from taxation by the state or any of its political subdivisions. No obligation created pursuant to the Teacher Housing Revenue Bond Act shall be a charge against or a debt of the state or any of its political subdivisions.
N.M. Stat. § 49-8-2 — NM Code / Chapter 49 / Article 8 / Section 49-8-2
§ 49-8-2. Elections; right to vote
Status: in_force

A. On the first Monday of April of each alternate year, an election shall be held after the trustees have given at least seven days notice thereof by posting not less than five notices in conspicuous places within the grant, which shall include the post offices at Truchas, Cordova, formerly known as Quemado, and Chimayo. Except as provided in Chapter 49, Article 8 NMSA 1978 , the election shall be conducted as nearly as practical in the same manner as provided in the Election Code for the conduct of general elections, provided that the board of trustees of the Nuestra Senora del Rosario, San Fernando y Santiago land grant and the secretary of the board shall perform the functions designated in that code for the county commission and the county clerk, respectively, and provided further that no registration shall be required. Official ballots for voting shall contain the names of not less than five owners of interests in the grant. The five persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected as trustees for the ensuing two years.

B. At all elections, every owner of an undivided interest in the grant shall be entitled to one vote. The trustees in charge of the election shall prepare from the best information obtainable a list of all owners of interest in the grant and shall deliver the list to their successors. Any person claiming to be the owner of an interest whose claim is not admitted by the trustees may file with them an oath in writing, stating that he is an owner and giving as fully as he can the chain of title to his interest. If his claim is substantiated by the oaths in writing of two owners of such interests, he shall be permitted to vote at the election.