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N.M. Stat. § 32A-2-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 2 / Section 32A-2-2
§ 32A-2-2. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Delinquency Act is:

A. consistent with the protection of the public interest, to remove from children committing delinquent acts the adult consequences of criminal behavior, but to still hold children committing delinquent acts accountable for their actions to the extent of the child's age, education, mental and physical condition, background and all other relevant factors, and to provide a program of supervision, care and rehabilitation, including rehabilitative restitution by the child to the victims of the child's delinquent act to the extent that the child is reasonably able to do so;

B. to provide effective deterrents to acts of juvenile delinquency, including an emphasis on community-based alternatives;

C. to strengthen families and to successfully reintegrate children into homes and communities;

D. to foster and encourage collaboration between government agencies and communities with regard to juvenile justice policies and procedures;

E. to develop juvenile justice policies and procedures that are supported by data;

F. to develop objective risk assessment instruments to be used for admission to juvenile detention centers;

G. to encourage efficient processing of cases;

H. to develop community-based alternatives to detention;

I. to eliminate or reduce disparities based upon race or gender;

J. to improve conditions of confinement in juvenile detention centers; and

K. to achieve reductions in the number of warrants issued, the number of probation violations and the number of youth awaiting placements.
N.M. Stat. § 21-21O-5 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21O / Section 21-21O-5
§ 21-21O-5. Duration of scholarship
Status: in_force

Each scholarship is for a period of one semester. A scholarship may be renewed as long as the eligible student continues to meet the conditions of eligibility, until the eligible student graduates from a public post-secondary educational institution or tribal college.
N.M. Stat. § 3-28-22 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 28 / Section 3-28-22
§ 3-28-22. Validation; existing association and outstanding bonds
Status: in_force

All intercommunity water and natural gas associations established or purportedly established pursuant to Chapter 3, Article 28 NMSA 1978 or any predecessor or similar statute, all prior bonds issued by such associations and all action taken by boards of directors of such associations preliminary to and in the issuance of bonds of such associations pursuant to Chapter 3, Article 28 NMSA 1978 or any predecessor or similar statute, are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-17-4 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 17 / Section 32A-17-4
§ 32A-17-4. Service delivery
Status: in_force

A. The department shall coordinate and implement the provision of family support services. The public education department shall assist the department by identifying children in public schools who are at risk for the purpose of making family support services available to the families of those children. The department shall ensure the statewide quality of family support services by:

(1) providing standards and policies for family support services that are family-centered and that identify family strengths;

(2) monitoring the provision of family support services to ensure that the services satisfy standards established by the department;

(3) providing training for persons who provide family support services; and

(4) establishing a standardized intake process for the purpose of rapidly assessing the needs of a child and family referred for family support services.

B. A person who works in a family support services program shall:

(1) provide family support services in the family's home or any other natural setting;

(2) provide direct crisis intervention and therapeutic services, to be available twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week, as needed for each family;

(3) assist with the solution of practical problems that contribute to family stress, so as to affect improved parental performance and enhanced functioning of the family unit; and

(4) arrange for additional assistance, to the extent of available resources, for the family, including housing, child care, education and training, emergency cash grants, state and federally funded public assistance or any other basic support or social service appropriate for the family.
N.M. Stat. § 7-5A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 5A / Section 7-5A-1
§ 7-5A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Administration Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 72-18-19 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 18 / Section 72-18-19
§ 72-18-19. Board's administrative powers
Status: in_force

The board of the district may exercise the following administrative powers:

A. fix the time and place at which its regular meetings will be held within the district and provide for the calling and holding of special meetings;

B. adopt and amend or otherwise modify bylaws and rules for procedure;

C. prescribe by resolution a system of business administration and create all necessary offices and establish and reestablish the powers, duties and compensation of all officers and employees;

D. require and fix the amount of all official bonds necessary or desirable and convenient in the opinion of the board for the protection of the funds and property of the district, subject to the provisions of Section 12 of the Flood Control District Act;

E. prescribe a method of auditing and allowing or rejecting claims and demands; and

F. make and pass resolutions and orders on behalf of the district pursuant to the provisions of the Flood Control District Act which are necessary or useful for the government and management of the affairs of the district, for the execution of the powers vested in the district and for carrying into effect the provisions of that act.
N.M. Stat. § 58-1-84 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 1 / Section 58-1-84
§ 58-1-84. Unlawful sanctions; violations of rules and orders
Status: in_force

A. Any person responsible for an act or omission expressly declared to be unlawful by the Banking Act is guilty:

(1) of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) or both;

(2) of a felony punishable by imprisonment not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or both, if the act or omission was done or made with intent to defraud.

B. An officer, director, employee, agent or attorney of a bank is responsible for an act or omission of the institution declared to be unlawful by the Banking Act whenever, knowing that such act or omission is unlawful, he participates in authorizing, executing, ratifying or concealing such act, or in authorizing or ratifying such omission or, having a duty to take the required action, omits to do so.

C. A director shall be deemed to participate in any action of which he has knowledge taken or omitted to be taken by the board of which he is a member unless he dissents therefrom in writing and promptly notifies the commissioner [director of the financial institutions division of the regulation and licensing department] of his dissent.

D. It is unlawful to knowingly violate any lawful rule, regulation or order of the commissioner [director].
N.M. Stat. § 59A-18-29 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 18 / Section 59A-18-29
§ 59A-18-29. Cancellation of certain policies
Status: in_force

A. An insurer or agent may at any time cancel a policy for nonpayment of premium when due, whether the premium is payable directly to the insurer or agent or indirectly under any premium financing plan or extension of credit. The insurer or agent shall give the named insured written notice of the cancellation not less than ten days prior to the effective date of the cancellation.

B. An insurer may cancel its policy without cause at any time within sixty days following original issuance and effective date of the policy. The insurer shall give the named insured written notice of the cancellation not less than ten days prior to the effective date of the cancellation, which effective date shall fall within the sixty-day period.

C. Subject to Subsection A of this section, after expiration of the sixty-day period referred to in Subsection B of this section, an insurer or agent shall not cancel except for reasonable cause such policies and for such causes, and with advance notice of cancellation for such period of time, as may from time to time be provided by rules and regulations of the superintendent. Such rules and regulations may also require that statement of the reasons for cancellation be contained in the notice of cancellation given to specified persons.

D. Notice of cancellation shall be given using any communication method authorized by the named insured, or by personal delivery to the named insured or by mailing the notice postage-paid addressed to the named insured at the address last of record with the insurer. Notice so mailed shall be deemed given when deposited in a mail depository of the United States post office.

E. There shall be no liability on the part of and no cause of action shall arise against an insurer or other person for furnishing information as to reasons for cancellation or for a statement made or information given pursuant to this section.

F. This section shall not apply as to life insurance or annuity contracts, health insurance contracts, title insurance, inland marine insurance contracts, or to an insurance policy that by its terms is not cancellable during the term of the policy at the option of the insurer.
N.M. Stat. § 29-4-1 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 4 / Section 29-4-1
§ 29-4-1. Police board may establish trust funds; purpose
Status: in_force

Authority is hereby granted to the board of supervisors of the New Mexico state police [secretary of public safety] to create and establish in behalf and for the benefit of eligible members of the New Mexico state police a pension trust fund providing termination benefits and retirement benefits and a supplementary trust fund providing benefits to such members and their dependents in the event of disability or death as limited hereinafter or in the trust agreements.
N.M. Stat. § 21-21F-3 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21F / Section 21-21F-3
§ 21-21F-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Fire Fighter and Peace Officer Survivors Scholarship Act:

A. “ board ” or “ department ” means the higher education department;

B. “ cost of attendance ” means the price of attendance, the publication of which is required by federal law, and includes tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, transportation and any additional costs for a program in which a student is enrolled;

C. “ eligible institution ” means any public institution of higher education in any state in the United States;

D. “ fire fighter ” means any member of a fire department that is part of or administered by the state or any political subdivision of the state;

E. “ peace officer ” means any member of a police or sheriff's department that is part of or administered by the state or any political subdivision of the state and officers in the corrections department;

F. “ research institution ” means the university of New Mexico, New Mexico state university or New Mexico institute of mining and technology; and

G. “ survivor ” means the spouse of the fire fighter or peace officer killed in the line of duty and any adopted or natural children twenty-one years of age or under at the time of the fire fighter's or peace officer's death.
N.M. Stat. § 76-2-8 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 2 / Section 76-2-8
§ 76-2-8. County agents; selection; supervision; duties
Status: in_force

The county agents to be appointed in pursuance of this act, shall be selected by the extension service of the New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts [New Mexico state university] and a committee appointed by the boards of county commissioners of the respective counties from nominations made by the extension service of said college. The said county agents shall work under the direction of the extension service of said college and shall devote their entire time to the discharge of their duties under this act. It shall be their duty to demonstrate as far as possible the improved agricultural and home economics practices and systems of farming and homemaking, so far as the same may be applicable to local conditions, which have been developed by the investigations of the United States department of agriculture and the agricultural colleges and the experiment stations; to aid in the organization and direction of agricultural work and homemaking in the several counties; to cooperate with agricultural and home economics clubs and other associations and organizations having for their object the betterment of agriculture and home and rural conditions.
N.M. Stat. § 33-9A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 33 / Article 9A / Section 33-9A-1
§ 33-9A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 33, Article 9A NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Juvenile Community Corrections Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 41-4-9 — NM Code / Chapter 41 / Article 4 / Section 41-4-9
§ 41-4-9. Liability; medical facilities
Status: in_force

The immunity granted pursuant to Subsection A of Section 41-4-4 NMSA 1978 does not apply to liability for damages resulting from bodily injury, wrongful death or property damage caused by the negligence of public employees while acting within the scope of their duties in the operation of any hospital, infirmary, mental institution, clinic, dispensary, medical care home or like facilities.
N.M. Stat. § 22-10B-7 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 10B / Section 22-10B-7
§ 22-10B-7. Rulemaking authority
Status: in_force

The department shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the Teacher Residency Act.
N.M. Stat. § 72-16-17 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 16 / Section 72-16-17
§ 72-16-17. Compensation of directors
Status: in_force

Directors shall receive no compensation for their services as a director, officer, engineer, attorney, employee or other agent of the authority. Directors may be reimbursed for expenses incurred by them on authority business with approval of the board.
N.M. Stat. § 13-4A-7 — NM Code / Chapter 13 / Article 4A / Section 13-4A-7
§ 13-4A-7. Administration of the program
Status: in_force

The division shall determine the amount to be made available for the purchase of art, in consultation with the contracting agency responsible for the building to be constructed or renovated, and payments thereof shall be made in accordance with law. All agencies shall notify the division in writing upon legislative approval of construction budgets. One percent of the total appropriation for new construction or renovation of any building shall be deposited into the art in public places fund after the issuance of the appropriate bonds. If the entire one percent of the total funds appropriated for a particular building is not required for the project, the remainder shall accumulate in the art in public places fund and shall be accounted for separately and expended for the acquisition of art for existing buildings, as determined by the division. Any money remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain in the art in public places fund to be used to implement the purposes of the Art in Public Places Act.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-4-16 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 4 / Section 32A-4-16
§ 32A-4-16. Ex-parte custody orders
Status: in_force

A. At the time a petition is filed or any time thereafter, the children's court or the district court may issue an ex-parte custody order upon a sworn written statement of facts showing probable cause exists to believe that the child is abused or neglected and that custody under the criteria set forth in Section 32A-4-18 NMSA 1978 is necessary.

B. The ex-parte custody order shall be served on the respondent by a person authorized to serve arrest warrants and shall direct the officer to take custody of the child and deliver him to a place designated by the court.

C. The Rules of Evidence do not apply to the issuance of an ex-parte custody order.
N.M. Stat. § 9-5A-5 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 5A / Section 9-5A-5
§ 9-5A-5. Secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources; appointment
Status: in_force

A. The administrative head of the energy, minerals and natural resources department is the “secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources”, who shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate and who shall serve in the executive cabinet.

B. An appointed secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources shall serve and have all of the duties, responsibilities and authority of that office during the period of time prior to final action by the senate confirming or rejecting his appointment.
N.M. Stat. § 21-22A-10 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 22A / Section 21-22A-10
§ 21-22A-10. Reports
Status: in_force

The department shall make annual reports to the governor and to the legislature, prior to each regular session, of its activities, the loans granted and the names and addresses of persons to whom loans were granted and the osteopathic medical schools or colleges or osteopathic physician's assistant programs attended by those receiving the loans, together with a list of the names and locations of practice of those loan recipients who have completed their education and have become licensed osteopathic physicians or osteopathic physician's assistants in New Mexico as a result of a student loan pursuant to the Osteopathic Medical Student Loan for Service Act.
N.M. Stat. § 18-8-5 — NM Code / Chapter 18 / Article 8 / Section 18-8-5
§ 18-8-5. Management
Status: in_force

A. The corporation shall be required to prepare a long-term management plan for any site acquired, stabilized, restored or protected as provided for in Subsection D of Section 4 of the New Mexico Prehistoric and Historic Sites Preservation Act. The management plan shall be subject to the approval of the division. That plan shall provide for disposition of the corporation's interest in the property, in the event that the corporation ceases to exist, either to another corporation or to the state. The division and the corporation shall enter into a contract providing for management, interpretation and preservation of any property acquired, stabilized, restored or protected under the provisions of the New Mexico Prehistoric and Historic Sites Preservation Act.

B. A contract for the management, interpretation or preservation of a site may be enforced by injunction or other appropriate proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction.
N.M. Stat. § 31-4-17 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 4 / Section 31-4-17
§ 31-4-17. Extension of time of commitment, adjournment
Status: in_force

If the accused is not arrested under warrant of the governor by the expiration of the time specified in the warrant or bond, a judge or magistrate may discharge him or may recommit him for a further period not to exceed sixty days, or a judge or magistrate judge may again take bail for his appearance and surrender, as provided in Section 16, but within a period not to exceed sixty days after the date of such new bond.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-30-4 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 30 / Section 59A-30-4
§ 59A-30-4. Control and supervision by superintendent
Status: in_force

A. Title insurers and title insurance producers shall operate in New Mexico under the control and supervision of the superintendent. The superintendent shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of the New Mexico Title Insurance Law. The superintendent may adopt uniform rules and regulations to address underwriting standards and practices, including but not limited to rules and regulations that prohibit title insurers from insuring specified risks that the superintendent determines may pose an unreasonable risk to the financial stability of title insurers.

B. No title insurer or title insurance producer shall collect any premium, issue any title insurance policy or agency agreement, or reinsure any portion of the risk assumed under any title insurance policy, other than in conformance with the New Mexico Title Insurance Law and rules and regulations adopted by the superintendent as authorized by the New Mexico Title Insurance Law.
N.M. Stat. § 30-20-17 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 20 / Section 30-20-17
§ 30-20-17. Reward
Status: in_force

If a person provides information leading to the conviction, or adjudication of delinquency pursuant to the Children's Code, 1 of another for making a bomb scare, he shall, upon the recommendation of the district attorney, be entitled to a reward in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100).
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-1017 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-1017
§ 66-3-1017. Off-highway motor vehicle advisory board created; members; compensation
Status: in_force

A. The “off-highway motor vehicle advisory board” is created to advise the department on matters related to administration of the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act. The board shall consist of the following seven members appointed by the governor:

(1) one landowner living near a national forest or bureau of land management property that is used extensively for recreational off-highway vehicle activity;

(2) one producer or one grazing permittee on public lands from the farming or livestock industry;

(3) one person from the off-highway motor vehicle industry;

(4) one off-highway motor vehicle user;

(5) one hunter or angler;

(6) one quiet recreationalist, such as a hiker, backpacker, birdwatcher, equestrian, mountain biker, rock climber or archaeological enthusiast; and

(7) one member with expertise in injury prevention or treatment.

B. The board shall select a chair and a vice chair.

C. The board shall meet at the call of the chair but not less than twice annually.

D. Members shall be appointed to staggered terms of two years each; provided that no more than four terms expire in any one year. The board members shall select by lot four members to serve initial terms of three years each. A vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the governor for the remainder of the unexpired term. Members of the board shall be entitled to reimbursement pursuant to the Per Diem and Mileage Act.
N.M. Stat. § 3-32-13 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 32 / Section 3-32-13
§ 3-32-13. Bonds made legal investments
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 3-32-1 through 3-32-16 NMSA 1978 , shall be legal investments for savings banks and insurance companies organized under the laws of this state.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-34-1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 34 / Section 59A-34-1
§ 59A-34-1. Scope of article
Status: in_force

This article applies as to domestic stock insurers and domestic mutual insurers as defined in Sections 71, 74, and 76 of the Insurance Code.
N.M. Stat. § 43-1-4 — NM Code / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 43-1-4
§ 43-1-4. Legal representation of clients
Status: in_force

A. Clients shall be represented by counsel at all proceedings under the code and shall be entitled to obtain advice of counsel at any time regarding their status under the code.

B. The court shall appoint counsel to represent a client who has not retained counsel and is unable to do so. When appointing counsel, the court shall give preference to nonprofit organizations offering representation to persons with a mental illness or a developmental disability. A client shall be liable for the cost of legal representation unless the client is indigent.
N.M. Stat. § 2-7F-69 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 7F / Section 2-7F-69
§ 2-7F-69. Representative district sixty-three
Status: in_force

Representative district sixty-three is composed of Curry county precincts 4 through 9, 20, 22, 25 through 30, 36 and 41; De Baca county; Guadalupe county; Roosevelt county precincts 1, 6 through 8 and 17; and San Miguel county precinct 17.