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N.M. Stat. § 67-12-7 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 12 / Section 67-12-7
§ 67-12-7. Outdoor advertising; safety rest areas; information centers
Status: in_force

In order to provide information in the specific interest of the traveling public, the commission may authorize outdoor advertising at safety rest areas and at information centers.
N.M. Stat. § 3-14-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 14 / Section 3-14-4
§ 3-14-4. Commission-manager; charter
Status: in_force

Municipalities electing to be governed under the commission-manager form of government shall be governed as provided in Sections 3-14-1 through 3-14-19 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 32A-3B-21 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 3B / Section 32A-3B-21
§ 32A-3B-21. Expungement of records
Status: in_force

A. On motion by or on behalf of an individual who has been the subject of a petition filed under the Children's Code, or on the court's own motion, the court shall vacate its findings, orders and judgments on the petition, and order the legal and social files and records of the court, the department and any other agency in the case expunged, and if requested in the motion the court shall also order law enforcement files and records expunged. An order expunging records and files shall be entered if the court finds that:

(1) two years have elapsed since the final release of the individual from legal custody and supervision or two years have elapsed since the entry of any other judgment not involving legal custody or supervision; and

(2) the individual has not, within the two years immediately prior to filing the motion, been convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or found delinquent by a court, and no proceeding is pending seeking such a conviction or finding.

B. Reasonable notice of the motion shall be given to:

(1) the children's court attorney;

(2) the authority granting the release if the final release was from an agency, parole or probation;

(3) the law enforcement officer, department and central depository having custody of the law enforcement files and records if those records are included in the motion; and

(4) any other agency having custody of records or files subject to the expungement order.

C. Upon the entry of the expungement order, the proceedings in the case shall be treated as if they never occurred, and all index references shall be deleted and the court, law enforcement officers and departments and agencies shall reply, and the individual may reply, to an inquiry that no record exists with respect to such person. Copies of the expungement order shall be sent to each agency or official named in the order.

D. Any finding of delinquency or conviction of a crime, subsequent to the expungement order may at the court's discretion be used by the court as a basis to set aside the expungement order.

E. A person who has been the subject of a petition filed under the Children's Code shall be notified of the right to have records expunged.
N.M. Stat. § 52-6-12 — NM Code / Chapter 52 / Article 6 / Section 52-6-12
§ 52-6-12. Financial statements; other reports
Status: in_force

A. Each group shall submit to the director a statement of financial condition audited by an independent certified public accountant on or before the last day of the sixth month following the end of the group's fiscal year. The financial statement shall be on a form prescribed by the director and shall include actuarially appropriate reserves for:

(1) known claims and associated expenses;

(2) claims incurred but not reported and associated expenses;

(3) unearned premiums; and

(4) bad debts, which reserves shall be shown as liabilities. An actuarial opinion regarding reserves for:

(a) known claims and associated expenses; and

(b) claims incurred but not reported and associated expenses shall be included in the audited financial statement. The actuarial opinion shall be given by a member of the American academy of actuaries or other qualified loss reserve specialist as defined in the annual statement adopted by the national association of insurance commissioners.

B. The director may prescribe the format and frequency of other reports, which may include payroll audit reports, summary loss reports and quarterly financial statements.
N.M. Stat. § 21-8-2 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 8 / Section 21-8-2
§ 21-8-2. Construction of other names for college used in statutes
Status: in_force

Wherever in the statutes of the state of New Mexico, the term “agricultural college of New Mexico,” or “agricultural and mechanical college,” or “college of agriculture and mechanic arts,” or “agricultural college,” or “state college,” or “New Mexico agricultural college,” or any other similar designation, where the context shows the meaning to be “New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts,” the same shall be construed and held to mean “New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts [New Mexico state university].”
N.M. Stat. § 4-62-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 62 / Section 4-62-6
§ 4-62-6. Revenue bonds; mandatory rates for non-utility revenue-producing projects; mandamus; impairment of payment
Status: repealed

A. The governing body of any county issuing non-utility revenue bonds as authorized in Chapter 4, Article 62 NMSA 1978 shall establish rates for services rendered by or use of the applicable non-utility revenue-producing project to provide revenue sufficient to pay the following or, where applicable to a revenue-producing project, to enter into leases or other agreements sufficient to provide revenues that are sufficient to pay the following:

(1) all reasonable expenses of operation; and

(2) all principal of and interest on the revenue bonds as those amounts come due.

B. In the event the governing body fails or refuses to establish rates for the applicable non-utility revenue-producing project, or to enter into a lease or other agreement where applicable to a non-utility revenue-producing project, any bondholder may apply to the district court for a mandatory order requiring the governing body to establish rates or to enter into such applicable leases or agreements that will provide revenues adequate to meet the requirements of this section.

C. Any law that authorized the pledge of any or all of the pledged revenues to the payment of any revenue bonds issued pursuant to Chapter 4, Article 62 NMSA 1978 or that affects the pledged revenues, or any law supplemental thereto or otherwise appertaining thereto, shall not be repealed or amended or otherwise modified in such a manner as to impair any outstanding revenue bonds, unless such outstanding revenue bonds have been discharged in full or provision has been fully made therefor.
N.M. Stat. § 30-44-3 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 44 / Section 30-44-3
§ 30-44-3. Power to investigate and enforce civil remedies and prosecute criminal actions
Status: in_force

A. The attorney general, the district attorneys, the unit and the department have the power and authority to investigate violations of the Medicaid Fraud Act and bring actions to enforce the civil remedies established in the Medicaid Fraud Act.

B. The attorney general, the district attorneys and those attorneys who are employees of the unit to whom the attorney general or a district attorney has, by appointment made through a joint powers agreement or other agreement for that purpose, delegated criminal prosecutorial responsibility, shall have the power and authority to prosecute persons for the violation of criminal provisions of the Medicaid Fraud Act and for criminal offenses that are not defined in the Medicaid Fraud Act, but that involve or are directly related to the use of medicaid program funds or services provided through medicaid programs.
N.M. Stat. § 74-10-67 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 10 / Section 74-10-67
§ 74-10-67. Customary provisions
Status: in_force

The resolution authorizing the securities or other instrument appertaining thereto may contain any agreement or provision customarily contained in instruments securing securities, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, covenants designated in Section 73 of the Solid Waste Authority Act.
N.M. Stat. § 3-7-17 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 3-7-17
§ 3-7-17. Annexation; petition by owners of contiguous territory; duty of governing body; ordinance; appeal
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Sections 3-7-17.1 and 3-57-4 NMSA 1978 , whenever a petition:

(1) seeks the annexation of territory contiguous to a municipality;

(2) is signed by the owners of a majority of the number of acres in the contiguous territory;

(3) is accompanied by a map that shows the external boundary of the territory proposed to be annexed and the relationship of the territory proposed to be annexed to the existing boundary of the municipality; and

(4) is presented to the governing body, the governing body shall by ordinance express its consent or rejection to the annexation of such contiguous territory.

B. If the ordinance consents to the annexation of the contiguous territory, a copy of the ordinance, with a copy of the plat of the territory so annexed, shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. After the filing, the contiguous territory is part of the municipality. The clerk of the municipality shall also send copies of the ordinance annexing the territory and of the plat of the territory so annexed to the secretary of finance and administration and to the secretary of taxation and revenue.

C. Within thirty days after the filing of the copy of the ordinance in the office of the county clerk, any person owning land within the territory annexed to the municipality may appeal to the district court questioning the validity of the annexation proceedings. If no appeal to the district court is filed within thirty days after the filing of the ordinance in the office of the county clerk or if the court renders judgment in favor of the municipality, the annexation shall be deemed complete.
N.M. Stat. § 61-23-19 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 23 / Section 61-23-19
§ 61-23-19. Engineering; licenses; seals; incidental architectural work; supplemental surveying work
Status: in_force

A. The board shall issue licenses pursuant to the provisions of the Engineering and Surveying Practice Act. The board shall provide for the proper authentication of all documents.

B. The board shall regulate the use of seals and may approve alternative authentications to physical or electronic seals.

C. An engineer shall have the right to engage in activities properly classified as architecture insofar as it is incidental to the engineer's work as an engineer; provided that the engineer shall not make any representation as being an architect or as performing architectural services unless duly registered as such.

D. The board shall recognize that there may be occasions when professional engineers need to obtain supplemental survey information for the planning and design of an engineering project. A professional engineer who has primary engineering responsibility and control of an engineering project may perform supplemental surveying work in obtaining data incidental to that project. Supplemental surveying work may be performed by a professional engineer only on a project for which the engineer is providing engineering design services.
N.M. Stat. § 58-18-8.2 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 18 / Section 58-18-8.2
§ 58-18-8.2. Rules and regulations of the authority; secondary market facility
Status: in_force

Prior to establishing a secondary market facility or issuing any pass-through security, the authority shall adopt, subject to prior approval by the Mortgage Finance Authority Act oversight committee, rules and regulations governing the operations of the secondary market facility and the issuance of pass-through securities, which shall provide for the following, to the extent that the secondary market facility proposes to engage in such activities:

A. procedures for submission by mortgage lenders to the authority of offers to sell:

(1) mortgage loans;

(2) pass-through securities; or

(3) obligations secured by mortgage loans or pledges of mortgage loan revenues;

B. standards for allocating available funds or guarantees among mortgage lenders through the secondary market facility;

C. qualifications or conditions relating to the reinvestment by mortgage lenders of the funds made available to mortgage lenders by the secondary market facility; and

D. characteristics of pass-through securities to be issued by the secondary market facility.
N.M. Stat. § 29-9-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 9 / Section 29-9-8
§ 29-9-8. Confidentiality; impounding of exhibits
Status: in_force

A. Upon application of the commission, a district court may impound an exhibit marked in evidence at any public or private hearing held by the commission, and may order the exhibit to be retained by or delivered to and placed in the custody of the commission. If impounded, an exhibit shall not be taken from the custody of the commission except upon order of the district court granted after five days' notice to the commission or at the request or with the consent of the commission. Upon the removal from the custody of the commission of any impounded exhibit, it shall be returned to the person lawfully entitled to its possession.

B. The records, reports and files of the commission are not subject to the Public Records Act 1 or Sections 10-15-1 through 10-15-4 NMSA 1978 . The records, reports and files of the commission shall not be subject to subpoena except by order of the supreme court of New Mexico.

C. Any person, except the governor or the commission, who discloses information contained in the records, reports and files of the commission or obtained in a private hearing conducted by the commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or the imposition of a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both imprisonment and fine.
N.M. Stat. § 74-10-47 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 10 / Section 74-10-47
§ 74-10-47. Ranking among different issues
Status: in_force

All securities of the same issue or series shall, subject to the prior and superior rights of outstanding securities, claims and other obligations, have a prior, paramount and superior lien on the revenues pledged for the payment of the securities over and ahead of any lien thereagainst subsequently incurred of any other securities; provided, however, the resolution authorizing, or other instrument appertaining to, the issuance of any securities may provide for the subsequent authorization of bonds or other securities the lien for the payment of which on such revenues is on a parity with the lien thereon of the subject securities upon such conditions and subject to such limitations as the resolution or other instrument may provide.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-131 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-131
§ 10-11-131. Retirement board; officers; employment of services
Status: in_force

A. The retirement board shall elect from its own number a chairman and a vice chairman.

B. The retirement board shall appoint an executive director who shall be the chief administrative officer for the retirement board and the association.

C. The retirement board shall employ professional, technical, clerical and other services as required for the operation of the association. The compensation for employed services shall be fixed by the retirement board.

D. The state treasurer shall be the treasurer of the association and the custodian of its funds. The treasurer's general bond to the state shall cover all liability for acts as treasurer of the association. The treasurer shall credit all receipts of money and assets of the association to the association. The treasurer shall make disbursements from association assets only upon warrants issued by the secretary of finance and administration based upon vouchers signed by the executive secretary or vouchers signed by the state treasurer for purposes of investment.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-11-5 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 11 / Section 32A-11-5
§ 32A-11-5. Financial commitment; approval
Status: in_force

The officers and agencies of the state and of its political subdivisions having authority to place children are hereby empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states pursuant to Paragraph (3) of Section A of Article 7 of the Revised Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. Any such agreement that contains a financial commitment or imposes a financial obligation on the state or political subdivision or agency thereof shall not be binding unless it has the approval in writing of the secretary of finance and administration and of the chief local fiscal officer in the case of a political subdivision of the state.
N.M. Stat. § 57-26-12 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 26 / Section 57-26-12
§ 57-26-12. Lessor's defenses
Status: in_force

A. If a lessor establishes by a preponderance of evidence that a violation of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act was unintentional or the result of a bona fide error notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures reasonably adopted to avoid such errors, the lessor shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 11 of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act and the validity of the transaction is not affected. Examples of bona fide errors are clerical errors, calculation errors, errors due to unintentionally improper computer programming or data entry and printing errors, but do not include errors of legal judgment with respect to a lessor's obligations under the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act.

B. A lessor is not subject to the provisions of Section 11 of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act if, within sixty days after discovering a failure to comply with a requirement of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act and prior to the institution of an action for noncompliance and prior to the receipt of written notice of the noncompliance from the consumer, the lessor notifies the consumer of the noncompliance and makes whatever adjustments in the appropriate account are necessary to correct the noncompliance.

C. No provision of Section 11 of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act applies to any action done or omitted in good faith in conformity with some provision of that act, notwithstanding that after the action or omission has occurred the provision is amended, rescinded or determined by judicial or other competent authority to be invalid for any reason.
N.M. Stat. § 21-5-12 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 21-5-12
§ 21-5-12. Authority to borrow money; purposes
Status: in_force

That for the purpose of erecting, altering, improving, furnishing and equipping any necessary buildings or structures at the New Mexico school for the blind and visually impaired, or acquiring any necessary land for the use of said institute or for the retiring of the whole or any part of any series bonds, previously issued by said school under the provisions of law, or for any or all of such purposes, the board of regents or directors of the New Mexico school for the blind and visually impaired is hereby authorized to borrow money for such purposes in conformity with the terms of this act.
N.M. Stat. § 19-6-6 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 6 / Section 19-6-6
§ 19-6-6. Failure of lessee or purchaser to provide gates and runways at intersection of public highway; failure to close gate; penalty
Status: in_force

Every lessee of state lands, and every purchaser of state lands holding same under contract to purchase, who shall fence the same, shall erect and maintain gates and runways at all intersections at public highways, and failure so to do shall constitute a misdemeanor, upon conviction of which the lessee or holder of contract to purchase so convicted shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars [($25.00)] and in default of payment thereof, shall be imprisoned for not more than thirty days. Any person passing through such gate and failing to close the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by this section.
N.M. Stat. § 17-2-13 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 2 / Section 17-2-13
§ 17-2-13. Songbirds; trapping, killing or injuring prohibited
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot, ensnare or trap for the purpose of killing or in any other manner to injure or destroy any songbird, or birds whose principal food consists of insects, comprising all the species and varieties of birds represented by the several families of bluebirds, including the western and mountain bluebirds; also bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, which includes the chaparral bird or roadrunner (Geococcyx novo mexicanus), flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, wrens, and all other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. This section does not prohibit the killing of such birds for scientific purposes under permits from the department of game and fish.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-23E-17 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 23E / Section 59A-23E-17
§ 59A-23E-17. Treatment of partners and self-employed individuals in connection with group health plans
Status: in_force

A. Any plan, fund or program that would not be an employee welfare benefit plan, except for the provisions of this section, that is established or maintained by a partnership, to the extent that the plan, fund or program provides medical care to current or former partners in the partnership or to their dependents directly or through insurance, reimbursement or otherwise, shall be treated as an employee welfare benefit plan that is a group health plan.

B. As used in this section:

(1) “ employer ” includes a partnership in relation to a partner; and

(2) “ participant ” includes:

(a) in connection with a group health plan maintained by a partnership, an individual who is a partner in relationship to the partnership; and

(b) in connection with a group health plan maintained by a self-employed individual under which one or more employees are participants, the self-employed individual, if he or his beneficiaries are or may become eligible to receive a benefit under the plan.
N.M. Stat. § 57-28-8 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 28 / Section 57-28-8
§ 57-28-8. Final payment
Status: in_force

Ten days after certification of completion, any amounts remaining due the contractor or subcontractor under the terms of the contract shall be paid upon the presentation of the following:

A. a properly executed release and duly certified voucher for payment;

B. a release, if required, of all claims and claims of lien against the owner arising under and by virtue of the contract other than such claims of the contractor, if any, as may be specifically excepted by the contractor or subcontractor from the operation of the release in stated amounts to be set forth in the release; and

C. proof of completion.
N.M. Stat. § 6-8A-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 8A / Section 6-8A-1
§ 6-8A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 1 through 7 of this act may be cited as the “Accounts for Persons with Disabilities Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 31-4-17 — NM_STATUTES 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.