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N.M. Stat. § 50-17-10 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 17 / Section 50-17-10
§ 50-17-10. Civil actions; time limits; burdens of proof
Status: in_force

A. A civil action may be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction for a violation of the Healthy Workplaces Act within three years from the date the alleged violation occurred; provided that the time limit to file a civil action established by this subsection shall be tolled during an investigation by the division of the violation or related violations by the same employer. A lack of an investigation by the division shall not act as a bar to a civil action brought by a complainant pursuant to the Healthy Workplaces Act.

B. The division, the office of the attorney general or a person or entity that has a member who has been affected by a violation of the Healthy Workplaces Act may bring a civil action for a violation of the Healthy Workplaces Act.

C. A civil action to enforce any provision of the Healthy Workplaces Act may be filed without first filing an administrative complaint with the division and may:

(1) encompass all violations that occurred after the effective date of the Healthy Workplaces Act as part of a continuing course of conduct, regardless of the date on which the violations occurred;

(2) be pursued by an employee on behalf of the employee or be pursued by an employee on behalf of other employees similarly situated; or

(3) be pursued by an agent or representative designated by an employee.

D. It shall not be a defense to any action brought pursuant to this section that the complaint was brought by or in regard to the employment of a worker who does not have evidence of having a legal presence in the United States.

E. The parties in a civil action regarding retaliation by an employer shall be subject to the following burdens of proof:

(1) when an employee presents a prima facie showing of retaliation, the employer shall then have the burden to establish a legitimate, non-retaliatory reason for the adverse employment action; and

(2) when an employer meets the burden of proof required by Paragraph (1) of this subsection, the employee shall then have the burden to establish that the reason cited by the employer was pretextual.
N.M. Stat. § 43-1-24 — NM Code / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 43-1-24
§ 43-1-24. Appeals; court of appeals
Status: in_force

Appeals taken pursuant to this code shall be taken to the court of appeals according to the rules of appellate procedure of the supreme court.
N.M. Stat. § 12-3-18 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 3 / Section 12-3-18
§ 12-3-18. Official state guitar
Status: in_force

The New Mexico sunrise guitar is adopted as the official guitar of New Mexico.
N.M. Stat. § 77-3-8 — NM Code / Chapter 77 / Article 3 / Section 77-3-8
§ 77-3-8. Destruction of diseased livestock; payment to the owner; appraisal
Status: in_force

In cases where the board deems it necessary to destroy any diseased, infected or exposed livestock in order to prevent the spread of dangerous and fatal diseases such as glanders, farcy, tuberculosis, pleuro-pneumonia, rinderpest, foot and mouth disease or any other dangerous and fatal disease, foreign or other, which according to the rules, regulations and standards adopted by the United States department of agriculture animal and plant health inspection service cannot be extirpated by means other than the destroying of the diseased, infected or exposed livestock, the board may have the livestock killed and burned or buried under such rules as the board may prescribe. The board shall cooperate with the United States department of agriculture in paying to the owners of the slaughtered livestock the allowed indemnity determined by the United States department of agriculture animal and plant health inspection service and the board.
N.M. Stat. § 31-18B-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 31 / Article 18B / Section 31-18B-5
§ 31-18B-5. Hate crimes; law enforcement training
Status: in_force

A. No later than December 31, 2003, the New Mexico law enforcement academy board shall develop and incorporate into the basic law enforcement training required, pursuant to the Law Enforcement Training Act, a course of instruction at least two hours in length concerning the detection, investigation and reporting of a crime motivated by hate.

B. The New Mexico law enforcement academy board shall develop a course of instruction, learning and performance objectives and training standards, in conjunction with appropriate groups and individuals that have an interest in and expertise regarding crimes motivated by hate. The groups and individuals shall include law enforcement agencies, law enforcement academy instructors, experts on crimes motivated by hate and members of the public.

C. In-service law enforcement training, as required pursuant to Section 29-7-7.1 NMSA 1978 , shall include at least two hours of instruction that conform with the requirements set forth in Subsection B of this section.

D. Each certified regional law enforcement training facility shall incorporate into its basic law enforcement training and in-service law enforcement training a course of training described in Subsection B of this section that is comparable to or exceeds the standards of the course of instruction developed by the New Mexico law enforcement academy board.
N.M. Stat. § 29-2-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 2 / Section 29-2-7
§ 29-2-7. Commissioned officers; application; procedure
Status: in_force

The New Mexico state police shall cause all applicants for the position of commissioned officer to submit a written detailed application on forms as the secretary shall prescribe, and the secretary shall cause an investigation to be made of all applicants, subsequent to their taking the examination referred to in Section 29-2-8 NMSA 1978 , for the purpose of determining the moral character, general reputation and fitness of any applicant. An applicant who is found unfit as a result of the investigation shall be disqualified for employment. The secretary shall by rule prescribe the physical qualifications of applicants and shall require each applicant to submit to a physical examination by doctors as the secretary shall designate. An applicant who does not meet the physical requirements prescribed by the secretary shall be disqualified for employment. Inasmuch as laws have been enacted providing for retirement, disability and life insurance funds for members of the New Mexico state police, it is the intention of the legislature that no applicants will be appointed who are in such physical condition that the cost of such protection will thereby be increased.
N.M. Stat. § 1-13-21 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 13 / Section 1-13-21
§ 1-13-21. Clearing voting systems; transferring ballots
Status: in_force

A. The county clerk shall not clear the votes recorded on the removable storage media devices until at least forty-five days after adjournment of the county or state canvassing board, whichever is later.

B. The county clerk shall not clear and shall keep locked those removable media storage devices from voting systems used to tabulate votes for precincts where a recount, judicial inquiry or inspection is sought, subject to order of the district court or other authority having jurisdiction of the contest or inspection.

C. Beginning forty-five days after the adjournment of the state or county canvassing board, whichever is later, or forty-five days after completion of a recount or judicial inquiry, the county clerk may transfer ballots from the locked ballot boxes for disposition pursuant to Section 1-12-69 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 49-2-18 — NM Code / Chapter 49 / Article 2 / Section 49-2-18
§ 49-2-18. Conversion of corporations organized under Laws 1891, Statutes Chapter 86 into general corporations
Status: in_force

Twenty or more owners and proprietors of record of a corporation organized under Laws 1891, Chapter 86 may prepare proposed articles of incorporation and bylaws and a plan of conversion for the purpose of converting the existing corporation into a corporation organized under the general corporation law of this state. Upon notice, the proposers shall call a meeting of all owners and proprietors of record entitled to vote in the affairs of the existing corporation. The notice shall be published in English in a newspaper of general circulation in a county in which the existing corporation is located, once a week for three consecutive weeks, the last publication to be not more than thirty days prior to the date set for the meeting. Similar publication shall also be made in Spanish if there is a Spanish language newspaper of general circulation in the county. The proposed articles of incorporation and bylaws and the plan of conversion shall be presented at the meeting, and, if approved by a vote of the majority of the owners and proprietors of record present at the meeting, then, upon the filing of the articles of incorporation and bylaws with the secretary of state and the issuance of a certificate of incorporation, the corporation organized under Laws 1891, Chapter 86 is converted into a domestic corporation authorized to do business and entitled to all privileges and immunities of a domestic corporation organized under the general corporation laws of this state.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-114 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-114
§ 10-11-114. Municipal fire member coverage plan 5; member contribution rate
Status: in_force

A member under municipal fire member coverage plan 5 shall contribute sixteen and two-tenths percent of salary with the first full pay period in the calendar month in which municipal fire member coverage plan 5 becomes applicable to the member, except that a member whose annual salary is greater than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall contribute:

A. beginning July 1, 2021 and continuing through June 30, 2022, nineteen and two-tenths percent of salary;

B. beginning July 1, 2022 and continuing through June 30, 2023, nineteen and seven-tenths percent of salary;

C. beginning July 1, 2023 and continuing through June 30, 2024, twenty and two-tenths percent of salary;

D. beginning July 1, 2024 and continuing through June 30, 2025, twenty and seven-tenths percent of salary; and

E. beginning July 1, 2025 and thereafter, twenty-one and two-tenths percent of salary.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8-19.1 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8 / Section 22-8-19.1
§ 22-8-19.1. Preschool programs; selected districts
Status: in_force

A. The children, youth and families department shall fund preschool programs for zero- to five-year-old children in selected school districts. The children, youth and families department shall distribute any appropriation for this purpose to local entities upon approval by that department of an application from an individual school district or community-based early childhood education program. The preschool programs shall collaborate, where possible, with existing headstart programs or with other appropriate early childhood education programs in the community, and the preschool programs shall use one of the following three models:

(1) a community-based early childhood education program;

(2) a school-based early childhood education program; or

(3) a home-based early childhood education program.

B. School districts may choose to contract with licensed community-based early childhood education programs already in existence. School-based early childhood education programs may be housed in a school accredited by the public education department. A home-based early childhood education program may include a parents-as-teachers program, which supports parents in meeting the developmental learning and social growth needs of their young children.

C. Each preschool program shall have a strong parental involvement component, a staff development component and a procedural process to enable the children, youth and families department to monitor and evaluate the program. The curriculum for each program shall comprehensively address the total developmental needs of the child, including physical, cognitive, social and emotional needs, and shall include aspects of health care, nutrition, safety, the needs of the family and multicultural sensitivity, in coordination with other resources for families.
N.M. Stat. § 10-7F-9 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7F / Section 10-7F-9
§ 10-7F-9. Political activity
Status: in_force

A hazardous duty officer shall not be prohibited by an employer from engaging in any political activity when the officer is off duty, except as otherwise provided by law.
N.M. Stat. § 52-5-9 — NM Code / Chapter 52 / Article 5 / Section 52-5-9
§ 52-5-9. Application for modification of compensation order
Status: in_force

A. Compensation orders are reviewable subject to the conditions stated in this section upon application of any party in interest in accordance with the procedures relating to hearings. The workers' compensation judge, after a hearing, may issue a compensation order to terminate, continue, reinstate, increase, decrease or otherwise properly affect compensation benefits provided by the Workers' Compensation Act or the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law or in any other respect, consistent with those acts, modify any previous decision, award or action.

B. A review may be obtained upon application of a party in interest filed with the director at any time within two years after the date of the last payment or the denial of benefits upon the following grounds:

(1) change in condition;

(2) mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect;

(3) clerical error or mistake in mathematical calculations;

(4) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered prior to the issuance of the compensation order;

(5) fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct of an adverse party;

(6) the compensation order is void; or

(7) the compensation order has been satisfied, released or discharged or a prior order upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated, or it is no longer equitable that the order should have prospective application.
N.M. Stat. § 42A-2-2 — NM Code / Chapter 42A / Article 2 / Section 42A-2-2
§ 42A-2-2. Telephone and telegraph companies; limitations and regulations
Status: in_force

No telephone or telegraph company shall, by virtue of its eminent domain power, be authorized to enter or appropriate any dwelling, barn, store, warehouse or similar building erected for any commercial, agricultural or manufacturing purposes, or to erect poles so near such structure as to materially inconvenience the condemnee in their use or to damage such structure.
N.M. Stat. § 4-5-1 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 5 / Section 4-5-1
§ 4-5-1. County boundaries
Status: in_force

That there be and is hereby created a county, to be known [as] and called Curry county, out of that portion of the territory of New Mexico, included in the following boundaries as indicated by the United States survey, to wit: commencing on the Texas-New Mexico boundary line at the point of its intersection with the east and west center line of township one north, projected thence west along said east and west center line of township one north, to the point of its intersection with the range line between ranges thirty and thirty-one east, thence north along the range line between thirty and thirty-one east to the northwest corner of township five north of range thirty-one east, thence east along the north line of township five north to the point of its intersection with the range line between thirty-two and thirty-three east, thence north along the range line between thirty-two and thirty-three east, to the northwest corner of township six north of range thirty-three east, thence east along the north line of township six north to the point of its intersection with the range line between thirty-three and thirty-four east, thence north along the range line between thirty-three and thirty-four to the northwest corner of township seven north of range thirty-four east, thence [east] along the north line of township seven north to the point of its intersection with the range line of thirty-four and thirty-five east, thence north along the range line between thirty-four and thirty-five east to the northwest corner of township eight north of range thirty-five east, thence east along the north line of township eight north projected to its point of intersection with the Texas-New Mexico boundary line, thence south along the Texas-New Mexico boundary line to the point of beginning.
N.M. Stat. § 21-11-26 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 11 / Section 21-11-26
§ 21-11-26. Bonds exempt from taxation
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall forever be and remain free and exempt from taxation by this state or any subdivision thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 2-8F-8 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 8F / Section 2-8F-8
§ 2-8F-8. Senate district two
Status: in_force

Senate district two is composed of San Juan county precincts 41, 42, 44, 47, 48, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60 through 82, 90 and 99 through 104.
N.M. Stat. § 1-15-17 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 15 / Section 1-15-17
§ 1-15-17. United States representative; nomination and election
Status: in_force

One representative in congress shall be nominated and elected from each congressional district for voting purposes. Ballots for representatives in congress shall designate the office as congressional district one, congressional district two and congressional district three. Only voters of each district shall be eligible to vote for the respective candidates of the district.
N.M. Stat. § 29-16-6 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 16 / Section 29-16-6
§ 29-16-6. Collection of samples
Status: in_force

A. A covered offender shall provide one or more samples to the administrative center, as follows:

(1) a covered offender convicted on or after July 1, 1997 shall provide a sample immediately upon request to the corrections department as long as the request is made before release from any correctional facility or, if the covered offender is not sentenced to incarceration, before the end of any period of probation or other supervised release;

(2) a covered offender incarcerated on or after July 1, 1997 shall provide a sample immediately upon request to the corrections department as long as the request is made before release from any correctional facility;

(3) a covered offender on probation or other supervised release on or after July 1, 1997 shall provide a sample immediately upon request to the corrections department as long as the request is made before the end of any period of probation or other supervised release; and

(4) a covered offender required to register or renew his registration pursuant to the provisions of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act shall provide a sample immediately upon request to the county sheriff located in any county in which the sex offender is required to register, unless the sex offender provided a sample while in the custody of the corrections department or to the county sheriff of another county in New Mexico in which the sex offender is registered.

B. A person eighteen years of age or over who is arrested on or after January 1, 2007 for the commission of a felony as provided in Section 1 of this 2006 act shall provide a sample immediately upon request to jail or detention facility personnel, unless:

(1) the person has previously provided a sample sufficient for DNA testing pursuant to the provisions of this section;

(2) the sample is in the possession of the administrative center; and

(3) the sample has not been expunged.

C. Samples from unidentified persons or relatives of a missing person shall be provided to the administrative center, as follows:

(1) upon the completion of a permission to search form authorizing the collection of a DNA sample;

(2) upon the receipt of a properly executed search warrant; or

(3) upon the issuance of a court order.

D. Samples from unidentified human remains shall be provided by the state medical investigator.

E. Samples of known reference materials from missing persons shall be provided by the investigating law enforcement agency.
N.M. Stat. § 6-3A-9 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 3A / Section 6-3A-9
§ 6-3A-9. Quarterly reporting
Status: in_force

A. The division, in consultation with the committee, shall select agencies and specify performance measures for those agencies that shall be reported on a quarterly basis.

B. Quarterly reports shall compare actual performance for the report period with targeted performance and shall be filed with the division and committee within thirty days of the end of a reporting period.
N.M. Stat. § 2-11-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 2 / Article 11 / Section 2-11-7
§ 2-11-7. Registration and expenditure report; preservation as public record; online reports
Status: in_force

A. Each registration and expenditure report as required by the Lobbyist Regulation Act shall be archived and accessible on the secretary of state's lobbyist disclosure website for a period of at least ten years from the date of filing as a public record, open to public inspection at any reasonable time. Unless an action or prosecution is pending that requires preserving the report, it may be destroyed ten years after the date of filing.

B. Lobbyist registrations and expenditure reports shall be kept and maintained on the secretary of state's lobbyist disclosure website and shall be available in searchable and downloadable formats.

C. With respect to the secretary of state's lobbyist disclosure website, all items in the records shall be easily searchable, sortable and downloadable by the public to the extent technically practicable.

D. The secretary of state shall ensure that contributions reported by persons pursuant to the Lobbyist Regulation Act are reported in a manner that is nonduplicative and as consistent as practicable with the reporting requirements of the Campaign Reporting Act. 1 To the extent possible, the electronic reporting system used for registration and reporting required by the Lobbyist Regulation Act shall be integrated with the electronic reporting system used for compliance with the Campaign Reporting Act.

E. Reporting individuals under the Campaign Reporting Act shall receive automatic electronic notice of the contributions to them reported by lobbyists and lobbyists' employers within twenty-four hours of the filing of each expenditure report.
N.M. Stat. § 6-12A-13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 12A / Section 6-12A-13
§ 6-12A-13. Action to compel performance of officers
Status: in_force

Any holder of anticipation notes or any person who is a party in interest may bring an action to enforce and compel the performance of the provisions of the Short-Term Cash Management Act.
N.M. Stat. § 14-8-14 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 14 / Article 8 / Section 14-8-14
§ 14-8-14. Searching records; reproduction of records; fees
Status: in_force

A. Records maintained in the office of the county clerk are available to be searched without charge during regular business hours.

B. County clerks:

(1) may charge reasonable fees for conducting searches and for reproducing or permitting reproduction of their records as well as for certifying documents;

(2) shall not charge fees in excess of one dollar ($1.00) per page for documents eleven inches by seventeen inches in size or smaller;

(3) may require advance payment of fees before making copies of public records;

(4) shall not charge a fee for the cost of determining whether any public record is subject to disclosure; and

(5) shall provide a receipt, upon request.

C. County clerks shall establish reasonable fees for conducting searches and for reproducing or copying records maintained at the office of the county clerk.
N.M. Stat. § 30-10-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 30 / Article 10 / Section 30-10-1
§ 30-10-1. Bigamy
Status: in_force

Bigamy consists of knowingly entering into a marriage by or with a person who has previously contracted one or more marriages which have not been dissolved by death, divorce or annulment. Both parties may be principals.

Whoever commits bigamy is guilty of a fourth degree felony.