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N.M. Stat. § 58-1-81 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 1 / Section 58-1-81
§ 58-1-81. Improper maintenance of accounts; false or deceptive entries and statements
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for an officer, director, employee or agent of a bank to:

A. maintain or authorize the maintenance of any account of the bank in a manner which, to his knowledge, does not conform to the requirements prescribed by the Banking Act or by the commissioner [director of the financial institutions division of the regulation and licensing department];

B. make, with intent to deceive, any false or misleading statement or entry or omit any statement or entry that should be made in any book, account, report or statement of the institution;

C. obstruct or endeavor to obstruct a lawful examination of the institution by an officer or employee of the department [financial institutions division].
N.M. Stat. § 21-21H-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21H / Section 21-21H-6
§ 21-21H-6. Duration of scholarship
Status: in_force

Each scholarship is for a period of one academic year. The scholarship may be renewed annually until the award recipient has received four annual scholarship awards or until the student graduates from a four-year institution, whichever is earlier. An award recipient may use the award at a two-year institution until the award recipient receives two annual scholarship awards. In no case shall a student receive more than four annual awards.
N.M. Stat. § 57-1-9 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 1 / Section 57-1-9
§ 57-1-9. Election of remedies
Status: in_force

The obtaining of a judgement under the Antitrust Act to assess a civil penalty against a person shall be an election of remedies to not bring a criminal prosecution against such person under the Antitrust Act. The institution of a criminal prosecution under that act against a person by filing an information or complaint or returning an indictment shall be an election of remedies not to bring suit to assess a civil penalty against such person under that act.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-22.1 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-22.1
§ 7-9-22.1. Exemption; gross receipts tax; boats
Status: in_force

Exempted from the gross receipts tax are the receipts from selling boats on which a tax is imposed by Section 66-12-6.1 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 6-15A-10 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 15A / Section 6-15A-10
§ 6-15A-10. Refunding or refinancing lease-purchase arrangements
Status: in_force

School districts are authorized to enter into lease-purchase arrangements for the purpose of refunding or refinancing any lease-purchase arrangements then outstanding, including the payment of any prepayment of redemption premiums thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of purchase, prepayment, redemption or maturity of the outstanding lease-purchase arrangements. Until the proceeds of the lease-purchase arrangements issued for the purpose of refunding or refinancing outstanding lease-purchase arrangements are applied to the purchase, prepayment, redemption or retirement of the outstanding lease-purchase arrangements, the proceeds may be placed in escrow and invested and reinvested. The interest, income and profits, if any, earned or realized on any such investment may, in the discretion of the local school board, also be applied to the payment of the outstanding lease-purchase arrangements to be refunded or refinanced by purchase, prepayment, redemption or retirement, as the case may be. After the terms of the escrow have been fully satisfied and carried out, any balance of such proceeds and interest, if any, earned or realized on the investments thereof may be returned to the local school board to be used for payment of the refunding or refinancing lease-purchase arrangement. All such refunding or refinancing lease-purchase arrangements shall be entered into under, secured and subject to the provisions of the Education Technology Equipment Act in the same manner and to the same extent as any other lease-purchase arrangements entered into pursuant to that act.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-47-28.2 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 47 / Section 59A-47-28.2
§ 59A-47-28.2. Doctor of oriental medicine discrimination prohibited
Status: in_force

All individual and group subscriber contracts delivered or issued for delivery in New Mexico by a nonprofit health care plan that, on a service or indemnity basis, or both, provide for treatment of persons for the prevention, cure or correction of any illness or physical or mental condition shall not contain any provisions that exclude a licensed doctor of oriental medicine as a provider of oriental medical services and shall not discriminate in the reimbursement levels for such services between types of licensed health care providers.
N.M. Stat. § 6-9-1 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 9 / Section 6-9-1
§ 6-9-1. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Uniform Facsimile Signature of Public Officials Act:

A. “public security” means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness or other obligation for the payment of money issued by this state or by any of its departments, agencies, boards or other instrumentalities or by any of its political subdivisions;

B. “instrument of payment” means a check, draft, warrant or order for the payment, delivery or transfer of funds;

C. “authorized officer” means any official of this state or any of its departments, boards, agencies or other instrumentalities, any county, municipality as defined in the Municipal Code, 1 school district, other district, educational institution or any other governmental agency, political subdivision or instrumentality of the state or any officer or other authorized person of any corporate or other trustee, registrar, paying agent or transfer agent within the United States whose signature to a public security or instrument of payment is required or permitted by statute or charter or the ordinance, resolution or other official action authorizing the public security; and

D. “facsimile signature” means a reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping or other means of the manual signature of an authorized officer.
N.M. Stat. § 21-21O-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21O / Section 21-21O-4
§ 21-21O-4. Scholarship authorized; administration; preference in scholarship awards
Status: in_force

A. The department shall administer the Teacher Preparation Affordability Act and shall promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of that act.

B. Scholarships shall be awarded to qualified eligible students. Qualifications shall be determined by rule of the department.

C. The department shall allocate money to public post-secondary educational institutions and tribal colleges based on a student need formula calculated according to income reported on the free application for federal student aid, on the number of students enrolled in each public education department-approved teacher preparation program at a New Mexico public post-secondary educational institution or tribal college and on the percentage of the teacher preparation program's students classified as returning adults who are otherwise ineligible for state financial aid.

D. Public post-secondary educational institutions and tribal colleges shall make awards to qualifying eligible students based on financial need in an amount not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) per year for not more than five years as determined by rule of the department.

E. Public post-secondary educational institutions and tribal colleges shall make awards first to qualifying eligible students who:

(1) are English language learners;

(2) are minority students; or

(3) have declared intent to teach in a high-need teacher position as defined by the public education department.

F. After scholarships have been awarded to eligible students pursuant to Subsection E of this section, a public post-secondary educational institution or tribal college shall award scholarships to other eligible students as determined by department rule.

G. Money for the scholarship shall be placed in an account at the public post-secondary educational institution or tribal college in the name of the eligible student, and the money may be drawn upon to pay educational expenses charged by the institution, including tuition, fees, books and course supplies, and living expenses.
N.M. Stat. § 29-7-10 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 7 / Section 29-7-10
§ 29-7-10. Certification by waiver
Status: in_force

A. The board may, with the approval of the council, waive the basic law enforcement training program and certify applicants who are employed as full-time police officers and who furnish evidence of satisfactory completion of a basic law enforcement training program which is comparable to or exceeds the standards of the programs of the academy.

B. All individuals allowed a waiver under this section shall meet the requirements set out in the Law Enforcement Training Act, and this section shall not be construed to exempt them from those requirements in any manner.
N.M. Stat. § 6-24-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 24 / Section 6-24-4
§ 6-24-4. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the New Mexico Lottery Act:

A. “ authority ” means the New Mexico lottery authority;

B. “ board ” means the board of directors of the authority;

C. “ chief executive officer ” means the chief executive officer of the authority appointed by the board pursuant to the New Mexico Lottery Act;

D. “ lottery ” means the New Mexico state lottery established and operated by the authority pursuant to the New Mexico Lottery Act;

E. “ lottery contractor ” means a person with whom the authority has contracted for the purpose of providing goods or services for the lottery;

F. “ lottery game ” means any variation of the following types of games, but does not include any video lottery game:

(1) an instant-win game in which disposable tickets contain certain preprinted winners that are determined by rubbing or scraping an area or areas on the tickets to match numbers, letters, symbols or configurations, or any combination thereof, as provided by the rules of the game; provided, an instant-win game may also provide for preliminary and grand prize drawings conducted pursuant to the rules of the game; and

(2) an on-line lottery game in which a lottery game is hooked up to a central computer via a telecommunications system through which a player selects a specified group of numbers or symbols out of a predetermined range of numbers or symbols and purchases a ticket bearing the player-selected numbers or symbols for eligibility in a drawing regularly scheduled in accordance with game rules;

G. “ lottery retailer ” means a person with whom the authority has contracted for the purpose of selling tickets in lottery games to the public;

H. “ lottery vendor ” means any person who submits a bid, proposal or offer as part of a major procurement contract and any person who is awarded a major procurement contract; and

I. “ person ” means an individual or any other legal entity.
N.M. Stat. § 22-11-23 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 11 / Section 22-11-23
§ 22-11-23. Retirement eligibility; initial membership prior to July 1, 2010
Status: in_force

A. A member who was a member on June 30, 2010, or was a member at any time prior to that date and had not, on that date, been refunded all member contributions pursuant to Subsection A of Section 22-11-15 NMSA 1978 , shall be eligible for retirement benefits when:

(1) the member is any age and has twenty-five or more years of earned and allowed service credit;

(2) the member is at least sixty-five years of age and has five or more years of earned service credit; or

(3) the sum of the member's age and years of earned service credit equals at least seventy-five; provided that a member who retires pursuant to this paragraph shall be subject to the benefit reductions provided in Subsection G of Section 22-11-30 NMSA 1978 .

B. A member shall be subject to the provisions of Subsection A of this section as they existed at the beginning of the member's last cumulated four quarters of earned service credit, regardless of later amendment.
N.M. Stat. § 73-8-18 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 8 / Section 73-8-18
§ 73-8-18. Statement of election results; filing; content; certificates of election; filling board vacancies
Status: in_force

As soon as the result of any election has been declared the secretary of the board of directors shall prepare and file with the county clerk of the county in which the office of the district is located a statement showing: first, a copy of the publication notice of the election; second, the names of the judges of election; third, the total number of votes cast in the district and in each precinct thereof; fourth, the names of the persons voted for; fifth, the number of votes cast in each precinct for each of such persons; sixth, the names of the persons declared elected; seventh, the number of votes cast in each precinct for and against any question submitted to a vote other than the election of directors; eighth, the declared result of the vote upon any such question.

The secretary shall immediately execute and deliver to each elected director a certificate of election signed by such secretary and authenticated with the seal of the board.

In case of a vacancy in the board of directors by death, removal or inability from any cause properly to discharge the duties of the office, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment made by the remaining members of the board, and upon their failure to make such appointment within thirty days after such vacancy occurs then upon petition by five qualified electors of said district, the board of county commissioners of the county wherein the office of the board is situate shall fill any such vacancy. Any director appointed as above provided shall hold his office until the next general election of such district and until his successor is elected and qualified.
N.M. Stat. § 58-1C-8 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 1C / Section 58-1C-8
§ 58-1C-8. Condition for interstate merger prior to June 1, 1997
Status: in_force

An interstate merger transaction prior to June 1, 1997 resulting in a New Mexico branch of an out-of-state bank shall not be consummated and any out-of-state bank resulting from such a merger shall not operate a branch in New Mexico, unless the director first:

A. finds that the laws of the home state of each out-of-state bank involved in the interstate merger transaction permit New Mexico state banks, under substantially the same terms and conditions as are set forth in the Interstate Bank Branching Act, to acquire banks and establish and maintain branches in that state by means of interstate merger transactions;

B. concludes that the resulting out-of-state bank has complied with all applicable requirements of New Mexico law and has agreed in writing to comply with the laws of this state applicable to its operation of branches in New Mexico; and

C. certifies to the federal bank supervisory agency having authority to approve the interstate merger transaction that the conditions and requirements of the Interstate Bank Branching Act have been met.
N.M. Stat. § 6-34-2 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 34 / Section 6-34-2
§ 6-34-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Opportunity Enterprise Act:

A. “ authority ” means the New Mexico finance authority;

B. “ board ” means the opportunity enterprise review board;

C. “ department ” means the economic development department;

D. “ economic development opportunities ” means the advancement of an environmentally sustainable economic development goal of the state as determined by the authority, in coordination with the department, and includes the creation of jobs, the provision of needed services and commodities to diverse communities across the state and the increase of tax and other revenue collections resulting from the enterprise development project;

E. “ enterprise assistance ” means opportunity enterprise financing, an opportunity enterprise lease or an opportunity enterprise loan;

F. “ enterprise development project ” means the purchase, planning, designing, building, surveying, improving, operating, furnishing, equipping or maintaining of land, buildings or infrastructure to create or expand economic development opportunities within the state;

G. “ fund ” means the opportunity enterprise revolving fund;

H. “ opportunity enterprise partner ” means a domestic corporation, a general partnership, a limited liability company, a limited partnership, a public benefit corporation, a nonprofit entity or other private business entity or combination thereof that the authority determines is or will be engaged in an enterprise that creates or expands economic development opportunities within the state and is eligible for enterprise assistance pursuant to the Opportunity Enterprise Act;

I. “ opt-in agreement ” means an agreement entered into among the authority, the department and a county, municipality or school district that ensures compliance with all local zoning, permitting and other land use rules and that provides for payments in lieu of taxes to the county, municipality or school district; and

J. “ payment in lieu of taxes ” means the total annual payment paid as compensation for the tax impact of an enterprise development project, in an amount negotiated and determined in the opt-in agreement among the authority, the department and the county, school district or, if applicable, municipality where the enterprise development project is located in the same proportional amount as property tax revenues are normally distributed to those recipients.
N.M. Stat. § 9-29A-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 29A / Section 9-29A-3
§ 9-29A-3. Distribution; early childhood education and care fund; severance tax permanent fund; payments pursuant to federal mineral leasing act
Status: in_force

A. If, by June 30 of each fiscal year, the net receipts for that fiscal year of the money received by the state pursuant to the federal Mineral Leasing Act exceed the annual average amount, the excess amount above the annual average amount shall be distributed to the early childhood education and care fund and attributed to that fiscal year.

B. If, by June 30, 2025, and by June 30 of each fiscal year thereafter, the remaining amount of the net receipts for that fiscal year of the money received by the state pursuant to the federal Mineral Leasing Act after the distribution pursuant to Subsection A of this section exceeds the threshold amount, the excess shall be distributed to the severance tax permanent fund.

C. The department of finance and administration shall make the calculations to determine if excess amounts shall be distributed pursuant to this section. If there is an excess amount, the distribution shall be made as soon as practicable. If there is not an excess amount, no distribution shall be made.

D. As used in this section:

(1) “ annual average amount ” means the total net receipts attributable to money received by the state pursuant to the federal Mineral Leasing Act in the immediately preceding five fiscal years, divided by five; and

(2) “ threshold amount ” means the net receipts of the money received by the state pursuant to the federal Mineral Leasing Act distributed in fiscal year 2024 pursuant to Subsection B of Section 22-8-34 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 59A-54-20 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 54 / Section 59A-54-20
§ 59A-54-20. Benefit payments reduction
Status: in_force

A. The pool shall be the last payer of benefits whenever any other benefit is available. Benefits otherwise payable under pool coverage shall be reduced by all amounts paid or payable through any other health insurance or health benefit plan, including a self-insured plan and by all hospital and medical expense benefits paid or payable under any workmen's compensation coverage, automobile medical payment or liability insurance, whether provided on the basis of fault or nonfault, and by any hospital or medical benefits paid or payable under or provided pursuant to any state or federal law program.

B. The administrator or the pool shall have a cause of action against an eligible person for the recovery of the amount of benefits paid which are not for covered expenses. Benefits due from the pool may be reduced or refused as a set-off against any amount recoverable under this subsection.
N.M. Stat. § 10-4-7 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 4 / Section 10-4-7
§ 10-4-7. Defendant's answer; grounds
Status: in_force

The defendant may answer the accusation either by objecting to the sufficiency thereof, or any portion thereof, or by denying the truth of the same.
N.M. Stat. § 57-2A-7 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 2A / Section 57-2A-7
§ 57-2A-7. Criminal penalties for violation
Status: in_force

A. A person who knowingly commits an act prohibited by Section 3 of the Cigarette Enforcement Act is guilty of a fourth degree felony and upon conviction shall be sentenced in accordance with Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978 .

B. A person who fails to comply with a requirement of Section 4 of the Cigarette Enforcement Act is guilty of a fourth degree felony and upon conviction shall be sentenced in accordance with Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 22-8-13.1 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8 / Section 22-8-13.1
§ 22-8-13.1. School district and charter school audits; sanctions for not submitting timely audit reports
Status: in_force

A. Each school district and charter school shall have an annual audit as required by the Audit Act and rules of the state auditor that shall be completed and submitted to the state auditor by the date specified in rules of the state auditor. At the completion of the annual or any special audit, the school district or charter school shall submit a copy of the audit report to the department.

B. School districts and charter schools shall comply with due dates for annual audits specified by rule of the state auditor. Failure to submit a timely audit report shall subject a school district or charter school to progressive sanctions. A school district or charter school that does not submit an annual audit report:

(1) within ninety days from the due date, shall be required to submit monthly financial reports to the department until the department is satisfied that the school district or charter school is in compliance with all financial and audit requirements;

(2) after ninety days but within one hundred eighty days from the due date, may be withheld temporarily in an amount up to five percent of its current-year state equalization guarantee distribution;

(3) after one hundred eighty days but within two hundred seventy days, may be withheld temporarily in an amount up to seven percent of its current-year state equalization guarantee distribution and may be required to submit a corrective action plan to the secretary; and

(4) after two hundred seventy days, may be withheld temporarily in an amount up to seven percent of its current-year state equalization guarantee distribution and may be subject to the secretary's suspension of the local school board or governing body acting as a board of finance.
N.M. Stat. § 29-8-3 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 8 / Section 29-8-3
§ 29-8-3. Mutual aid agreements
Status: in_force

Any state, county or municipal agency having and maintaining peace officers may enter into mutual aid agreements with any public agency as defined in the Mutual Aid Act, with respect to law enforcement, provided any such agreement shall be approved by the agency involved and the governor.
N.M. Stat. § 9-5B-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 5B / Section 9-5B-2
§ 9-5B-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps Act is to provide a process to employ young persons in public projects that conserve New Mexico's natural resources and provide community benefits of lasting value. New Mexico will benefit by having its natural and urban environments improved and enhanced and its youth instilled with an appreciation of natural resources, cooperation, hard work and accomplishment.