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N.M. Stat. § 43-1-23 — NM Code / Chapter 43 / Article 1 / Section 43-1-23
§ 43-1-23. Violation of clients' rights
Status: in_force

Any client who believes that his rights, as established by this code or by the constitution of the United States or of New Mexico, have been violated shall have a right to petition the court for redress. The client shall be represented by counsel. The court shall grant relief as is appropriate, subject to the provisions of the Tort Claims Act.
N.M. Stat. § 53-8-90 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 8 / Section 53-8-90
§ 53-8-90. Authority to make refunds
Status: in_force

In response to a written claim for a refund for overpayment of a fee collected by the secretary of state pursuant to the Nonprofit Corporation Act, the secretary of state or its delegate may authorize the refund to a corporation, a foreign corporation, a nonprofit corporation or a person of any amount determined by the secretary of state or its delegate to have been erroneously paid to the secretary of state.
N.M. Stat. § 60-6A-13 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 6A / Section 60-6A-13
§ 60-6A-13. Registration to transport
Status: in_force

For the renewal year beginning on July 1, 1998 and every three years thereafter, every common carrier transporting alcoholic beverages into and for delivery within the state shall register with the department and pay a registration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).
N.M. Stat. § 4-48A-17 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 48A / Section 4-48A-17
§ 4-48A-17. Election procedures
Status: in_force

All elections of the special hospital district, unless otherwise provided in the Special Hospital District Act, shall be called, conducted and canvassed pursuant to the Local Election Act.
N.M. Stat. § 31-4-4 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 4 / Section 31-4-4
§ 31-4-4. Governor may investigate case
Status: in_force

When a demand shall be made upon the governor of this state by the executive authority of another state for the surrender of a person so charged with crime, the governor may call upon the attorney general or any prosecuting officer in this state to investigate or assist in investigating the demand, and to report to him the situation and circumstances of the person so demanded, and whether he ought to be surrendered.
N.M. Stat. § 3-65-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 65 / Section 3-65-6
§ 3-65-6. Audits
Status: in_force

A municipality shall provide by ordinance a method to either audit or otherwise ensure that vendors subject to the stadium surcharge collect and remit to the treasurer of the municipality the full amount of the surcharge receipts due to the municipality.
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-806 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-806
§ 66-3-806. New motor vehicles to be equipped with reflectors
Status: in_force

A. Every new motor vehicle hereafter sold and operated upon a highway, other than a truck tractor, shall carry on the rear, either as a part of the tail lamps or separately, two red reflectors, except that every motorcycle shall carry at least one reflector, meeting the requirements of this section, and except that vehicles of the type mentioned in Section 66-3-809 NMSA 1978 shall be equipped with reflectors as required in those sections applicable to those vehicles.

B. Every reflector shall be mounted on the vehicle at a height not less than twenty inches or more than sixty inches measured as set forth in Subsection B of Section 66-3-803 NMSA 1978 and shall be of such size and characteristics and so mounted as to be visible at night from all distances within three hundred feet to fifty feet from the vehicle when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps, except that visibility from a greater distance is hereinafter required of reflectors on certain types of vehicles.

C. A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a penalty assessment misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 3-20-10 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 20 / Section 3-20-10
§ 3-20-10. Filing in office of county clerk; duties of county clerk
Status: in_force

When a plat is submitted for filing in the office of the county clerk, the county clerk shall determine if the proposed subdivision is subject to the provisions of Sections 3-20-1 through 3-20-15 NMSA 1978 and if the required endorsements are on the plat. A county clerk shall not accept for filing any plat which is subject to the provisions of the Municipal Code and which has not been approved by the planning authority of the municipality within whose jurisdiction the proposed subdivision lies. The plat shall contain an affidavit stating that the proposed subdivision does or does not lie within the planning or platting jurisdiction of any municipality.
N.M. Stat. § 6-23-1 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 23 / Section 6-23-1
§ 6-23-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 6, Article 23 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Public Facility Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 19-7-58 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 7 / Section 19-7-58
§ 19-7-58. Rights-of-way; interference with roads or highways
Status: in_force

The location of any right-of-way through any canyon, pass or defile shall not cause the disuse of any wagon [road] or other public highway now located therein, nor prevent the location through the same of any such wagon road or highway, where such road or highway may be necessary for the public accommodation; and where any change in the location of such wagon road is necessary to permit the use of such right-of-way or easement, the user of such right-of-way or easement, shall before entering upon the ground occupied by such wagon road, cause the same to be reconstructed at his own expense in the most favorable location, and in as perfect a manner as the original road.
N.M. Stat. § 73-10-18 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 10 / Section 73-10-18
§ 73-10-18. Compensation of board members; president; interest in contracts prohibited; penalty
Status: in_force

The members of the board of directors other than the president shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed five dollars [($5.00)] per day while attending meetings or otherwise necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties and their actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in official business. The president of said board shall receive as compensation not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars [($150)] per annum for each ten thousand acres of land or major fraction thereof included within the district, said compensation to be set by the board of directors, and his actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in official business. No director or officer named in this act shall in any manner, be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board, or in the profits to be derived therefrom; nor shall receive any bonus, gratuity or bribe, and for any violation of this provision such officer shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and such conviction shall work a forfeiture of his office, and he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years.
N.M. Stat. § 72-20-98 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 20 / Section 72-20-98
§ 72-20-98. Securities and income therefrom exempt
Status: in_force

Securities issued under the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act and the income therefrom shall forever be and remain free and exempt from taxation by the state, the authority and any other public body, except transfer, inheritance and estate taxes.
N.M. Stat. § 40-4-17 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 4 / Section 40-4-17
§ 40-4-17. Motion to remove lien; bond for alimony or support payments
Status: in_force

The district court upon motion made in the cause wherein the decree was rendered may remove the liens created by this act upon notice and upon good cause shown from any or all of the real estate, subject to such lien; and the judge, in his discretion, upon the removal of such lien, may require bond for the faithful performance of the payment of alimony or support money in accordance with the decree.
N.M. Stat. § 18-6-20 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 6 / Section 18-6-20
§ 18-6-20. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Historic Preservation Loan Act:

A. “ committee ” means the cultural properties review committee;

B. “ division ” means the historic preservation division of the cultural affairs department;

C. “ fund ” means the historic preservation loan fund;

D. “ property owner ” means the sole owner, joint owner, owner in partnership or corporate owner of a registered cultural property. As used in this subsection, the term “ property owner ” includes the owner of a leasehold interest in a registered cultural property, if the term of the lease is not less than nineteen years; and

E. “ registered cultural property ” means a site, structure, building or object entered in the state register of cultural properties or the national register of historic places or both.
N.M. Stat. § 3-18-24 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 18 / Section 3-18-24
§ 3-18-24. Licensing and regulating secondhand and junk stores
Status: in_force

A municipality may:

A. regulate, tax or license secondhand dealers and junk store dealers or any person who accepts used merchandise for value;

B. prohibit their purchasing any article from a minor without the written consent of the parent or guardian; and

C. require that a record of purchases be kept and be subject at all times to inspection by the police.
N.M. Stat. § 60-2E-34.1 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 2E / Section 60-2E-34.1
§ 60-2E-34.1. Self-exclusion from gaming establishments; procedure; fines; confidentiality
Status: in_force

A. The board shall develop rules that permit a person who is a compulsive gambler to be voluntarily excluded from a gaming establishment.

B. Self-exclusion shall occur through written application made by the compulsive gambler to the board and shall be governed by the following provisions:

(1) self-exclusion shall be enforceable upon issuance of a self-exclusion order by the board to each applicable gaming establishment identified in the order;

(2) only the person who is the compulsive gambler may apply on that person's behalf;

(3) the application shall be submitted to the board;

(4) except for notification of the gaming establishments for which the self-exclusion order is effective and for notification for mailing list exclusion pursuant to this section, the application and the self-exclusion order shall be held confidential by employees of the board and a gaming operator licensee and its employees and key executives;

(5) a self-exclusion order may apply to one or more gaming establishments licensed pursuant to the Gaming Control Act;

(6) a self-excluded person, if present at a gaming establishment from which the person is excluded, shall forfeit the following to that gaming establishment, provided that all money or other property forfeited shall be used by the gaming establishment only to supplement the one-fourth percent of the net take of its gaming machines to fund or support programs for the treatment and assistance of compulsive gamblers pursuant to Subsection E of Section 60-2E-47 NMSA 1978:

(a) all winnings of the person obtained while present at the gaming establishment; and

(b) all credits, tokens or vouchers received by the person while present at the gaming establishment;

(7) a gaming establishment is immune from liability arising out of its efforts to exclude a person identified in a self-exclusion order; and

(8) a specific term shall be set for each self-exclusion order.

C. Notice shall be submitted by the board at least monthly to all gaming establishments listing all persons who are currently self-excluded and ordering the removal of their names from direct mail or electronic advertisement or promotional lists.

D. The state gaming representative may negotiate an agreement with each tribal casino in the state to allow the state to include tribal casinos in the self-exclusion orders.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-22-31 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 22 / Section 59A-22-31
§ 59A-22-31. Industrial health insurance
Status: reserved

A. The term “industrial health insurance” as used herein means sickness and accident insurance under individual policies for which the premium is payable weekly, and includes any such policy which covers sickness only or accident only.

B. Any insurer authorized to write health insurance in this state shall have the power to issue industrial health policies.

C. No policy of industrial health insurance may be delivered or issued for delivery in the state unless it has printed thereon the words “industrial policy.”

D. Each such policy shall be subject to the provisions of this article except that no such policy shall be required to contain any of the policy provisions set forth in Sections 424 through 446, inclusive, of this article, other than the provisions relating to the presence of a preexisting disease or physical condition; provided, however, that no such policy shall contain any provision relative to notice or proof of loss, or the time for paying benefits, or the time within which suit may be brought upon the policy, which in the opinion of the superintendent is less favorable to the insured than would be permitted by such policy provisions; and provided further, that such policy may contain a provision that upon proper written request, a named beneficiary shall be designated in or by endorsement on the policy to receive the proceeds thereof on the death of the insured, and there shall be reserved to the insured the power to change the beneficiary at any time by written notice to the insurer at its home office, accompanied by the policy for endorsement of the change thereon by the insurer; the insurer shall have the right to refuse to designate a beneficiary if evidence satisfactory to the insurer of such beneficiary's insurable interest in the life of the insured is not furnished on request. Any such policy may provide in substance that any payment thereunder may be made to the insured or the insured's estate or to any relative by blood or connection by marriage of the insured, or, to the extent of such portion of any payment under the policy as may reasonably appear to the insurer to be due to such person, to any other person equitably entitled thereto by reason of having incurred expense occasioned by the maintenance or illness or burial of the insured; provided that, if the policy shall be in force at the death of the insured, the proceeds thereof shall be payable to the named beneficiary if living, but upon the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the death of the insured, unless proof of the claim in the manner and form required by the policy, accompanied by the policy for surrender, has theretofore been made by such beneficiary, the insurer may pay to any other person permitted by the policy.
N.M. Stat. § 10-1-8 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 1 / Section 10-1-8
§ 10-1-8. Failure to employ residents; penalties
Status: in_force

Any person, firm, corporation or association having charge of or control over the employment of persons mentioned in Section 1 of this act, who shall willfully refuse to comply with the provisions of said Section 1, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $300 or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
N.M. Stat. § 6-3-24 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 3 / Section 6-3-24
§ 6-3-24. Budget adjustments; authorizations permitted
Status: in_force

A. A state agency may be specifically authorized by law to request a budget adjustment. The amount of budget adjustment authorized may be limited by law. All requests for budget adjustments shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 6-3-25 NMSA 1978 .

B. The state budget division of the department of finance and administration may approve budget adjustments for state agencies as provided by law. If the budget adjustment results in an increased expenditure of other state funds, internal service funds or interagency transfer funds above the amounts appropriated, such funds are hereby appropriated.
N.M. Stat. § 1-3A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 3A / Section 1-3A-3
§ 1-3A-3. Citizen redistricting committee created; membership; terms
Status: in_force

A. The “citizen redistricting committee” is created.

B. The committee is composed of seven members, appointed, with due regard to the cultural and geographic diversity of the state, as follows:

(1) one member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

(2) one member appointed by the minority floor leader of the house of representatives;

(3) one member appointed by the president pro tempore of the senate;

(4) one member appointed by the minority floor leader of the senate;

(5) two members appointed by the state ethics commission, who shall not be members of the largest or second largest political parties in the state; and

(6) one member appointed by the state ethics commission, who shall be a retired justice of the New Mexico supreme court or a retired judge of the New Mexico court of appeals, and who shall chair the committee.

C. No more than three members of the committee shall be members of the same political party. A member of the committee shall not have changed party registration in the two years preceding the member's appointment in such a manner that the member's prior party registration would cause one political party to have more than three members. A member of the committee shall not continue to serve on the committee if the member changes party registration after the date of appointment in such a manner as to cause one political party to have more than three members.

D. Members shall be appointed not later than July 1, 2021, and August 1 of each year ending in the number zero thereafter, and shall serve until a district plan for each of New Mexico's congressional districts, the state house of representatives, the state senate and other state offices requiring redistricting is submitted to the legislature.

E. When any member of the committee dies, resigns or no longer has the qualifications required for the member's original appointment, the member's position on the committee becomes vacant and the chair shall notify the original appointing authority of the vacant position. The vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the original appointing authority no later than fifteen days following notification of the vacancy.

F. The committee shall meet as necessary to carry out its duties pursuant to the Redistricting Act.

G. Members are entitled to receive per diem and mileage as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.
N.M. Stat. § 7-25-6 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 25 / Section 7-25-6
§ 7-25-6. Rate and measure of tax; denomination as “service tax”
Status: in_force

A. For the privilege of severing or processing in New Mexico natural resources that are owned by another person and are not otherwise taxed by Sections 7-25-4 and 7-25-5 NMSA 1978 , there is imposed on the service charge of any person severing or processing natural resources that are owned by another person an excise tax at the same rate that would be imposed on an owner of natural resources for performing the same function.

B. The tax imposed by this section shall be referred to as the “service tax”.
N.M. Stat. § 31-21-12 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 21 / Section 31-21-12
§ 31-21-12. Conditional release
Status: in_force

A. Any prisoner who is released by authority of the governor under any conditional release or other disposition made under the pardoning power, other than full pardon, shall, upon release, be deemed as released on parole until the expiration of the basic term or terms of imprisonment for which he was sentenced and until the expiration of any period of parole included as a part of sentence.

B. Except for a full pardon, the governor may not conditionally release or otherwise pardon a prisoner during the period for which such person is serving any enhanced term of his sentence pursuant to Section 31-18-16 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 27-11-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 11 / Section 27-11-12
§ 27-11-12. Rights of medicaid provider or subcontractor; preliminary or final determination of overpayment
Status: in_force

A. A medicaid provider or subcontractor may challenge:

(1) the department's preliminary or final determination of overpayment as:

(a) exceeding statutory authority;

(b) arbitrary or capricious;

(c) a failure to follow department procedure; or

(d) not supported by substantial evidence;

(2) the credentials of persons who participated in the audit or claims review; or

(3) the methodology or accuracy of the department's audit.

B. A medicaid provider or subcontractor may, but shall not be required to, conduct its own audit or sampling to challenge a preliminary or final determination of overpayment.
N.M. Stat. § 3-7-12 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 7 / Section 3-7-12
§ 3-7-12. Municipal boundary commission; appointment; qualifications of members; payment of members; secretary of finance and administration to provide staff
Status: in_force

A. The municipal boundary commission shall consist of three members who shall be appointed by the governor. One of the members shall be an attorney licensed to practice in New Mexico and no more than two of the members shall be members of the same political party. Each of the members shall be residents of a separate county of New Mexico.

B. The members of the municipal boundary commission shall be paid as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act:

(1) by the municipality if:

(a) the municipality petitions the municipal boundary commission to annex territory to the municipality; or

(b) a majority of the landowners petition the municipal boundary commission to annex territory to the municipality and the municipal boundary commission orders the territory annexed to the municipality; or

(2) by the landowners who petition the municipal boundary commission to annex the territory to the municipality, if the municipal boundary commission does not order the territory annexed to the municipality.

C. The secretary of the department of finance and administration shall provide staff to the municipal boundary commission.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-4-13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 4 / Section 32A-4-13
§ 32A-4-13. Contempt power
Status: in_force

A. At any stage of a proceeding under the Abuse and Neglect Act, the court shall have the power and authority to issue orders to compel the appearance of witnesses, the giving of testimony and production of evidence by witnesses, including any party. Production of evidence includes an order to a respondent to undergo a psychological diagnostic evaluation and treatment.

B. Failure or refusal to obey the court's order may be punished by the court as contempt. A claim that giving testimony or producing evidence might tend to incriminate the person who is the subject of the order shall not excuse the person from complying with the court's order.

C. The children's court attorney shall make application to the court to compel compliance with the orders of the court.