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N.M. Stat. § 12-6-14 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 6 / Section 12-6-14
§ 12-6-14. Contract audits
Status: in_force

A. The state auditor shall notify each agency designated for audit by an independent auditor, and the agency shall enter into a contract with an independent auditor of its choice in accordance with procedures prescribed by rules of the state auditor; provided, however, that a state-chartered charter school subject to oversight by the public education department or an agency subject to oversight by the higher education department shall receive approval from its oversight agency prior to submitting a recommendation for an independent auditor of its choice. The state auditor may select the auditor for an agency that has not submitted a recommendation within sixty days of notification by the state auditor to contract for the year being audited, and the agency being audited shall pay the cost of the audit. Each contract for auditing entered into between an agency and an independent auditor shall be approved in writing by the state auditor. Payment of public funds may not be made to an independent auditor unless a contract is entered into and approved as provided in this section.

B. The state auditor or personnel of the state auditor's office designated by the state auditor shall examine all reports of audits of agencies made pursuant to contract. Based upon demonstration of work in progress, the state auditor may authorize progress payments to the independent auditor by the agency being audited under contract. Final payment for services rendered by an independent auditor shall not be made until a determination and written finding that the audit has been made in a competent manner in accordance with the provisions of the contract and applicable rules by the state auditor.
N.M. Stat. § 61-14B-20 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 14B / Section 61-14B-20
§ 61-14B-20. Fees
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 61-1-34 NMSA 1978 , the board shall establish a schedule of reasonable fees for applications, licenses, renewal of licenses, exams, penalties and administrative fees. The license and license renewal fees shall not exceed:

A. one hundred dollars ($100) for clinical fellows and apprentices in speech and language;

B. two hundred dollars ($200) for audiologists or speech-language pathologists;

C. six hundred dollars ($600) for hearing aid dispensers;

D. four hundred dollars ($400) for examinations;

E. one hundred dollars ($100) for late renewal fees;

F. four hundred dollars ($400) for hearing aid dispensing endorsement;

G. five hundred dollars ($500) for a hearing aid dispenser trainee license, which fee includes examination, both written and practical;

H. one hundred dollars ($100) for bilingual-multicultural endorsement; and

I. reasonable administrative fees.
N.M. Stat. § 19-2-7 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 2 / Section 19-2-7
§ 19-2-7. Santa Fe national cemetery; jurisdiction ceded; limitation
Status: in_force

That exclusive jurisdiction be, and the same is hereby ceded to the United States over the tract of land comprised within the cemetery known as the Santa Fe national cemetery, area about nine and one-half acres, in Santa Fe county; provided, however, that the state of New Mexico reserves the right to serve civil or criminal process within said cemetery reservation in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred or crimes committed in said state but outside of said cemetery reservation.
N.M. Stat. § 24-2C-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 2C / Section 24-2C-3
§ 24-2C-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Harm Reduction Act:

A. “ department ” means the department of health; and

B. “ participant ” means a person who receives supplies or devices or services provided by the harm reduction program.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-22-1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 22 / Section 59A-22-1
§ 59A-22-1. Scope of article
Status: in_force

Chapter 59A, Article 22 NMSA 1978 applies generally to policies of individual health insurance, including student health plan policies. Nothing in that article shall apply to or affect:

A. any policy of workers' compensation insurance or any policy of liability insurance with or without supplementary expense coverage therein;

B. life insurance, endowment or annuity contracts or contracts supplemental thereto that contain only such provisions relating to health insurance as:

(1) provide additional benefits in case of death by accident; and

(2) operate to safeguard such contracts against lapse or to give a special surrender value or special benefit or annuity in event the insured or annuitant becomes totally and permanently disabled, as defined by the contract or supplemental contract;

C. group or blanket health insurance, except as stated in Chapter 59A, Article 23 NMSA 1978; or

D. reinsurance.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-4-6 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 4 / Section 59A-4-6
§ 59A-4-6. Examiners and specialists
Status: in_force

A. The superintendent may appoint one or more competent individuals, sufficiently knowledgeable in applicable accounting and operations, as examiners to represent the superintendent in an examination and shall fix the reasonable compensation of the examiners.

B. The superintendent may also employ and fix reasonable compensation of independently contracting accountants knowledgeable of insurance accounting principles and practices, actuaries, attorneys, appraisers and other specialists not otherwise part of the insurance department staff, as the superintendent deems necessary for the examination, the cost of which shall be borne by the company which is the subject of the examination. All specialists shall be under the direction and control of the superintendent.
N.M. Stat. § 39-4D-4 — NM Code / Chapter 39 / Article 4D / Section 39-4D-4
§ 39-4D-4. Standards for recognition of foreign-country judgment
Status: in_force

A. Except as otherwise provided in Subsections B and C of this section, a court of this state shall recognize a foreign-country judgment to which the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act applies.

B. A court of this state shall not recognize a foreign-country judgment if:

(1) the foreign-country judgment was rendered under a judicial system that does not provide impartial tribunals or procedures compatible with the requirements of due process of law;

(2) the foreign court did not have personal jurisdiction over the defendant; or

(3) the foreign court did not have jurisdiction over the subject matter.

C. A court of this state need not recognize a foreign-country judgment if:

(1) the defendant in the proceeding in the foreign court did not receive notice of the proceeding in sufficient time to enable the defendant to defend;

(2) the foreign-country judgment was obtained by fraud that deprived the losing party of an adequate opportunity to present its case;

(3) the foreign-country judgment or the cause of action on which the foreign-country judgment is based is repugnant to the public policy of this state or of the United States;

(4) the foreign-country judgment conflicts with another final and conclusive judgment;

(5) the proceeding in the foreign court was contrary to an agreement between the parties under which the dispute in question was to be determined otherwise than by proceedings in that foreign court;

(6) in the case of jurisdiction based only on personal service, the foreign court was a seriously inconvenient forum for the trial of the action;

(7) the foreign-country judgment was rendered in circumstances that raise substantial doubt about the integrity of the rendering court with respect to the foreign-country judgment; or

(8) the specific proceeding in the foreign court leading to the foreign-country judgment was not compatible with the requirements of due process of law.

D. The party resisting recognition of the foreign-country judgment has the burden of establishing that one of the grounds for nonrecognition stated in Subsection B or C of this section exists.
N.M. Stat. § 30-16-46 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 16 / Section 30-16-46
§ 30-16-46. Legislative finding
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that thefts of crude petroleum oil are a significant problem in this state, and that due to the fungible nature of the product and difficulty of identification and apprehension, extraordinary measures are necessary.
N.M. Stat. § 28-1-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 28 / Article 1 / Section 28-1-6
§ 28-1-6. Validity of regulation; judicial review
Status: in_force

A. Any person who is or may be affected by a regulation adopted by the secretary may appeal to the court of appeals for further relief. All appeals shall be upon the record made at the hearing and shall be taken to the court of appeals within thirty days after filing of the regulation.

B. The procedure for perfecting an appeal to the court of appeals under this section consists of the timely filing of a notice of appeal with a copy of the regulation from which the appeal is taken. The appellant shall certify in his notice of appeal that arrangements have been made with the secretary for preparation of a sufficient number of transcripts of the record of the hearing on which the appeal depends to support his appeal to the court, at the expense of the appellant, including three copies which he shall furnish to the secretary.

C. Upon appeal, the court of appeals shall set aside the regulation only if found to be:

(1) arbitrary, capricious or an abuse of discretion;

(2) not supported by a preponderance of evidence in the record; or

(3) otherwise not in accordance with law.
N.M. Stat. § 27-2-12.7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 2 / Section 27-2-12.7
§ 27-2-12.7. Medicaid; human services [health care authority] department employees; standards of conduct; enforcement
Status: in_force

A. As used in this section:

(1) “business” means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, organization or individual carrying on a business;

(2) “department” means the human services [health care authority] department;

(3) “employee” means any person who has been appointed to or hired for any department office connected with the administration of medicaid funds and who receives compensation in the form of salary;

(4) “employee with responsibility” means an employee who is directly involved in or has a significant part in the medicaid decision-making, regulatory, procurement or contracting process; and

(5) “financial interest” means an interest held by an individual, his spouse or minor child which is:

(a) an ownership interest in business; or

(b) any employment or prospective employment for which negotiations have already begun.

B. No employee with responsibility shall for twenty-four months following the date on which he ceases to be an employee act as agent or attorney for any other person or business in connection with a judicial or administrative proceeding, application, ruling, contract, claim or other matter relating to the medicaid program with respect to which the employee made any investigation, rendered any ruling or was otherwise substantially and directly involved during the last year he was an employee and which was actually pending under his responsibility within that period.

C. No department secretary, income support division director or medical assistance bureau chief or their deputies shall for twelve months following the date on which he ceases to be an employee participate in any manner with respect to a judicial or administrative proceeding, application, ruling, contract, claim or other matter relating to the medicaid program and pending before the department.

D. No employee with responsibility shall participate in any manner with respect to a judicial or administrative proceeding, application, ruling, contract, claim or other matter relating to the medicaid program and involving his spouse, minor child or any business in which he has a financial interest unless prior to such participation:

(1) full disclosure of his relationship or financial interest is made in writing to the secretary of the department; and

(2) a written determination is made by the secretary that the disclosed relationship or financial interest is too remote or inconsequential to affect the integrity of the services of the employee.

E. Violation of any of the provisions of this section by an employee is grounds for dismissal, demotion or suspension. A former employee who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to assessment by the department of a civil money penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each violation. The department shall promulgate regulations to provide for an administrative appeal of any assessment imposed.
N.M. Stat. § 53-8-75 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 8 / Section 53-8-75
§ 53-8-75. Merger of foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in this state
Status: in_force

Whenever a foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in New Mexico is a party to a statutory merger permitted by the laws of the state or country under the laws of which it is incorporated, it shall, within thirty days after the merger becomes effective, file with the corporation commission [secretary of state] a copy of the articles of merger duly certified by the proper officer of the state or country under the laws of which the statutory merger was effected. It shall not be necessary for such corporation to procure either a new or amended certificate of authority to conduct affairs in this state unless the name of the corporation is changed by the merger or unless the corporation desires to pursue in New Mexico other or additional purposes than those which it is then authorized to pursue in New Mexico or unless the surviving corporation is to conduct affairs in New Mexico but has not procured a certificate of authority to conduct affairs in this state.
N.M. Stat. § 76-11-2 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 11 / Section 76-11-2
§ 76-11-2. Administration of act
Status: in_force

The New Mexico Fertilizer Act shall be administered by the board of regents of the New Mexico state university through the New Mexico department of agriculture.
N.M. Stat. § 7-38-65 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 38 / Section 7-38-65
§ 7-38-65. Collection of delinquent taxes on real property; sale of real property
Status: in_force

A. If a lien exists by the operation of Section 7-38-48 NMSA 1978 , the department may collect delinquent taxes on real property by selling the real property on which the taxes have become delinquent. The sale of real property for delinquent taxes shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Property Tax Code. Real property may be sold for delinquent taxes at any time after the expiration of three years from the first date shown on the tax delinquency list on which the taxes became delinquent. Real property shall be offered for sale for delinquent taxes either within four years after the first date shown on the tax delinquency list on which the taxes became delinquent or, if the department is barred by operation of law or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction from offering the property for sale for delinquent taxes within four years after the first date shown on the tax delinquency list on which the taxes became delinquent, within one year from the time the department determines that it is no longer barred from selling the property, unless:

(1) all delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs due are paid by 5:00 p.m. of the day prior to the date of the sale; or

(2) an installment agreement for payment of all delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs due is entered into with the department by 5:00 p.m. of the day prior to the date of the sale pursuant to Section 7-38-68 NMSA 1978 .

B. Failure to offer property for sale within the time prescribed by Subsection A of this section shall not impair the validity or effect of any sale that does take place.

C. The time requirements of this section are subject to the provisions of Section 7-38-83 NMSA 1978 .

D. After January 1, 2014 and subject to the provisions of Subsection A of this section, the department shall annually offer for sale in each county at least one real property listed on that county's property tax delinquency list, unless the director of the property tax division of the department and the county treasurer enter into an agreement to postpone the delinquent property tax sale. The agreement to postpone the delinquent property tax sale shall be executed in writing, and copies shall be sent to the secretary of taxation and revenue and the secretary of finance and administration. That agreement shall state the reason for the postponement and the proposed remedy that will allow the department to conduct the sale in the future.
N.M. Stat. § 19-4-18 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 19 / Article 4 / Section 19-4-18
§ 19-4-18. Purchase at private sale by person in possession
Status: in_force

In all cases, when subsequent to the time provided by law for persons to claim lots on such townsites, and prior to the taking effect of this law, any person may have entered thereon and improved any lots belonging to such town, such person, after the report of such board of appraisers, and prior to the public sale, may purchase any such lots from the said trustees or commissioners at private sale, for cash, at the appraised value of such lots, exclusive of improvements, unless there shall be adverse claimants to any such lots, in which case the respective rights of such claimants shall be determined, as hereinafter provided in this chapter.
N.M. Stat. § 73-18-28 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 18 / Section 73-18-28
§ 73-18-28. Director-at-large and municipal director; qualified elector list
Status: in_force

A. The director to represent the municipality and the director-at-large for the period from October 1955 to October 1957 shall be selected at the September 1955 meeting by the board of directors of the conservancy district as it exists prior to the election. The members shall be elected from the membership of the previously existing board if there are qualified members of the board willing to serve for the additional two years. If there are no members of the existing board willing to serve for the additional period of two years or if there is only one, the existing board may select one or both of the directors from qualified electors of the district for the position or positions.

B. In the election to be held in October 1957, a director to represent the municipal voting precinct shall be elected from the qualified electors of the municipality, and a director-at-large shall be elected from the qualified electors of the district.

C. Every resident, otherwise qualified, owning real estate of any character within the district shall have one vote for director-at-large. Each elector resident of the municipal voting precinct shall have one vote for municipal director. The right of a voter to vote for municipal director shall not be affected by the elector voting in any other election precinct in which the elector may own class “A” land.

D. The conservancy district shall compile and deliver a qualified elector list to the appropriate county clerk no later than one hundred eighty days before an election, and update the list every thirty days until ninety days before the election, which list the county clerk shall use for that election.
N.M. Stat. § 26-2C-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 26 / Article 2C / Section 26-2C-12
§ 26-2C-12. Local control
Status: in_force

A. A local jurisdiction may:

(1) adopt time, place and manner rules that do not conflict with the Cannabis Regulation Act or the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act, including rules that reasonably limit density of licenses and operating times consistent with neighborhood uses; and

(2) allow for the smoking, vaporizing and ingesting of cannabis products within an indoor or outdoor cannabis consumption area if:

(a) unless licensed pursuant to the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act, access to the cannabis consumption area is restricted to persons twenty-one years of age and older; and

(b) the cannabis establishment or integrated cannabis microbusiness is located at a minimum distance from a school or daycare center as determined by the local jurisdiction, but which minimum distance shall not be set at any more than three hundred feet from a school or daycare center that was in existence at the time the establishment or microbusiness was licensed.

B. A local jurisdiction shall not:

(1) prevent transportation of cannabis products on public roads by a licensee that transports cannabis products in compliance with the Cannabis Regulation Act;

(2) completely prohibit the operation of a licensee;

(3) prohibit or limit signage attached to or located on licensed premises that identifies the premises as a cannabis establishment;

(4) require a licensed premises or a cannabis consumption area to be any more than three hundred feet from a school or daycare center that was in existence at the time the cannabis establishment or integrated cannabis microbusiness was licensed;

(5) require an existing licensee at a licensed premises to relocate; or

(6) prohibit a person from producing homegrown cannabis as provided for in the Cannabis Regulation Act.
N.M. Stat. § 74-1-15.1 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 1 / Section 74-1-15.1
§ 74-1-15.1. Liquid waste disposal system assistance fund; created; purpose
Status: in_force

A. The “liquid waste disposal system assistance fund” is created in the state treasury. The department shall administer the fund. The fund may be composed of appropriations and transfers of money earned from investment of the fund and otherwise accruing to the fund and transfers of money from the environmental health fund not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from the unexpended balance in the fund. Balances remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain to the credit of the fund. Disbursements from the fund shall be drawn on warrant of the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary of environment or the secretary's authorized representative. Money in the fund is appropriated to the department for the sole purpose of assisting indigent individuals or households that qualify for funding to accomplish one of the following purposes where there is a real or potential negative impact to public health or water quality from on-site liquid waste disposal system effluent:

(1) to pay for a liquid waste disposal system to replace a cesspool or other failed or improper on-site liquid waste disposal system;

(2) to purchase, install or maintain an advanced treatment system as required by the Environmental Improvement Act or regulations issued pursuant to that act;

(3) to pay for the decommissioning and removal of a cesspool or other failed or improper on-site liquid waste disposal system; or

(4) to pay for all or a portion of the connection fees in order to connect an individual or household to a centralized wastewater collection and treatment system.

B. Construction activities sponsored by the fund shall be performed by licensed contractors selected through competitive bid by the department and shall be managed by the department.

C. No more than five percent of the fund shall be used by the department on an annual basis to pay for the department costs associated with management and implementation of fund activities.

D. As used in this section:

(1) “ advanced treatment system ” means an on-site liquid wastewater treatment system that removes a greater amount of contaminants than is accomplished by a primary treatment system;

(2) “ connection fee ” means the fee paid directly to a public water or wastewater system or other wastewater management organization and does not include other fees, such as legal fees, related to connecting an individual or household to a centralized wastewater collection and treatment system; and

(3) “ indigent individuals or households ” means individuals or households whose annual incomes do not exceed the federal poverty guidelines.