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N.M. Stat. § 9-27-13 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 27 / Section 9-27-13
§ 9-27-13. Telecommunications services
Status: in_force

A. The secretary of information technology may hire a communications engineer to oversee the engineering responsibilities of the department of information technology. The communications engineer shall have a degree in either electrical engineering with an electrical communications specialty or in electronics engineering.

B. In providing telecommunications services pursuant to Chapter 15 NMSA 1978 , the department of information technology shall not provide telecommunications services, including telephone, data and broadband services, to an entity other than those authorized pursuant to Section 15-5-1 NMSA 1978 , except as is necessary to facilitate a state-mandated program, including distance education, telehealth or school-based health center programs. Before expansion or upgrade of a state-owned or state-funded telecommunications network, whether voice, data or video transmission, the department shall prepare a plan consistent with state law and applicable rules that includes an assessment of how the project would potentially affect local telecommunications service providers and telecommunications service ratepayers.
N.M. Stat. § 24-6B-20 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6B / Section 24-6B-20
§ 24-6B-20. Donor registry
Status: in_force

A. The motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department shall establish a donor registry pursuant to the provisions of Subsection B of Section 66-5-10 NMSA 1978 .

B. The motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department shall cooperate with a person that administers any donor registry that this state establishes, contracts for or recognizes for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor's making, amendment to or revocation of an anatomical gift.

C. A donor registry shall:

(1) allow a donor or other person authorized pursuant to Section 4 of the Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift;

(2) be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift; and

(3) be accessible for purposes of Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection seven days a week on a twenty-four-hour basis.

D. Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor or person who made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift.

E. This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such registry shall comply with the provisions of Subsections C and D of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 5-9-8 — NM Code / Chapter 5 / Article 9 / Section 5-9-8
§ 5-9-8. Evaluation and reporting requirements
Status: in_force

The local government that designated an enterprise zone shall make an annual progress report to the secretary of economic development due on the second Friday of January in the next calendar year including the following:

A. the number of new jobs created within the enterprise zone;

B. the percentage of jobs filled by economically disadvantaged workers and the percentage of long-term unemployed workers within the enterprise zone;

C. the local and private entity commitments and degree of compliance;

D. compliance with the enterprise zone plan;

E. the impact of the creation of the enterprise zone on the level of distress in the zone; and

F. new dollar investments in the enterprise zone for new or expanded business opportunities.
N.M. Stat. § 41-7-6 — NM Code / Chapter 41 / Article 7 / Section 41-7-6
§ 41-7-6. Defamation by radio and television; liability of owner, licensee or operator; compliance with federal law
Status: in_force

The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, licensee or operator, shall not be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement published or uttered in or as a part of a visual or sound radio broadcast, by one other than such owner, licensee or operator, or agent or employee thereof, unless it shall be alleged and proved by the complaining party, that such owner, licensee, operator or such agent or employee, has failed to exercise due care to prevent the publication or utterance of such statement in such broadcast. Provided, however, the exercise of due care shall be construed to include a bona fide compliance with any federal law, or the regulation of any federal regulatory agency, including those laws and regulations fixing the rates that may be charged for use of such facilities for visual or sound broadcasts.
N.M. Stat. § 72-16-88 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 16 / Section 72-16-88
§ 72-16-88. Board's determination final
Status: in_force

The determination of the board that the limitations hereunder imposed upon the issuance of refunding bonds have been met shall be conclusive in the absence of fraud or arbitrary and gross abuse of discretion.
N.M. Stat. § 56-12-3 — NM Code / Chapter 56 / Article 12 / Section 56-12-3
§ 56-12-3. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Pawnbrokers Act is to:

A. prevent frauds, unfair practices, discriminations against, impositions on or abuses of the citizens of New Mexico;

B. exercise the police power of the state to insure a sound system of making pawn transactions and acquiring and disposing of tangible personal property by and through pawnshops and to prevent unlawful pawn transactions, particularly in stolen property, through regulating pawnbrokers and certain persons employed by or in pawnshops;

C. ensure financial responsibility to the state and to the public;

D. ensure compliance with federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations and ordinances;

E. assist local governments in the exercise of their police power; and

F. to protect from exploitation, abuse or its own improvidence that segment of society in this state which relies from time to time for its need upon money or credit extended by pawnbrokers and given upon the security of native art, handicraft or movable personal possessions.
N.M. Stat. § 1-8-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 1-8-7
§ 1-8-7. Vacancy on general election ballot; death of candidate or resignation or death of office holder before primary
Status: in_force

A. Vacancies on the general election ballot may be filled as provided in Subsection B of this section if after a primary election there is no nominee of a major political party for a public office to be filled in the general election and if the vacancy was caused by:

(1) the death of a candidate after filing of the declaration of candidacy or after certification as a convention-designated nominee and before the primary election;

(2) the failure of a major political party to nominate a candidate for lieutenant governor; provided that the major political party nominated a candidate for governor; or

(3) the resignation or death of a person holding a public office after the last Friday before the first Tuesday in March, when such office was not included in the general election proclamation and is required by law to be filled at the next succeeding general election after the vacancy is created.

B. The vacancy may be filled subsequent to the primary election by the central committee of the state or county political party, as the case may be, as provided by Subsection A of Section 1-8-8 NMSA 1978 .

C. Appointments to fill vacancies in the list of a party's nominees for the general election ballot shall be made and filed with the proper filing officer on the twenty-third day after the primary election using the form prescribed by the secretary of state, along with the declaration of candidacy subscribed and sworn by the selected nominee and the required form for candidates pursuant to the Campaign Reporting Act.

D. When the name of a nominee is filed as provided in this section, the name shall be placed on the general election ballot as the party's candidate for that office.
N.M. Stat. § 1-4-17 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 1-4-17
§ 1-4-17. Registration; change of residence within same county
Status: in_force

A. A voter who has changed his residence within the same county shall complete a certificate of registration to change his registered residence address or file a change of residence notification with the county clerk on a postcard-type form, approved by the secretary of state.

B. No change of registered residence address shall be made in any period during which registration is closed; however, the county clerk may accept applications for or notifications of such change but shall not process them until the registration period is open.

C. The application for or notification of change of registered residence shall be filed with the county clerk, and the previous registration shall be retained for six years in a file established for that purpose.
N.M. Stat. § 18-11-5 — NM Code / Chapter 18 / Article 11 / Section 18-11-5
§ 18-11-5. Board created; appointment; terms; officers
Status: in_force

A. The “board of the farm and ranch heritage museum” is created.

B. The board shall consist of one nonvoting member and eleven voting members who are residents of New Mexico, as follows:

(1) nine members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Five of those nine members shall be farmers or ranchers and four members shall be from the general public. The five farmer and rancher members of the original board shall be appointed from a list of eight names submitted by the board of directors of the New Mexico farm and ranch heritage institute foundation, incorporated, from a list of persons recommended by farm and ranch organizations. When a vacancy occurs in any of the five farmer and rancher positions, two names shall be submitted to the governor by the board for each vacancy from a list of persons recommended by farm and ranch organizations. No more than five of the nine appointed members shall be from the same political party. In making these appointments, due consideration shall be given to the distribution of places of residence and to individual interests and backgrounds in farming and ranching. Initially, two members shall be appointed for terms of two years, three members shall be appointed for terms of three years and three members shall be appointed for terms of four years. The member appointed pursuant to this 2015 amendment shall serve an initial term of two years. Thereafter, members of the board shall be appointed for terms of four years or less so that the staggered expiration dates are maintained;

(2) the following shall have permanent seats on the board:

(a) the director of the New Mexico department of agriculture or the director's designee; and

(b) the dean of the college of agriculture and home economics of New Mexico state university or the dean's designee; and

(3) the director shall be a nonvoting member of the board.

C. A member of the board shall not be removed during the member's term except for misconduct, incompetence, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. No removal shall be made without prior approval of the senate.

D. The chair of the board and other officers, as deemed necessary by the board, shall be elected by the board annually at its first scheduled meeting after July 1.
N.M. Stat. § 6-17-16 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 17 / Section 6-17-16
§ 6-17-16. Validation
Status: in_force

That all bonds heretofore issued under authority of the act hereby amended, and the proceedings adopted for the authorization and issuance of such bonds, are hereby validated, ratified and confirmed, and all such bonds and proceedings are hereby found and declared to be fully valid, effective and enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 21-22F-4 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 22F / Section 21-22F-4
§ 21-22F-4. Department; powers and duties
Status: in_force

A. The commission [department] may:

(1) grant an award to repay loans obtained for legal education expenses of a participating attorney as consideration and inducement to the attorney to engage in public service employment; and

(2) delegate to other agencies or contract for the performance of services required by the provisions of the Public Service Law Loan Repayment Act.

B. The commission [department] shall make a full and careful investigation of the ability, character and qualifications of each applicant and determine fitness to become a participating attorney in the public service law loan repayment program.
N.M. Stat. § 18-5-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 5 / Section 18-5-4
§ 18-5-4. Commission; officers; meetings
Status: in_force

A. Annually, at the November meeting, the commission as a whole shall organize by the nomination, election and installation of a vice chairman and a secretary of the commission. The chairman of the commission, to be appointed by the governor, will take office at this time.

B. The commission shall hold at least four meetings in each calendar year.

C. All meetings of the commission shall be open to the public.
N.M. Stat. § 1-4-5.5 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 4 / Section 1-4-5.5
§ 1-4-5.5. Requests for voter data, mailing labels or special voter lists
Status: in_force

A. The county clerk or secretary of state shall furnish voter data, mailing labels or special voter lists only upon written request to the county clerk or the secretary of state and after compliance with the requirements of this section; provided, however, all requesters shall be treated equally in regard to the charges and the furnishing of the materials.

B. In furnishing voter data, mailing labels or special voter lists, the county clerk or secretary of state shall not provide data or lists that include voters' social security numbers, codes used to identify agencies where voters have registered, a voter's day and month of birth or voters' telephone numbers if prohibited by voters.

C. Each requester of voter data, mailing labels or special voter lists shall sign an affidavit that the voter data, mailing labels and special voter lists shall be used for governmental or election and election campaign purposes only and shall not be made available or used for unlawful purposes.

D. The secretary of state shall prescribe the form of the affidavit.

E. As used in this section:

(1) “ election campaign purposes ” means relating in any way to a campaign in an election conducted by a federal, state or local government;

(2) “ governmental purposes ” means noncommercial purposes relating in any way to the structure, operation or decision-making of a federal, state or local government;

(3) “ mailing labels ” means prepared mailing labels of selected voters arranged in the order in which requested and providing only the name and address of the voter;

(4) “ special voter list ” means a prepared list of selected voters arranged in the order in which requested; and

(5) “ voter data ” means selected information derived from the voter file.
N.M. Stat. § 3-18-2 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 18 / Section 3-18-2
§ 3-18-2. Prohibition on municipal taxing power
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise provided by law, no municipality may impose:

A. an income tax;

B. a tax on property measured on an ad valorem, per unit or other basis; or

C. any excise tax including but not limited to:

(1) sales taxes;

(2) gross receipts; and

(3) excise taxes on any incident relating to:

(a) tobacco;

(b) liquor;

(c) motor fuels; and

(d) motor vehicles.

D. However, any municipality may impose excise taxes of the sales, gross receipts or any other type on specific products and services, other than those enumerated in Paragraph (3) of Subsection C of this section, if the products and services taxed are each named specifically in the ordinance imposing the tax on them and if the ordinance is approved by a majority vote in the municipality.

E. Subsections C and D of this section shall not be construed to apply to or otherwise affect any occupation tax imposed prior to or after the effective date of this act under Sections 3-38-1 through 3-38-12 NMSA 1978 , as those sections may be amended from time to time; provided, the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the sale of motor vehicles.
N.M. Stat. § 42-9-39 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 9 / Section 42-9-39
§ 42-9-39. Procedure in suit containing ancillary attachment
Status: in_force

In all cases when attachments are sued out ancillary to the original suit, the suit must thereafter proceed in all respects as if it had been commenced originally by attachment.
N.M. Stat. § 1-3A-5 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 3A / Section 1-3A-5
§ 1-3A-5. Committee; duties
Status: in_force

A. Beginning July 1, 2021, and every August 1 of each year ending in the number zero thereafter, the committee shall:

(1) no later than October 30, 2021, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and September 1 of each year ending in the number one thereafter, adopt three district plans each for:

(a) New Mexico's congressional districts;

(b) the state house of representatives;

(c) the state senate; and

(d) the other state offices required to be redistricted;

(2) hold no fewer than six public meetings that allow for virtual participation before publishing the district plans for public comment; provided that in-person meetings shall not be required if such meetings would violate a public health order;

(3) hold no fewer than six public meetings that allow for virtual participation for the purpose of adopting district plans; provided that in-person meetings shall not be required if such meetings would violate a public health order;

(4) conduct all meetings pursuant to the requirements of the Open Meetings Act; and

(5) compile, index, maintain and provide public access to the committee's record for each district plan it adopts.

B. Beginning no later than July 1, 2021, and August 1 of each year ending in the number zero thereafter, the committee may:

(1) develop and adopt procedures for public hearings; and

(2) hire staff and enter into contracts and any interagency agreements, including agreements to provide for professional technical or legal services, as necessary to accomplish the duties set forth in this section.
N.M. Stat. § 16-6-10 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 16 / Article 6 / Section 16-6-10
§ 16-6-10. Fair commission; expenses
Status: in_force

Members of the state fair commission shall receive no salary, but each member shall receive per diem and mileage pursuant to the Per Diem and Mileage Act.
N.M. Stat. § 27-2D-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 2D / Section 27-2D-3
§ 27-2D-3. Application; resource planning session; individual education plan; review periods
Status: in_force

A. Application for cash assistance or services shall be made to the department. The application shall be in writing or reduced to writing in the manner and on the form prescribed by the department. The application shall be made under oath by an applicant with whom a dependent child resides and shall contain a statement of the age of the child, residence, a complete statement of the amount of property in which the applicant has an interest, a statement of all income that the applicant and other benefit group members have at the time of the filing of the application and other information required by the department.

B. The department shall assist applicants in completing the application for cash assistance or services and shall evaluate applicants to determine all department programs for which the applicant may be eligible. The department shall process all expedited food stamp applications within two business days of submission, and the department shall deliver expedited food stamps to eligible applicants within seven days of the application.

C. At the time of application for cash assistance and services, an applicant shall identify everyone who is to be counted in the benefit group. Once an application is approved, the recipient shall advise the department if there are any changes in the membership of the benefit group.

D. No later than thirty days after an application is filed, the department shall make referrals and act on the application.

E. No later than five days after an application is approved, the department shall provide reimbursement for child care.

F. Whenever the department receives an application for assistance, a verification and record of the applicant's circumstances shall promptly be made to ascertain the facts supporting the application and to obtain other information required by the department. The verification may include a visit to the home of the applicant, as long as the department gives adequate prior notice of the visit to the applicant.

G. The department shall work with the recipient to develop an individual educational plan that:

(1) sets forth the educational goal for the recipient, identifies barriers to that goal and identifies the steps to be taken by the recipient to achieve that goal;

(2) describes the services the department may provide so that the recipient may complete the recipient's educational goal; and

(3) provides for meetings with the recipient every six months or at the end of each academic term to review the eligibility of the benefit group and to review and revise the recipient's individual education plan.

H. The recipient and the department shall sign the recipient's individual education plan. The department shall:

(1) not allow a recipient to decline to participate in developing an individual education plan;

(2) not waive the requirement that a recipient develop an individual education plan; and

(3) emphasize the importance of the individual education plan to the recipient.
N.M. Stat. § 3-29-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 29 / Section 3-29-3
§ 3-29-3. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Sanitary Projects Act is to improve the public health of rural communities in New Mexico by providing for the establishment and maintenance of a political subdivision of the state that is empowered by the state to receive public funds for acquisition, construction and improvement of water supply, reuse, storm drainage and wastewater facilities in communities, and to operate and maintain such facilities for the public good.
N.M. Stat. § 24-34-5 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 34 / Section 24-34-5
§ 24-34-5. Private right of action
Status: in_force

A. A person claiming to be aggrieved by a violation of the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act may maintain an action in district court for appropriate relief, including temporary, preliminary or permanent injunctive relief, compensatory damages or punitive damages, or the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each violation of the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act, whichever is greater.

B. In any action brought pursuant to Subsection A of this section, the court shall award a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney fees and costs to be paid by the defendant.

C. Claims pursuant to the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Freedom Act may be brought against public bodies and entities acting in the course and scope of authority of a public body, but not against an individual.