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N.M. Stat. § 67-3-54 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-54
§ 67-3-54. Flight strips, airport and access roads; contracts with federal government; secretary
Status: in_force

The state transportation commission is hereby authorized to enter into and make agreements with the federal government, or any agency, bureau or commission thereof, providing for the construction and maintenance of flight strips for the landing and launching of aircraft adjacent to or in the vicinity of public highways, for the construction and maintenance of airports or the construction and maintenance of access roads to flight strips, airports, bombing ranges, target ranges, federal reservations or to any industry or location deemed necessary to the war effort. Whenever a project for the construction and maintenance of a flight strip, an airport or an access road has been approved by the state transportation commission, the secretary is hereby authorized to execute and sign on behalf of the commission the project agreement and modifications thereof and all other documents in connection with such project. Such agreements, modifications thereof and documents, when so executed and signed, shall be binding upon the state to the same extent as if they had been signed by every member of the state transportation commission.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8 / Section 22-8-12
§ 22-8-12. Operating budgets; amendments
Status: in_force

Operating budgets shall not be altered or amended after approval and certification by the department, except for the following purposes and according to the following procedure:

A. upon written request of a local school board or governing body of a state-chartered charter school, the secretary may authorize transfer within the budget, or provide for items not included, when the total amount of the budget will not be increased thereby;

B. upon written request of a local school board or governing body of a state-chartered charter school, the secretary, in conformance with the rules of the department, may authorize an increase in any budget if the increase is necessary because of the receipt of revenue that was not anticipated at the time the budget was fixed and if the increase is directly related to a special project or program for which the additional revenue was received. The secretary shall make a written report to the legislative finance committee of any such budget increase;

C. upon written request of a local school board or governing body of a state-chartered charter school, the secretary may authorize an increase in a budget of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000); or

D. upon written request of a local school board or governing body of a state-chartered charter school, the secretary, after notice and a public hearing, may authorize an increase in a school budget in an amount exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000). The notice of the hearing shall designate the school district that proposes to alter or amend its budget, together with the time, place and date of the hearing. The notice of the hearing shall be published at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the school district is situated. The last publication of the notice shall be at least three days prior to the date set for the hearing. The charter schools division shall establish how a state-chartered charter school notifies the parents of its students of proposed increases in a charter school budget.
N.M. Stat. § 10-16-14 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 16 / Section 10-16-14
§ 10-16-14. Enforcement procedures
Status: in_force

A. The state ethics commission may investigate suspected violations of the Governmental Conduct Act and forward its findings and evidence to the attorney general, district attorney or appropriate state agency or legislative body for enforcement. If a suspected violation involves the office of the state ethics commission, the attorney general may enforce that act. If a suspected violation involves the office of the attorney general, a district attorney may enforce that act.

B. Violation of the provisions of the Governmental Conduct Act by any legislator is grounds for discipline by the appropriate legislative body.

C. If the state ethics commission determines that there is sufficient cause to file a complaint to remove from office a public officer removable only by impeachment, the commission shall refer the matter to the house of representatives of the legislature. If within thirty days after the referral the house of representatives has neither formally declared that the charges contained in the complaint are not substantial nor instituted hearings on the complaint, the state ethics commission shall make public the nature of the charges but shall make clear that the merits of the charges have never been determined. Days during which the legislature is not in session shall not be included in determining the thirty-day period.

D. Violation of the provisions of the Governmental Conduct Act by any public officer or employee, other than those covered by Subsection C of this section, is grounds for discipline, including dismissal, demotion or suspension. Complaints against executive branch employees may be filed with the agency head and reviewed pursuant to the procedures provided in the Personnel Act. Complaints against legislative branch employees may be filed with and reviewed pursuant to procedures adopted by the New Mexico legislative council. Complaints against judicial branch employees may be filed and reviewed pursuant to the procedures provided in the judicial personnel rules. Complaints against employees subject to the State Ethics Commission Act may also be filed with the state ethics commission, which shall determine whether to forward a complaint to the appropriate state agency or investigate the complaint on its own.

E. Subject to the provisions of this section, the provisions of the Governmental Conduct Act may be enforced by the state ethics commission. Except as regards legislators, state employees or statewide elected officials, a district attorney in the county where a person who allegedly violated the provisions resides or where an alleged violation occurred may also enforce that act. Enforcement actions may include seeking civil injunctive or other appropriate orders.
N.M. Stat. § 60-6E-11 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 6E / Section 60-6E-11
§ 60-6E-11. Advisory committee created; members; meetings
Status: in_force

A. The “alcohol server education advisory committee” is created and is administratively attached to the division. The membership of the committee shall consist of:

(1) the director;

(2) the secretary of public safety or his designee;

(3) the secretary of health or his designee;

(4) the chief of the traffic safety bureau of the state highway and transportation department or his designee;

(5) three representatives from the retail liquor industry;

(6) a representative from the wholesale liquor industry;

(7) a representative from the insurance industry; and

(8) a representative from a nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to reduce drunk driving in New Mexico.

B. The representative members of the committee shall be selected by the director. The director shall serve as chair of the committee.

C. The committee shall meet as often as necessary to conduct business, but no less than twice a year. Meetings shall be called by the director. Five members shall constitute a quorum.
N.M. Stat. § 61-3A-2 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 3A / Section 61-3A-2
§ 61-3A-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Safe Harbor for Nurses Act:

A. “ assignment ” means the designated responsibility for the provision or supervision of nursing care for a defined work period in a defined work setting, including the specified functions, duties, practitioner orders, supervisory directives and amount of work designated as an individual nurse's responsibility; provided that changes in a nurse's assignment may occur at any time during the work period;

B. “ good faith ” means taking action supported by a sincere belief with a reasonable factual or legal basis other than the nurse's moral, religious or personal beliefs;

C. “ health care facility ” means an entity licensed by the department of health that provides health care on its premises and has three or more nurses;

D. “ nurse ” means a nurse licensed pursuant to the Nursing Practice Act as a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse; and

E. “ safe harbor ” means a process that:

(1) protects a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse from adverse action by the health care facility where the nurse is working when the nurse makes a good faith request to be allowed to reject an assignment, which request is based on the nurse's:

(a) assessment of the nurse's own education, knowledge, competence or experience; and

(b) immediate assessment of the risk for patient safety or potential violation of the Nursing Practice Act or board of nursing rules; and

(2) provides for further assessment of the situation.
N.M. Stat. § 61-35-1 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 35 / Section 61-35-1
§ 61-35-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Unlicensed Health Care Practice Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 66-1-4.2 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 1 / Section 66-1-4.2
§ 66-1-4.2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Motor Vehicle Code:

A. “ bicycle ” means every device propelled by human power upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels, except scooters and similar devices;

B. “ bureau ” means the traffic safety bureau of the department of transportation;

C. “ bus ” means every motor vehicle designed and used for the transportation of persons and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation; and

D. “ business district ” means the territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any three hundred feet along the highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited to hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings that occupy at least fifty percent of the frontage on one side or fifty percent of the frontage collectively on both sides of the highway.
N.M. Stat. § 20-10-9.2 — NM Code / Chapter 20 / Article 10 / Section 20-10-9.2
§ 20-10-9.2. Outstanding enlisted leader of the year ribbon
Status: in_force

The adjutant general may award the outstanding enlisted leader of the year ribbon to a member of the national guard of New Mexico who has been officially selected as the New Mexico outstanding soldier of the year, airman of the year or first sergeant of the year. This ribbon is established to recognize those members who have performed above and beyond their peer group in their profession, on- or off-duty, and in their communities, reflecting great credit upon themselves and the national guard within the calendar year of the award.
N.M. Stat. § 47-8-25 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 8 / Section 47-8-25
§ 47-8-25. Use of dwelling unit limited
Status: in_force

Unless otherwise agreed, the resident shall occupy his dwelling unit only as a dwelling unit and in compliance with terms and conditions of the rental agreement. The rental agreement may require that the resident notify the owner of any anticipated extended absence from the premises in excess of seven days no later than the first day of the extended absence.
N.M. Stat. § 28-10-3.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 28 / Article 10 / Section 28-10-3.1
§ 28-10-3.1. Full-service gasoline stations; decal display; service to person with a disability
Status: in_force

A. The governor's commission on disability shall design and produce a decal for display in full-service gasoline stations signifying that the gasoline station will provide gasoline pumping, window washing, fluid checks and other services provided at its full-service island to any properly permitted or certified driver with a disability at a self-service island.

B. Any full-service gasoline station providing the services described in Subsection A of this section may request and shall receive the decal upon application to the governor's commission on disability.

C. No gasoline station shall display the decal issued by the governor's commission on disability unless it provides full service to any driver with a disability at a self-service island.

D. A gasoline station owner or operator who displays a decal signifying that the station will provide additional services to drivers with a disability at a self-service island and who fails to provide that service shall be subject to revocation of the decal for display according to this section.
N.M. Stat. § 75-11-2 — NM Code / Chapter 75 / Article 11 / Section 75-11-2
§ 75-11-2. Carlsbad brine well remediation fund; created; purpose; conditions
Status: in_force

A. The “Carlsbad brine well remediation fund” is created in the state treasury. The energy, minerals and natural resources department shall administer the fund. The fund shall be used by the Carlsbad brine well remediation authority to the extent that revenues are available to remediate the Carlsbad brine well or to acquire property adjacent to the Carlsbad brine well as required for its remediation.

B. Money in the fund may consist of federal grants, appropriations, donations, earnings from investment of the fund and other revenue that from time to time may accrue to the fund from other sources for remediation of the Carlsbad brine well.

C. Money in the fund shall be subject to appropriation by the legislature and shall not revert at the end of any fiscal year.

D. Money in the fund shall be disbursed on warrants signed by the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources or the secretary's authorized representative.
N.M. Stat. § 29-10-7 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 10 / Section 29-10-7
§ 29-10-7. Application
Status: in_force

A. Information contained in the following documents shall be available for public inspection:

(1) posters, announcements or lists for identifying or apprehending fugitives or wanted persons;

(2) original records of entry such as police blotters maintained by criminal justice agencies, compiled chronologically and required by law or long-standing custom to be made public, if the records are organized on a chronological basis;

(3) court records of public judicial proceedings;

(4) published court or administrative opinions or public judicial, administrative or legislative proceedings;

(5) records of traffic offenses and accident reports;

(6) announcements of executive clemency; and

(7) statistical or analytical records or reports in which individuals are not identified and from which their identities are not ascertainable.

B. Nothing prevents a law enforcement agency from disclosing to the public arrest record information related to the offense for which an adult individual is currently within the criminal justice system. A law enforcement agency is not prohibited from confirming prior arrest record information to members of the news media or any other person, upon specific inquiry as to whether a named individual was arrested, detained, indicted or whether an information or other formal charge was filed on a specified date, if the arrest record information disclosed is based on data enumerated by Subsection A of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 22-12A-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 12A / Section 22-12A-5
§ 22-12A-5. Public school attendance
Status: in_force

A. Local school boards may admit as students school-age persons who do not live within the school district to the public schools within the school district when there are sufficient school accommodations to provide for them.

B. Local school boards may allow students to transfer to a public school outside the student's attendance zone but within the school district when there are sufficient school accommodations to provide for them.

C. Local school boards shall charge a tuition fee for the right to attend public school within the school district to those school-age persons who do not live within the state. The tuition fee shall not exceed the amount generated by the public school fund for a student similarly situated within the school district for the current school year.

D. When the parent of a student not living in the state pays an ad valorem property tax for school purposes within a school district, the amount of the tuition payable for the school year shall be reduced by the district average ad valorem tax per student as determined by the ad valorem tax credit used in calculating the state equalization guarantee distribution.
N.M. Stat. § 60-2F-6 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 2F / Section 60-2F-6
§ 60-2F-6. Board; powers
Status: in_force

The board may:

A. grant, deny, suspend, condition or revoke licenses or permits issued pursuant to the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act, establish the terms for each classification of license to be issued pursuant to that act and set fees for submitting an application for a license;

B. compel the production of documents, books and tangible items, including documents showing the receipts and disbursements of a licensee;

C. investigate the operations of a licensee and place a designated representative on the premises for the purpose of observing compliance with the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act and rules or orders of the board;

D. summon witnesses;

E. take testimony under oath for the effective discharge of the board's authority;

F. appoint a hearing officer to conduct hearings required by the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act or rules adopted pursuant to that act;

G. make rules to hold, conduct and operate all games of chance held in the state except those specifically exempted under the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act;

H. adopt rules to implement the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act and to ensure that games of chance conducted in New Mexico are conducted with fairness and that the participants and patrons are protected against illegal practices on any premises;

I. determine qualifications for licensees;

J. establish a system of standard operating procedures for licensees;

K. adopt rules establishing a system of licensing distributors and manufacturers and licensing and governing qualified organizations;

L. adopt rules establishing a system of permits for individuals designated as bingo managers, bingo callers and such other bingo employees as the board requires;

M. require a statement under oath by the applicant for a license to be issued pursuant to the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act that the information on the application is true;

N. inspect any games of chance being conducted;

O. make on-site inspections of premises where games of chance are being held;

P. inspect all equipment used for games of chance;

Q. regulate the monetary value of prizes to be awarded for games of chance;

R. require disclosure of information sufficient to make a determination of the suitability of an applicant for a license or permit to be issued pursuant to the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act;

S. adopt and enforce all rules necessary to implement and administer the provisions of the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act; and

T. provide an annual report to the governor regarding the board's administration of the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act.
N.M. Stat. § 10-7A-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7A / Section 10-7A-3
§ 10-7A-3. Deferred compensation plan; state and local public employees
Status: in_force

A. After the effective date of the Deferred Compensation Act, the board shall review and approve deferred compensation plans for participation by state and local public employees. A deferred compensation plan shall provide for the method of transfer of funds to a plan through written or electronic salary reduction agreements with state and local public employees and shall provide for deferral of only those salary amounts upon which income taxes are eligible for deferral pursuant to federal law.

B. Compensation deferred under any deferred compensation plan shall be included with current income for purposes of computing retirement contributions and benefits.

C. Amounts by which salary is reduced shall be transmitted to the approved deferred compensation carrier.

D. Local public employees may participate in a deferred compensation plan selected by their local public body employer after it takes formal action conforming to board requirements. If the plan selected is different from the plan approved by the board, the board shall have no responsibility concerning the plan. If the plan selected is that approved by the board pursuant to Section 10-7A-5 NMSA 1978 , the provisions of Section 10-7A-8 NMSA 1978 shall apply.
N.M. Stat. § 73-11-6 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 11 / Section 73-11-6
§ 73-11-6. Proceedings to determine validity; bond issue or contract with United States; ascertainment of benefits and damages; inclusion or exclusion of land
Status: in_force

The board of directors of any irrigation district organized under the provisions of this act shall commence special proceedings in and by which the proceedings of said board and of said district providing for and authorizing the issue and sale of the bonds of said district, whether said bonds or any of them have or have not been sold or disposed of, or in and by which the proceedings of said board and of said district providing for the authorization of contract with the United States may be judicially examined, approved and confirmed. Such proceedings shall be brought within sixty days after the adoption of resolution by the board declaring that the bond election or election for the authorization of the execution of contract with the United States has been voted upon favorably by the electorate of the district. The board may, however, in its discretion, bring an action prior to the time specified, whereby the validity of the organization of the district or of any steps leading to the issuance of bonds or to the making of contract as aforesaid, may be separately judicially examined, approved and confirmed. Within sixty days after the ascertainment of the rate or percentage of drainage benefits, and of the award for damages inflicted by drainage works, as in this act provided, the board shall bring a similar special proceeding, whereby such assessment and award may be judicially examined, approved and confirmed. In the event of the inclusion by any irrigation district of additional lands, or the exclusion of lands previously within the boundaries of any such district, the board of directors may, if they deem it advisable so to do, institute a special proceeding in like manner and with like effect as herein provided for the confirmation of bonds, whereby the proceedings for such change of boundaries may be judicially examined, approved and confirmed.
N.M. Stat. § 4-49-12 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 49 / Section 4-49-12
§ 4-49-12. Qualifications of voters
Status: in_force

All qualified electors under the laws of this state who are property taxpayers shall be entitled to vote at all elections provided by this article.