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N.M. Stat. § 3-29-21 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 29 / Section 3-29-21
§ 3-29-21. Exemptions from Special District Procedures Act provisions
Status: in_force

An association formed pursuant to the provisions of the Sanitary Projects Act may be formed exclusively as provided in that act, and formation of the association shall be exempt from all review and requirements set forth in the Special District Procedures Act.
N.M. Stat. § 14-14A-23 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 14A / Section 14-14A-23
§ 14-14A-23. Database of notarial officers
Status: in_force

The secretary of state shall maintain an electronic database of notarial officers providing the following:

A. information and a means through which a person may verify the authority of a notarial officer to perform notarial acts; and

B. indication of whether a notarial officer has notified the secretary of state that the notarial officer will be performing notarial acts on electronic records.
N.M. Stat. § 1-12-8.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 12 / Section 1-12-8.1
§ 1-12-8.1. Conduct of election; use of voter's receipt of certificate of registration; procedures
Status: in_force

If a voter whose name is not in the signature roster presents the voter's receipt of the voter's certificate of registration, the voter shall be allowed to vote on a provisional paper ballot in the proper precinct in accordance with the provisions of Section 1-12-7.1 NMSA 1978 . The judge or election clerk shall inform the voter that the voter will be notified by the county clerk to provide a copy of the receipt of the certificate of registration to the county clerk if the original certificate is not located. A note shall be entered on the signature roster indicating that the voter's certificate of registration should be checked by the county clerk. For the purposes of investigation or prosecution, the county clerk shall provide the district attorney and the secretary of state with the person's name and address and the corresponding receipt number of the person's certificate of registration for each person whose certificate of registration is not located.
N.M. Stat. § 42-6-3 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 6 / Section 42-6-3
§ 42-6-3. Numerous claimants; suit by committee
Status: in_force

Whenever any number of persons, more than ten, hold or claim the title to any tract of land as tenants in common, coclaimants, joint tenants or coparceners holding and claiming such land by adverse possession or otherwise they may elect or appoint a committee from their number who shall be authorized to commence and maintain an action in the name of such committee for the benefit and to the use of the whole number of such persons against any person or persons claiming an adverse estate or interest therein for the purpose of determining such adverse claim or of establishing their title, or of removing a cloud upon the same.
N.M. Stat. § 3-36-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 36 / Section 3-36-4
§ 3-36-4. Municipal lien; foreclosure; joinder of defendants; contents of complaint; several judgment or decree; lien recitals as prima facie evidence; attorney fee
Status: in_force

A. The municipality or the holder of any lien may, in a single suit, foreclose the liens against all of the persons named in the notice of liens or against the property if the owners are unknown. The complaint filed by the municipality shall:

(1) expressly name each defendant if known;

(2) describe the property against which the lien is established; and

(3) set forth the amount of the lien.

B. The judgment or decree rendered in said cause shall be several against the named defendants and against the several properties for the amounts decreed to be due by each. A lien against real estate may be foreclosed in the same manner that mortgages or other liens against real estate are foreclosed with like rights of redemption. Lien against personal property may be foreclosed in the same manner security interests are foreclosed. At the trial of any case foreclosing any lien, the recitals of the lien or other evidence of indebtedness shall be received in evidence as prima facie true. In the foreclosure of any lien created by municipal ordinance or under authority of law, a reasonable attorney's fee shall be taxed by the court as part of the costs.
N.M. Stat. § 31-29-3 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 29 / Section 31-29-3
§ 31-29-3. Limitation on scope
Status: in_force

A. The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act does not provide a basis for:

(1) invalidating a plea, conviction or sentence;

(2) a cause of action for money damages; or

(3) a claim for relief from or defense to the application of a collateral consequence based on a failure to comply with the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act.

B. The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act does not affect:

(1) the duty an individual's attorney owes to the individual, except as provided in Section 5 of the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act;

(2) a claim or right of a victim of an offense; or

(3) a right or remedy pursuant to law other than the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act available to an individual convicted of an offense.
N.M. Stat. § 30-6-3 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 6 / Section 30-6-3
§ 30-6-3. Contributing to delinquency of minor
Status: in_force

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor consists of any person committing any act or omitting the performance of any duty, which act or omission causes or tends to cause or encourage the delinquency of any person under the age of eighteen years.

Whoever commits contributing to the delinquency of a minor is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
N.M. Stat. § 30-31-19 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 31 / Section 30-31-19
§ 30-31-19. Distributions by manufacturers or distributors
Status: in_force

A registered manufacturer or distributor may distribute controlled substances to the following:

A. a registered manufacturer, pharmacy or distributor;

B. a registered practitioner;

C. a registered hospital or clinic; and

D. to a person in charge of a registered laboratory, but only for use by that laboratory for scientific and medical purposes.
N.M. Stat. § 5-16-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 16 / Section 5-16-8
§ 5-16-8. Investments
Status: in_force

A board shall invest or deposit funds in accordance with the prudent investor rule set forth in the Uniform Prudent Investor Act. The board shall employ the state investment council to invest the funds and may pay reasonable compensation for investment management services from the assets of the applicable funds. The board shall keep accurate and complete records and accounts concerning the investment portfolio.
N.M. Stat. § 22-26-8 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 26 / Section 22-26-8
§ 22-26-8. Tax to be imposed for a maximum of six years
Status: in_force

A tax imposed in a school district as a result of an election under the Public School Buildings Act shall be imposed for one, two, three, four, five or six years. The local school board may direct that such levy be decreased or not made for any year if, in its judgment, the total levy is not necessary for such year and shall direct that the levy be decreased by the amount required if a decrease is required by operation of the rate limitation provisions of Section 7-37-7.1 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 1-22-18 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 22 / Section 1-22-18
§ 1-22-18. Local election; date term of office begins
Status: in_force

The term of office of a candidate elected in a regular local election or ensuing top-two runoff election shall begin on January 1 following the candidate's election, and the candidate to whom a certificate of election has been issued shall take the oath of office before entering upon the duties of office.
N.M. Stat. § 22-10A-39 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 10A / Section 22-10A-39
§ 22-10A-39. Noncertified school personnel; salaries
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978 , a local school district shall pay a minimum wage rate of six dollars ($6.00) per hour to all noncertified school personnel.
N.M. Stat. § 42-9-18 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 9 / Section 42-9-18
§ 42-9-18. Service by publication; personal service outside state
Status: in_force

Whenever property of a defendant has been attached and it shall appear from the affidavit for attachment and the return of the sheriff, that such defendant cannot be personally served with process, the court shall order a publication to be made stating the nature and amount of the plaintiff's demand, and notifying the defendant that his property has been attached, and that unless he appears at the return day named in said publication, judgment will be rendered against him and his property sold to satisfy the same; which notice by publication shall be published in the same manner prescribed by law for the publication of other notices from the district courts; provided that personal service of such notice of suit upon the defendant outside the state of New Mexico, made in the same manner as now provided by law for the personal service of summons outside the state of New Mexico, shall be equivalent to publication.
N.M. Stat. § 5-4-14 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 5-4-14
§ 5-4-14. Retirement of bonds only from cigarette tax proceeds; tax levy irrevocable
Status: repealed

A. Recreational revenue bonds issued under the authority of Sections 5-4-10 through 5-4-15 NMSA 1978 are:

(1) not general obligations of the municipality or county issuing them; and

(2) collectible only from the proportionate income distributed to the county or municipality from the county and municipality recreational fund, which distributions are pledged.

B. Each recreational revenue bond shall state that the bond is collectible solely from the proportionate income distributed from such county and municipality recreational fund which distributions are pledged. The bondholder may not look to any other fund for the payment of principal and interest of such bond.

C. If any recreational revenue bonds are issued under the provisions of Section 5-4-10 NMSA 1978 , the law establishing the additional cigarette tax from which money is pledged for the payment of revenue bonds shall not be repealed and the amount of money so received shall not be decreased until the principal amount of the revenue bonds and their interest has been paid.
N.M. Stat. § 8-6-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 8 / Article 6 / Section 8-6-4
§ 8-6-4. Disbursement of funds; warrant from secretary; interest
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for the state treasurer to disburse or pay out any funds in his hands, the proceeds of any regular or special tax or any moneys that may come to his hands as treasurer of the state of New Mexico, except on warrant of the secretary of finance and administration; provided, that in the case of the payments of maturing interest coupons on the bonded debt of the state and in the case of the payment of retiring bonds of this state-either at the maturing of the optional period of the maturity thereof, wherein the law authorizing the issue of such bonds and coupons specifically designates a place of payment other than the office of the state treasurer-the said treasurer may remit such moneys as are necessary, to the places of payment so designated, to take up and pay such state obligations; and immediately upon receipt of such coupons and bonds so paid, he shall present same to the secretary properly cancelled and itemized, and when so presented to the secretary it shall be the duty of that official to issue his warrant chargeable against the proper funds, for the payment so made; provided further, that this article shall not affect or apply to cash appropriations made by the United States government to state institutions, over which the state has no jurisdiction as to expenditure and wherein such appropriations are remitted to the state treasurer, and by him immediately transferred to the treasurers of such institutions.
N.M. Stat. § 73-6-33 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 6 / Section 73-6-33
§ 73-6-33. Commissioners; organization; examination of lands; report
Status: in_force

Within ten days after said commissioner [commissioners] shall be elected and qualified they shall meet and organize by electing one of their number president and one secretary, and as soon as may be thereafter, they shall personally examine the lands in said district and make a preliminary report to the court, which report shall state:

A. whether said proposed work is necessary, or would be of utility in carrying out the purposes of the petition;

B. whether the proposed work would promote agricultural interests, and whether there are any lands described in said petition which would not be benefitted by such improvement;

C. whether the total benefits from said proposed work will exceed the cost thereof together with the damages resulting therefrom; and in arriving at this they shall include all benefits and all damages resulting therefrom both within and without said district;

D. said commissioners shall in said report fix as near as may be and report to the court the boundaries of said proposed drainage district. Said boundaries shall not be so changed from those in the petition as to deprive the court of jurisdiction by reason of not having on the petition the required number of signers owning land within said changed boundaries.
N.M. Stat. § 4-49-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 49 / Section 4-49-5
§ 4-49-5. Election necessary
Status: in_force

That before any bonds shall be issued under this article, the same shall be ordered by a vote of the qualified electors of such county, in the same manner hereinafter provided.
N.M. Stat. § 21-7-16 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 21-7-16
§ 21-7-16. Sale of building and improvement bonds; notice, publication and contents; conduct; delivery of bonds; purchase by state treasurer; acceptance by public officials
Status: in_force

The board shall offer said bonds for sale, after publication of notice of the time and place of sale, in some newspaper of general circulation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and also in some financial newspaper published in the city of New York, once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date fixed for said sale. Such notice shall specify the amount, denomination, maturity dates and the description of the bonds to be offered for sale, and the place, day and hour at which sealed bids therefor will be received and opened, and that only unconditional bids will be considered, and that each bid must be accompanied by a certified check drawn on a solvent bank or trust company, payable to the order of the secretary and treasurer of said board, for not less than five per centum of the par value of the bonds offered for sale, as a guaranty that the bonds will be taken by the bidder if his bid is accepted and the bidder does not take and pay for the bonds in accordance therewith. At the place and time specified in such notice, the board or the executive committee thereof shall publicly open the bids and award the bonds to the responsible bidder or bidders offering the highest price therefor, but no bid shall be accepted for less than the par value of said bonds, plus the accrued interest from the last preceding interest date to the date of delivery of said bonds. Before delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, the secretary and treasurer of the board shall detach and cancel all matured interest coupons. Said board or the executive committee thereof, shall have and reserve the right to reject any and all bids at such sale, and readvertise the same. The state treasurer may, with the approval of the state board of finance and the other officials whose approval may be required by law for the investment of public funds, purchase such bonds at par and accrued interest to date of delivery for such investment, without the necessity of them being advertised or publicly offered for sale by the board, or after rejection of bids for all or any part of any issue. Such bonds shall be accepted at their par value by all public officials in this state as security for the repayment of all deposits of public monies of this state, or of any county, municipality or public institution thereof, and as security for the faithful performance of any obligation or duty to guarantee the performance of which such officials are now authorized by law to accept a deposit of the bonds of this state or of the United States of America.
N.M. Stat. § 17-3-13.4 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 17-3-13.4
§ 17-3-13.4. Big game depredation damage fund; creation; expenditure
Status: in_force

A. The “big game depredation damage fund” is created in the state treasury. The fund consists of appropriations made to the fund, revenues received by the department of game and fish from the sale of big game depredation damage stamps and earnings from the investment of the fund. The fund shall be administered by the department and money in the fund is appropriated to the department to carry out the provisions of Subsection B of this section. Payments from the fund shall be by warrant of the secretary of finance and administration upon vouchers signed by the director of the department or his authorized representative. Balances in the fund shall not revert to any other fund.

B. The department of game and fish shall, by rule, establish a program to correct damage to federal, state or private land caused by big game and to prevent such damage in the future. Pursuant to rules adopted by the department, expenditures from the big game depredation damage fund shall be made by the department to carry out the established program; provided that money in the fund shall not be expended for any administrative costs.
N.M. Stat. § 10-7-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7 / Section 10-7-1
§ 10-7-1. Temporary transfers of employees from one office, department or institution to another
Status: in_force

The governor is further authorized, subject to the approval of the state board of finance, to transfer, temporarily from one office, department or institution to another office, department or institution, such employees as in his judgment may be necessary or convenient at any time to further the economical and efficient conduct of the state government and without regard to the appropriation out of which such employee may be paid; provided, that the governor shall have the power to designate and employ a personnel director who shall assist him in the performance of the duties imposed upon the governor by the terms of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 3-36-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 36 / Section 3-36-3
§ 3-36-3. Manner of releasing lien
Status: in_force

The municipal clerk may release a lien against any specific property by:

A. entering and signing a receipt of payment upon the notice of lien filed in the office of the county clerk; or

B. issuing a separate receipt which recites that payment of the lien with any accrued interest and penalty has been made.
N.M. Stat. § 52-5-20 — NM Code / Chapter 52 / Article 5 / Section 52-5-20
§ 52-5-20. Notification to employer; penalty
Status: in_force

A. Each insurer, guarantor, surety or group self-insurance administrator shall, on written request of the insured employer, provide the employer with a list of claims made against the employer. The information provided to the employer shall include amounts paid for closed claims, the combined cumulative reserve for all open claims and, if requested, details regarding the treatment and condition of the injured or disabled worker. The employer shall also receive notice of any proposed settlement of any claim against the employer if he so requests in writing.

B. Failure to comply with this section may subject the violator to a fine, upon hearing held by the director, of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or more than one hundred dollars ($100).
N.M. Stat. § 5-10-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 10 / Section 5-10-8
§ 5-10-8. Applications for public support
Status: in_force

A. After the adoption of an economic development plan by a local or regional government, a qualifying entity shall submit to the local or regional government an application for public support of a qualifying entity's economic development project.

B. The application shall be on a form and require such information as the local or regional government deems necessary.
N.M. Stat. § 29-10-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 10 / Section 29-10-2
§ 29-10-2. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The legislature finds and declares that the responsible exchange of complete and accurate information among law enforcement agencies is recognized as necessary and indispensable to effective law enforcement. Individual rights, however, may be infringed if information is inaccurate, incomplete or is disseminated irresponsibly. The Arrest Record Information Act is for the purpose of protecting those rights.
N.M. Stat. § 9-15-15.1 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 15 / Section 9-15-15.1
§ 9-15-15.1. Creative industries division; purpose; duties
Status: in_force

A. The creative industries division shall:

(1) increase and advance creative industry-based economic development in New Mexico;

(2) support entrepreneurs and small businesses in creative industries;

(3) assist organizations that support creative industry companies and workers;

(4) support educational and workforce training initiatives that facilitate creative industry growth and success;

(5) identify and help establish public infrastructure to support creative industries;

(6) serve as an information clearinghouse by providing resources and opportunities to creative industry stakeholders; and

(7) act as a liaison between creative-industries-related businesses and organizations.

B. The creative industries division shall work with the department, the cultural affairs department, the Indian affairs department, the higher education department, the public education department, the tourism department and the workforce solutions department to support the division's duties as they relate to the purposes of the respective departments.
N.M. Stat. § 58-15-15.1 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 15 / Section 58-15-15.1
§ 58-15-15.1. No prepayment penalty on small loans
Status: in_force

No provision in a loan or the evidence of indebtedness of a loan made under the New Mexico Small Loan Act of 1955 requiring a penalty or premium for prepayment of the balance of the indebtedness is enforceable.
N.M. Stat. § 9-5A-7 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 5A / Section 9-5A-7
§ 9-5A-7. Bureaus; chiefs
Status: in_force

The secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources shall establish, within each division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department, such bureaus as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department Act. He shall employ a chief to be the administrative head of each bureau. The chiefs and all subsidiary employees of the department shall be covered by the Personnel Act. 1
N.M. Stat. § 42-10-6 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 10 / Section 42-10-6
§ 42-10-6. Personal property used as a security under the Uniform Commercial Code is not exempt
Status: in_force

A secured creditor who has personal property of the debtor as security as provided by the Uniform Commercial Code may proceed according to the terms of the security instrument and the Uniform Commercial Code. The debtor cannot exempt personal property given to a secured creditor as security unless there be more property than is necessary to pay the debt to the secured creditor. The debtor may claim an exemption out of the surplus.