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N.M. Stat. § 59A-23-20 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 23 / Section 59A-23-20
§ 59A-23-20. Employee leasing contractor group health plan requirements
Status: in_force

A. A group health plan sponsored by an employee leasing contractor shall be treated as a multiple employer welfare arrangement for purposes of the Insurance Code.

B. A group health plan sponsored by an employee leasing contractor shall be a fully insured plan.

C. For the purposes of determining whether an employee leasing contractor is a small or large employer, the employee leasing contractor's leased workers shall be counted as employees in addition to the employee leasing contractor's employees, and when an employee leasing contractor has:

(1) at least two but not more than fifty employees, the employee leasing contractor shall be treated as a small employer pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability Act, and the group health plan that it sponsors shall be subject to the rules of the small group market, including rules applicable to the small group market by reason of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; and

(2) fifty-one or more employees, the employee leasing contractor shall be treated as a large employer pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability Act, and the group health plan that it sponsors shall be subject to the rules of the large group market, including rules applicable to the large group market by reason of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

D. With respect to a group health plan described in this section that is subject to large group market rules, the rules shall apply to the group health plan as a whole and any rules applicable solely to other markets, such as the small group market or individual market, shall not apply to the group health plan or to any of the coverage provided by the group health plan.

E. For the purposes of this section:

(1) “ employee leasing contractor ” means any person who is registered as an employee leasing contractor pursuant to the Employee Leasing Act;

(2) “ individual market ” means the market for health insurance coverage offered to individuals other than in connection with a group health plan;

(3) “ large group market ” means the health insurance market under which individuals obtain health insurance coverage on behalf of themselves and their dependents through a group health plan maintained by a large employer;

(4) “ leased worker ” means a worker provided by an employee leasing contractor who is treated as a leased worker for the purposes of the Employee Leasing Act;

(5) “ multiple employer welfare arrangement ” means a plan for providing welfare benefits for employees of more than one employer as defined by 29 U.S.C. Section 1002 ; and

(6) “ small group market ” means the health insurance market under which individuals obtain health insurance coverage through a group health plan maintained by a small employer.
N.M. Stat. § 7-41-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 41 / Section 7-41-8
§ 7-41-8. Departments required to promulgate rules
Status: in_force

The taxation and revenue department and the human services department [health care authority department] shall promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of the Health Care Quality Surcharge Act, as appropriate for each department, including the rate calculations required to be performed by the human services department [health care authority department], and the notification from that department to the taxation and revenue department pursuant to Section 4 of the Health Care Quality Surcharge Act.
N.M. Stat. § 53-6-7 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 6 / Section 53-6-7
§ 53-6-7. Professional services through officers, employees, and agents
Status: in_force

A professional corporation shall render professional services only through its officers, employees and agents who are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such professional services; provided, however, this section shall not be interpreted to include in the term “employee”, clerks, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians and other assistants who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be rendering professional services to the public for which the license is required.
N.M. Stat. § 31-4-31 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 4 / Section 31-4-31
§ 31-4-31. Transfer under treaty; governor
Status: in_force

When a treaty is in effect between the United States and a foreign country providing for the transfer of convicted criminal offenders who are citizens or nationals of foreign countries to the foreign countries of which they are citizens or nationals, the governor is authorized, subject to the terms of such treaty, to act on behalf of the state of New Mexico and to consent to the transfer of the convicted criminal offender.
N.M. Stat. § 11-3A-19 — NM Code / Chapter 11 / Article 3A / Section 11-3A-19
§ 11-3A-19. Remedies of an obligee
Status: in_force

An obligee of a regional housing authority shall have the right, in addition to all other rights that may be conferred on such obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee, to:

A. compel by mandamus, suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity, the regional housing authority and its officers, agents or employees to perform every term, provision and covenant contained in any contract of the regional housing authority with or for the benefit of the obligee and to require the carrying out of all covenants and agreements of the regional housing authority and the fulfillment of all duties imposed upon the regional housing authority by the Regional Housing Law; and

B. enjoin by suit, action or proceeding in equity, any acts or things that may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the obligee of the regional housing authority.
N.M. Stat. § 4-55D-10 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 55D / Section 4-55D-10
§ 4-55D-10. Immunity
Status: in_force

Nothing in the Improvement Special Assessment Act shall be interpreted to pledge, offer or encumber the full faith and credit of a county.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-57-4.1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 57 / Section 59A-57-4.1
§ 59A-57-4.1. External grievance appeals; appointment; compensation
Status: in_force

A. The superintendent may appoint one or more qualified individuals to review external grievance appeals.

B. The superintendent shall fix the reasonable compensation of each appointee based upon, but not limited to, compensation amounts suggested by national or state legal or medical professional societies, organizations or associations.

C. Upon completion of the external grievance appeal review, the superintendent shall prepare a detailed statement of compensation due each appointee and shall present the statement to the enrollee's health insurer.

D. The enrollee's health insurer shall pay the compensation directly to each appointee who participated in the external grievance appeal review.

E. The superintendent shall promulgate rules to implement this section.
N.M. Stat. § 26-2B-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 26 / Article 2B / Section 26-2B-1
§ 26-2B-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 26, Article 2B NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act” in honor of Lynn Pierson and Erin Armstrong.
N.M. Stat. § 9-25-5 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 25 / Section 9-25-5
§ 9-25-5. Secretary; appointment
Status: in_force

A. The administrative head of the department is the “secretary of higher education”, who shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate and who shall serve in the executive cabinet. The secretary shall possess a terminal degree from a regionally accredited post-secondary educational institution, a minimum of five years of senior administrative experience, experience in higher education and experience in the development of public policy at the state or federal level.

B. An appointed secretary shall serve and have all of the duties, responsibilities and authority of that office during the period of time prior to final action by the senate confirming or rejecting the secretary's appointment.
N.M. Stat. § 10-17-3 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 17 / Section 10-17-3
§ 10-17-3. Publication of list of expenditures monthly
Status: in_force

On or before the tenth day of each month there may be published in a legal newspaper published in the county where such board or commission is situated, by the council, commission or trustees of every city, town or village in this state, and by every board of education in this state, a summary of expenditures made during the preceding calendar month, which shall include a list of the total expenditures during the month and the amount spent in connection with each budgetary item and a summary of all receipts; provided, however, that the publication herein mentioned shall be made only at the discretion of the council, commission or trustee of every city, town or village, and board of education in this state if they shall deem the said publication necessary in the public interest.
N.M. Stat. § 72-18-47 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 18 / Section 72-18-47
§ 72-18-47. Maturities of notes and warrants
Status: in_force

Notes and warrants may mature at such time or times not exceeding one year from the respective dates of their issuance as the board may determine. They shall not be extended or funded except by the issuance of bonds or interim debentures in compliance with Section 48 or 49 of the Flood Control District Act.
N.M. Stat. § 24-10A-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 10A / Section 24-10A-7
§ 24-10A-7. Funding program; expenditures from fund
Status: in_force

Any money distributed from the fund for the purposes of the local emergency medical services funding program shall be expended only for those purposes.
N.M. Stat. § 30-1-12 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 1 / Section 30-1-12
§ 30-1-12. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Criminal Code:

A. “great bodily harm” means an injury to the person which creates a high probability of death; or which causes serious disfigurement; or which results in permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any member or organ of the body;

B. “deadly weapon” means any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded; or any weapon which is capable of producing death or great bodily harm, including but not restricted to any types of daggers, brass knuckles, switchblade knives, bowie knives, poniards, butcher knives, dirk knives and all such weapons with which dangerous cuts can be given, or with which dangerous thrusts can be inflicted, including swordcanes, and any kind of sharp pointed canes, also slingshots, slung shots, bludgeons; or any other weapons with which dangerous wounds can be inflicted;

C. “peace officer” means any public official or public officer vested by law with a duty to maintain public order or to make arrests for crime, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes;

D. “another” or “other” means any other human being or legal entity, whether incorporated or unincorporated, including the United States, the state of New Mexico or any subdivision thereof;

E. “person” means any human being or legal entity, whether incorporated or unincorporated, including the United States, the state of New Mexico or any subdivision thereof;

F. “anything of value” means any conceivable thing of the slightest value, tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, corporeal or incorporeal, public or private. The term is not necessarily synonymous with the traditional legal term “property”;

G. “official proceeding” means a proceeding heard before any legislative, judicial, administrative or other governmental agency or official authorized to hear evidence under oath, including any referee, hearing examiner, commissioner, notary or other person taking testimony or depositions in any proceeding;

H. “lawful custody or confinement” means the holding of any person pursuant to lawful authority, including, without limitation, actual or constructive 1 custody of prisoners temporarily outside a penal institution, reformatory, jail, prison farm or ranch;

I. “public officer” means any elected or appointed officer of the state or any of its political subdivisions, and whether or not he receives remuneration for his services; and

J. “public employee” means any person receiving remuneration for regular services rendered to the state or any of its political subdivisions.
N.M. Stat. § 3-60C-1 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 60C / Section 3-60C-1
§ 3-60C-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 3, Article 60C NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Main Street Revolving Loan Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 21-12-10 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 12 / Section 21-12-10
§ 21-12-10. Ordnance and quartermaster's stores; care and custody; annual report
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the superintendent to provide a safe and convenient place for the keeping and preservation of all ordnance and quartermaster's stores received from the state for the use of the institution, and on and before the thirty-first day of December in each year, he shall make a report to the adjutant general of the state of all such stores on hand, and in such report he shall show their condition, whether serviceable or unserviceable, and if any of such stores should be lost or destroyed, the manner of their loss or destruction.
N.M. Stat. § 24-1-32 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-32
§ 24-1-32. Notice of the need for further vision evaluation and availability of funds
Status: in_force

The department of health shall promulgate rules for award of money from the save our children's sight fund. When the vision screen of a student indicates the need for further evaluation, the student's school shall notify the student's parent of that need and provide information on the availability of funds from the save our children's sight fund. The notice shall state that the parent, if the student is not already covered by health insurance for a comprehensive eye examination, may apply to the fund for the following expenses as a result of the screening:

A. a comprehensive eye examination by an optometrist or ophthalmologist whose services are used to follow up the school vision screen;

B. the cost of contact lenses or polycarbonate lenses and frames for eyeglasses; and

C. replacement insurance for lost or broken lenses.
N.M. Stat. § 50-9-12 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 9 / Section 50-9-12
§ 50-9-12. Adoption of regulations; notice and hearing
Status: repealed

A. Any person may recommend or propose regulations to the board for promulgation. The board shall determine whether to hold a hearing within sixty days of submission of a proposed regulation.

B. No regulations shall be adopted, amended or repealed until after a public hearing by the board. Notice of the hearing shall be given at least thirty days prior to the hearing date and shall state the subject, time and place of the hearing and the manner in which interested persons may secure copies of any regulations proposed to be adopted, amended or repealed. The notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the state. Reasonable effort shall be made to give notice to all persons who have made a written request to the board for advance notice of hearings. At the hearing, the board shall allow all interested persons reasonable opportunity to submit data, views or arguments orally or in writing. Any person heard or represented at the hearing shall be given written notice of the action by the board. The board may designate a hearing officer to take evidence in the hearing and present the evidence to the board. A record shall be made of each hearing.

C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection B of this section, the secretary may adopt an emergency regulation to take immediate effect upon its filing under the State Rules Act if the secretary determines:

(1) that employees are exposed to grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards; and

(2) that the emergency regulation is necessary to protect employees from the danger.

D. The emergency regulation shall be effective until superseded by a final regulation promulgated in accordance with the procedures prescribed in Subsection B of this section. The final regulation shall be promulgated within one hundred twenty days of the date of promulgation of the relevant emergency regulation.

E. If the emergency regulation is promulgated in response to an emergency temporary standard issued pursuant to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 1 then such regulation shall only be enforceable to the same extent as the federal emergency temporary standard.

F. If the federal emergency temporary standard is superseded by a federal permanent standard, then the state emergency regulation shall remain in effect for an additional one hundred twenty days after promulgation of the superseding standard. During this additional one hundred twenty days, the board shall promulgate a regulation in accordance with the procedures prescribed in Subsection B of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-15-3 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 15 / Section 59A-15-3
§ 59A-15-3. Inclusion of unauthorized insurer in coverage
Status: in_force

No insurance agent licensed in this state shall include, or permit inclusion, in any insurance coverage of a subject of insurance resident, located or to be performed in this state and placed by the agent, of an unauthorized insurer among the insurers assuming direct risk under such coverage. This section shall not apply as to coverages exempt under Section 258 of this article.
N.M. Stat. § 74-3-8 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 3 / Section 74-3-8
§ 74-3-8. Registration of radiation equipment
Status: in_force

A. It is unlawful for any person to possess, use, store, dispose of, manufacture, repair, alter or inspect radiation equipment specified by regulation of the board unless he registers with the agency.

B. The agency shall issue registration certificates in accordance with procedures prescribed by regulation of the board. Registration applications shall be made on forms provided by the agency. The registration statement shall be limited to information which the board determines to be necessary for the protection of the health of the people of the state.

C. The requirement of registration shall not be interpreted to imply approval by the agency of the manner in which the activities requiring registration are carried out.
N.M. Stat. § 58-19-1 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 19 / Section 58-19-1
§ 58-19-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 58, Article 19 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 72-12-5 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 12 / Section 72-12-5
§ 72-12-5. Declaration of beneficial use; verification; recording
Status: in_force

Any person, firm or corporation claiming to be the owner of a vested water right from any of the underground sources in this act described, by application of waters therefrom to beneficial use, may make and file in the office of the state engineer a declaration in a form to be prescribed by the state engineer setting forth the beneficial use to which said water has been applied, the date of first application to beneficial use, the continuity thereof, the location of the well and if such water has been used for irrigation purposes, the description of the land upon which such water has been so used and the name of the owner thereof. Such declaration shall be verified but if the declarant cannot verify the same of his own personal knowledge he may do so on information and belief. Such declarations so filed shall be recorded at length in the office of the state engineer and may also be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein the well therein described is located. Such records or copies thereof officially certified shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of their contents.
N.M. Stat. § 68-1-5 — NM Code / Chapter 68 / Article 1 / Section 68-1-5
§ 68-1-5. Timber subject to mortgage on February 1, 1939; partial exemption from cutting restrictions
Status: in_force

That it is not the intention of this act to abrogate any existing mortgage or encumbrance upon timber, or contract for the sale, cutting or logging of timber, and it is therefore provided that any timber included in and described in a bona fide mortgage, encumbrance or contract entered into prior to February 1, 1939 shall be and the same is hereby exempted and excepted from all of the provisions of Section 2, Subparagraph C, of this act for the term and duration of such mortgage or contract; provided that in any event no trees shall be harvested less than ten inches in diameter outside bark, at a point twelve inches above the ground.
N.M. Stat. § 34-6-4 — NM Code / Chapter 34 / Article 6 / Section 34-6-4
§ 34-6-4. Judges; first judicial district
Status: in_force

There shall be ten district judges in the first judicial district.
N.M. Stat. § 44-9-9 — NM Code / Chapter 44 / Article 9 / Section 44-9-9
§ 44-9-9. Certain actions barred
Status: in_force

A. No court shall have jurisdiction over an action brought pursuant to Section 44-9-5 NMSA 1978 by a present or former employee of the state or political subdivision unless the employee, during employment with the state or political subdivision and in good faith, exhausted existing internal procedures for reporting false claims and the state or political subdivision failed to act on the information provided within a reasonable period of time.

B. No court shall have jurisdiction over an action brought pursuant to Section 44-9-5 NMSA 1978 against an elected or appointed state official, a member of the state legislature or a member of the judiciary if the action is based on evidence or information known to the state agency to which the false claim was made or to the attorney general when the action was filed.

C. Unless the attorney general or political subdivision determines and certifies in writing that the action is in the interest of the state or political subdivision, no court shall have jurisdiction over an action brought pursuant to Section 44-9-5 NMSA 1978 when that action is based on allegations or transactions that are the subject of a criminal, civil or administrative proceeding in which the state or political subdivision is a party.

D. Upon motion of the attorney general or political subdivision, a court may, in its discretion, dismiss an action brought pursuant to Section 44-9-5 NMSA 1978 if the elements of the alleged false or fraudulent claim have been publicly disclosed in the news media or in a publicly disseminated governmental report at the time the complaint is filed.