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N.M. Stat. § 57-5-9 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 5 / Section 57-5-9
§ 57-5-9. Contracts for more than one year unlawful; rights under former contracts; penalty for violation; invalidity of contract
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful from and after the passage of this act for any person, or corporation, to contract for, license, buy, own or control a franchise in or for a town or city, where competition exists, for the product of any producer, distributor or from any other person, for a period of time greater than one year, and it shall be unlawful for any producer, distributor or person to sell, rent or otherwise dispose of any picture to any competitive exhibitor for a period of time greater than one year. Provided that all the parties to any contract or contracts now in force for franchises for periods greater than one year between any producer and/or distributor, exhibitor or owner of any moving picture show or shows, or theaters, shall, within thirty days after this act becomes effective, file a copy of such franchise or franchises in the office of the state corporation commission [public regulation commission]; that there shall be attached to said contracts an affidavit, duly sworn to by the parties thereto, setting forth that said franchise was executed prior to the time that this act became effective, and that said franchise or contract, so filed or to be filed, has in no way been altered since this act became effective, and shall state the consideration paid and to be paid for each and every picture mentioned therein or to be furnished thereunder during the remainder of its life. Any person making any false statement in any such affidavit shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof, punished as provided by law. Provided, further, all contracts in force with competitive exhibitors in this state at the time of the passage of this act for franchises, for a period of time greater than one year, shall, if otherwise legal, not be interfered with, and shall remain in full force and effect and lived up to during the life thereof. Any person or corporation who violates the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000). All contracts made in violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be void.
N.M. Stat. § 13-7-17 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 13-7-17
§ 13-7-17. Pharmacy benefits; prescription synchronization
Status: in_force

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers a prescription drug benefit shall allow an enrollee to fill or refill a prescription for less than a thirty-day supply of the prescription drug, and apply a prorated daily copayment or coinsurance for the fill or refill, if:

(1) the prescribing practitioner or the pharmacist determines the fill or refill to be in the best interest of the patient;

(2) the patient requests or agrees to receive less than a thirty-day supply of the prescription drug; and

(3) the reduced fill or refill is made for the purpose of synchronizing the patient's prescription drug fills.

B. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers a prescription drug benefit shall not:

(1) deny coverage for the filling of a chronic medication when the fill is made in accordance with a plan to synchronize multiple prescriptions for the enrollee pursuant to Subsection A of this section established among the group health plan, the prescribing practitioner and a pharmacist. The group health plan shall allow a pharmacy to override any denial indicating that a prescription is being refilled too soon for the purposes of medication synchronization; and

(2) prorate a dispensing fee to a pharmacy that fills a prescription with less than a thirty-day supply of prescription drug pursuant to Subsection A of this section. The group health plan shall pay in full a dispensing fee for a partially filled or refilled prescription for each prescription dispensed, regardless of any prorated copayment or coinsurance that the enrollee may pay for prescription synchronization services.
N.M. Stat. § 15-8-2 — NM Code / Chapter 15 / Article 8 / Section 15-8-2
§ 15-8-2. Findings and purpose
Status: in_force

The legislature finds that centralized control of state vehicles is in the best interest of the state because it permits the state to use its transportation resources in the most efficient and effective manner. The primary purposes of the Transportation Services Act are to:

A. provide a centralized agency to purchase state vehicles and to control their use;

B. implement and administer the State Aircraft Act; and

C. provide authorization for administration of the state's state and federal surplus property programs.
N.M. Stat. § 2-20-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 2 / Article 20 / Section 2-20-1
§ 2-20-1. Creation of interim military and veterans' affairs committee; members; appointment; terms; voting
Status: in_force

A. There is created a joint interim committee of the legislature to be called the “military and veterans' affairs committee”. The committee shall be composed of eight voting members.

B. The New Mexico legislative council shall appoint four members from the house of representatives and four members from the senate. At the time of making the appointment, the New Mexico legislative council shall designate the chair and vice chair of the committee. Members shall be appointed so as to give the two major political parties in each house the same proportionate representation on the committee as prevails in each house; provided that in no event shall either of the parties have less than one member from each house on the committee.

C. No action shall be taken by the committee if a majority of the total membership from either house on the committee rejects such action.
N.M. Stat. § 6-21-14 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 21 / Section 6-21-14
§ 6-21-14. Publication of notice; validation; limitation of action
Status: in_force

A. After adoption of a resolution authorizing issuance of bonds, the authority shall publish notice of the adoption of the resolution once in a newspaper of general statewide circulation.

B. After the passage of thirty days from the publication required by Subsection A of this section, any action attacking the validity of the proceedings had or taken by the authority preliminary to and in the authorization and issuance of the bonds described in the notice is perpetually barred.
N.M. Stat. § 10-16C-3 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 16C / Section 10-16C-3
§ 10-16C-3. Public employer retaliatory action prohibited
Status: in_force

A public employer shall not take any retaliatory action against a public employee because the public employee:

A. communicates to the public employer or a third party information about an action or a failure to act that the public employee believes in good faith constitutes an unlawful or improper act;

B. provides information to, or testifies before, a public body as part of an investigation, hearing or inquiry into an unlawful or improper act; or

C. objects to or refuses to participate in an activity, policy or practice that constitutes an unlawful or improper act.
N.M. Stat. § 53-6-14 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 6 / Section 53-6-14
§ 53-6-14. Application to professional corporations
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Professional Corporation Act shall apply to all professional corporations chartered in New Mexico. Professional corporations heretofore incorporated shall be required to file any amendments to their articles of incorporation necessary to conform to the requirements of the Professional Corporation Act within eight months from the effective date of this act. Any professional corporation which shall not have filed any necessary amendments within such eight-month period shall be involuntarily dissolved in conformity with the provisions of the Business Corporation Act.
N.M. Stat. § 21-1-11 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 21-1-11
§ 21-1-11. Allocation of funds
Status: in_force

Whenever there shall be any money in the hands of the state treasurer to the credit of any of the specific funds set apart for said institutions deemed sufficient by such board to commence the erection of any of the necessary buildings or improvements or pay the running or other expenses of such institution, the state auditor, on the request in writing of any such boards shall, and it is hereby made his duty, to draw his warrant in favor of the treasurer of said board and institution upon the state treasurer against the specific fund belonging to such institution in such sum, not exceeding the amount on hand in such specific fund at such time, as said board may deem necessary: provided, that any such board shall only draw said money as it may be necessary to disburse the same.
N.M. Stat. § 27-8-1 — NM Code / Chapter 27 / Article 8 / Section 27-8-1
§ 27-8-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Community Action Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 48-10-5 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 10 / Section 48-10-5
§ 48-10-5. Description of trust real estate; mailing address of trustor, beneficiary and trustee
Status: in_force

A. In deeds of trust the legal description of trust real estate shall be given by one of the following methods:

(1) by the use of lot, block, tract or parcel as provided in a recorded subdivision plat;

(2) by the use of a metes and bounds or course and distance survey;

(3) by the use of the governmental rectangular survey system with specific identification of the location within any section or sections, tract or tracts, of a township and range; or

(4) by the use of any other method of description provided by law.

B. If the trust real estate is the subject of a recorded subdivision plat, the legal description of the trust real estate shall be given by the use of lot, block, tract or parcel as shown on the recorded subdivision plat.

C. The mailing address of each trustor, beneficiary and trustee shall be specified in each deed of trust.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9C-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9C / Section 7-9C-3
§ 7-9C-3. Imposition and rate of tax; denomination as interstate telecommunications gross receipts tax
Status: in_force

A. For the privilege of engaging in interstate telecommunications business, an excise tax equal to four and one-fourth percent of interstate telecommunications gross receipts is imposed upon any person engaging in interstate telecommunications business in New Mexico.

B. The tax imposed by this section shall be referred to as the “interstate telecommunications gross receipts tax”.
N.M. Stat. § 21-22C-2 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 22C / Section 21-22C-2
§ 21-22C-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Allied Health Student Loan for Service Act is to meet the emergency currently existing resulting from the shortage of allied health professionals in underserved areas of the state by increasing the number of practitioners in rural areas through a program of loans for allied health students. Each applicant shall declare his intent to practice his allied health profession within one of the areas of the state designated as an underserved area by the commission [department].
N.M. Stat. § 7-9A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9A / Section 7-9A-3
§ 7-9A-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Investment Credit Act:

A. “ department ” means the taxation and revenue department, the secretary of taxation and revenue or any employee of the department exercising authority lawfully delegated to that employee by the secretary;

B. “ equipment ” means an essential machine, mechanism or tool, or a component or fitting thereof, used directly and exclusively in a manufacturing operation and subject to depreciation for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code by the taxpayer carrying on the manufacturing operation. “Equipment” does not include any vehicle that leaves the site of the manufacturing operation for purposes of transporting persons or property or any property for which the taxpayer claims the credit pursuant to Section 7-9-79 NMSA 1978;

C. “ manufacturing ” means combining or processing components or materials, including recyclable materials, to increase their value for sale in the ordinary course of business, including genetic testing and production, but not including:

(1) construction;

(2) farming;

(3) power generation, except for electricity generation at a facility other than one for which both location approval and a certificate of convenience and necessity are required prior to commencing construction or operation of the facility, pursuant to the Public Utility Act 1 and the Electric Utility Industry Restructuring Act of 1999; or

(4) processing natural resources, including hydrocarbons;

D. “ manufacturing operation ” means a plant, including a genetic testing and production facility, employing personnel to perform production tasks, in conjunction with equipment not previously existing at the site, to produce goods;

E. “ recyclable materials ” means materials that would otherwise become solid waste if not recycled and that can be collected, separated or processed and placed in use in the form of raw materials or products; and

F. “ taxpayer ” means a person liable for payment of any tax, a person responsible for withholding and payment over or for collection and payment over of any tax or a person to whom an assessment has been made, if the assessment remains unabated or the amount thereof has not been paid.
N.M. Stat. § 17-1-22.1 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 17-1-22.1
§ 17-1-22.1. Game and fish capital outlay fund; created; transfer of money; state board of finance approval
Status: in_force

A. There is created in the state treasury the “game and fish capital outlay fund”.

B. Upon request of the state game commission, approved by the state board of finance, the state treasurer shall transfer to the game and fish capital outlay fund all money in the game and fish bond retirement fund except the amount necessary to meet all principal and interest payments on state game commission bonds due in the ensuing twelve months.

C. Money in the game and fish capital outlay fund may be expended by the department of game and fish to provide for fish hatcheries and rearing facilities, game and fish habitat acquisition, development and improvements and other similar capital projects.

D. Projects to be funded pursuant to Subsection C of this section shall be approved by the state game commission and the state board of finance prior to any money being encumbered for the project.

E. At any time that the game and fish bond retirement fund is insufficient to pay the principal and interest on all bonds which have been issued and are outstanding, the unencumbered balance in the game and fish capital outlay fund shall be transferred to the game and fish bond retirement fund.
N.M. Stat. § 60-13-26 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 13 / Section 60-13-26
§ 60-13-26. Division; trade bureaus; liability of commission members
Status: in_force

Neither the division, the bureaus, their duly authorized employees nor members of the commission shall be held personally responsible or liable for any act pertaining to their official duties.
N.M. Stat. § 1-6B-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 6B / Section 1-6B-8
§ 1-6B-8. Receipt of voted military-overseas ballots from federal qualified electors
Status: in_force

A. A military-overseas ballot shall be considered timely if it is received by the county clerk no later than the deadline for receiving mailed ballots in Section 1-6-10 NMSA 1978 .

B. A federal qualified elector may transmit, and the county clerk shall accept, a military-overseas ballot by secured electronic transmission available to the county clerk when the military-overseas ballot is sent directly by the voter to that clerk; provided that, when sending a military-overseas ballot as described in this subsection:

(1) the federal qualified elector signs an affidavit waiving the right of secrecy of the federal qualified elector's ballot;

(2) the federal qualified elector transmits the affidavit with the military-overseas ballot; and

(3) the county clerk places the received ballot in a holding envelope provided by the secretary of state for this purpose and delivers the ballot to the appropriate election board.
N.M. Stat. § 4-20-2 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 20 / Section 4-20-2
§ 4-20-2. Present organization to remain; county seat
Status: in_force

That the present organization of the county of Quay as to precincts, school districts, officials and otherwise shall be and become the organization of the new county of Washington; the county seat of the county of Washington shall be and remain at Tucumcari until changed according to law. All officials of Quay county who were duly elected at the last general election and who qualified as required by law and all appointive officials duly qualified shall be and remain the officials of Washington county, holding their respective offices for the time for which they were severally elected or appointed, and qualified, and they shall perform all of the duties relating to their respective offices in the county of Washington hereby created.
N.M. Stat. § 40-17-2 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 17 / Section 40-17-2
§ 40-17-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act:

A. “ court ” means the district court in the county in which the respondent resides;

B. “ extreme risk firearm protection order ” means either a temporary extreme risk firearm protection order or a one-year extreme risk firearm protection order granted pursuant to the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act;

C. “ firearm ” means any weapon that is designed to expel a projectile by an explosion or the frame or receiver of any such weapon;

D. “ law enforcement agency ” means the police department of any city or town, the sheriff's office of any county, the New Mexico state police and a district attorney's office in the state and the office of the attorney general;

E. “ law enforcement officer ” means a public official or public officer vested by law with the power to maintain order, to make arrests for crime or to detain persons suspected of committing a crime, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes and includes an attorney employed by a district attorney or the attorney general;

F. “ one-year extreme risk firearm protection order ” means an extreme risk firearm protection order granted for up to one year following a hearing pursuant to the provisions of Section 7 of the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act;

G. “ petitioner ” means a law enforcement officer who files an extreme risk firearm protection order petition;

H. “ reporting party ” means a person who requests that a law enforcement officer file a petition for an extreme risk firearm protection order and includes a spouse, former spouse, parent, present or former stepparent, present or former parent-in-law, grandparent, grandparent-in-law, co-parent of a child, child, person with whom a respondent has or had a continuing personal relationship, employer or public or private school administrator;

I. “ respondent ” means the person identified in or subject to an extreme risk firearm protection order petition; and

J. “ temporary extreme risk firearm protection order ” means an extreme risk firearm protection order issued prior to a hearing pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 of the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act.
N.M. Stat. § 77-3-14.1 — NM Code / Chapter 77 / Article 3 / Section 77-3-14.1
§ 77-3-14.1. AGID tests required
Status: in_force

The board shall adopt rules prohibiting the driving or transporting into this state of any horses or other equidae that have not tested negative to the AGID, or Coggins, test or a United States department of agriculture-approved equivalent test for equine infectious anemia within twelve months prior to the date of entry, the evidence of which test result shall be shown on a health certificate; excepting from regulation only those foals accompanied in shipment by a negative-tested dam, those horses or other equidae consigned directly to slaughter.
N.M. Stat. § 24-15A-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 15A / Section 24-15A-3
§ 24-15A-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Search and Rescue Act:

A. “search and rescue” or “SAR” means the employment, coordination and utilization of available resources and personnel in locating, relieving the distress and preserving the lives of and removing survivors from the site of a disaster, emergency or hazard to a place of safety in the case of lost, stranded, entrapped or injured persons;

B. “board” means the state search and rescue review board;

C. “AFRCC” means the air force rescue coordination center, which is the federal agency responsible for coordinating federal SAR activities within the inland region pursuant to the national search and rescue plan;

D. “state SAR control agency” means the department of public safety;

E. “state SAR mission initiator” means the New Mexico state police officer so appointed and SAR trained;

F. “state SAR resource officer” means the official located within the department of public safety responsible for coordinating SAR resources and administering the state SAR plan;

G. “field coordinator” means a person certified by the board with special training and expertise responsible for the efficient organization and conduction of a SAR mission;

H. “civil air patrol” means the civil air patrol division of the department of military affairs and an air force auxiliary responsible for coordinating air searches which are authorized by the AFRCC;

I. “mission” means each separate group effort in the employment, direction and guidance of personnel and facilities in searching for and rendering aid to persons lost or in distress;

J. “chief” means the chief of the New Mexico state police division of the department of public safety; and

K. “director” means the director of the technical and emergency support division of the department of public safety.
N.M. Stat. § 17-11-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 11 / Section 17-11-5
§ 17-11-5. Penalties
Status: in_force

A. A person who violates the Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety Act is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each individual trap, snare or application of wildlife poison shall constitute a single violation of that act.

B. Any penalties under this section shall be cumulative to any other available penalties provided by law.

C. In addition to other penalties, upon conviction, the court may consider appropriate restitution to a state agency that incurs costs in enforcing the Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety Act.