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N.M. Stat. § 30-9A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 9A / Section 30-9A-3
§ 30-9A-3. Bestiality; aggravated bestiality; penalties
Status: in_force

A. Bestiality consists of a person engaging in sexual contact with an animal. A person who commits bestiality is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

B. Promoting bestiality consists of a person:

(1) coercing, soliciting or manipulating a human to commit bestiality; or

(2) selling or transferring, offering to sell or transfer, advertising for sale or transfer, purchasing or offering to purchase, possessing or otherwise obtaining an animal with the intent that the animal be used for bestiality.

A person who commits promoting bestiality is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

C. Aggravated bestiality consists of a person:

(1) committing bestiality or promoting bestiality in the presence of a minor; or

(2) committing bestiality or promoting bestiality in which a minor is a participant.

A person who commits aggravated bestiality is guilty of a third degree felony.

D. Emission by a human or animal is not required to prove sexual contact with an animal.

E. If a person has been convicted of a crime pursuant to this section, in addition to any other penalties, the sentencing court shall include in the judgment and sentence all of the following:

(1) that all animals under the direct care and control of the convicted person be seized and turned over to an agent of the New Mexico livestock board or to an animal control agency operated by the state or a local government or an animal shelter or other animal welfare organization designated by the animal control agency. The receiver of seized animals has the authority to determine the disposition of seized animals, but shall not return the animals to the convicted person; and

(2) that the convicted person shall not be allowed to own, possess, reside with or exercise control over any animal or engage in any occupation or profession, whether paid or unpaid, at any place where animals are kept or cared for, for a definite period not less than three years and not more than fifteen years; provided that the time the person spent in actual confinement serving a criminal sentence shall be excluded from the calculation of the definite period.

F. If a person has been convicted of a crime pursuant to this section, in addition to criminal penalties and other penalties specified in Subsection E of this section, the sentencing court may order:

(1) that the convicted person submit to a psychological assessment and participate in appropriate counseling; and

(2) that the convicted person pay restitution for incurred costs of veterinary care, boarding, food and other reasonable costs of care for an animal as a result of the crime.

G. A person shall not be convicted of a crime specified in this section if the person's sexual contact with an animal was coerced or manipulated.
N.M. Stat. § 29-9-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 9 / Section 29-9-4
§ 29-9-4. Purpose of commission
Status: in_force

The purpose of the commission is to forestall, check and prevent the infiltration and encroachment of organized crime into public and private affairs within New Mexico by:

A. investigating the extent to which organized crime and racketeering has or has not infiltrated and encroached into private and public affairs within New Mexico;

B. investigating those conditions, including the effectiveness of the execution and enforcement of the laws and the conduct of public officers and employees, which may lead to, or may have led to, the infiltration and encroachment of organized crime into public and private affairs within New Mexico; and

C. reporting to the proper authorities and making public as authorized by this act the results of its investigations and recommending corrective measures and improvements.
N.M. Stat. § 63-3-34 — NM Code / Chapter 63 / Article 3 / Section 63-3-34
§ 63-3-34. Bell to be rung at highway crossings
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, every railroad corporation shall cause a bell to be attached to each of its locomotives and shall cause the bell to be rung at a distance of not less than eighty rods from the crossing of any public street, road or highway.

B. For a railroad, owned by the state or one of its political subdivisions, if the crossing is within a designated quiet zone pursuant to federal railroad administration rules and the maximum allowed speed for a train using the crossing is equal to or less than forty miles per hour, the bell shall be rung not less than three hundred feet from the crossing.

C. A railroad corporation violating a provision of Subsection A or B of this section shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) to be recovered by action in the name of the state in any court of competent jurisdiction, one-half of which shall go to the informer and the other half of which shall go to the state. The corporation shall also be liable for all damages that may be sustained by any person by reason of noncompliance with the provisions of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-25-5 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 25 / Section 32A-25-5
§ 32A-25-5. Eradicate bullying fund created; grant application review
Status: in_force

A. The “eradicate bullying fund” is created in the state treasury. The fund shall be administered by the board of regents of the university of New Mexico. Money in the fund is appropriated to the board of regents of the university of New Mexico for disbursement to grant recipients selected by the Carlos Vigil memorial board.

B. The fund shall consist of:

(1) money appropriated by the legislature to carry out the purposes of the Carlos Vigil Memorial Act;

(2) grants, gifts, donations and bequests to the fund; and

(3) earnings from investment of the money in the fund.

C. Disbursements from the fund shall be made by warrant of the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the president of the board of regents of the university of New Mexico or the president's designee.

D. Unexpended and unencumbered balances in the fund shall not revert to the general fund at the end of a fiscal year.

E. An applicant may apply for a grant from the fund in accordance with rules promulgated by the Carlos Vigil memorial board. Allocations from the fund shall be based on a competitive process with applications reviewed by the board.
N.M. Stat. § 73-8-40 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 8 / Section 73-8-40
§ 73-8-40. Rejection or acceptance of petition to include lands; orders
Status: in_force

If the board of directors shall deem it not to be for the best interests of the district to include thereunder the lands mentioned in the petition, such board shall by order in writing reject the petition; but if the board shall deem it for the best interests of the district to include such lands it may by order so change the boundaries of the district as to include therein the lands mentioned in the petition. If such lands are so included the order shall describe the entire boundaries of the district with such lands so included, and for that purpose the board may cause a survey to be made of such portion of such boundaries as may be deemed necessary.
N.M. Stat. § 53-14-7 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 14 / Section 53-14-7
§ 53-14-7. Merger, consolidation or exchange of shares between domestic and foreign corporations
Status: in_force

A. One or more foreign corporations and one or more domestic corporations may be merged or consolidated or participate in an exchange, in the following manner, if the merger, consolidation or exchange is permitted by the laws of the state under which each foreign corporation is organized:

(1) each domestic corporation shall comply with the provisions of the Business Corporation Act with respect to the merger, consolidation or exchange, as the case may be, of domestic corporations, and each foreign corporation shall comply with the applicable provisions of the laws of the state under which it is organized; and

(2) if the surviving or new corporation in a merger or consolidation is to be governed by the laws of any state other than this state, it shall comply with the provisions of the Business Corporation Act with respect to foreign corporations if it is to transact business in this state, and in every case it shall file with the commission [secretary of state]:

(a) an agreement that it may be served with process in this state in any proceeding for the enforcement of any obligation of any domestic corporation which is a party to the merger or consolidation and in any proceeding for the enforcement of the rights of a dissenting shareholder of any such domestic corporation against the surviving or new corporation;

(b) an irrevocable appointment of the secretary of state as its agent to accept service of process in any such proceeding; and

(c) an agreement that it will promptly pay to the dissenting shareholders of any such domestic corporation the amount, if any, to which they shall be entitled under the provisions of the Business Corporation Act with respect to the rights of dissenting shareholders.

B. The effect of such merger or consolidation shall be the same as in the case of the merger or consolidation of domestic corporations, if the surviving or new corporation is to be governed by the laws of this state. If the surviving or new corporation is to be governed by the laws of any state other than this state, the effect of such merger or consolidation shall be the same as in the case of the merger or consolidation of domestic corporations except insofar as the laws of such other state provide otherwise. At any time prior to the filing of the articles of merger or consolidation, the merger or consolidation may be abandoned pursuant to provisions therefor, if any, set forth in the plan of merger or consolidation.
N.M. Stat. § 3-50-4 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 50 / Section 3-50-4
§ 3-50-4. Creation of parking authorities
Status: in_force

Every city, in addition to other powers conferred by the Municipal Parking Law, shall have power and may by proper ordinance of its governing body:

A. create as an agent of the city, an authority to be known as the “parking authority” of the city;

B. delegate to said authority any or all of the powers conferred on the city by the Municipal Parking Law, except the power to issue bonds and purchase real property; and

C. prescribe the number of members of said authority, the term of office of said members, their appointment and removal and the powers, rights and duties which they shall have and exercise. Said ordinance shall provide that the authority shall file with the governing body of the city, a detailed report of all its transactions, including a statement of all revenues and expenditures at quarterly, semiannual or annual intervals as the governing body may prescribe.
N.M. Stat. § 61-17A-23 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 17A / Section 61-17A-23
§ 61-17A-23. Penalties
Status: in_force

Each of the following constitutes a misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by a fine of less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for less than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court:

A. the violation of any of the provisions of the Barbers and Cosmetologists Act or a violation of any regulation promulgated pursuant to that act;

B. obtaining or attempting to obtain a license for money other than the required fee or for any other thing of value or by fraudulent misrepresentations; or

C. practicing or attempting to practice by fraudulent misrepresentations.
N.M. Stat. § 56-9-55 — NM Code / Chapter 56 / Article 9 / Section 56-9-55
§ 56-9-55. Written notices of assignment required
Status: in_force

In the event of such assignment, the assignee thereof shall file written notice of the assignment, together with a true copy of the instrument of assignment:

A. with the officer of the state, municipal corporation, county, political subdivision or agency who will make the payment under the contract assigned; and

B. with the officer who executed the contract on behalf of the state or such municipal corporation, county, political subdivision or agency; and

C. with the surety or sureties upon the bond or bonds, if any, given to secure the performance of such contract.
N.M. Stat. § 7-2-5.6 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 7-2-5.6
§ 7-2-5.6. Exemption; medical care savings accounts
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 6 of this act, employer and employee contributions to medical care savings accounts established pursuant to the Medical Care Savings Account Act, 1 the interest earned on those accounts and money reimbursed to an employee for eligible medical expenses from those accounts or money advanced to the employee by the employer for eligible medical expenses pursuant to that act are exempt from taxation.
N.M. Stat. § 18-11-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 11 / Section 18-11-7
§ 18-11-7. Board; powers and duties
Status: in_force

The board shall:

A. establish museum policy and determine the mission and direct the development of the museum subject to the approval of the secretary of cultural affairs;

B. exercise trusteeship over the collections of the museum;

C. accept and hold title to all property for museum use;

D. acquire objects relating to farming and ranching of interest to the public and real property for museum use or benefit by purchase, donation or bequest;

E. adopt rules as appropriate governing:

(1) the loan of objects and exhibits to qualified institutions and agencies for the purpose of exhibition;

(2) gifts, donations or loans of exhibits or collection materials for the museum;

(3) the licensure of the museum's intellectual property; and

(4) other matters necessary to carry out the provisions of the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum Act;

F. enter into leases with public or private agencies or organizations for the use of museum premises or facilities for periods of time that exceed forty-five days;

G. solicit funds or property for the purpose of developing, restoring and equipping the museum, its collections and its programs and for the purchase of objects for its collections and for the development of exhibits and other public programs;

H. cooperate with other agencies and political subdivisions of state, tribal and federal governments and private organizations and individuals to the extent necessary to establish and maintain the museum and its programs;

I. subject to other provisions of law and excepting temporary statewide initiatives of the secretary of cultural affairs, impose admission fees to the museum facilities and programs; and

J. review annually the performance of the director and report its findings to the secretary of cultural affairs.
N.M. Stat. § 40-12-2 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 12 / Section 40-12-2
§ 40-12-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Domestic Relations Mediation Act is to assist the court, parents and other interested parties in determining the best interests of the children involved in domestic relations cases.
N.M. Stat. § 4-7-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 7 / Section 4-7-1
§ 4-7-1. Original county boundaries
Status: in_force

The boundaries of the county of Dona Ana are as follows: the southern boundary, on the left bank of the Rio del Norte, is the boundary of the state of Texas, and on the right, the dividing line between the Republic of Mexico; on the north, the boundary of the county of Socorro, and on the east and west the boundaries of the territory.
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-202 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-202
§ 66-3-202. Filing effective to give notice
Status: in_force

A. On or after June 1, 1996, the filing of an application with the division and the issuance of a new certificate of title by the division as provided in Section 66-3-201 NMSA 1978 constitute constructive notice of all security interests in the vehicle described in the application. Except for a manufactured home or recreational vehicle, if the application is received by the division within ten days after the date the security agreement was executed, constructive notice shall be effective as of the date of the execution of the security agreement, and the security interest shall be deemed to have been filed and perfected as of that date and shall have priority over other liens attached or filed subsequent to that date, except for tax liens filed by the state, county or federal governments. In the case of a manufactured home or recreational vehicle, if the application is received by the division within sixty days after the date the security agreement was executed, constructive notice shall be effective as of the date of the execution of the security agreement, and the security agreement shall be deemed to have been filed and perfected as of that date and shall have priority over other liens attached or filed subsequent to that date, except for tax liens filed by the state, county or federal governments. In all other cases, constructive notice shall be effective as of the date of receipt noted on the title application.

B. The method provided in this article for perfecting a security interest shall be exclusive except as to liens dependent upon possession and property tax liens on manufactured homes perfected under Section 66-3-204 NMSA 1978 .

C. The constructive notice provided for in this section terminates twelve months after the maturity date of the debt. Unless refiled in a manner prescribed by the division within twelve months after the maturity date, the division may ignore the security interest in the issuance of all subsequent certificates of title.
N.M. Stat. § 41-13-3 — NM Code / Chapter 41 / Article 13 / Section 41-13-3
§ 41-13-3. Governmental civil immunity established
Status: in_force

A governmental entity, a public employee and an immune contractor are not liable for damages arising out of a claim based upon tort, contract or other civil law claim and caused directly or indirectly by the failure or malfunction of computer hardware, computer software, microchip controlled firmware or other equipment affected by the failure to accurately or properly process dates or times if the failure or malfunction:

A. occurred before December 31, 2005;

B. occurred within the scope of employment of the public employee or within the scope of the contract or the volunteer service program of the immune contractor; and

C. was unforeseeable or was foreseeable but the plan or design, or both, for identifying and preventing it was prepared and implemented in good faith and with the exercise of ordinary care.
N.M. Stat. § 72-20-78 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 20 / Section 72-20-78
§ 72-20-78. Limitations upon liabilities
Status: in_force

Neither the directors nor any person executing securities issued under the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act shall be liable personally on the securities by reason of the issuance thereof. Securities issued pursuant to the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act shall not be in any way a debt or liability of the state or of any municipality or other public body and shall not create or constitute any indebtedness, liability or obligation of the state or of any such municipality or other public body, either legal, moral or otherwise, and nothing contained in that act shall be construed to authorize the authority to incur any indebtedness on behalf of or in any way to obligate the state or any municipality or other public body, except the authority and except as otherwise expressly stated or necessarily implied in that act.
N.M. Stat. § 21-14-17 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 14 / Section 21-14-17
§ 21-14-17. Northern New Mexico college; branch community college for technical and vocational courses
Status: in_force

A. The board of regents of northern New Mexico college may choose to partner with one or more area school districts to be the parent institution of a branch community college established by the school districts to provide technical and vocational education. The branch community college may be co-located on the northern New Mexico college main campus or on its El Rito campus. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 21, Article 14 NMSA 1978 , the co-located branch community college shall be under the direction of the president of northern New Mexico college and shall operate under the administrative structure of northern New Mexico college. Otherwise, the board of the branch community college shall have the same powers over financing and financial control as provided for boards of other branch community colleges in Chapter 21, Article 14 NMSA 1978 .

B. The board of regents and the area school boards or the elected board of the branch community college may agree to have northern New Mexico college offer its technical and vocational courses through the branch community college. If so offered, those courses shall not be eligible for funding from the northern New Mexico state school land grant permanent fund income fund or be eligible to benefit in any way as a land grant beneficiary.
N.M. Stat. § 29-2-1.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 2 / Section 29-2-1.1
§ 29-2-1.1. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in Chapter 29 NMSA 1978:

A. “ chief ” or “ chief of the state police ” means the director of the New Mexico state police division of the department;

B. “ commission ” means the public safety advisory commission;

C. “ department ” means the department of public safety;

D. “ member of the New Mexico state police ” means a commissioned officer of the New Mexico state police, including an officer who is certified and commissioned as of June 30, 2015 in the former motor transportation division or the former special investigations division;

E. “ New Mexico law enforcement academy ” or “ academy ” means a division of the department established pursuant to the Law Enforcement Training Act;

F. “ New Mexico state police ” means the New Mexico state police division of the department; and

G. “ secretary ” means the secretary of public safety.
N.M. Stat. § 6-13-17 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 13 / Section 6-13-17
§ 6-13-17. Issuance and sale of bonds; approval of state boards of finance
Status: in_force

That no bonds shall be finally issued and sold under the provisions of this act until the approval of such issue shall have been had by the unanimous vote of the state board of finance in a regular or called meeting.
N.M. Stat. § 33-1-12 — NM Code / Chapter 33 / Article 1 / Section 33-1-12
§ 33-1-12. Corrections department; group life insurance
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10-7-4 NMSA 1978 and in addition to all other benefits provided adult correctional officers and correctional officer specialists, the corrections department shall provide life insurance coverage in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each adult correctional officer and correctional officer specialist to be paid to his designated beneficiary. The coverage shall include double indemnity provisions for death incurred in the line of duty. The coverage shall be provided by a group term insurance policy, the premium for which shall be paid out of state funds appropriated to the department.
N.M. Stat. § 27-9-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 9 / Section 27-9-1
§ 27-9-1. Program; demonstrations
Status: in_force

The human services [health care authority] department, in cooperation with the department of health, is authorized to administer demonstration programs that provide in-home and coordinated community care services to the frail elderly and to persons with a disability who would otherwise require institutionalization. The programs authorized by this section shall serve both those eligible and not eligible for federal medical assistance programs.
N.M. Stat. § 44-2-5 — NM Code / Chapter 44 / Article 2 / Section 44-2-5
§ 44-2-5. Adequate remedy at law; writ will not issue; who may obtain writ
Status: in_force

The writ shall not issue in any case where there is a plain, speedy and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law. It shall issue on the information of the party beneficially interested.