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N.M. Stat. § 57-15-3 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 15 / Section 57-15-3
§ 57-15-3. Notice of proposed action
Status: in_force

Before the attorney general commences an action pursuant to Section 4 of this article he shall be required to give the person against whom such action is contemplated appropriate notice by certified mail and an opportunity to show either orally or in writing why such action should not be commenced. In such showing, said person may present, among other things, that the advertisement is subject to and complies with the rules and regulations of, and the statutes administered by the federal trade commission or any official department, division, commission or agency of this state.
N.M. Stat. § 73-14-71 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 14 / Section 73-14-71
§ 73-14-71. Definition of “qualified elector”; qualified elector list
Status: in_force

A. As used in the provisions of Sections 73-14-70 through 73-14-88 NMSA 1978 , “ qualified elector ” means a natural person who has reached the age of majority and who, for at least six months prior to the election, has owned, either in community or separately, real property located within the district and subject to conservancy district appraisals, assessments, levies and taxes.

B. The conservancy district shall compile and deliver a qualified elector list to the appropriate county clerk no later than one hundred eighty days before an election, and update the list every thirty days until ninety days before the election, which list the county clerk shall use for that election.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-2-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 2 / Section 32A-2-8
§ 32A-2-8. Petition; authorization to file
Status: in_force

A petition alleging delinquency shall not be filed in delinquency proceedings unless the children's court attorney, after consulting with probation services, has determined and endorsed upon the petition that the filing of the petition is in the best interest of the public and the child. The children's court attorney shall furnish legal services in connection with the authorization and preparation of the petition.
N.M. Stat. § 6-3-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 3 / Section 6-3-6
§ 6-3-6. State budget division; periodic allotments
Status: in_force

A. The state budget division, subject to the approval of the secretary of finance and administration, is authorized to provide rules for the periodic allotment of funds that may be expended by any state agency.

B. The expenditures of any state agency as defined in Section 6-3-1 NMSA 1978 , for the first six-month period of each odd-numbered fiscal year shall be limited to one-half of the appropriation or approved budget, whichever is less, for that fiscal year. This restriction does not apply to those agencies whose operations are more efficiently measured by periods other than a fiscal year, including but not limited to the New Mexico legislative council, legislative committees, the intertribal ceremonial and the New Mexico state fair. Expenditures of the intertribal ceremonial office and the New Mexico state fair shall be governed by regulation of the department of finance and administration. The department of finance and administration may also allow expenditure of more than one-half of the appropriation or approved budget for those agencies planning major expenditures for capital outlay in the first six months of the fiscal year, which would result in over-expenditure of the first six-month allocation.

C. Upon the direction of the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to Section 9-6-5.2 NMSA 1978 , the state budget division shall temporarily withhold an allotment to a state agency or state institution that has failed to submit an audit report required by the Audit Act. The amount withheld and the number of periodic allotments subject to the withholding shall be as directed by the secretary.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9F-8 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9F / Section 7-9F-8
§ 7-9F-8. Rural areas
Status: in_force

The amount of the basic and additional credit for which a taxpayer is otherwise eligible shall be doubled if the qualified expenditures were incurred with respect to a qualified facility in a rural area.
N.M. Stat. § 31-28-3 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 28 / Section 31-28-3
§ 31-28-3. Criminal justice coordinating councils created; composition; duties
Status: in_force

A. A criminal justice coordinating council is created for each judicial district and shall include representation from within the district for:

(1) each court in the district;

(2) the district attorney;

(3) the district public defender office;

(4) law enforcement agencies;

(5) jails;

(6) behavioral health programs; and

(7) other agencies and entities agreed upon by the council.

B. Each criminal justice coordinating council shall be convened by the chief judge of the district court in the judicial district. The commission shall assist in the organization of the criminal justice coordinating councils.

C. Each criminal justice coordinating council shall select a chair at its first meeting. The first meeting of each council shall take place by August 1, 2019, and the council shall subsequently meet at the call of the chair, but not less than ten months per year.

D. Each criminal justice coordinating council shall organize itself and adopt rules in a manner appropriate to accomplish its duties pursuant to the Crime Reduction Grant Act.

E. A criminal justice coordinating council shall develop a strategic plan to meet the requirements of this section and shall:

(1) review the criminal justice system in the judicial district, including judicial processes, law enforcement, community corrections alternatives and sufficiency of jail and detention facilities;

(2) identify criminal justice system problems in the judicial district;

(3) develop data-driven policies and evidence-based best practices designed to improve public safety outcomes, cost-effective responses to crime and fair and efficient adjudication processes;

(4) facilitate applications from its members for crime reduction grants pursuant to the Crime Reduction Grant Act;

(5) facilitate sharing of criminal justice information between agencies as permitted by law; and

(6) in consultation with the commission, develop data-sharing agreements and methods of data sharing to allow system-wide analysis of criminal justice operations within the judicial district and throughout the state.

F. Executive agencies and the administrative office of the courts shall provide prompt responses to criminal justice coordinating council requests for information.
N.M. Stat. § 28-17-16 — NM Code / Chapter 28 / Article 17 / Section 28-17-16
§ 28-17-16. Representatives of the office
Status: in_force

Any regional or local ombudsman program designated by the office or any individual certified by the office, whether an employee or an unpaid volunteer, shall be treated as a representative of the office.
N.M. Stat. § 40-10D-1 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 10D / Section 40-10D-1
§ 40-10D-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 22-10A-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 10A / Section 22-10A-12
§ 22-10A-12. Limited reciprocity
Status: in_force

A. A teacher or school principal licensed in another state may be granted a level two or level three license if the teacher or school principal has teaching experience, demonstrates the required competencies and meets other requirements and qualifications for the license for which the teacher or school principal applies, including clearance of the required background check. The local superintendent may require a mentorship period for the licensee if the superintendent deems it necessary. A teacher or school principal who holds an out-of-state license may apply for a lower level license if the teacher or school principal does not meet the requirements for the higher level.

B. The department may grant a level three-B license to a candidate who does not meet the other requirements and qualifications of that license if the candidate has a school administrator license issued in another state and has worked as a school administrator in good standing for at least six years.
N.M. Stat. § 1-25-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 25 / Section 1-25-7
§ 1-25-7. Recall; duties of county clerk
Status: in_force

A. Upon receipt of completed petitions, the county clerk shall stamp the petitions with the filing date. All completed petitions for the recall of one or more named officials shall be filed with the county clerk on the same day within ninety days from the date of initiation.

B. For each petition that is accompanied by the required affidavit pursuant to the Recall Act, the county clerk shall verify the signatures on the completed petitions within fifteen days and determine whether the verified signatures meet the required minimum number.

C. The minimum number of verified signatures required to validate a petition is thirty-three and one-third percent of the total number of voters who voted for all candidates for the elected position currently occupied by the named official at the last election where the official was elected.

D. Within five days of making a determination whether the verified signatures meet the required minimum number, the county clerk shall notify the petitioner and the named official in writing of the determination, and if the county clerk determines that sufficient signatures have been submitted, the clerk shall initiate procedures for a recall election as provided in the Local Election Act; provided that the order of the district court shall serve as the proclamation calling the recall election.
N.M. Stat. § 17-1-6 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 1 / Section 17-1-6
§ 17-1-6. Transfer of duties and obligations
Status: in_force

The director shall fulfill all the duties and obligations heretofore imposed upon the state game warden, and shall exercise all the powers heretofore granted to the state game warden. The conservation officers appointed by the director shall assume those duties and powers heretofore imposed upon or granted to deputy game wardens.
N.M. Stat. § 58-18C-6 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 18C / Section 58-18C-6
§ 58-18C-6. Award of funds; accountability
Status: in_force

A. Trust funds shall be awarded either on a competitive basis or based on need as determined by the authority. The authority's staff shall work with the committee to develop an application and applicant scoring mechanism or program guidelines that encourage applicants to develop solutions that are responsive to local needs and are consistent with sound housing policy.

B. The authority's governing body shall be responsible for ensuring that on an overall basis the total funds awarded for housing activities attract at least three times as much funding from other sources.
N.M. Stat. § 20-2-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 20 / Article 2 / Section 20-2-8
§ 20-2-8. Honorary promotion upon retirement
Status: in_force

Members of the organized militia may be promoted by the governor to the next higher grade on the occasion of their retirement from service under the following conditions:

A. that the member has honorably served either a total of thirty years in the federal military or organized militia combined or a minimum of twenty years in the organized militia, provided that no period of less than ten years in the state defense force shall be credited toward either of these requirements; and

B. that the honorary promotion be requested by the member and be favorably recommended by the adjutant general.
N.M. Stat. § 73-18-3 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 18 / Section 73-18-3
§ 73-18-3. Contract procedure inapplicable
Status: in_force

The provisions of Section 309, Chapter 45, Session Laws of 1927 (being Section 73-14-40 NMSA 1978 ), shall not apply to any reclamation contract.
N.M. Stat. § 6-25-23 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 25 / Section 6-25-23
§ 6-25-23. Remedies of holders of economic development revolving fund bonds and project revenue bonds
Status: in_force

Any holder of economic development revolving fund bonds or project revenue bonds issued by the authority pursuant to the Statewide Economic Development Finance Act or a trustee under a trust indenture entered into pursuant to that act, except to the extent that his rights are restricted by any bond resolution or trust indenture may protect and enforce, by any suitable form of legal proceedings, any rights provided by the laws of this state or granted by the bond resolution or trust indenture. Such rights include the right to compel the performance of all duties of the authority or the department required by the Statewide Economic Development Finance Act, the bond resolution or the trust indenture and to enjoin unlawful activities.
N.M. Stat. § 13-7-31 — NM Code / Chapter 13 / Article 7 / Section 13-7-31
§ 13-7-31. Benefits required
Status: in_force

Group coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act shall provide coverage for all mental health or substance use disorder services required by generally recognized standards of care.
N.M. Stat. § 70-7-4 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 7 / Section 70-7-4
§ 70-7-4. Definitions
Status: reserved

For the purposes of the Statutory Unitization Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

A. “pool” means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both. Each zone of a general structure, which zone is completely separate from any other zone in the structure, is covered by the word pool as used herein. Pool is synonymous with “common source of supply” and with “common reservoir”;

B. “oil and gas” means crude oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, condensate or any combination thereof;

C. “waste,” in addition to its meaning in Section 70-2-3 NMSA 1978 , shall include both economic and physical waste resulting, or that could reasonably be expected to result, from the development and operation separately of tracts that can best be developed and operated as a unit;

D. “working interest” means an interest in unitized substances by virtue of a lease, operating agreement, fee title or otherwise, excluding royalty owners, owners of overriding royalties, oil and gas payments, carried interests, mortgages and lien claimants but including a carried interest, the owner of which is primarily obligated to pay, either in cash or out of production or otherwise, a portion of the unit expense; however, oil and gas rights that are free of lease or other instrument creating a working interest shall be regarded as a working interest to the extent of seven-eighths thereof and a royalty interest to the extent of the remaining one-eighth thereof;

E. “working interest owner” or “lessee” means a person who owns a working interest;

F. “royalty interest” means a right to or interest in any portion of the unitized substances or proceeds thereof other than a working interest;

G. “royalty owner” means a person who owns a royalty interest;

H. “unit operator” means the working interest owner, designated by working interest owners under the unit operating agreement or the division to conduct unit operations, acting as operator and not as a working interest owner;

I. “basic royalty” means the royalty reserved in the lease but in no event exceeding one-eighth; and

J. “relative value” means the value of each separately owned tract for oil and gas purposes and its contributing value to the unit in relation to like values of other tracts in the unit, taking into account acreage, the quantity of oil and gas recoverable therefrom, location on structure, its probable productivity of oil and gas in the absence of unit operations, the burden of operation to which the tract will or is likely to be subjected, or so many of said factors, or such other pertinent engineering, geological, operating or pricing factors, as may be reasonably susceptible of determination.
N.M. Stat. § 76-5-7 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 5 / Section 76-5-7
§ 76-5-7. Alternative method when disaster area declared
Status: in_force

If the governor declares an area in New Mexico to be a disaster area because an area critically infested by range caterpillars or other range pests is endangering remaining areas of the state, the provisions of Sections 76-5-6 and 76-5-8 NMSA 1978 shall not apply.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8-23.3 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8 / Section 22-8-23.3
§ 22-8-23.3. At-risk program units
Status: in_force

A. A school district is eligible for additional program units if it establishes within its department-approved educational plan identified services to assist students to reach their full academic potential. A school district receiving additional at-risk program units shall include a report of specified services implemented to improve the academic success of at-risk students. The report shall identify the ways in which the school district and individual public schools use funding generated through the at-risk index and the intended outcomes. For purposes of this section, “ at-risk student ” means a student who meets the criteria to be included in the calculation of the three-year average total rate in Subsection B of this section. The number of additional units to which a school district is entitled under this section is computed in the following manner:

At-Risk Index x MEM = Units

where MEM is equal to the total district membership, including early childhood education, full-time-equivalent membership and special education membership and where the at-risk index is calculated in the following manner:

Three-Year Average Total Rate x 0.33 = At-Risk Index.

B. To calculate the three-year average total rate, the department shall compute a three-year average of the school district's percentage of membership used to determine its Title 1 allocation, a three-year average of the percentage of membership classified as English language learners using criteria established by the office for civil rights of the United States department of education and a three-year average of the percentage of student mobility. The department shall then add the three-year average rates. The number obtained from this calculation is the three-year average total rate.

C. The department shall recalculate the at-risk index for each school district every year.

D. For purposes of this section, “ services ” means research-based or evidence-based social, emotional or academic interventions, such as:

(1) case management, tutoring, reading interventions and after-school programs that are delivered by social workers, counselors, teachers or other professional staff;

(2) culturally relevant professional and curriculum development, including those necessary to support language acquisition, bilingual and multicultural education;

(3) additional compensation strategies for high-need schools;

(4) whole school interventions, including school-based health centers and community schools;

(5) educational programming intended to improve career and college readiness of at-risk students, including dual or concurrent enrollment, career and technical education, guidance counseling services and coordination with post-secondary institutions; and

(6) services to engage and support parents and families in the education of students.
N.M. Stat. § 70-7-18 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 7 / Section 70-7-18
§ 70-7-18. Existing rights, rights in unleased land and royalties and lease burdens
Status: in_force

Property rights, leases, contracts and other rights or obligations shall be regarded as amended and modified only to the extent necessary to conform to the provisions and requirements of the Statutory Unitization Act and to any valid order of the division providing for the unit operation of a pool or a part thereof, but otherwise shall remain in full force and effect. A one-eighth part of the production allocated to each tract under an order providing for the unit operation of a pool or a part thereof shall in all events be and remain free and clear of any cost or expense of developing or operating the unit and of any lien therefor as an encumbered [unencumbered] source from which to pay the royalties or other cost-free obligations due or payable with respect to the production from such tract. If a lease or other contract pertaining to a tract or interest stipulates a royalty, overriding royalty, production payment or other obligation in excess of one-eighth of the production or proceeds therefrom, then the working interest owner subject to such excess payment or other obligation shall bear and pay the same.
N.M. Stat. § 17-5-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 17-5-2
§ 17-5-2. Fur-bearing and nongame animals defined; property of state
Status: in_force

The following quadrupeds are hereby defined as fur-bearing animals, to wit: muskrat, mink, weasel, beaver, otter, nutria, masked or blackfooted ferret, ringtail cat, raccoon, pine marten, coatimundi, badgers, bobcat and all species of foxes. These animals and their pelts are hereby declared to be the property of the state until they shall have been lawfully taken, killed or captured as provided by Sections 17-5-1 through 17-5-9 NMSA 1978 , except as to beaver and beaver pelts, the taking of which shall be subjected to the application of Section 17-3-31 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 2-17-3 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 17 / Section 2-17-3
§ 2-17-3. Duties
Status: in_force

A. After its appointment, the welfare reform oversight committee shall hold one organizational meeting to develop a work plan and budget for the ensuing interim. The work plan and budget shall be submitted to the New Mexico legislative council for approval. Upon approval of the work plan and budget by the legislative council, the committee shall:

(1) examine the statutes, constitutional provisions and rules governing welfare reform in New Mexico;

(2) monitor and oversee the implementation of the New Mexico Works Act;

(3) review issues related to welfare reform, including job training programs and related contracts; cash assistance; child care, transportation and other job-related services; and other issues that arise because of the devolution of the federal welfare programs to the states; and

(4) make recommendations relating to the adoption of rules and legislation, if any are found to be necessary.

B. The committee shall regularly receive testimony from the secretaries of human services; labor; children, youth and families; and health and the superintendent of public instruction on issues arising from the implementation of the New Mexico Works Act and shall review proposed rules, schedules and formulae before adoption.