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N.M. Stat. § 3-15-11 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 15 / Section 3-15-11
§ 3-15-11. First election of officers; time; law governing
Status: in_force

In case the charter is adopted pursuant to Section 3-15-10 NMSA 1978 , it shall be the duty of the presiding officer of the governing body of the municipality to issue a proclamation calling a special election for the election of such elective officers as may be provided for in the charter. The election shall be at least ten days before the date specified in the charter for it to go into effect, and the election shall be held in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act and the charter.
N.M. Stat. § 61-12D-5 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 12D / Section 61-12D-5
§ 61-12D-5. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

The board:

A. shall examine all applicants for licensure to practice physical therapy and issue licenses or permits to those who are duly qualified;

B. shall regulate the practice of physical therapy by interpreting and enforcing the provisions of the Physical Therapy Act;

C. may promulgate rules in accordance with the State Rules Act to carry out the provisions of the Physical Therapy Act;

D. may meet as often as it deems necessary. A majority of the members constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall keep an official record of all its proceedings;

E. may establish requirements for assessing continuing competency;

F. may collect fees;

G. may elect such officers as it deems necessary for the operations and obligations of the board. Terms of office shall be one year;

H. shall provide for the timely orientation and training of new professional and public appointees to the board, including training in licensing and disciplinary procedures and orientation to all statutes, rules, policies and procedures of the board;

I. may establish ad hoc committees and pay per diem and mileage to the members;

J. may enter into contracts;

K. may deny, suspend or revoke a license or take other disciplinary action in accordance with the Uniform Licensing Act;

L. shall report final disciplinary action taken against a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant to the national disciplinary database;

M. shall publish at least annually final disciplinary action taken against any physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; and

N. may prescribe the forms of license certificates, application forms and such other documents as it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of the Physical Therapy Act.
N.M. Stat. § 3-59-13 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 59 / Section 3-59-13
§ 3-59-13. Construction of act
Status: in_force

Neither the Pollution Control Revenue Bond Act nor anything herein contained shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which a municipality might otherwise have under any laws of this state, but shall be construed as cumulative; and the Pollution Control Revenue Bond Act shall not be construed as requiring an election by the voters of a municipality prior to the issuance of bonds hereunder by such municipality, and all other laws of the state relative to public contracts and properties shall have no application to projects or bonds issued under this act.
N.M. Stat. § 3-2-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 3-2-3
§ 3-2-3. Urbanized territory; incorporation limited within urbanized territory
Status: in_force

A. Urbanized territory is that territory within the same county and within five miles of the boundary of any municipality having a population of five thousand or more persons and that territory within the same county and within three miles of a municipality having a population of less than five thousand persons, except that territory in a county declared by an ordinance of the board of county commissioners to be a traditional historic community shall not be considered urbanized territory and shall not be annexed by a municipality unless it is considered for annexation pursuant to a petition requesting annexation signed by a majority of the qualified electors within the traditional historic community.

B. No territory within an urbanized territory shall be incorporated as a municipality unless the:

(1) municipality or municipalities causing the urbanized territory approve, by resolution, the incorporation of the territory as a municipality;

(2) residents of the territory proposed to be incorporated have filed with the municipality a valid petition to annex the territory proposed to be incorporated and the municipality fails, within one hundred twenty days after the filing of the annexation petition, to annex the territory proposed to be incorporated; or

(3) residents of the territory proposed to be annexed conclusively prove that the municipality is unable to provide municipal services within the territory proposed to be incorporated within the same period of time that the proposed municipality could provide municipal service.

C. A traditional historic community may become incorporated even though it is located within what is defined as urbanized territory pursuant to Subsection A of this section, by following the procedures set forth in Sections 3-2-5 through 3-2-9 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 11-8-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 11 / Article 8 / Section 11-8-3
§ 11-8-3. State defined; Article II
Status: in_force

As used in this compact, “state” means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
N.M. Stat. § 62-9-5 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 9 / Section 62-9-5
§ 62-9-5. Abandonment of service
Status: in_force

No utility shall abandon all or any portion of its facilities subject to the jurisdiction of the commission, or any service rendered by means of such facilities, without first obtaining the permission and approval of the commission. The commission shall grant such permission and approval, after notice and hearing, upon finding that the continuation of service is unwarranted or that the present and future public convenience and necessity do not otherwise require the continuation of the service or use of the facility; provided, however, that ordinary discontinuance of service or use of facilities for nonpayment of charges, nonuser or other reasons in the usual course of business shall not be considered as abandonment. In considering the present and future public convenience and necessity, the commission shall specifically consider the impact of the proposed abandonment of service on all consumers served in this state, directly or indirectly, by the facilities sought to be abandoned.
N.M. Stat. § 4-1-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 4-1-2
§ 4-1-2. Change in south boundary
Status: in_force

All that portion of the county of Bernalillo situated south of a line commencing at a point on the east bank of the Rio Grande where the southern foot of the Loma de Isleta strikes the Rio Grande, and running thence to the Canon del Infierno, and then following the old line of both counties to the east, shall be cut off from the county of Bernalillo, and included within the county of Valencia. All the above-described land shall be annexed to and form part of precinct number fifteen of the county of Valencia.
N.M. Stat. § 72-18-45 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 18 / Section 72-18-45
§ 72-18-45. Issuance of notes
Status: in_force

Any district is authorized to borrow money without an election in anticipation of taxes or other revenues and to issue notes to evidence the amount so borrowed.
N.M. Stat. § 1-2-33 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 1-2-33
§ 1-2-33. Election-related organization; registration required
Status: in_force

An election-related organization shall register with the secretary of state at least seventy days before a regularly scheduled statewide election or forty-two days before a special election or an election to fill a vacancy in the United States house of representatives.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-42 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-42
§ 10-11-42. State legislator member coverage plan 1; member contribution rate
Status: in_force

A. Prior to January 1, 2004, a member under state legislator member coverage plan 1 shall contribute one hundred dollars ($100) for each year of credited service earned after December 31, 1959.

B. To be eligible for the pension amount in Paragraph (2) of Subsection C of Section 10-11-41 NMSA 1978 , a member under state legislator member coverage plan 1 must contribute one hundred dollars ($100) for each year of credited service earned after December 31, 1959 and must make that required contribution no later than December 31, 2003.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-5-17 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 5 / Section 32A-5-17
§ 32A-5-17. Persons whose consents or relinquishments are required
Status: in_force

A. Consent to adoption or relinquishment of parental rights to the department or an agency licensed by the state of New Mexico shall be required of the following:

(1) the adoptee, if fourteen years of age or older, except when the court finds that the adoptee does not have the mental capacity to give consent;

(2) the adoptee's mother;

(3) the adoptee's proposed adoptive parent;

(4) the presumed father of the adoptee;

(5) the adoptee's acknowledged father;

(6) the department or the agency to whom the adoptee has been relinquished that has placed the adoptee for adoption or the department or the agency that has custody of the adoptee; provided, however, that the court may grant the adoption without the consent of the department or the agency if the court finds the adoption is in the best interests of the adoptee and that the withholding of consent by the department or the agency is unreasonable; and

(7) the guardian of the adoptee's parent when, pursuant to provisions of the Uniform Probate Code, that guardian has express authority to consent to adoption.

B. A consent or relinquishment executed by a parent who is a minor shall not be subject to avoidance or revocation solely by reason of the parent's minority.
N.M. Stat. § 24-1-5.6 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-5.6
§ 24-1-5.6. Northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project
Status: in_force

A. The department of health shall establish the northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project.

B. The northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project shall provide substance abuse treatment in Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties.

C. Currently accepted treatment practices shall be used in the northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project.

D. The department of health shall seek federal funding to support and supplement the northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project.

E. The department of health shall report to the legislature annually by December 1 on the progress of the northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project.

F. The department of health shall coordinate with the human services department [health care authority] to determine whether any patient who participates in the northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project is eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families pursuant to the New Mexico Works Act. 1
N.M. Stat. § 35-1-36.1 — NM Code / Chapter 35 / Article 1 / Section 35-1-36.1
§ 35-1-36.1. Magistrate court; compensation
Status: in_force

A. All magistrates shall be full-time.

B. A full-time magistrate is defined as a magistrate who holds office hours a minimum of forty hours per week and who holds no other employment that may conflict with his full-time judicial duties.
N.M. Stat. § 70-7-7 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 7 / Section 70-7-7
§ 70-7-7. Division orders
Status: in_force

The order providing for unitization and unit operation of a pool or part of a pool shall be upon terms and conditions that are fair, reasonable and equitable and shall approve or prescribe a plan or unit agreement for unit operation which shall include:

A. a legal description in terms of surface area of the pool or part of the pool to be operated as a unit and the vertical limits to be included, termed “the unit area”;

B. a statement of the nature of the operations contemplated;

C. an allocation to the separately owned tracts in the unit area of all the oil and gas that is produced from the unit area and is saved, being the production that is not used in the conduct of operations on the unit area or not unavoidably lost;

D. a provision for the credits and charges to be made in the adjustment among the owners in the unit area for their respective investments in wells, tanks, pumps, machinery, materials and equipment contributed to the unit operations;

E. a provision governing how the costs of unit operations, including capital investments, shall be determined and charged to the separately owned tracts and how the costs shall be paid, including a provision providing when, how and by whom the unit production allocated to an owner who does not pay the share of the costs of unit operations charged to that owner or the interest of that owner may be sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of costs;

F. a provision for carrying any working interest owner on a limited, carried or net-profits basis, payable out of production, upon such terms and conditions determined by the division to be just and reasonable and allowing an appropriate charge for interest for such service payable out of the owner's share of production; provided that any nonconsenting working interest owner being so carried shall be deemed to have relinquished to the unit operator all of its operating rights and working interest in and to the unit until his share of the costs are repaid, plus an amount not to exceed two hundred percent of such costs as a nonconsent penalty, with maximum penalty amount in each case to be determined by the division;

G. a provision designating the unit operator and providing for the supervision and conduct of the unit operations, including the selection, removal or substitution of an operator from among the working interest owners to conduct the unit operations;

H. a provision for a voting procedure for the decision of matters to be decided by the working interest owners in respect to which each working interest owner shall have a voting interest equal to its unit participation;

I. the time when the unit operation shall commence and the manner in which and the circumstances under which the operations shall terminate and for the settlement of accounts upon termination; and

J. such additional provisions as are found to be appropriate for carrying on the unit operations and for the protection of correlative rights and the prevention of waste.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-2-9.7 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 2 / Section 59A-2-9.7
§ 59A-2-9.7. Annual report required
Status: in_force

No later than December 1 of each year, the superintendent shall report to the legislature, to the insurance nominating committee and to the governor on the activities of the office of superintendent of insurance during the previous fiscal year.
N.M. Stat. § 35-9-5 — NM Code / Chapter 35 / Article 9 / Section 35-9-5
§ 35-9-5. Attachment; suit on bond
Status: in_force

The bond given by the plaintiff or other person in an attachment action in the magistrate court may be sued upon in the name of the state by any party injured, and shall proceed as in other civil actions.
N.M. Stat. § 57-1-19 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 1 / Section 57-1-19
§ 57-1-19. Violation of act; penalty
Status: in_force

Any person convicted of violating this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment of not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
N.M. Stat. § 37-1-22 — NM Code / Chapter 37 / Article 1 / Section 37-1-22
§ 37-1-22. Title in fee simple by adverse possession; action after ten years barred; definition; payment of taxes
Status: in_force

In all cases where any person or persons, their children, heirs or assigns, shall have had adverse possession continuously and in good faith under color of title for ten years of any lands, tenements or hereditaments and no claim by suit in law or equity effectually prosecuted shall have been set up or made to the said lands, tenements or hereditaments, within the aforesaid time of ten years, then and in that case, the person or persons, their children, heirs or assigns, so holding adverse possession as aforesaid, shall be entitled to keep and hold in possession such quantity of lands as shall be specified and described in some writing purporting to give color of title to such adverse occupant, in preference to all, and against all, and all manner of person or persons whatsoever; and any person or persons, their children or their heirs or assigns, who shall neglect or who have neglected for the said term of ten years, to avail themselves of the benefit of any title, legal or equitable, which he, she or they may have to any lands, tenements or hereditaments, within this state, by suit of law or equity effectually prosecuted against the person or persons so as aforesaid in adverse possession, shall be forever barred, and the person or persons, their children, heirs or assigns so holding or keeping possession as aforesaid for the term of ten years shall have a good and indefeasible title in fee simple to such lands, tenements or hereditaments; provided, that if any person entitled to commence or prosecute such suit or action is or shall be, at the time the cause of action therefor first accrued, imprisoned, of unsound mind or under the age of majority, then the time for commencing such action shall in favor of such persons be extended so that they shall have one year after the termination of such disability to commence such action; but no cumulative disability shall prevent the bar of the above limitation, and this proviso shall only apply to those disabilities which existed when the cause of action first accrued and to no other. “Adverse possession” is defined to be an actual and visible appropriation of land, commenced and continued under a color of title and claim of right inconsistent with and hostile to the claim of another; provided, however that in the case of severed mineral interests the possession by the party in possession of the surface shall be considered as the constructive possession of such mineral claimant until actual possession shall have been taken by such mineral claimant; and provided further in no case must “adverse possession” be considered established within the meaning of the law, unless the party claiming adverse possession, his predecessors or grantors, have for the period mentioned in this section continuously paid all the taxes, state, county and municipal, which during that period have been assessed against the property.
N.M. Stat. § 5-18-10 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 18 / Section 5-18-10
§ 5-18-10. Notice and conduct of election for district board
Status: in_force

A. An election pursuant to the Renewable Energy Financing District Act for the purpose of election of directors of a district board shall be called by mailing notices to the owners of property included in the district not less than twenty days before the election. The property tax assessment rolls shall be used to determine the owners of property included in the district. Notice shall also be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality or county. The notice shall state the purpose of the election, the date of the election, the place of holding the election, the hours during the day in which the polls will be open and provisions for voting by mail.

B. Within thirty days after an election, the district board shall meet and canvass the returns, determining the number of votes properly cast. A majority of the votes cast at the election shall be required for election of a member to the district board.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9A-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9A / Section 7-9A-4
§ 7-9A-4. Administration of the act
Status: in_force

The department is charged with the administration of the Investment Credit Act.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-7-3 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 7 / Section 59A-7-3
§ 59A-7-3. Accident and health insurance
Status: in_force

A. Accident and health includes:

(1) accident;

(2) accidental death and dismemberment;

(3) blanket accident and sickness;

(4) credit disability;

(5) critical illness;

(6) dental;

(7) disability income;

(8) home health care;

(9) hospital indemnity;

(10) long-term care;

(11) major medical;

(12) medical expense;

(13) medicare supplement;

(14) prescription drug;

(15) sickness;

(16) specified disease;

(17) vision; and

(18) similar products relating to accident and health matters.

B. An insurer or a health maintenance organization authorized to transact accident and health insurance may write stop-loss liability insurance as listed in Paragraph (51) of Subsection A of Section 59A-7-6 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 21-21Q-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21Q / Section 21-21Q-2
§ 21-21Q-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Community Governance Attorney Act:

A. “ acequia ” means a political subdivision organized pursuant to Chapter 73, Article 2 or 3 NMSA 1978;

B. “ colonia ” means a community as defined in the Colonias Infrastructure Act;

C. “ commission ” means the community governance attorney commission;

D. “ community governance attorney ” means an attorney with a legal practice that is focused on the requirements and challenges faced by small political subdivisions and unincorporated communities, including the promulgation of land and water use ordinances, contracting and the collection or payment of taxes and fees;

E. “ course of study ” means a law student's legal education, including clinical and internship programs and preparation courses for the state bar examination;

F. “ department ” means the higher education department;

G. “ fund ” means the community governance attorney and conditional tuition waiver fund;

H. “ land grant-merced ” means a political subdivision organized pursuant to Chapter 49, Article 1 or 4 NMSA 1978;

I. “ participant ” means an individual who has applied to participate in, has been accepted into and has signed a contract agreeing to the terms of the program;

J. “ program ” means the community governance attorney and conditional tuition waiver program;

K. “ secretary ” means the secretary of higher education;

L. “ university ” means the university of New Mexico school of law; and

M. “ waiver ” means a loan to cover tuition, fees and a reasonable living stipend that is forgiven in whole or in part if the participant renders service as a community governance attorney.
N.M. Stat. § 7-2-20 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 7-2-20
§ 7-2-20. Information returns
Status: in_force

A. Pursuant to regulation, the secretary may require any person doing business in this state and making payments in the course of business to another person to file information returns with the department.

B. The provisions of this section also apply to payments made by the state of New Mexico, by the governing bodies of any political subdivision of the state of New Mexico, by any agency, department or instrumentality of the state or of any political subdivision thereof and, to the extent permitted by law or pursuant to any agreement entered into by the secretary, to payments made by any other governmental body or by an agency, department or instrumentality thereof.