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N.M. Stat. § 61-5A-18 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 5A / Section 61-5A-18
§ 61-5A-18. Practicing without a license; penalty
Status: in_force

A. Any person who practices dentistry or who attempts to practice dentistry without first complying with the provisions of the Dental Health Care Act and without being the holder of a license entitling the practitioner to practice dentistry in New Mexico is guilty of a fourth degree felony and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of the Criminal Sentencing Act to imprisonment for a definite period not to exceed eighteen months and, in the discretion of the sentencing court, to a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both. Each occurrence of practicing dentistry or attempting to practice dentistry without complying with the Dental Health Care Act shall be a separate violation.

B. Any person who practices as a dental hygienist or who attempts to practice as a dental hygienist without first complying with the provisions of the Dental Health Care Act and without being the holder of a license entitling the practitioner to practice as a dental hygienist in New Mexico is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced under the provisions of the Criminal Sentencing Act to imprisonment for a definite period less than one year and, in the discretion of the sentencing court, to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. Each occurrence of practicing as a dental hygienist or attempting to practice as a dental hygienist without complying with the Dental Health Care Act shall be a separate violation.

C. A person that functions or attempts to function as a non-dentist owner or who is an officer of a corporate entity that functions or attempts to function as a non-dentist owner in New Mexico without first complying with the provisions of the Dental Health Care Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of the Criminal Sentencing Act to imprisonment for a definite period not to exceed one year and, in the discretion of the sentencing court, to a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. Each occurrence of functioning as a non-dentist owner without complying with the Dental Health Care Act shall be a separate violation.

D. The attorney general or district attorney shall prosecute all violations of the Dental Health Care Act.

E. Upon conviction of any person for violation of any provision of the Dental Health Care Act, the convicting court may, in addition to the penalty provided in this section, enjoin the person from any further or continued violations of the Dental Health Care Act and enforce the order of contempt proceedings.
N.M. Stat. § 74-3-2 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 3 / Section 74-3-2
§ 74-3-2. Radiation technical advisory council; creation and organization
Status: in_force

A. There is established a “radiation technical advisory council” consisting of seven members. The members shall be appointed by the governor, after consultation with the director of the agency for five-year staggered terms. The governor shall fill any vacancy occurring on the council. The replacement appointee shall serve the remainder of the original member's unexpired term.

B. The members of the radiation technical advisory council shall be individuals with scientific training in one or more of the following fields: diagnostic radiology, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine, radiation or health physics or related sciences with specialization in radiation.

C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections A and B of this section, the radiation technical advisory council includes four additional members who shall sit as full council members on matters to which the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act 1 applies, including but not limited to regulations necessary to effectuate the provisions of that act. The additional members shall be four radiologic technologists appointed by the governor whose initial appointments shall be made in such manner that two members shall be appointed for terms of three years and two members who shall be appointed for terms of five years. Thereafter, the additional members shall be appointed by the governor for staggered terms of five years each. The radiologic technologist members of the council shall be appointed from lists submitted to the governor by any generally recognized organization of radiologic technologists in this state. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the unexpired term within sixty days of the vacancy.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-14-5 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 14 / Section 59A-14-5
§ 59A-14-5. Signature and special endorsement of surplus lines policy
Status: in_force

Every insurance contract procured and delivered as surplus lines insurance pursuant to Chapter 59A, Article 14 NMSA 1978 shall bear the name, address and signature of the surplus lines broker who procured it and have stamped, printed or otherwise displayed prominently in boldface ten-point or larger type either upon its declarations page or by attachment of an endorsement, the form of which may be promulgated by the superintendent, the following: “This policy provides surplus lines insurance by an insurer not otherwise authorized to transact business in New Mexico. This policy is not subject to supervision, review or approval by the superintendent of insurance. The insurance so provided is not within the protection of any guaranty fund law of New Mexico designed to protect the public in the event of the insurer's insolvency.”.
N.M. Stat. § 21-13-10 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 13 / Section 21-13-10
§ 21-13-10. Board duties
Status: in_force

A. It is the duty of the community college board to determine financial and educational policies of the community college. The community college board shall provide for the management of the community college and execution of these policies by selecting a competent president for the community college, and, upon the president's recommendation, the board shall employ other administrative personnel, instructional staff or other personnel as may be needed for the operation, maintenance and administration of the community college.

B. The community college board shall have the power to fix tuition and fee rates for resident and nonresident students of the community college district, to accept gifts, to accept federal aid, to purchase, hold, sell and rent property and equipment and to promote the general welfare of the institution for the best interest of educational service to the people of the community college district.
N.M. Stat. § 5-8-38 — NM Code / Chapter 5 / Article 8 / Section 5-8-38
§ 5-8-38. Duties to be performed within time limits
Status: in_force

If the governing body of the municipality or county does not perform a duty imposed under the Development Fees Act within the prescribed period, a person who has paid an impact fee or an owner of land on which an impact fee has been paid has the right to present a written request to the governing body of the municipality or county stating the nature of the unperformed duty and requesting that it be performed within sixty days after the date of the request. If the governing body of the municipality or county finds that the duty is required under the Development Fees Act and is late in being performed, it shall cause the duty to commence within sixty days after the date of the request and continue until completion.
N.M. Stat. § 24-5A-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 5A / Section 24-5A-4
§ 24-5A-4. Vaccine purchasing fund
Status: in_force

A. The “vaccine purchasing fund” is created in the state treasury. The fund consists of amounts reimbursed to the state by health insurers and group health plans pursuant to the Vaccine Purchasing Act and of appropriations from, and transfers made to, the fund. Money in the fund shall be expended only for the purposes specified in the Vaccine Purchasing Act, by warrant issued by the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary of health.

B. Money from the fund may be appropriated to the department to be expended only as authorized in Section 5 of the Vaccine Purchasing Act. 1

C. The fund shall be audited in the same manner as other state funds are audited, and all records of payments made from the fund shall be open to the public.

D. Any balance remaining in the fund shall not revert or be transferred to any other fund at the end of a fiscal year.

E. Money in the fund shall be invested by the state investment officer in accordance with the limitations in Article 12, Section 7 of the constitution of New Mexico . Income from investment of the fund shall be credited to the fund.
N.M. Stat. § 7-38-74 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 38 / Section 7-38-74
§ 7-38-74. Officers and employees engaged in the administration of the property tax prohibited from buying property sold for delinquent property taxes; penalties for violation; sales of real property in violation declared void
Status: in_force

A. Officers or employees of the state or of any of its political subdivisions engaged in the administration of the property tax may not, directly or indirectly, acquire an interest in, buy or profit from any property sold by the department for delinquent taxes except that an officer or employee may purchase property sold for delinquent taxes if he is the owner of the property and was the owner of the property at the time the taxes became delinquent.

B. Any officer or employee violating this section is guilty of a fourth degree felony and shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than five years, or both. He shall also be automatically removed from office or have his employment terminated upon conviction.

C. A real property sale in violation of this section is void.
N.M. Stat. § 5-5-11 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 5-5-11
§ 5-5-11. Authorization of bonds
Status: in_force

A board by resolution or a council by ordinance shall authorize the issuance by the municipality, upon the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the members of the governing body present and constituting a quorum, of any general obligation bond series upon being authorized so to do by the electors of the municipality voting thereon, as provided in Chapter 5, Article 5 NMSA 1978 in detail, or the issuance by the municipality or county, upon the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members of its governing body present and constituting a quorum, of any revenue bond series without necessarily being authorized at an election or by any other preliminaries.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-132 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-132
§ 10-11-132. Investment of funds; prudent investor standard; indemnification of board members
Status: in_force

The funds created by the state retirement system acts are trust funds of which the retirement board is trustee. Members of the retirement board jointly and individually shall be indemnified by the state from the funds administered by the retirement board from all claims, demands, suits, actions, damages, judgments, costs, charges and expenses, including court costs and attorney fees and against all liability losses and damages of any nature that members shall or may sustain by reason of any decision made in the performance of their duties pursuant to the state retirement system acts. The retirement board shall invest and reinvest the funds in accordance with the Uniform Prudent Investor Act.
N.M. Stat. § 11-3A-26 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 11 / Article 3A / Section 11-3A-26
§ 11-3A-26. Supplemental nature of the regional housing law
Status: in_force

The powers conferred by the Regional Housing Law shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.
N.M. Stat. § 35-1-23 — NM Code / Chapter 35 / Article 1 / Section 35-1-23
§ 35-1-23. Magistrate court; Quay district
Status: in_force

There shall be one magistrate in Quay magistrate district whose principal court is in Tucumcari.
N.M. Stat. § 7-12A-9 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 12A / Section 7-12A-9
§ 7-12A-9. Penalties
Status: in_force

Any person selling tobacco products in New Mexico and required by the provisions of Section 7-12A-8 NMSA 1978 to retain invoices who willfully fails to retain the invoices shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500). Jurisdiction over such actions is hereby granted to the magistrate courts.
N.M. Stat. § 53-18-8 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 18 / Section 53-18-8
§ 53-18-8. Action by shareholders without a meeting
Status: in_force

Any action required by the Business Corporation Act to be taken at a meeting of the shareholders of a corporation, or any action which may be taken at a meeting of the shareholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof. Such consent has the same effect as a unanimous vote of shareholders, and may be stated as such in any articles or document filed with the secretary of state under the Business Corporation Act.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-2-15 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 32A / Article 2 / Section 32A-2-15
§ 32A-2-15. Time limitations on delinquency adjudicatory hearing
Status: in_force

The adjudicatory hearing in a delinquency proceeding shall be held in accordance with the time limits set forth in the Children's Court Rules and Forms.
N.M. Stat. § 3-4-6 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 4 / Section 3-4-6
§ 3-4-6. Notice of disincorporation; publication
Status: in_force

Whenever a municipality is disincorporated, the county clerk shall publish a notice once a week for four consecutive weeks that the municipality is disincorporated. A certified copy of the notice shall be sent to the secretary of state, the secretary of finance and administration and the secretary of taxation and revenue.
N.M. Stat. § 1-2-29 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 1-2-29
§ 1-2-29. Watchers and election observers; permissible activities
Status: in_force

A. Upon presentation to a precinct board of a written appointment, a watcher or election observer may:

(1) be present at any time from the time the precinct board convenes at the polling place until the completion of the precinct board's duties after the polls close;

(2) be permitted to observe that the election is being conducted in accordance with the Election Code;

(3) view the precinct voter list to ascertain whether a voter has voted, subject to the same prohibitions and restrictions as are placed upon challengers by the Election Code;

(4) view any voting machine being used in the precinct in the same manner that challengers may examine the voting machines; and

(5) make in any polling place and preserve for future reference written memoranda of any action or omission on the part of any member of the precinct board charged with the performance of a duty by the Election Code.

B. A watcher appointed on behalf of candidates may be present only in polling locations within the county of appointment at which ballots are cast for at least one of the candidates making the appointment.
N.M. Stat. § 76-6-6 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 6 / Section 76-6-6
§ 76-6-6. Abatement and emergency measures authorized
Status: in_force

A. Whenever the board finds any article that is infested or reasonably believed to be infested or a host or pest exists on any premises or is in transit in this state, it may, upon giving notice to the owner or his agent in possession thereof, seize, quarantine, treat or otherwise dispose of the pest, host or article in such manner as the board deems necessary to suppress, control, eradicate or prevent or retard the spread of a pest, or the board may order the owner or agent to so treat or otherwise dispose of the pest, host or article.

B. When the board finds that a continuing threat of the spread of a pest exists, and after appropriate notice, an owner or his agent does not take immediate measures to prevent or retard the spread of the pest, the board may take reasonable emergency action as necessary in accordance with the provisions of the Pest Control Act and regulations of the board. The board may assess an emergency action fee to recover the cost of the emergency action, not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), against the owner of the property that was subject to the board's emergency action.
N.M. Stat. § 60-13A-12 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 13A / Section 60-13A-12
§ 60-13A-12. Criminal penalty
Status: in_force

Any person doing business in this state as an employee leasing contractor without being registered as required under the Employee Leasing Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 2-10-2 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 10 / Section 2-10-2
§ 2-10-2. Director of the legislative education study committee staff
Status: in_force

The position of “director of the legislative education study committee staff” is created. The director shall be hired by the committee and shall serve at its pleasure. The director shall be provided with the necessary office space, supplies, equipment and assistants by the committee. His salary shall be set by the committee.
N.M. Stat. § 10-7E-2 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7E / Section 10-7E-2
§ 10-7E-2. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Public Employee Bargaining Act is to guarantee public employees the right to organize and bargain collectively with their employers, to promote harmonious and cooperative relationships between public employers and public employees and to protect the public interest by ensuring, at all times, the orderly operation and functioning of the state and its political subdivisions.
N.M. Stat. § 74-10-75 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 10 / Section 74-10-75
§ 74-10-75. Limitations upon liabilities
Status: in_force

Neither the directors nor any person executing securities issued under the Solid Waste Authority Act shall be liable personally on the securities by reason of the issuance thereof. Securities issued pursuant to that 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. § 28-8-4 — NM Code / Chapter 28 / Article 8 / Section 28-8-4
§ 28-8-4. Duty of medical practitioners
Status: in_force

A. A medical practitioner, in discharging his duty to a disabled person whom he has undertaken to examine or treat, shall make a reasonable search for an identifying device or an identification card of the type described in Subsection B of Section 2 of this act and examine them for emergency information.

B. A claim for relief against a medical practitioner does not arise from his making a reasonable search of a disabled person to locate an identifying device or identification card, even though the person is not wearing an identifying device or carrying an identification card.
N.M. Stat. § 57-16-9 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 16 / Section 57-16-9
§ 57-16-9. Franchise renewal; termination; anticipatory termination
Status: in_force

A. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, it is unlawful for the manufacturer, distributor or representative without due cause to fail to renew a franchise on terms then equally available to all its motor vehicle dealers or their prospective purchasers, to terminate a franchise or to restrict the transfer of a franchise unless the dealer receives fair and reasonable compensation for the value of the business. A prospective purchaser may enforce the provisions of this section whether or not the person is a dealer.

B. A public announcement by a manufacturer or distributor of an intention to cease manufacturing or distribution of a motor vehicle brand within three years of the announcement or upon expiration of a dealers' current franchise or selling agreement may at the option of an affected dealer be deemed an anticipatory involuntary termination of the dealer's franchise.
N.M. Stat. § 2-7F-12 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 7F / Section 2-7F-12
§ 2-7F-12. Representative district six
Status: in_force

Representative district six is composed of Cibola county precincts 1, 4 through 8, 12 through 15, 26, 28 and 30; and McKinley county precincts 13, 15, 17, 22, 25 through 30, 51 through 53, 64 through 66 and 71.
N.M. Stat. § 11-18-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 11 / Article 18 / Section 11-18-5
§ 11-18-5. Right of action
Status: in_force

Nothing in the State-Tribal Collaboration Act creates a right of action against a state agency or a right of review of an action of a state agency.
N.M. Stat. § 1-1-27.1 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 1-1-27.1
§ 1-1-27.1. Public official home address confidentiality; rulemaking
Status: in_force

The secretary of state shall promulgate rules to allow an elected or appointed public official to designate as confidential the public official's home address as stated in election- and financial-related disclosures filed with the secretary of state or county clerks. A home address designated as confidential pursuant to this section is exempt from disclosure pursuant to an Inspection of Public Records Act request and shall not be published on a governmental website. Nothing in this section or the secretary of state's rule shall prohibit the disclosure of the public official's home address if relevant to a judicial proceeding.