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N.M. Stat. § 58-26-2 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 26 / Section 58-26-2
§ 58-26-2. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Interstate Depository Institutions Act is to attract capital to New Mexico through interstate acquisitions and mergers of financial institutions to enhance economic development for the benefit of all New Mexicans. At the same time, the legislature encourages any such mergers or acquisitions to provide for local management discretion so that consumers may deal directly with lenders who understand their financial circumstances and needs.

The Interstate Depository Institutions Act is designed to encourage aggressive, spirited competition in the financial arenas to offer lower interest rates, increased capital availability, cooperative risk-taking by lenders and competition in the financial market place. The legislature has as its goal the availability of financial resources to all its citizens no matter their race, color, creed, national origin or geographic location within the state.
N.M. Stat. § 3-34-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 34 / Section 3-34-2
§ 3-34-2. Street improvement fund; use
Status: in_force

Bonds or assignable certificates authorized in Section 3-33-24 NMSA 1978 for the construction of a street, alley, curb, gutter or sidewalk project may be purchased by the street improvement fund; provided that the bonds or assignable certificates shall be held in trust by the municipal treasurer, and any receipts from the sale of the bonds or assignable certificates or from the payment of the assessment made to pay the interest and principal of the bonds or assignable certificates shall be credited to the street improvement fund.
N.M. Stat. § 4-60-12 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 60 / Section 4-60-12
§ 4-60-12. Exemption from taxation
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized by the County Pollution Control Revenue Bond Act and the income from said bonds, all mortgages or other security instruments executed as security for said bonds, all lease agreements made pursuant to the provisions hereof and revenue derived from any lease or sale by the county thereof shall be exempt from all taxation by New Mexico or any subdivision thereof.
N.M. Stat. § 22-16-1 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 16 / Section 22-16-1
§ 22-16-1. State transportation division; director
Status: in_force

A. The “state transportation division” is created within the department of education [public education department].

B. The state superintendent [secretary] shall appoint a director of the state transportation division to be known as the “state transportation director”.

C. The state board [department] may delegate to the state superintendent [secretary] its administrative functions relating to public school transportation.
N.M. Stat. § 58-1-61 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 1 / Section 58-1-61
§ 58-1-61. Certificate of authority
Status: in_force

A. A request for a certificate of authority shall be made to the commissioner [director of the financial institutions division of the regulation and licensing department] after he has approved the application to file the articles of incorporation with the corporation commission [public regulation commission] and all requirements have been met. The request shall contain:

(1) the address at which the bank will operate;

(2) a statement that all of the bylaws adopted have been attached as an exhibit to the request;

(3) a statement that the full amount of the authorized capital structure has been paid to the escrow agent;

(4) the signed oaths of the directors; and

(5) such other information as the commissioner [director of the financial institutions division] may require to enable him to determine whether a certificate of authority should be issued.

B. The commissioner [director] shall approve the request for a certificate of authority within twenty days after the request has been accepted by him and he has been satisfied that all requirements have been complied with and he shall issue a certificate of authority for the bank to transact business. Before actually transacting any banking business or accepting any deposits, the applicant must file with the commissioner [director] satisfactory proof showing that insurance of deposits has been obtained through the federal deposit insurance corporation or other appropriate agency or instrumentality of the United States government.

C. It is unlawful for a proposed state bank to perform any act, other than to perfect its organization, before receiving a certificate of authority to operate.

D. If the commissioner [director] denies the request for a certificate of authority, he shall within twenty days of such action mail a notice to the incorporators, stating the reasons for denying the certificate of authority.

E. If no request for a certificate of authority is filed within one year following the grant of permission to organize, or if a certificate of authority has been finally denied, or if the bank fails to commence business within one year after the issuance of a certificate of authority, the proposed bank, or any money paid by subscribers to stock, shall be liquidated and distributed in accordance with the order of the commissioner [director of the financial institutions division]. If an improper expenditure has been made, the commissioner [director] may order the persons who were incorporators or directors at the time to restore the sum by equal contributions.
N.M. Stat. § 73-1-9 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 1 / Section 73-1-9
§ 73-1-9. Hearing; time and place; publication of notice
Status: in_force

Immediately after the filing of such petition, the court shall, by order, fix a time and place, not less than sixty (60) days after the petition is filed, for hearing thereon, and thereupon the clerk shall cause notice by publication to be made of the pendency of the petition, and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, in each county in which there is property to be included in the proposed district. If no newspaper is published in any such county, publication shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation in the proposed district.

It shall not be necessary for the clerk to name the parties interested, nor to describe separate lots, tracts or parcels of land in giving such notice, but it shall be sufficient to give such descriptions as to enable the owner to determine whether or not his land is covered by such description. The notice shall state that all persons, corporations and municipalities, or others owning or interested in any property within the proposed district, will be given the opportunity to be heard at the time and place specified in the notice. Publication shall be made as directed by the court, but shall be for at least once each week for four consecutive weeks.
N.M. Stat. § 21-16A-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 16A / Section 21-16A-3
§ 21-16A-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Learning Center Act:

A. “ board ” means a learning center district board;

B. “ commission ” means the commission on higher education [higher education department];

C. “ community college board ” means the governing body of a community college district;

D. “ district ” means a learning center district;

E. “ extended learning services ” means academic and vocational educational programs offered by an institution away from a campus of the institution without the facility of a learning center and as defined by commission [department] rule consistent with the Learning Center Act;

F. “ institution ” means a regionally accredited public or private post-secondary educational institution;

G. “ local school board ” means the governing body of a school district; and

H. “ taxable value of property ” means the sum of the following:

(1) the “net taxable value”, as that term is defined in the Property Tax Code, 1 of property subject to taxation under the Property Tax Code;

(2) the “assessed value” of “products” as those terms are defined in the Oil and Gas Ad Valorem Production Tax Act; 2

(3) the “assessed value” of “equipment” as those terms are defined in the Oil and Gas Production Equipment Ad Valorem Tax Act; and

(4) the “taxable value” of “copper mineral property” as those terms are defined in the Copper Production Ad Valorem Tax Act. 3
N.M. Stat. § 57-30-14 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 30 / Section 57-30-14
§ 57-30-14. Applicability
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Sale of Recycled Metals Act shall not apply to a purchase of regulated material from a manufacturing, industrial or other commercial vendor that sells regulated material in the ordinary course of the vendor's business.
N.M. Stat. § 77-1-5 — NM Code / Chapter 77 / Article 1 / Section 77-1-5
§ 77-1-5. Vaccination of dogs and cats brought into state
Status: in_force

Any dog or cat brought into the state shall be securely confined by the owner or keeper until vaccinated against rabies, which vaccination shall be administered within one week after entry into the state unless the owner or keeper has a certificate of vaccination issued by a veterinarian in another state or foreign country and such vaccination conforms to the requirements of this state.
N.M. Stat. § 1-25-7 — NM 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. § 59A-50-13 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 50 / Section 59A-50-13
§ 59A-50-13. Registered representatives required; qualifications for registration
Status: in_force

A. No person shall be, act as or purport to be a representative of a motor club in this state unless then registered as such with the superintendent by the motor club.

B. To qualify for registration the applicant shall:

(1) be an individual not less than eighteen years of age;

(2) be of good personal and business reputation;

(3) not previously have been refused registration or had registration revoked;

(4) be suitable and competent to act as such representative; and

(5) intend in good faith to act and hold himself out as such a representative.

C. As part of an application for registration, a nonresident applicant shall appoint the superintendent, on a form prescribed and furnished by the superintendent, as agent on whom may be served all legal process issued by a court in this state in any action involving the nonresident registrant. The appointment is irrevocable and continues for so long as an action involving the nonresident registrant could arise. Duplicate copies of process shall be served upon the superintendent or other person in apparent charge of the insurance division during the superintendent's absence, accompanied by payment of the process service fee specified in Section 59A-6-1 NMSA 1978 . Upon service the superintendent shall promptly forward a copy by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the nonresident registrant at his last address of record with the superintendent. Process served and copy forwarded as so provided constitutes personal service upon the nonresident registrant.

D. A nonresident registrant shall also file with the superintendent a written agreement to appear before the superintendent pursuant to a notice of hearing, show cause order or subpoena issued by the superintendent and deposited, postage paid, by certified mail in a letter depository of the United States post office, addressed to the nonresident registrant at his last address of record with the superintendent, and that upon failure of the nonresident registrant to appear, the nonresident registrant consents to subsequent suspension, revocation or refusal of the superintendent to continue the license.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-6A-5 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 6A / Section 32A-6A-5
§ 32A-6A-5. Competence
Status: in_force

The fact that a child has received treatment or habilitation services or has been accepted at or admitted to a hospital or institutional facility shall not constitute a sufficient basis for a finding of incompetence or the denial of a right or benefit of any nature that the child would otherwise have.
N.M. Stat. § 69-25A-30 — NM Code / Chapter 69 / Article 25A / Section 69-25A-30
§ 69-25A-30. Judicial review
Status: in_force

A. A party to a proceeding before the director who is aggrieved by a decision of the director issued after a hearing may obtain a review of that decision, other than a promulgation of a rule, by appeal to the district court pursuant to the provisions of Section 39-3-1.1 NMSA 1978 .

B. A person who is or may be aggrieved by any rule, or any amendment or repeal of a rule, adopted by the commission may appeal to the court of appeals for relief. All appeals shall be based upon the record made at the hearing before the commission and shall be filed with the court of appeals within thirty days after filing of the rule under the State Rules Act. An appeal to the court of appeals under this subsection is perfected by the timely filing of a notice of appeal with the court of appeals with a copy attached of the rule from which the appeal is taken. The appellant shall certify in the appellant's notice of appeal that satisfactory arrangements have been made with the commission for preparation of transcripts of the record of the hearing at the expense of the appellant for filing with the court. Upon appeal, the court of appeals shall set aside the rule only if determined to be:

(1) arbitrary, capricious or an abuse of discretion;

(2) contrary to law; or

(3) unsupported by substantial evidence on the entire record as submitted.
N.M. Stat. § 31-16-4 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 16 / Section 31-16-4
§ 31-16-4. Notice of right to representation
Status: in_force

A. If a person who is being detained by a law enforcement officer, or who is under formal charge of having committed, or is being detained under a conviction of, a serious crime, is not represented by an attorney under conditions in which a person having his own counsel would be entitled to be so represented, the law enforcement officers concerned, upon commencement of detention, or the court, upon formal charge, as the case may be, shall clearly inform him of the right of a needy person to be represented by an attorney at public expense and, if the person detained or charged does not have an attorney, notify the district court concerned that he is not so represented.

B. Upon commencement of any later judicial proceeding relating to the same matter, the presiding officer shall clearly inform the person so detained or charged of the right of a needy person to be represented by an attorney at public expense.

C. If the district court determines that the person is entitled to be represented by an attorney at public expense, it shall promptly assign an attorney who shall represent the person in accordance with the terms of his assignment.
N.M. Stat. § 61-4-1 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 4 / Section 61-4-1
§ 61-4-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 61, Article 4 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Chiropractic Physician Practice Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 10-17-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 17 / Section 10-17-8
§ 10-17-8. Shortage compromises declared invalid; recovery of full payment; limitation of action
Status: in_force

Any compromise, satisfaction or discharge of indebtedness prohibited by the preceding section of this article is hereby declared to be invalid, and shall not be held a bar to any suit for the collection thereof, and suit may be brought at any time within four years from the date of any such compromise, satisfaction or discharge to enforce the payment thereof, notwithstanding any existing law of limitation.
N.M. Stat. § 30-3A-4 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 3A / Section 30-3A-4
§ 30-3A-4. Exceptions
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Harassment and Stalking Act do not apply to:

A. picketing or public demonstrations that are lawful or that arise out of a bona fide labor dispute; or

B. a peace officer in the performance of his duties.
N.M. Stat. § 70-2-28 — NM Code / Chapter 70 / Article 2 / Section 70-2-28
§ 70-2-28. Actions for violations
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating, or threatening to violate, any statute of this state with respect to the conservation of oil or gas, or both, or any provision of this act, or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder, the division through the attorney general shall bring suit against such person in the county of the residence of the defendant, or in the county of the residence of any defendant if there be more than one defendant, or in the county where the violation is alleged to have occurred, for penalties, if any are applicable, and to restrain such person from continuing such violation or from carrying out the threat of violation. In such suit the division may obtain injunctions, prohibitory and mandatory, including temporary restraining orders and temporary injunctions, as the facts may warrant, including, when appropriate, an injunction restraining any person from moving or disposing of illegal oil or illegal oil product, or illegal gas or illegal gas product, and any or all such commodities, or funds derived from the sale thereof, may be ordered to be impounded or placed under the control of an agent appointed by the court if, in the judgment of the court, such action is advisable.
N.M. Stat. § 30-7-20 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 7 / Section 30-7-20
§ 30-7-20. Facsimile or hoax bomb or explosive
Status: in_force

Any person who intentionally gives, mails, sends or causes to be sent any false or facsimile bomb or explosive to another person or places or causes to be placed at any location any false or facsimile bomb or explosive, with the intent that any other person thinks it is a real bomb or explosive, is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
N.M. Stat. § 14-9A-4 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 9A / Section 14-9A-4
§ 14-9A-4. Recording of documents
Status: in_force

A. In this section, “ paper document ” means a document that is received by the county clerk in a form that is not electronic.

B. A county clerk:

(1) who implements any of the functions listed in this section shall do so in compliance with standards established by the information technology commission and the state commission of public records, in consultation with the county clerks of New Mexico, pursuant to Section 5 of the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act;

(2) may receive, index, store, archive and transmit electronic documents;

(3) may provide for access to and for search and retrieval of documents and information by electronic means;

(4) who accepts electronic documents for recording shall continue to accept paper documents as authorized by state law and shall place entries for both types of documents in the same index;

(5) may convert paper documents accepted for recording into electronic form;

(6) may convert into electronic form information recorded before the county clerk began to record electronic documents;

(7) may accept electronically any fee that the county clerk is authorized to collect; and

(8) may agree with other officials of a state, of a political subdivision of a state or of the United States on procedures or processes to facilitate the electronic satisfaction of prior approvals and conditions precedent to recording and the electronic payment of fees.
N.M. Stat. § 6-23-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 23 / Section 6-23-7
§ 6-23-7. Public school utility conservation fund created; use
Status: in_force

A. The “public school utility conservation fund” is created as a special fund in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money transferred to the fund, from year to year, from the distribution of the permanent fund and land income of which the common schools are the beneficiary. No other money from any school district or state source shall be deposited or paid into the public school utility conservation fund.

B. Annually, after the calculation of the state equalization guarantee distribution has been made, the secretary of public education shall determine the sum of the deductions made in the state equalization guarantee distribution of school districts pursuant to Section 22-8-25 NMSA 1978 and shall certify that amount to the secretary of finance and administration. Distributions from the permanent fund and land income of which the common schools are the beneficiary equal to that amount shall be transferred from the common school current fund to the public school utility conservation fund.

C. Money in the public school utility conservation fund is appropriated to the public education department solely for the purpose of disbursing money to school districts to make payments pursuant to any guaranteed utility savings contract between the school district and a qualified provider or any installment contract or lease-purchase agreement for the purchase and installation of energy or water conservation measures pursuant to that guaranteed utility savings contract.

D. Disbursements from the public school utility conservation fund shall be made only to school districts and only upon certification by the secretary of public education that the disbursement is for a payment authorized by the Public Facility Energy Efficiency and Water Conservation Act.

E. The secretary of public education shall submit to the legislative finance committee and the legislative education study committee prior to each regular legislative session a list of school districts proposing to enter into approved guaranteed utility savings contracts in the succeeding fiscal year. The list shall include information on the amount of the school district's proposed annual payments and specific amounts that utility and operational budget items are guaranteed to be reduced to achieve the savings to make the payments.

F. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining in the public school utility conservation fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be transferred to the public school fund.