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N.M. Stat. § 17-2-10.2 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 2 / Section 17-2-10.2
§ 17-2-10.2. Game and fish penalty assessment; payment
Status: in_force

A. Unless a warning notice is given to an alleged violator, at the time the alleged violator is charged with a penalty assessment misdemeanor, the conservation officer shall offer the alleged violator the option of accepting a penalty assessment. The signature of the alleged violator on the penalty assessment notice constitutes an acknowledgment of guilt of the offense stated in the notice. The acknowledgment shall be included in accrual of points toward revocation of licenses as provided for in Section 17-3-34 NMSA 1978 or in regulations adopted to implement that section.

B. Payment of any penalty assessment, including cost of the appropriate license, shall be mailed to the state game commission within thirty days from the date of charge. Payment of penalty assessments are timely if postmarked within thirty days from the date of the charge. The commission may issue a receipt when a penalty assessment is paid by currency, but checks tendered by the violator upon which payment is received are sufficient receipt.

C. No record of any penalty assessment payment is admissible as evidence in court in any civil action.
N.M. Stat. § 47-7C-1 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 7C / Section 47-7C-1
§ 47-7C-1. Organization of unit owners' association
Status: in_force

A unit owners' association shall be organized no later than the date the first unit in the condominium is conveyed. The membership of the association at all times shall consist exclusively of all the unit owners or, following termination of the condominium, of all former unit owners entitled to distributions of proceeds under Section 30 of the Condominium Act or their heirs, successors or assigns. The association shall be organized as a profit or nonprofit corporation or as an unincorporated association.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-13.3 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-13.3
§ 7-9-13.3. Exemption; gross receipts tax and governmental gross receipts tax; stadium surcharge
Status: in_force

Exempted from the gross receipts tax and from the governmental gross receipts tax are the receipts from selling tickets, parking, souvenirs, concessions, programs, advertising, merchandise, corporate suites or boxes, broadcast revenues and all other products, services or activities sold at, related to or occurring at a minor league baseball stadium on which a stadium surcharge is imposed pursuant to the Minor League Baseball Stadium Funding Act. 1
N.M. Stat. § 22-4-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 4 / Section 22-4-5
§ 22-4-5. Alternate method of consolidation
Status: in_force

Sections 22-4-6 through 22-4-9 NMSA 1978 shall be an alternative method of consolidation to that provided in Section 22-4-3 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 47-10-5 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 10 / Section 47-10-5
§ 47-10-5. Reasons for termination
Status: in_force

A tenancy shall be terminated pursuant to the Mobile Home Park Act only for one or more of the following reasons:

A. failure of the tenant to comply with local ordinances and state laws and regulations concerning mobile homes;

B. conduct of the tenant on the premises which constitutes an annoyance to other tenants or interference with park management;

C. failure of the tenant to comply with written rules and regulations of the mobile home park either established by the management in the rental agreement at the inception of the tenancy, amended subsequently thereto with the consent of the tenant, or amended subsequently thereto without the consent of the tenant on thirty days' written notice if the amended rules and regulations are reasonable, except when local ordinances and state laws and regulations or emergency situations require immediate compliance. However, regulations applicable to recreational facilities may be amended at the discretion of the management;

D. condemnation or change of use of the mobile home park. When the owner of a mobile home park is formally notified by an appropriate governmental agency that his mobile home park is the subject of a condemnation proceeding, the landlord shall, within seventeen days, notify his tenants in writing of the terms of the condemnation notice which he receives; or

E. in those cases where the zoning law allows the landlord to change the use of his land without obtaining the consent of the zoning authority and where such change of use would result in eviction of inhabited mobile homes, the landlord shall first give the owner of each mobile home subject to such eviction a written notice of his intent to evict not less than six months prior to such change of use of the land, notice to be mailed to each tenant.
N.M. Stat. § 14-4-11 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 14 / Article 4 / Section 14-4-11
§ 14-4-11. Personal files, records and documents of elected state officials; placing in state archives by the state records administrator
Status: in_force

The state records administrator may accept and place in the state archives the personal files, records and documents of elected state officials or of former elected state officials, subject to any reasonable restrictions, moratoriums and requirements concerning their use by other persons. Such restrictions, moratoriums and requirements made by the donor, however, shall not prevent the archivist of the state records center from having access to the files, records and documents for indexing and cataloguing purposes.
N.M. Stat. § 4-53-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 53 / Section 4-53-7
§ 4-53-7. Hearings
Status: in_force

At public hearings held pursuant to the Special District Procedures Act, the commission shall hear any interested party having made a written request to be heard, and shall receive any reports on the proposal before it. The commission may make and enforce any rules and regulations as necessary for the orderly and fair hearing on the issues before it.
N.M. Stat. § 60-2E-53 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 2E / Section 60-2E-53
§ 60-2E-53. Crime; possession of gaming device manufactured, sold or distributed in violation of law
Status: in_force

A person who knowingly possesses any gaming device that has been manufactured, sold or distributed in violation of the Gaming Control Act is guilty of a fourth degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 58-10-32 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 10 / Section 58-10-32
§ 58-10-32. Power to borrow
Status: in_force

No association shall borrow more money than an aggregate amount equal to fifty percent of its withdrawable savings on the date of borrowing, except that the supervisor may grant immediate authority to exceed this limit for the sole purpose of meeting withdrawals.
N.M. Stat. § 24-2C-5 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 2C / Section 24-2C-5
§ 24-2C-5. Program
Status: in_force

The harm reduction program shall provide participants with:

A. sterile hypodermic syringes and needles in exchange for used hypodermic syringes, needles or other objects used to inject controlled substances or controlled substance analogs into the human body;

B. other objects used to prepare or consume controlled substances or controlled substance analogs;

C. supplies or devices used for testing controlled substances or controlled substance analogs for potentially dangerous adulterants;

D. supplies or devices approved by the department for distribution in accordance with rules established pursuant to Subsection E of Section 24-2C-4 NMSA 1978;

E. education on the prevention of:

(1) the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B and C; and

(2) drug overdose mortality and other negative health outcomes; and

F. referral to substance abuse treatment services.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-4-19 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 4 / Section 32A-4-19
§ 32A-4-19. Adjudicatory hearings; time limitations
Status: in_force

A. The adjudicatory hearing in a neglect or abuse proceeding shall be commenced within sixty days after the date of service on the respondent.

B. Prior to the adjudicatory hearing, all parties to the hearing shall attend a mandatory meeting and attempt to settle issues attendant to the adjudicatory hearing and develop a proposed treatment plan that serves the child's best interest.

C. The children's court attorney shall represent the state at the adjudicatory hearing.

D. When the adjudicatory hearing on any petition is not commenced within the time period specified in Subsection A of this section or within the period of any extension granted, the petition shall be dismissed with prejudice.
N.M. Stat. § 27-2D-3 — NM Code / Chapter 27 / Article 2D / Section 27-2D-3
§ 27-2D-3. Application; resource planning session; individual education plan; review periods
Status: in_force

A. Application for cash assistance or services shall be made to the department. The application shall be in writing or reduced to writing in the manner and on the form prescribed by the department. The application shall be made under oath by an applicant with whom a dependent child resides and shall contain a statement of the age of the child, residence, a complete statement of the amount of property in which the applicant has an interest, a statement of all income that the applicant and other benefit group members have at the time of the filing of the application and other information required by the department.

B. The department shall assist applicants in completing the application for cash assistance or services and shall evaluate applicants to determine all department programs for which the applicant may be eligible. The department shall process all expedited food stamp applications within two business days of submission, and the department shall deliver expedited food stamps to eligible applicants within seven days of the application.

C. At the time of application for cash assistance and services, an applicant shall identify everyone who is to be counted in the benefit group. Once an application is approved, the recipient shall advise the department if there are any changes in the membership of the benefit group.

D. No later than thirty days after an application is filed, the department shall make referrals and act on the application.

E. No later than five days after an application is approved, the department shall provide reimbursement for child care.

F. Whenever the department receives an application for assistance, a verification and record of the applicant's circumstances shall promptly be made to ascertain the facts supporting the application and to obtain other information required by the department. The verification may include a visit to the home of the applicant, as long as the department gives adequate prior notice of the visit to the applicant.

G. The department shall work with the recipient to develop an individual educational plan that:

(1) sets forth the educational goal for the recipient, identifies barriers to that goal and identifies the steps to be taken by the recipient to achieve that goal;

(2) describes the services the department may provide so that the recipient may complete the recipient's educational goal; and

(3) provides for meetings with the recipient every six months or at the end of each academic term to review the eligibility of the benefit group and to review and revise the recipient's individual education plan.

H. The recipient and the department shall sign the recipient's individual education plan. The department shall:

(1) not allow a recipient to decline to participate in developing an individual education plan;

(2) not waive the requirement that a recipient develop an individual education plan; and

(3) emphasize the importance of the individual education plan to the recipient.
N.M. Stat. § 2-3-16 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 2-3-16
§ 2-3-16. Cooperation of attorney general
Status: in_force

The attorney general shall advise and consult with the legislative council and the legislative council service and render all legal services and service in the drafting of bills required when requested to do so by the said council or its representatives.
N.M. Stat. § 72-16-44 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 16 / Section 72-16-44
§ 72-16-44. Issuance of bonds and incurrence of debt
Status: in_force

The authority is authorized to borrow money in anticipation of taxes or other revenues, or both, and to issue bonds to evidence the amount so borrowed. No bonded indebtedness or any other indebtedness not payable in full within one year, except for interim debentures as provided in Sections 72-16-46 and 72-16-89 through 72-16-91 NMSA 1978 , shall be created by the authority without first submitting a proposition of issuing the bonds to the qualified electors of the authority and being approved by a majority of electors voting at an election held for that purpose in accordance with Sections 72-16-28 through 72-16-34 NMSA 1978 and all laws amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. Bonds so authorized may be issued in one series or more and may mature at such times not exceeding forty years from their issuance as the board may determine. The total of all outstanding indebtedness at any one time shall not exceed eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) without prior approval of the state legislature.
N.M. Stat. § 24-16-16 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 16 / Section 24-16-16
§ 24-16-16. Enforcement
Status: in_force

A. The local fire, police or sheriff's department with appropriate jurisdiction over the location where a violation of the provisions of the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act occurs shall enforce that act by issuance of a citation.

B. A person may register a complaint regarding an alleged violation pursuant to the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act to initiate enforcement of that act with the department or the local fire, police or sheriff's department.

C. The designated enforcement agencies may inspect an establishment for compliance with the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act.
N.M. Stat. § 19-10-2 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 10 / Section 19-10-2
§ 19-10-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

The words “natural gas,” as used in Sections 19-10-1 through 19-10-52 NMSA 1978 shall be construed to cover and include carbon dioxide gas and helium gas as well as gas of the hydrocarbon kind.
N.M. Stat. § 22-26A-16 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 26A / Section 22-26A-16
§ 22-26A-16. Legal investments for public officers and fiduciaries
Status: in_force

Lease purchase arrangements entered into under the authority of the Public School Lease Purchase Act, including certificates of participation and other partial interests in such lease purchase arrangements, shall be legal investments in which all insurance companies, banks and savings and loan associations organized under the laws of the state, public officers and public bodies and all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds.
N.M. Stat. § 42-9-19 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 9 / Section 42-9-19
§ 42-9-19. Default after service by publication; judgment; effect
Status: in_force

When the defendant shall be notified, by publication as aforesaid, and shall not appear and answer the action, judgment by default may be entered, which may be proceeded on to final judgment as in ordinary actions, but such judgment shall only bind the property attached, and shall be no evidence of indebtedness against the defendant in any subsequent suit.
N.M. Stat. § 17-4-28 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 4 / Section 17-4-28
§ 17-4-28. Parks, lakes and preserves; license; fees
Status: in_force

A. Licenses for private parks, lakes and preserves may be for one year, and any license shall be renewed annually at the request of the licensee.

B. The director of the department of game and fish shall charge and collect just and reasonable fees for the following permits under Sections 17-4-8 through 17-4-28 NMSA 1978 , as determined by regulation of the state game commission:

(1) permit to capture or exchange;

(2) quadruped park license;

(3) each renewal of each quadruped park license;

(4) one lake license;

(5) each renewal of one lake license;

(6) each additional lake license;

(7) each renewal of each additional lake license; and

(8) each certificate, permit or license not provided for in this section.
N.M. Stat. § 3-18-31 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 18 / Section 3-18-31
§ 3-18-31. Sale of gasoline; authority of the municipality
Status: in_force

The governing body of the municipality may provide, by ordinance, for the monitoring and inspection of gasoline sales through pumps of service stations located within the territorial boundaries of the municipality in order to monitor the sale of gasoline within its municipality.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-55.7 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-55.7
§ 10-11-55.7. Municipal general member coverage plan 4; applicability
Status: in_force

Municipal general member coverage plan 4 is applicable to a designated group of municipal general members the first day of the calendar month following an affirmative vote by the majority of the municipal general members in a designated group. A designated group may be all members employed by the affiliated public employer, an organizational group whose compensation is established by negotiated contract or all members employed by the affiliated public employer, whose compensation is not established by negotiated contract. The election shall be conducted by the retirement board in accordance with the procedures adopted by the retirement board. The procedures shall afford all municipal general members who are part of the designated group an opportunity to vote. A new election for coverage by municipal general member coverage plan 4 shall not be held prior to the expiration of six months following the date of an election that failed to adopt municipal general member coverage plan 4. An election adopting municipal general member coverage plan 4 is irrevocable for the purpose of subsequently adopting a coverage plan that would decrease employer or employee contributions with respect to all current and future municipal general employees of the affiliated public employer who are part of the designated group. All elections for the purpose of adopting municipal general member coverage plan 4 shall take place prior to July 1, 2000. Any election occurring after June 30, 2000 shall be void.
N.M. Stat. § 30-44-1 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 44 / Section 30-44-1
§ 30-44-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 30, Article 44 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Medicaid Fraud Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 3-20-12 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 20 / Section 3-20-12
§ 3-20-12. Vacation or partial vacation of plat; approval of government having jurisdiction; duties of county clerk
Status: in_force

A. Any plat filed in the office of the county clerk may be vacated or a portion of the plat may be vacated provided:

(1) the owners of the land in the territory proposed to be vacated sign a statement, duly acknowledged, declaring the plat or a portion of the plat to be vacated; and

(2) the statement is endorsed “Approved” by the planning authority of the municipality within whose platting jurisdiction the subdivision lies.

B. In approving the vacation or partial vacation of a plat, the planning authority of the municipality shall consider if the vacation or partial vacation of a plat will adversely affect the interests or rights of persons in contiguous territory or within the subdivision being vacated. In approving the vacation or partial vacation of a plat, the planning authority of the municipality may require that streets dedicated to the municipality in the original plat shall continue to be dedicated to the municipality. The owners of lots on the vacated plat or on the portion of the plat being vacated may enclose in equal proportions the adjoining streets and alleys which are authorized to be abandoned by the planning authority of the municipality.

C. The statement declaring the vacation or partial vacation of a plat and having the proper endorsements shall be filed in the office of the county clerk wherein the original plat is filed. The county clerk shall mark the applicable words “Vacated” or “Partially Vacated” across the plat and shall refer on the plat to the volume and page on which the statement of vacation or partial vacation is recorded.
N.M. Stat. § 16-6-23 — NM Code / Chapter 16 / Article 6 / Section 16-6-23
§ 16-6-23. Eastern New Mexico state fair; purposes; exhibits
Status: in_force

An annual eastern New Mexico state fair may be held in Chaves county, at which shall be exhibited livestock, poultry, vegetables, fruits, grains and other agricultural products, minerals, ores and other mining exhibits, machinery, farm implements and all other things which may be in the interest of advancing agricultural, horticultural, stock raising, mining, mechanical and other industrial pursuits of eastern New Mexico, and the state generally, and any county of the state may erect, maintain, furnish or donate exhibits consonant with the purposes and in furtherance of the interest of said fair.
N.M. Stat. § 27-8-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 8 / Section 27-8-6
§ 27-8-6. Community action agencies; board; local participation
Status: in_force

A. Each community action agency shall administer its community action program through a community action board. Board members shall be selected as follows:

(1) one-third of the members of the board shall be elected public officials currently holding office in the geographical area to be served by the community action agency or their representatives, except that if the number of elected officials reasonably available and willing to serve is less than one-third of the membership of the board, membership on the board of appointive officials may be counted in meeting this one-third requirement;

(2) at least one-third of the members shall be persons chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to ensure that they are representative of the poor in the area served; and

(3) the other members shall be officials or members of business, industry, labor, religious, welfare, education or other major groups and interests in the community.

B. Each member of the board selected to represent a specific geographic area within a community shall reside in the area represented.

C. No person selected under Paragraph (2) or (3) of Subsection A of this section shall serve for more than five consecutive years.
N.M. Stat. § 7-7-15 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 7-7-15
§ 7-7-15. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 7-7-15 through 7-7-20 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Art Acceptance Act”.