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N.M. Stat. § 1-11-10 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 11 / Section 1-11-10
§ 1-11-10. Voting machines; objections to use
Status: in_force

Unless an objection to the use of a particular voting machine is filed in the district court within two days after it is prepared, inspected and sealed, the voting machine when certified to be correct by the county clerk shall be conclusively presumed to be properly prepared for the election. Any objection so filed shall specify the number of the voting machine objected to and the reason for the objection.
N.M. Stat. § 9-22-4 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 22 / Section 9-22-4
§ 9-22-4. Department established
Status: in_force

The “veterans' services department” is created in the executive branch. The department is a cabinet department and includes the following divisions:

A. the administrative services division;

B. the field services division;

C. the health care coordination division; and

D. the state benefits division.
N.M. Stat. § 29-2-3 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 2 / Section 29-2-3
§ 29-2-3. New Mexico state police; organization
Status: in_force

The New Mexico state police shall consist of a chief and such patrol officers, sergeants, lieutenants and captains as the secretary may deem advisable within the limits of the funds appropriated for the New Mexico state police; provided that the number of captains, lieutenants and sergeants shall not exceed twenty-five percent of the total number of the police, exclusive of the chief; but this requirement shall not be interpreted so as to require the demotion of any member of the previous state police division, the former motor transportation division or the former special investigations division.
N.M. Stat. § 53-4-6 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 4 / Section 53-4-6
§ 53-4-6. Articles of incorporation; filing; recordation; fees
Status: in_force

The articles of incorporation of the association shall be filed with the public regulation commission [secretary of state] together with a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) and shall be recorded with the county clerk of the county where the principal office of the association is located for a fee of one dollar ($1.00).
N.M. Stat. § 3-28-17 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 28 / Section 3-28-17
§ 3-28-17. Proceeds from bond issues not to be diverted from purpose
Status: in_force

Whenever, under the provisions of the laws of this state, any intercommunity water or natural gas supply association obtains or has obtained any money or credits by means of the issue of its bonds or other evidences of indebtedness for the purpose of the purchase, construction or extension or repair of any particular system, it shall be unlawful to divert, use or expend any of the money or credits in the purchase, construction or extension or repair of any other system or for any purpose other than that for which the money or credits were or shall be obtained.
N.M. Stat. § 3-20-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 20 / Section 3-20-7
§ 3-20-7. Subdivision within the platting jurisdiction of a municipality; approval of the planning authority; procedure; filing fee; notice of hearing
Status: in_force

A. Before a plat of any subdivision within the jurisdiction of a municipality is filed in the office of the county clerk, the plat shall be submitted to the planning authority of the municipality having jurisdiction for approval.

B. The rules and regulations of the planning authority shall state:

(1) the scale and manner in which the plat is to be prepared;

(2) the number of copies of the plat which shall accompany the original plat;

(3) what other information shall accompany the plat; and

(4) the standards and regulations for subdivisions to which the planning authority may require the subdivider to conform.

C. The person submitting the plat shall pay the necessary filing fee to the municipality, and the planning authority, after approval and endorsement, shall file the plat with the county clerk. If the plat is not approved, the planning authority shall return the filing fee and the plat to the person submitting the plat.

D. A plat submitted for approval by the planning authority shall contain the name and address of the person to whom a notice of hearing shall be sent. Notice of the time and place of a hearing on a plat shall be sent by mail to the address on the plat not less than five days before the day of the hearing. No plat shall be acted upon without a public hearing unless the requirement that a public hearing be held is waived by the person seeking approval of the plat.

E. The planning authority of a municipality shall approve or disapprove a plat within thirty-five days of the day of final submission of the plat. If the planning authority does not act within thirty-five days, the plat is deemed to be approved, and upon demand, the planning authority shall issue a certificate approving the plat. The person seeking approval of the plat may waive this requirement and agree to an extension of this time period. The reason for disapproval of a plat shall be entered upon the recordings of the planning authority.

F. No plat of territory within the planning and platting jurisdiction of a municipality shall be filed and recorded unless it has been approved by the planning commission or the governing body of the municipality pursuant to regulations and procedures adopted by ordinance of the governing body.
N.M. Stat. § 7-1-6.32 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 1 / Section 7-1-6.32
§ 7-1-6.32. Distribution; solid waste assessment fee
Status: in_force

A distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 shall be made to the solid waste facility grant fund of the net receipts attributable to the solid waste assessment fee authorized under the Solid Waste Act 1 less any administrative fee withheld pursuant to Section 7-1-6.41 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 14-16-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 14 / Article 16 / Section 14-16-8
§ 14-16-8. Provision of information in writing; presentation of records
Status: in_force

(a) If parties have agreed to conduct a transaction by electronic means and a law requires a person to provide, send or deliver information in writing to another person, the requirement is satisfied if the information is provided, sent or delivered, as the case may be, in an electronic record capable of retention by the recipient at the time of receipt. An electronic record is not capable of retention by the recipient if the sender or its information processing system inhibits the ability of the recipient to print or store the electronic record.

(b) If a law other than the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act requires a record (i) to be posted or displayed in a certain manner, (ii) to be sent, communicated or transmitted by a specified method, or (iii) to contain information that is formatted in a certain manner, the following rules apply:

(1) The record must be posted or displayed in the manner specified in the other law.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (d)(2), the record must be sent, communicated or transmitted by the method specified in the other law.

(3) The record must contain the information formatted in the manner specified in the other law.

(c) If a sender inhibits the ability of a recipient to store or print an electronic record, the electronic record is not enforceable against the recipient.

(d) The requirements of this section may not be varied by agreement, but:

(1) to the extent a law other than the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act requires information to be provided, sent or delivered in writing but permits that requirement to be varied by agreement, the requirement under Subsection (a) that the information be in the form of an electronic record capable of retention may also be varied by agreement; and

(2) a requirement under a law other than the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act to send, communicate or transmit a record by first-class mail, postage prepaid or regular United States mail, may be varied by agreement to the extent permitted by the other law.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-4-35 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 4 / Section 32A-4-35
§ 32A-4-35. Appointment or change of educational decision maker
Status: in_force

A. In all matters involving children alleged by the state to be abused or neglected, including proceedings to terminate parental rights, the children's court shall appoint an educational decision maker in every case.

B. The children's court shall appoint an educational decision maker at the custody hearing; provided that the children's court:

(1) may change the appointment of an educational decision maker upon motion of a party at any stage of the proceedings; and

(2) shall review at each subsequent stage of the proceedings whether to continue or change the appointment of an educational decision maker for the child.

C. The children's court shall appoint a respondent as the child's educational decision maker, unless the children's court determines that doing so would be contrary to the best interests of the child. If the children's court determines that no respondent should be appointed as the child's educational decision maker, the children's court shall appoint another qualified individual, taking into account the following:

(1) whether the individual knows the child and is willing to accept responsibility for making educational decisions;

(2) whether the individual has any personal or professional interests that conflict with the interests of the child; and

(3) whether the individual is permitted to make all necessary educational decisions for the child, including decisions related to whether the child is a child with a disability under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
N.M. Stat. § 10-7E-13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7E / Section 10-7E-13
§ 10-7E-13. Appropriate bargaining units
Status: in_force

A. The board or local board shall, upon receipt of a petition for a representation election filed by a labor organization, designate the appropriate bargaining units for collective bargaining. Appropriate bargaining units shall be established on the basis of occupational groups or clear and identifiable communities of interest in employment terms and conditions and related personnel matters among the public employees involved. Occupational groups shall generally be identified as blue-collar, secretarial clerical, technical, professional, paraprofessional, police, fire and corrections. The parties, by mutual agreement, may further consolidate occupational groups. Essential factors in determining appropriate bargaining units shall include the principles of efficient administration of government, the history of collective bargaining and the assurance to public employees of the fullest freedom in exercising the rights guaranteed by the Public Employee Bargaining Act.

B. Within thirty days of a disagreement arising between a public employer and a labor organization concerning the composition of an appropriate bargaining unit, the board or local board shall hold a hearing concerning the composition of the bargaining unit before designating an appropriate bargaining unit.

C. The board or local board shall not include in an appropriate bargaining unit supervisors, managers or confidential employees.

D. Jobs included within a bargaining unit pursuant to a local ordinance in effect on January 1, 2020 shall remain in that bargaining unit.
N.M. Stat. § 22-14-27 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 14 / Section 22-14-27
§ 22-14-27. Assuring preferences to blind persons
Status: in_force

The head or governing body of each department or agency and of each county or municipality or other local governmental entity having control of state property shall:

A. adopt policies and take action as may be necessary to assure that blind persons licensed by the commission will be given a preference in the establishment and operation of vending stands on property under its control, when vending stands may be properly and satisfactorily operated by blind persons;

B. cooperate with the commission in surveys of property under its control to find suitable locations for the operation of vending stands by blind persons and, after it has been determined that there is need for a vending stand and after the commission has determined that the stand may be properly and satisfactorily operated by a blind person, issue to the commission a permit for the operation of a vending stand by a licensed blind person and cooperate with the commission in the installation of the vending stand; and

C. provide appropriate vending space and utility services for the operation of vending stands at no cost to the commission or to the blind licensee.
N.M. Stat. § 53-20-3 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 20 / Section 53-20-3
§ 53-20-3. Certificate of authority; necessity to obtain to transact business; what constitutes not transacting business
Status: in_force

A. A foreign business trust shall not transact business in this state unless it first obtains a certificate of authority from the public regulation secretary of state. A foreign business trust is not entitled to obtain a certificate of authority to transact a business in this state that it is not permitted to transact in the state or country in which it was created.

B. The following activities do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of Subsection A of this section:

(1) maintaining, defending or effecting the settlement of an action, suit or administrative or arbitration proceeding, or effecting the settlement of claims or disputes;

(2) maintaining bank accounts;

(3) maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of its securities, or appointing and maintaining trustees or depositories with relation to its securities;

(4) soliciting or procuring orders when the orders require acceptance outside of this state before becoming binding contracts;

(5) transacting business in interstate commerce;

(6) holding meetings of the board of trustees or holders of beneficial interest or carrying on other activities concerning internal affairs;

(7) selling through independent contractors;

(8) creating or procuring indebtedness, mortgages and security interests in real and personal property;

(9) conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within a period of thirty days and not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of a similar nature;

(10) securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts; or

(11) owning without more, real or personal property.
N.M. Stat. § 21-7-16 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 21-7-16
§ 21-7-16. Sale of building and improvement bonds; notice, publication and contents; conduct; delivery of bonds; purchase by state treasurer; acceptance by public officials
Status: in_force

The board shall offer said bonds for sale, after publication of notice of the time and place of sale, in some newspaper of general circulation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and also in some financial newspaper published in the city of New York, once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date fixed for said sale. Such notice shall specify the amount, denomination, maturity dates and the description of the bonds to be offered for sale, and the place, day and hour at which sealed bids therefor will be received and opened, and that only unconditional bids will be considered, and that each bid must be accompanied by a certified check drawn on a solvent bank or trust company, payable to the order of the secretary and treasurer of said board, for not less than five per centum of the par value of the bonds offered for sale, as a guaranty that the bonds will be taken by the bidder if his bid is accepted and the bidder does not take and pay for the bonds in accordance therewith. At the place and time specified in such notice, the board or the executive committee thereof shall publicly open the bids and award the bonds to the responsible bidder or bidders offering the highest price therefor, but no bid shall be accepted for less than the par value of said bonds, plus the accrued interest from the last preceding interest date to the date of delivery of said bonds. Before delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, the secretary and treasurer of the board shall detach and cancel all matured interest coupons. Said board or the executive committee thereof, shall have and reserve the right to reject any and all bids at such sale, and readvertise the same. The state treasurer may, with the approval of the state board of finance and the other officials whose approval may be required by law for the investment of public funds, purchase such bonds at par and accrued interest to date of delivery for such investment, without the necessity of them being advertised or publicly offered for sale by the board, or after rejection of bids for all or any part of any issue. Such bonds shall be accepted at their par value by all public officials in this state as security for the repayment of all deposits of public monies of this state, or of any county, municipality or public institution thereof, and as security for the faithful performance of any obligation or duty to guarantee the performance of which such officials are now authorized by law to accept a deposit of the bonds of this state or of the United States of America.
N.M. Stat. § 5-8-20 — NM Code / Chapter 5 / Article 8 / Section 5-8-20
§ 5-8-20. Information about assumptions available to public
Status: in_force

On or before the date of the first publication of the notice of the hearing on land use assumptions, the municipality or county shall make available to the public its land use assumptions, the time period of the projections and a description of the general nature of the capital improvement facilities that may be proposed.
N.M. Stat. § 52-3-4 — NM Code / Chapter 52 / Article 3 / Section 52-3-4
§ 52-3-4. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law:

A. “award” means the final compensation order made by the workers' compensation judge pursuant to Section 52-5-7 NMSA 1978;

B. “compensation” means the payments and benefits provided for in the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law;

C. “compensation order” means a compensation order of the workers' compensation division issued by a workers' compensation judge pursuant to Section 52-5-7 NMSA 1978; and

D. “disablement” means:

(1) the total physical incapacity, by reason of an occupational disease, of an employee to perform any work for remuneration or profit in the pursuit in which the employee was engaged, provided that silicosis, when complicated by active tuberculosis of the lungs, shall be presumed to result in disablement; or

(2) the partial physical incapacity of an employee, by reason of an occupational disease, to perform to some percentage extent any work for which he is fitted by age, education and training.
N.M. Stat. § 61-24C-9 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 24C / Section 61-24C-9
§ 61-24C-9. License without examination
Status: in_force

If a person applies for licensure but does not satisfy the requirements of Section 61-24C-8 NMSA 1978 , the department may on a case-by-case basis review and issue a license to an applicant who provides evidence to the department that the applicant:

A. has active licensure in another state or country where the qualifications are equal to or exceed those required by the Interior Designers Act and the applicant complies with all other requirements of the Interior Designers Act; or

B. has apprenticed for at least eight years under a licensed interior designer who passed the national council for interior design qualification examination or another nationally recognized examination approved by the department.
N.M. Stat. § 48-2A-11 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 2A / Section 48-2A-11
§ 48-2A-11. Discharge; penalty
Status: in_force

A. Payment by the owner or his successor in interest to any person entitled to payment of all and any amounts due and owing for any labor or materials furnished or other actions the performance of which could give rise to a lien pursuant to Section 48-2-2 NMSA 1978 to be performed upon a residential site shall discharge all such liens unless prior to payment any person who is entitled to such lien has filed for record his lien pursuant to Section 48-2-6 NMSA 1978 . For the purposes of this section, the original contractor shall not be the agent of the owner.

B. Any contractor or subcontractor justly indebted to a supplier of material or labor who accepts payment for construction described in Subsection A of this section and knowingly and intentionally applies the proceeds to a use other than paying those persons with whom he contracted 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. § 38-10-4 — NM Code / Chapter 38 / Article 10 / Section 38-10-4
§ 38-10-4. Court interpreters advisory committee created; duties
Status: in_force

There is created the “court interpreters advisory committee” which consists of the director of the administrative office of the courts and four persons appointed by the chief justice of the New Mexico supreme court, who are a justice of the New Mexico supreme court, a district court judge, a district court clerk and a professional in foreign languages or linguistics. The court interpreters advisory committee shall provide advice and recommendations to the administrative office of the courts on the development of an interpreters training and certification program. The advisory committee shall meet initially no later than August 1, 1985, to organize and elect a chairman. Thereafter, the committee shall meet as necessary at the call of the chairman or the request of a majority of committee members. Advisory committee members shall be reimbursed as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.
N.M. Stat. § 28-16A-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 28 / Article 16A / Section 28-16A-2
§ 28-16A-2. Legislative authorization
Status: in_force

The Developmental Disabilities Act authorizes the department to plan, provide and coordinate support and services to persons with developmental disabilities.
N.M. Stat. § 1-3A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 3A / Section 1-3A-1
§ 1-3A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 2 through 10 of this act may be cited as the “Redistricting Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 66-12-7.1 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 12 / Section 66-12-7.1
§ 66-12-7.1. Personal flotation devices required
Status: in_force

The operator of a vessel being used for recreational purposes shall require a child age twelve or under who is aboard the vessel to wear a personal flotation device approved by the United States coast guard while the vessel is underway, unless the child is below deck or in an enclosed cabin.
N.M. Stat. § 32A-24-1 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 24 / Section 32A-24-1
§ 32A-24-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Child Helmet Safety Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 42-9-24 — NM Code / Chapter 42 / Article 9 / Section 42-9-24
§ 42-9-24. Perishable property; petition for sale; hearing; order
Status: in_force

In all suits in the district courts by attachments, when the property attached shall be of a perishable nature and liable to be lost or diminished in value before the final adjudication of the case, and the defendant shall not give bond to retain the possession of the same, the plaintiff or defendant may make out a petition in writing setting forth the kind, nature and condition of the property, and present said petition to the judge of the district in vacation; and if he shall find it sufficient in form and conditions, he may hear the testimony of witnesses as to the property, and if he shall believe that the interests of both plaintiff and defendant will be promoted by the sale of the property, may order such sale to be made, and direct the manner thereof.