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N.M. Stat. § 7-12-9.1 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 12 / Section 7-12-9.1
§ 7-12-9.1. Licensing; general licensing provisions
Status: in_force

A. A person shall not engage in the manufacture or distribution of cigarettes in New Mexico without a license issued by the department.

B. The department shall issue or renew a license for a term not to exceed one year.

C. The department may charge a license fee of up to one hundred dollars ($100) for each manufacturer's or distributor's license issued or renewed.

D. An application for a license or renewal of a license shall be submitted on a form determined by the department and shall include:

(1) the name and address of the applicant and:

(a) if the applicant is a firm, partnership or association, the name and address of each of its members; or

(b) if the applicant is a corporation, the name and address of each of its officers;

(2) the address of the applicant's principal place of business and every location where the applicant's business is conducted; and

(3) any other information the department may require.

E. The department may issue a distributor's license and a manufacturer's license to the same person.

F. Persons licensed as manufacturers or distributors may sell stamped cigarettes at retail.

G. A license may not be granted, maintained or renewed if one or more of the following conditions applies to an applicant:

(1) the applicant is a delinquent taxpayer pursuant to Section 7-1-16 NMSA 1978 only with respect to the cigarette tax or the gross receipts tax or has unfiled tax returns due with respect to the cigarette tax or the gross receipts tax;

(2) the applicant has had a manufacturer's or distributor's license revoked by the department or any other state within the past two years;

(3) the applicant is convicted of a crime related to contraband cigarettes, stolen cigarettes or counterfeit stamps;

(4) the applicant is a manufacturer but not a participating manufacturer as defined in Section II(jj) of the master settlement agreement and the applicant is not in compliance with the provisions of Section 6-4-13 NMSA 1978 or the Tobacco Escrow Fund Act; or

(5) the applicant is a manufacturer and imports cigarettes into the United States that are in violation of 19 U.S.C. 1681a or manufactures cigarettes that do not comply with the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act.

H. In addition to a civil or criminal penalty provided by law, upon a finding that a licensee has violated a provision of the Cigarette Tax Act or the Tobacco Escrow Fund Act or a rule adopted pursuant to either act, the department may revoke or suspend the license or licenses of the licensee.

I. As used in this section, “ applicant ” includes a person or persons owning, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate, more than ten percent of the ownership interest in the business holding or applying for a license pursuant to the Cigarette Tax Act.
N.M. Stat. § 30-33-5 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 33 / Section 30-33-5
§ 30-33-5. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act is to protect the public and the Indian craftsman under the police powers of the state from false representation in the sale, trade, purchase or offering for sale of Indian arts and crafts.
N.M. Stat. § 19-8-20 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 8 / Section 19-8-20
§ 19-8-20. Leases; stipulation; rental
Status: in_force

The record owners or owner of any mineral lease or approved assignment thereof heretofore issued by the commissioner, which lease has not expired by its own terms, which has not been canceled by the commissioner and which has otherwise been maintained in good standing, may enter into a stipulation with the commissioner of public lands making the terms and conditions of Sections 19-8-14 through 19-8-33 NMSA 1978 a part of any such existing lease, the same as if said provisions had been a part of said lease when issued. In such case, the basic royalty payable to the lessor on production thereafter obtained from the stipulated lease or portion thereof shall be at the rate set in new leases then being issued by the lessor. The commissioner may charge a fee not to exceed ten dollars ($10.00) for the filing and recording of such stipulation. If production in paying quantities be had during any of the aforesaid set terms and thereafter ceases before all of the set terms would have expired, the lease shall be deemed to be a nonproducing lease from that date and lessee shall have the unexpired portion of said set term and any subsequent terms within which to resume production in paying quantities. When such production is resumed, the term of the lease shall continue for so long thereafter as minerals in paying quantities be produced or mined from the leased land. In such cases, the rental rate for the lease or the portion thereof, shall be the rental provided in the term in which such production is resumed; the new rental shall be payable on the anniversary date next following the date production is resumed.

Provided, further, that if for any reason beyond the control of the lessee production of minerals in paying quantities shall cease after all of the set terms have expired, the producing lessee may, with the written permission of the commissioner, continue said lease in operation and effect from year to year for an additional period not to exceed three years by continued payment in advance of annual rentals at the rate provided in the final term of the lease.
N.M. Stat. § 62-15-23 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 15 / Section 62-15-23
§ 62-15-23. Recordation of mortgages
Status: in_force

Any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument executed by a cooperative or foreign corporation transacting business in this state, pursuant to this act, which, by its terms, creates a lien upon real and personal property then owned or after-acquired, and which is recorded as a mortgage of real property in any county in which such property is located or is to be located, shall have the same force and effect as if the mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument were also recorded or filed in the proper office in such county as a mortgage of personal property. Recordation of any such mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument shall cause the lien thereof to attach to all after-acquired property of the mortgagor of the nature herein described as being mortgaged or pledged thereby immediately upon the acquisition thereof by the mortgagor, and such lien shall be superior to all claims of creditors of the mortgagor and purchasers of such property and to all other liens, except liens of prior record, affecting such property.
N.M. Stat. § 6-28-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 28 / Section 6-28-8
§ 6-28-8. Rulemaking authority
Status: in_force

The department of finance and administration or the Indian affairs department shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
N.M. Stat. § 5-13A-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 13A / Section 5-13A-7
§ 5-13A-7. Audit of vendors
Status: in_force

A local governing body imposing a sports and recreation facility fee shall include verification of the collection of the correct sports and recreation facility fee in any audit of a vendor conducted pursuant to Section 3-38-17.1 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 22-15-18 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 15 / Section 22-15-18
§ 22-15-18. Posting of copy
Status: in_force

Each local school board may, to the extent funds are available pursuant to Section 3 of the Historical Codes Act, post, in a nondiscriminatory manner not favoring one religious or ethno-cultural background over another, durable, permanent copies of the historical codes in each regular instructional classroom in the school district.
N.M. Stat. § 10-16-4.3 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 16 / Section 10-16-4.3
§ 10-16-4.3. Prohibited employment
Status: in_force

It is unlawful for a state agency employee or local government agency employee who is participating directly or indirectly in the contracting process to become or to be, while such an employee, the employee of any person or business contracting with the governmental body by whom the employee is employed.
N.M. Stat. § 21-21A-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21A / Section 21-21A-12
§ 21-21A-12. Pledge of assets or revenues of foundation
Status: in_force

The pledge of any assets or revenues of the foundation to the payment of the principal of or the interest on any bonds shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made, and any such assets or revenues shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the foundation, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the foundation from selling any assets subject to any such pledge except to the extent that any such sale may be restricted by the trust agreement or resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds.
N.M. Stat. § 10-17-8 — NM 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. § 9-15-16 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 15 / Section 9-15-16
§ 9-15-16. Technology enterprise division created
Status: in_force

The “technology enterprise division” is created as a division of the economic development department. The division shall:

A. enhance the business climate to encourage the start-up, relocation, development and growth of technology-based industry in New Mexico;

B. promote an expanded, diversified technology-based economy, emphasizing areas that:

(1) derive from the state's technological strengths;

(2) provide a commercial advantage;

(3) lend themselves to a distributed technology-based industry network; and

(4) utilize imaginative state, federal and private partnerships; and

C. attain sufficient levels of human, financial and physical resources to support in-state industries and attract new industries to New Mexico.
N.M. Stat. § 48-11-9 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 11 / Section 48-11-9
§ 48-11-9. Criminal liability
Status: in_force

Any person who willfully fails to disclose any lienholder as required by the disclosure provision of the rental agreement defined in Section 3 of the Self-Service Storage Lien Act is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 4-33-10 — NM Code / Chapter 4 / Article 33 / Section 4-33-10
§ 4-33-10. Taking entire county; indebtedness of old county; taxation
Status: in_force

Should an entire county having an outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, be taken so as to form a new county or be absorbed into another county already existing, it is hereby made the duty of the board of county commissioners of such new county, or of the county into which such entire new county may have been absorbed, annually to levy a tax which shall be assessed and collected by the assessor and collector of said county at the time and in the manner that other taxes are levied, assessed and collected in said county, unless such indebtedness has been otherwise provided for, upon all citizens, residents and property now subject or which may herein be subject to taxation within the limits of the county so taken or absorbed as herein mentioned sufficient to pay the interest or principal or both of such outstanding indebtedness in the same manner and to the same extent as was or would be required of the county commissioners of the county so taken or absorbed had the same not been taken or absorbed.
N.M. Stat. § 3-51-46 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 51 / Section 3-51-46
§ 3-51-46. Passenger motor vehicle of a person with a disability; parking privilege
Status: reserved

Passenger motor vehicles owned by and carrying a person with a disability and displaying special registration plates, or passenger motor vehicles carrying persons with severe mobility impairment and displaying parking placards, issued pursuant to Section 66-3-16 NMSA 1978 , shall be permitted to park for unlimited periods of time in parking zones restricted as to length of time parking is normally permitted and are exempt from payment of any parking fee of the state or its political subdivisions, except that airport parking facilities may charge long-term parking fees for periods of time exceeding twenty-four hours. The provisions of this section shall prevail over any other law, rule or local ordinance but do not apply to zones where stopping, standing or parking is prohibited, zones reserved for special types of vehicles, zones where parking is prohibited during certain hours of the day in order to facilitate traffic during those hours when parking is prohibited and zones subject to similar regulation because parking presents a traffic hazard.
N.M. Stat. § 7-7-19 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 7-7-19
§ 7-7-19. Agreement on valuation
Status: in_force

A. If the board finds that it would be advantageous for the state to accept payment in one or more works of art as payment or partial payment for the estate tax, the personal representative shall, as a condition of state acceptance of this method of payment, forward a copy of the proposed valuation to the division. The division shall have forty-five days from the date of the notification of the proposed valuation to object to that valuation.

B. If the division objects to the proposed valuation, it shall set forth the objection in writing and forward it to the personal representative. The personal representative may take into account the division's objections and submit a new valuation for the division's approval. If the division rejects the new valuation within forty-five days of its submission, the state shall be deemed not to accept the proposed method of payment in works of art.

C. If the division does not object to a submitted valuation of a work of art within forty-five days of its submission, the state shall be deemed to have accepted the work of art for the museum collection as complete or partial payment of the estate tax owed and the board shall assume title to that work of art as soon as practicable.
N.M. Stat. § 7-24A-10 — NM Code / Chapter 7 / Article 24A / Section 7-24A-10
§ 7-24A-10. Municipal gasoline tax; authorization; imposition; rate
Status: in_force

A. The majority of the members of the governing body of a municipality may adopt an ordinance imposing a tax of up to two cents ($.02) a gallon on all gasoline sold at retail within the boundaries of the municipality and upon which gasoline taxes are imposed in accordance with the Gasoline Tax Act. 1 The tax imposed by this section is to be referred to as the “municipal gasoline tax” and is in addition to the tax imposed in the Gasoline Tax Act.

B. If the governing body of a municipality adopts an ordinance imposing a municipal gasoline tax, the governing body shall submit the question of levying the tax to the qualified electors in the municipality.

C. The gasoline tax may be imposed in increments of one cent ($.01) per gallon up to a maximum of two cents ($.02) per gallon. The amount of the tax and the specific purposes for which the proceeds shall be used shall be stated in the ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality as provided in Subsection A of this section. The gasoline tax shall not be imposed for the purpose of funding a vehicle emissions inspection program if a re-registration fee that funds a vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program has been imposed pursuant to Subsection C of Section 74-2-4 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 14-3-19 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 3 / Section 14-3-19
§ 14-3-19. Storage equipment, supplies and materials; microfilm services and supplies; purchase by state commission of public records for resale
Status: in_force

The state commission of public records may purchase for resale such storage boxes, forms, microfilm supplies necessary to the providing of microfilm services and other supplies and materials as in its judgment are necessary to facilitate the various aspects of its programs. The commission may sell such items and services at cost plus a five percent handling charge. All receipts from such sales shall go into the records center revolving fund.
N.M. Stat. § 3-44-5 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 44 / Section 3-44-5
§ 3-44-5. Hospitals; special charter towns; authority
Status: in_force

A. Any town incorporated, organized and operating under a special act of the legislature may, by resolution or ordinance:

(1) own, maintain and operate hospitals, sanitariums and other institutions for the care of sick or indigent persons;

(2) issue negotiable bonds for the construction of a hospital, sanitarium or other institution; or

(3) upon such conditions and terms as the governing body of the town may determine:

(a) delegate the operation and maintenance of the hospital, sanitarium or other institution to any person, corporation or association as it selects; or

(b) lease the hospital, sanitarium or other hospital to any person, corporation or association for the care of sick or indigent persons, provided that the lease may be terminated by the governing body of the town without cause upon one hundred eighty days' notice after the first three years of the lease.

B. The provisions of Sections 3-54-1 through 3-54-3 NMSA 1978 relating to the leasing of municipal property are not applicable to this section.
N.M. Stat. § 30-16D-1 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 16D / Section 30-16D-1
§ 30-16D-1. Unlawful taking of a vehicle or motor vehicle
Status: in_force

A. Unlawful taking of a vehicle or motor vehicle consists of a person taking any vehicle or motor vehicle as defined by the Motor Vehicle Code intentionally and without consent of the owner. Whoever commits unlawful taking of a vehicle or motor vehicle is guilty of a:

(1) fourth degree felony for a first offense;

(2) third degree felony for a second offense; and

(3) second degree felony for a third or subsequent offense.

B. The consent of the owner of the vehicle or motor vehicle to its taking shall not in any case be presumed or implied because of the owner's consent on a previous occasion to the taking of the vehicle or motor vehicle by the same or a different person.

C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the holder of a lien duly recorded with the motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department from taking possession of a vehicle to which possession the lienholder is legally entitled under the provisions of the instrument evidencing the lien. A holder of a duly recorded lien who takes possession of a vehicle without the knowledge of the owner of the vehicle shall immediately notify the local police authority of the fact that the holder has taken possession of the vehicle.
N.M. Stat. § 1-2-26 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 1-2-26
§ 1-2-26. Challengers; penalty
Status: in_force

The act of denying a challenger, who has presented a written appointment to the precinct board and who is not interfering with the orderly conduct of the election, the right to be present at the polling place, or denying a challenger the right to challenge voters and view the signature rosters or checklist of voters or denying a challenger the right to witness the precinct board in the conduct of its duties is a petty misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 21-23-1 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 23 / Section 21-23-1
§ 21-23-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 21, Article 23 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Post-Secondary Educational Institution Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 37-1-7 — NM Code / Chapter 37 / Article 1 / Section 37-1-7
§ 37-1-7. Accrual of cause of actions for fraud or mistake, injuries or conversion of property
Status: in_force

In actions for relief, on the ground of fraud or mistake, and in actions for injuries to, or conversion of property, the cause of action shall not be deemed to have accrued until the fraud, mistake, injury or conversion complained of, shall have been discovered by the party aggrieved.
N.M. Stat. § 58-22-13 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 22 / Section 58-22-13
§ 58-22-13. Action on bond; limitation
Status: in_force

No action shall be brought upon any bond required pursuant to Section 10 of the Escrow Company Act or insurance coverage required pursuant to Section 11 of that act after the expiration of three years from the accrual of the cause of action.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-36-5 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 36 / Section 59A-36-5
§ 59A-36-5. Sales by dealers
Status: in_force

Section 610 (recovery of profits) of this article shall not apply to any purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, and Section 611 (sale and delivery) of this article shall not apply to any sale, of any equity security of a domestic stock insurer not then or theretofore held by him in an investment account, by a dealer in the ordinary course of his business and incident to the establishment or maintenance by him of a primary or secondary market (otherwise than on an exchange as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) 1 for such security. The superintendent may, by such rules and regulations as he deems necessary or appropriate in the public interest, define and prescribe terms and conditions with respect to securities held in an investment account and transactions made in the ordinary course of business and incident to the establishment or maintenance of a primary or secondary market.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-57A-4 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 57A / Section 59A-57A-4
§ 59A-57A-4. Non-emergency care; limitation on charges
Status: in_force

A. Other than applicable cost sharing that would apply if a participating provider had rendered the same services, a health insurance carrier shall provide reimbursement for and a covered person shall not be liable for charges and fees for covered non-emergency care rendered by a nonparticipating provider that are delivered when:

(1) the covered person at an in-network facility does not have the ability or opportunity to choose a participating provider who is available to provide the covered services; or

(2) medically necessary care is unavailable within a health benefits plan's network; provided that “medical necessity” shall be determined by a covered person's provider in conjunction with the covered person's health benefits plan and health insurance carrier.

B. Except as set forth in Subsection A of this section, nothing in this section shall preclude a nonparticipating provider from balance billing for non-emergency care provided by a nonparticipating provider to an individual who has knowingly chosen to receive services from that nonparticipating provider.
N.M. Stat. § 10-11-99 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 11 / Section 10-11-99
§ 10-11-99. Municipal fire member coverage plan 3; age and service requirements for normal retirement
Status: in_force

Under municipal fire member coverage plan 3:

A. for a member who was a retired member or a member on June 30, 2013, the age and service requirements for normal retirement are:

(1) age sixty-five years or older and five or more years of credited service;

(2) age sixty-four years and eight or more years of credited service;

(3) age sixty-three years and eleven or more years of credited service;

(4) age sixty-two years and fourteen or more years of credited service;

(5) age sixty-one years and seventeen or more years of credited service; or

(6) any age and twenty or more years of credited service; and

B. for a member who was not a retired member or a member on June 30, 2013, the age and service requirements for normal retirement are:

(1) age sixty years or older and five or more years of service credit; or

(2) any age and twenty-five or more years of service credit.