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N.M. Stat. § 6-10-52 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 10 / Section 6-10-52
§ 6-10-52. Failure to comply with specific requirements; penalty
Status: in_force

Any person who shall willfully or knowingly fail to perform any act required, and as required by Section 2 or Section 25 hereof, or who shall commit any act in violation of either of said sections, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not more than three years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
N.M. Stat. § 21-6-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 6 / Section 21-6-2
§ 21-6-2. Purposes; admission age; admission of nonresidents; tuition; change of name; expenditures for graduates in college; audiological clinic; scholarships; president's powers
Status: in_force

A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the New Mexico school for the deaf shall be devoted exclusively to the care and instruction of persons of either sex who are residents within the state and between the ages of five years and the age of majority and who are deaf or hard-of-hearing; provided that the board of regents, in its discretion, may admit residents of this state who have attained the age of one year for daytime care and instruction, but not for residential purposes, and may also admit residents of this state who are over the age of majority.

B. The board of regents may make expenditures for undergraduate collegiate expenses of graduates of the New Mexico school for the deaf. The board of regents may permit the use of facilities of the school by public and private agencies in the state in carrying on a conservation-of-hearing program when the agencies participate in the cost of the operation, upon such terms and conditions as the board of regents may prescribe.

C. The board of regents may contract with the veterans' administration and the vocational rehabilitation division of the public education department to provide instruction for adults with a disability in vocations or lip reading taught at the school, but such adults may not be housed at the school. The board of regents may lease for a nominal sum for periods not to exceed three months to the public schools, institutions and agencies of the state any hearing test equipment owned by the school.

D. The board of regents, for the purpose of creating a source of teachers of the deaf, may pay tuition and other necessary expenses of graduates of New Mexico colleges desiring to take training to teach the deaf in out-of-state training centers and intending to make the teaching of the deaf in New Mexico their profession.

E. All instruction shall be free. Deaf or hard-of-hearing children from other states or territories may be received and educated in the school under such rules and regulations as the board of regents may prescribe, but in no event shall such children be admitted except upon the payment or guaranty of at least one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the school year, on the basis of nine months for a school year. The president of the board of regents is authorized to make and enter into on behalf of the school all necessary agreements and contracts with the United States government and the proper authorities of other states and territories for the reception and education of such children, and the president is further authorized to receive and receipt for all money paid upon such account and to endorse and transfer all checks, vouchers or other evidences of payment made or received in behalf of the school.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-22-51 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 22 / Section 59A-22-51
§ 59A-22-51. Dental insurance plan; dental fees not covered; severability
Status: in_force

A. As used in this section:

(1) “ covered services ” means dental care services for which a reimbursement is available under an enrollee's plan contract or for which a reimbursement would be available but for the application of contractual limitations such as deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, waiting periods, annual or lifetime maximums, frequency limitations, alternative benefit payments or any other limitation; and

(2) “ dental insurance plan ” means any policy of insurance that is issued by a health care service contractor that provides for coverage of dental services not in connection with a medical plan.

B. No contract of any health care service contractor that covers any dental services and no contract or participating provider agreement with a dentist shall require, directly or indirectly, that a dentist who is a participating provider provide services to an enrolled participant at a fee set by, or at a fee subject to the approval of, the health care service contractor unless the dental services are covered services.

C. A health care service contractor or other person providing third party administrator services shall not make available any providers in its dentist network to a plan that sets dental fees for any services except covered services.

D. If any part or application of this section is held invalid, the remainder or its application to other situations or persons shall not be affected.
N.M. Stat. § 44-9-11 — NM Code / Chapter 44 / Article 9 / Section 44-9-11
§ 44-9-11. Employer interference with employee disclosure; private action for retaliation
Status: in_force

A. An employer shall not make, adopt or enforce a rule, regulation or policy preventing an employee from disclosing information to a government or law enforcement agency or from acting in furtherance of a fraud against taxpayers action, including investigating, initiating, testifying or assisting in an action filed or to be filed pursuant to the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act.

B. An employer shall not discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, deny promotion to or in any other manner discriminate against an employee in the terms and conditions of employment because of the lawful acts of the employee on behalf of the employee or others in disclosing information to a government or law enforcement agency or in furthering a fraud against taxpayers action, including investigating, initiating, testifying or assisting in an action filed or to be filed pursuant to the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act.

C. An employer that violates Subsection B of this section shall be liable to the employee for all relief necessary to make the employee whole, including reinstatement with the same seniority status that the employee would have had but for the violation, two times the amount of back pay with interest on the back pay, compensation for any special damage sustained as a result of the violation and, if appropriate, punitive damages. In addition, an employer shall be required to pay the litigation costs and reasonable attorney fees of the employee. An employee may bring an action pursuant to this section in any court of competent jurisdiction.
N.M. Stat. § 7-12A-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 12A / Section 7-12A-7
§ 7-12A-7. Registration necessary to engage in business of selling tobacco products in New Mexico
Status: in_force

Each person engaged in the business of selling tobacco products in New Mexico shall register and comply with the provisions of Section 7-1-12 NMSA 1978 . Every person selling tobacco products in New Mexico shall furnish such information as may be requested by the department concerning the person's vending machines or other places of business where tobacco products are sold.
N.M. Stat. § 29-3A-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 3A / Section 29-3A-2
§ 29-3A-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Criminal Record Expungement Act:

A. “ arrest records ” means records of identification of a person under arrest or under investigation for a crime taken or gathered by an official; “ arrest records ” includes information gathered from the national crime information center or another criminal record database, photographs, fingerprints and booking sheets; except “arrest records” does not include:

(1) driving while intoxicated citations maintained by the taxation and revenue department;

(2) computer-aided dispatch information; or

(3) log books relating to breath alcohol testing equipment;

B. “ expungement ” means the removal from access to the general public of a notation of an arrest, complaint, indictment, information, plea of guilty, conviction, acquittal, dismissal or discharge record, including a record posted on a publicly accessible court, corrections or law enforcement internet website; and

C. “ public records ” means documentation relating to a person's arrest, indictment, proceeding, finding or plea of guilty, conviction, acquittal, dismissal or discharge, including information posted on a court or law enforcement website; but “public records” does not include:

(1) arrest record information that:

(a) reveals confidential sources, methods, information or individuals accused but not charged with a crime and that is maintained by the state or any of its political subdivisions pertaining to any person charged with the commission of any crime; or

(b) is confidential and unlawful to disseminate or reveal, except as provided in the Arrest Record Information Act or other law;

(2) the file of a district attorney or attorney general maintained as a confidential record for law enforcement purposes and not open for inspection by members of the public;

(3) a record maintained by the children, youth and families department, the human services department [health care authority department] or the public education department when that record is confidential under state or federal law and is required to be maintained by state or federal law for audit or other purposes; or

(4) a record received pursuant to a background check as authorized by law.
N.M. Stat. § 22-11-25.2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 11 / Section 22-11-25.2
§ 22-11-25.2. Persons receiving retirement benefits pursuant to the Public Employees Retirement Act
Status: in_force

A. An employee who is retired pursuant to the Public Employees Retirement Act and who has not suspended retirement benefits received pursuant to that act shall not make contributions to the fund as otherwise required by the Educational Retirement Act. A local administrative unit that employs such a retiree shall make contributions to the fund as required by that act.

B. An employee who receives retirement benefits pursuant to the Public Employees Retirement Act is not entitled to acquire or purchase service credit for the period of employment with a local administrative unit.
N.M. Stat. § 72-9-1 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 9 / Section 72-9-1
§ 72-9-1. Vested and existing rights; protection
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to impair existing vested rights or the rights and priority of any person, firm, corporation or association, who may have commenced the construction of reservoirs, canals, pipelines or other works, or who have filed affidavits, applications or notices thereof for the purpose of appropriating for beneficial use, any waters as defined in Section 72-1-1 NMSA 1978 , in accordance with the laws of the territory of New Mexico, prior to March 19, 1907; provided, however, that all such reservoirs, canals, pipelines or other works and the rights of the owners thereof shall be subject to regulation, adjudication and forfeiture for nonuse as provided in this article.
N.M. Stat. § 22-11-21 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 11 / Section 22-11-21
§ 22-11-21. Contributions; members; local administrative units
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsection D of this section, for a member whose annual salary is greater than twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000), the member shall make contributions to the fund at the rate of ten and seven-tenths percent of the member's annual salary.

B. For a member whose annual salary is twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) or less, the member shall make contributions to the fund at the rate of seven and nine-tenths percent of the member's annual salary.

C. Except as provided in Subsection D of this section, each local administrative unit shall make an annual contribution to the fund according to the following schedule:

(1) from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, at the rate of fifteen and fifteen-hundredths percent of the annual salary of each member employed by the local administrative unit;

(2) from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, at the rate of seventeen and fifteen-hundredths percent of the annual salary of each member employed by the local administrative unit; and

(3) on and after July 1, 2023, at the rate of eighteen and fifteen-hundredths percent of the annual salary of each member employed by the local administrative unit.

D. If, in a calendar year, the salary of a member, initially employed by a local administrative unit on or after July 1, 1996, equals the annual compensation limit set pursuant to Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 , as amended, then:

(1) for the remainder of that calendar year, no additional member contributions or local administrative unit contributions for that member shall be made pursuant to this section; provided that no member shall be denied service credit solely because contributions are not made by the member or on behalf of the member pursuant to this subsection; and

(2) the amount of the annual compensation limit shall be divided into four equal portions, and, for purposes of attributing contributory employment and crediting service credit, each portion shall be attributable to one of the four quarters of the calendar year.
N.M. Stat. § 60-13-49 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 13 / Section 60-13-49
§ 60-13-49. Proof of responsibility
Status: in_force

A. No applicant for a contractor's license or for renewal of a contractor's license shall be issued a license until the director determines that the applicant furnishes proof of responsibility pursuant to Subsection B of this section.

B. Proof of responsibility shall be a bond of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) acceptable to the director and underwritten by a corporate surety authorized to transact business in New Mexico. Such bond shall meet the following conditions:

(1) payments from a bond required pursuant to this section shall only be used to cure code violations caused by a licensee, certified by the division and not corrected by the licensee. Claims against the bond shall be made within two years following final inspection by the governmental entity having jurisdiction over code enforcement or within two years of issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the construction project, whichever is earlier;

(2) the total aggregate liability of the surety for all claims shall be limited to the face amount of the bond;

(3) the bond carrier shall provide to the division and to the licensee thirty days' prior written notice of intent to cancel a bond required pursuant to this section. The surety for such a bond shall remain liable under the provisions of the bond for all obligations of the principal pertaining to bond terms that occur before the bond is canceled, expires or otherwise becomes ineffective;

(4) failure to maintain the bond for the period required by law is cause for revocation of the license; and

(5) if the bond is canceled, expires or otherwise becomes ineffective during the period of a license, the division shall notify the licensee that a new bond is required. If the licensee has not provided proof of a new bond before the fortieth day after the date on which the bond was canceled, expired or otherwise became ineffective, the license shall be subject to revocation for failure of proof of responsibility.
N.M. Stat. § 76-10-1 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 10 / Section 76-10-1
§ 76-10-1. Purpose of pure seed strain provisions
Status: in_force

The legislature hereby declares that the purposes of this act are to promote, encourage, aid and protect the planting and growing of pure strains of sugar beet seed, vegetable seed, melon seed and seed for other crops, through providing statutory regulations to protect such pure strains of seeds from either natural, accidental or willful cross-fertilization, mixing or other contamination which would result in rendering otherwise pure strains impure, and thereby render the product valueless for seed purposes and result in economic loss to the grower.

In order that crops designed and intended for the production of pure strains of seed may be grown under proper conditions for the protection of the purity of such seeds, the legislature further declares that it is the purpose of this act to make legal provision for the protection of such pure strains by insuring that they may be planted at such distances from other varieties, plots or smaller plantings of other varieties or strains of the same or nearly related species as to prevent cross-pollination, or mixing, or crossing, or otherwise rendering the seed impure by any other natural or accidental means; that it believes this purpose best can be accomplished by restricting within certain areas to be defined and delimited by the regents of the agricultural college of New Mexico [New Mexico state university], the planting and growing of but one variety or strain of a given species or nearly related species of plants or crops; that by this means alone is it possible to bring the industry of sugar beet seed production in this state to its highest possible development and to insure the growing of pure strains of seed of superior and economically profitable varieties of other species of plants; that such protection to the growers of pure strains of seed is essential to the economical development and advancement of the agriculture of this state; that to permit the natural, accidental or willful interference with the production of pure strains of seed would result in economic loss to the state and to the prospective grower and that the state and the prospective grower should be properly protected by legislative enactment; that the purpose of this act shall be construed to be for the proper development of the agriculture of this state through promoting and providing for the protection of the grower of pure strains of seed.
N.M. Stat. § 10-15-3 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 15 / Section 10-15-3
§ 10-15-3. Invalid actions; standing
Status: in_force

A. No resolution, rule, regulation, ordinance or action of any board, commission, committee or other policymaking body shall be valid unless taken or made at a meeting held in accordance with the requirements of Section 10-15-1 NMSA 1978 . Every resolution, rule, regulation, ordinance or action of any board, commission, committee or other policymaking body shall be presumed to have been taken or made at a meeting held in accordance with the requirements of Section 10-15-1 NMSA 1978 .

B. All provisions of the Open Meetings Act shall be enforced by the attorney general or by the district attorney in the county of jurisdiction. However, nothing in that act shall prevent an individual from independently applying for enforcement through the district courts, provided that the individual first provides written notice of the claimed violation to the public body and that the public body has denied or not acted on the claim within fifteen days of receiving it. A public meeting held to address a claimed violation of the Open Meetings Act shall include a summary of comments made at the meeting at which the claimed violation occurred.

C. The district courts of this state shall have jurisdiction, upon the application of any person to enforce the purpose of the Open Meetings Act, by injunction, mandamus or other appropriate order. The court shall award costs and reasonable attorney fees to any person who is successful in bringing a court action to enforce the provisions of the Open Meetings Act. If the prevailing party in a legal action brought under this section is a public body defendant, it shall be awarded court costs. A public body defendant that prevails in a court action brought under this section shall be awarded its reasonable attorney fees from the plaintiff if the plaintiff brought the action without sufficient information and belief that good grounds supported it.

D. No section of the Open Meetings Act shall be construed to preclude other remedies or rights not relating to the question of open meetings.
N.M. Stat. § 26-2A-4 — NM Code / Chapter 26 / Article 2A / Section 26-2A-4
§ 26-2A-4. Lynn Pierson therapeutic research program established; participation
Status: in_force

A. There is established in the health and environment department [department of health] the “Lynn Pierson therapeutic research program”. The program shall be administered by the administrator. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the proper administration of the Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act. In such promulgation, the department shall take into consideration those pertinent rules and regulations promulgated by the drug enforcement administration, food and drug administration and the national institute on drug abuse.

B. Except as provided in Subsection C of Section 5 of the Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act, the Lynn Pierson therapeutic research program shall be limited to cancer chemotherapy patients and glaucoma patients, who are certified to the patient qualification review board by a physician as being involved in a life-threatening or sense-threatening situation and who are not responding to conventional controlled substances or where the conventional controlled substances administered have proven to be effective but where the patient has incurred severe side effects.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-20-26 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 20 / Section 59A-20-26
§ 59A-20-26. Prohibited provisions
Status: in_force

A. No life insurance policy shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state if it contains any of the following provisions:

(1) a provision by which the policy purports to be issued or to take effect more than one year before the original application for the insurance was made;

(2) a provision for any mode of settlement at maturity of the policy of less value than the amount insured under the policy, plus dividend additions, if any, less any indebtedness to the insurer on or secured by the policy and less any premium that may by the terms of the policy be deducted; or

(3) a provision to the effect that the agent soliciting the insurance is the agent of the person insured under the policy, or making the acts or representations of such agent binding upon the insured.

B. No policy of industrial life insurance shall contain any of the following provisions:

(1) a provision by which the insurer may deny liability under the policy for the reason that the insured has previously obtained other insurance from the same insurer;

(2) a provision giving the insurer the right to declare the policy void because the insured has had any disease or ailment, whether specified or not, or because the insured has received institutional, hospital, medical or surgical treatment or attention, except a provision which gives the insurer the right to declare the policy void if the insured has, within two (2) years prior to the issuance of the policy, received institutional, hospital, medical or surgical treatment or attention and if the insured or claimant under the policy fails to show that the condition occasioning such treatment or attention as revealed in the application was not of a serious nature or was not material to the risk; or

(3) a provision giving the insurer the right to declare the policy void because the insured has been rejected for insurance, unless such right be conditioned upon a showing by the insurer that knowledge of such rejection would have led to a refusal by the insurer to make such contract.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-16C-9 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 16C / Section 59A-16C-9
§ 59A-16C-9. Report of conviction
Status: in_force

If any person licensed by any agency of any state or the federal government or holding credentials from any professional organization is convicted of insurance fraud in this state, the superintendent shall notify the appropriate licensing or credentialing authority of the judgment for appropriate disciplinary action.