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N.M. Stat. § 66-3-827 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-827
§ 66-3-827. Spot lamps and auxiliary lamps
Status: in_force

A. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed two spot lamps and every lighted spot lamp shall be so aimed and used that no part of the high-intensity portion of the beam will be directed to the left of the prolongation of the extreme left side of the vehicle nor more than one hundred feet ahead of the vehicle; provided, however, that lighted spot lamps shall be turned off at least five hundred feet from approaching motor vehicles.

B. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed two fog lamps mounted on the front at a height not less than twelve inches nor more than thirty inches above the level surface upon which the vehicle stands and so aimed, when the vehicle is not loaded, that none of the high-intensity portion of the light to the left of the center of the vehicle shall, at a distance of twenty-five feet ahead, project higher than a level of four inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes. Lighted fog lamps meeting the above requirements may be used with lower headlamp beams as specified in Section 66-3-830B NMSA 1978 .

C. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed one auxiliary passing lamp mounted on the front at a height not less than twenty-four inches nor more than forty-two inches above the level surface upon which the vehicle stands. The provisions of Section 66-3-830 NMSA 1978 shall apply to any combination of headlamps and auxiliary passing lamps.

D. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed one auxiliary driving lamp mounted on the front at a height not less than sixteen inches nor more than forty-two inches above the level surface upon which the vehicle stands. Any lighted auxiliary driving lamp shall be turned off at least five hundred feet from approaching motor vehicles. The provisions of Section 66-3-830 NMSA 1978 shall apply to any combination of headlamps and auxiliary driving lamp.
N.M. Stat. § 6-19-5 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 19 / Section 6-19-5
§ 6-19-5. Board of trustees; organization; terms; vacancies; removal
Status: in_force

A. If the required majority of votes were cast in favor of the organization of the district, then the county commission chairman shall declare the organization of the “economic advancement district.” The county commission shall call for an election of a board of trustees, within not less than sixty days or more than one hundred twenty days, one from each school district participating in the district in the event there are three or more such participating areas, which shall be held at a time and at sites within the district selected by the county commissioners. In the event there are less than three participating areas, there shall be, in the case of a district with two participating areas, two trustees elected from each school district participating and, in the case of a district with one participating area, three trustees elected from the district.

B. Board of trustees members shall be over twenty-one years of age, qualified electors and residents of the district.

C. Persons desiring to be a candidate for a position on the board of trustees shall file a declaration of candidacy for one of the positions on the board of trustees with the county clerk not later than 5:00 p.m. on the thirtieth day after the issuance of the proclamation by the board of county commissioners. The declaration of candidacy shall be an affidavit as to the qualifications required by law of the declarant for such office. The declaration of candidacy shall be on a form prescribed and furnished by the county clerk. The candidates shall file for and be elected to a particular position number. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes for a particular position shall be elected. To provide for staggered terms, either one-year and three-year terms or two-year and four-year terms shall be assigned by lot to the position numbers in such a manner that approximately half the terms expire in the first even-numbered year following the initial election and the remainder in the next succeeding even-numbered year. Board members shall be elected for terms beginning April 1 succeeding their election. Trustees shall thereafter be elected for four-year terms at elections to be held on the first Tuesday of March of each even-numbered year. The elections required by this section shall be held, conducted and canvassed in the same manner as municipal elections, unless otherwise specifically provided in the Economic Advancement District Act. All vacancies caused in any other manner than by expiration of the term of office shall be filled by appointment by the remaining members.

D. Immediately after the election of the members, the board of trustees shall select from its members a chairman and secretary-treasurer who shall serve in these offices until the next regular board of trustees election. After each board of trustees election, the members shall proceed to reorganize.

E. Members of the board of trustees shall be suspended or removed from office only as provided in Sections 10-4-1 through 10-4-29 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 6-24-13 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 24 / Section 6-24-13
§ 6-24-13. Determination of confidential information; applicability of Open Meetings Act; criminal investigations
Status: in_force

A. The authority is specifically authorized to determine which information relating to the operation of the lottery is confidential. Such information is limited to trade secrets and proprietary information; security measures, systems or procedures; security reports; information concerning bids or other contract data during the negotiation process, the disclosure of which would impair the efforts of the authority to contract for goods or services on favorable terms; and information obtained pursuant to investigations that would be protected from public disclosure under the Inspection of Public Records Act. 1

B. The authority is subject to the provisions of the Open Meetings Act; 2 provided that meetings or portions of meetings devoted to discussing information deemed to be confidential pursuant to Subsection A of this section are exempt from the provisions of that act.

C. The authority or its authorized agent shall:

(1) conduct criminal background investigations and credit investigations on all potential lottery retailers and all lottery vendors prior to the execution of any contract with a lottery retailer or a lottery vendor;

(2) supervise ticket validation and lottery drawings;

(3) inspect at times determined solely by the authority the facilities of any lottery vendor or lottery retailer in order to determine the integrity of the lottery vendor's product or the operations of the lottery retailer in order to determine whether the lottery vendor or the lottery retailer is in compliance with its contract;

(4) report any suspected violations of the New Mexico Lottery Act to the appropriate district attorney, the attorney general or to any law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the violation; and

(5) upon request, provide assistance to any district attorney, the attorney general or a law enforcement agency investigating a violation of the New Mexico Lottery Act.
N.M. Stat. § 6-29-1 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 29 / Section 6-29-1
§ 6-29-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Tribal Infrastructure Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 61-9A-11 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 9A / Section 61-9A-11
§ 61-9A-11. Professional clinical mental health counselor; requirements for licensure
Status: in_force

The board shall issue a license as a professional clinical mental health counselor to a person who files a completed application and, except as provided in Section 61-1-34 NMSA 1978 , pays any required fees and who submits satisfactory evidence that the applicant:

A. has reached the age of twenty-one;

B. holds a master's or doctoral degree in a counseling or counseling-related field, as defined by rule, from an accredited institution. The applicant shall have a master's degree and a total of no less than forty-eight graduate semester hours or seventy-two quarter hours in the mental health clinical core curriculum;

C. demonstrates professional competency by passing the required examination as prescribed by the board;

D. has a minimum of two years of professional clinical counseling experience, including at least three thousand clinical contact hours and at least one hundred hours of appropriate supervision. One thousand client clinical contact hours may be submitted from the applicant's internship or practicum; and

E. observes the code of ethics.
N.M. Stat. § 52-1-25 — NM Code / Chapter 52 / Article 1 / Section 52-1-25
§ 52-1-25. Permanent total disability
Status: in_force

A. As used in the Workers' Compensation Act, “ permanent total disability ” means:

(1) the permanent and total loss or loss of use of both hands or both arms or both feet or both legs or both eyes or any two of them; or

(2) a brain injury resulting from a single traumatic work-related injury that causes, exclusive of the contribution to the impairment rating arising from any other impairment to any other body part, or any preexisting impairments of any kind, a permanent impairment of thirty percent or more as determined by the current American medical association guide to the evaluation of permanent impairment.

B. In considering a claim for total disability, a workers' compensation judge shall not receive or consider the testimony of a vocational rehabilitation provider offered for the purpose of determining the existence or extent of disability.
N.M. Stat. § 20-2-5 — NM Code / Chapter 20 / Article 2 / Section 20-2-5
§ 20-2-5. Fresh pursuit
Status: in_force

A. In case the United States is at war or in case of any other emergency declared by the president or the congress of the United States or by the governor or the legislature of this state, any organization, unit or detachment of the military forces of this state by direction of the governor and upon order of the officer in immediate command thereof may continue in fresh pursuit of insurrectionists, saboteurs, perpetrators of felony, enemies or enemy forces beyond the borders of this state into another state of the United States until they are apprehended or captured by such organization, unit or detachment or until the military or police forces of such other state or the forces of the United States have had a reasonable opportunity to take up the pursuit or to apprehend or capture the persons pursued, provided such other state shall have given authority by law for such pursuit by such forces of this state. Except as otherwise provided by law, any person who shall be apprehended or captured in another state of the United States by any of the forces of this state shall without unnecessary delay be surrendered to the military or police forces of the state in which he is taken or to the United States, but such surrender shall not constitute a waiver by this state of its right to extradite or prosecute such person for any crime committed in this state.

B. Military forces of other states of the United States may enter this state. Any military forces of another state of the United States who are in fresh pursuit of insurrectionists, saboteurs, perpetrators of felony, enemies or enemy forces may continue such pursuit into this state until the military or police forces of this state or the forces of the United States have had a reasonable opportunity to take up the pursuit or to apprehend or capture the persons pursued and the pursuing forces may arrest or capture such persons within this state while in fresh pursuit. Any such person who shall be captured or arrested by the military forces of such other state while in this state shall without unnecessary delay be surrendered to the military or police forces of this state to be dealt with according to law.

C. This section shall not be construed so as to make unlawful any arrest in this state which would otherwise be lawful or to repeal or prevent the application of any of the provisions of the Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit.
N.M. Stat. § 72-16-90 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 16 / Section 72-16-90
§ 72-16-90. Interim debentures not to be extended
Status: in_force

No interim debenture issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 89 hereof shall be extended or funded except by the issuance or reissuance of a bond or bonds in compliance with Section 91 hereof.
N.M. Stat. § 28-16A-5 — NM Code / Chapter 28 / Article 16A / Section 28-16A-5
§ 28-16A-5. Powers and duties
Status: in_force

A. The council shall:

(1) provide statewide advocacy for persons with developmental disabilities;

(2) develop and submit to the federal government the five-year plan for council activities and any amendments to the plan;

(3) to the maximum extent feasible, review and comment on all state plans that relate to programs affecting persons with developmental disabilities;

(4) submit to the secretary of the United States department of health and human services, through the office of the governor, periodic reports that the secretary may request;

(5) advise the governor and the legislature about the needs of persons with developmental disabilities;

(6) hold all council meetings with a video conference option;

(7) carry out any other activities authorized or required by the provisions of the federal Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 1 ; and

(8) oversee the office of the state special education ombud;

B. The council is authorized to:

(1) award grants and enter into contracts to carry out its duties;

(2) seek funding from sources other than the state;

(3) create and support regional county or local advisory councils;

(4) provide training to persons with developmental disabilities, their families and providers of support and services through traineeships, sponsoring training opportunities and by other means determined appropriate by the council; and

(5) promulgate rules in accordance with the State Rules Act to carry out the provisions of the Special Education Ombud Act.
N.M. Stat. § 29-1-13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 1 / Section 29-1-13
§ 29-1-13. Unclaimed property; inventory
Status: in_force

A peace officer shall immediately inventory and record any personal property that comes into his possession and is taken under authority of law or is left in his possession or in the possession of the state, county or municipality. As used in Sections 29-1-13 through 29-1-15 NMSA 1978 , “peace officer” means any full-time employee of a police or sheriff's department that is part of or administered by the state or any political subdivision of the state and which employee is responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the penal, traffic or highway laws of the state.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8F-5 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8F / Section 22-8F-5
§ 22-8F-5. Uses of family income index allocations distributions
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, a public school shall use its family income index allocation on any of the following:

(1) evidence-based, structured literacy interventions that have been shown to improve reading and writing achievement of students;

(2) evidence-based mathematics instruction and interventions, including educational programming intended to improve career and college readiness of at-risk students, dual or concurrent enrollment and career and technical education;

(3) case management, tutoring and after-school and summer enrichment programs that are delivered by social workers, counselors, teachers or other professional staff;

(4) culturally relevant professional and curriculum development, including those necessary to support language acquisition and bilingual and multicultural education;

(5) whole school interventions, including social and emotional learning programs, multilayered systems of support, student nutrition programs, school-based health centers and community schools;

(6) evidence-based, high-quality instructional resources and materials;

(7) services to engage and support parents and families in the education of students; and

(8) services to engage and support tribal communities in the education of Native American students.

B. A school district shall use distributions received for allowable uses specified in Subsection A of this section to expand or improve services provided as part of a public school's existing academic program, but not to replace existing services.
N.M. Stat. § 66-3-424.37 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-424.37
§ 66-3-424.37. Special support of pollinator protection registration plate
Status: in_force

A. The department shall issue a standardized special registration plate in support of pollinator protection with a logo specified in Section 66-3-424 NMSA 1978 indicating that the recipient supports pollinator protection.

B. For an initial fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fees, a motor vehicle owner may apply for issuance of a special registration plate as provided in Subsection A of this section. For each subsequent year, the fee shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) if the owner wishes to retain and renew the support of pollinator protection special registration plate.

C. The revenue from the fees imposed by Subsection B of this section for the support of pollinator protection special registration plate shall be distributed as follows:

(1) ten dollars ($10.00) of the initial fee collected shall be retained by the department and is appropriated to the department for the manufacture and issuance of the special registration plate; and

(2) fifteen dollars ($15.00) of the initial fee and the entire renewal fee collected shall be distributed to and are appropriated to the department of transportation for the purpose of funding pollinator protection activities, including roadside vegetation planting, educational signage and demonstration gardens in areas within the department's jurisdiction.
N.M. Stat. § 38-1-4 — NM Code / Chapter 38 / Article 1 / Section 38-1-4
§ 38-1-4. Equity rules prevail over common law
Status: in_force

Generally in all matters in which there is any conflict or variance between the rules of equity and the rules of the common law, with reference to the same matter, the rules of equity shall prevail.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-58-12 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 58 / Section 59A-58-12
§ 59A-58-12. Cancellation of service contract
Status: in_force

A. No service contract that has been in effect for at least seventy days may be canceled by the provider before the expiration of the agreed term or one year after the effective date of the service contract, whichever occurs first, except on any of the following grounds:

(1) failure by the holder to pay an amount when due;

(2) conviction of the holder of a crime that results in an increase in the service required under the service contract;

(3) discovery of fraud or material misrepresentation by the holder in obtaining the service contract or in presenting a claim for service thereunder; or

(4) discovery of either of the following if it occurred after the effective date of the service contract and substantially and materially increased the service required under the service contract:

(a) an act or omission by the holder; or

(b) a violation by the holder of any condition of the service contract.

B. No cancellation of a service contract may become effective until at least fifteen days after the notice of cancellation is mailed to the holder.
N.M. Stat. § 25-7A-12 — NM Code / Chapter 25 / Article 7A / Section 25-7A-12
§ 25-7A-12. Manufacturing, packing and processing permits for certain classes of dairy products; suspension; inspections
Status: in_force

A. Whenever the board finds after investigation that the distribution in New Mexico of any class of dairy product may, by reason of contamination with microorganisms during manufacture, processing or packing in any locality, be injurious to health and that such injurious nature cannot be adequately determined after the dairy product has entered commerce, it then and in such case only shall promulgate regulations providing for the issuance, by the director to manufacturers, processors or packers of such class of dairy product in such locality, of permits to which shall be attached such conditions governing the manufacture, processing or packing of such class of dairy product for such temporary period of time as may be necessary to protect the public health, and after the effective date of the regulations and during the temporary period, no dairy establishment shall introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce any such dairy product manufactured, processed or packed by any such manufacturer, processor or packer unless the manufacturer, processor or packer holds a permit issued by the director as provided by such regulations.

B. The director is authorized to suspend immediately upon notice any permit issued under authority of this section if it is found that any of the conditions of the permit have been violated. The holder of a permit so suspended shall be privileged at any time to apply for the reinstatement of the permit, and the director shall, immediately after prompt hearing and an inspection of the establishment, reinstate the permit if it is found that adequate measures have been taken to comply with and maintain the conditions of the permit as originally issued or as amended.

C. The director shall have access to any factory or establishment, the operator of which holds a permit from the director, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the conditions of the permit are being complied with, and denial of access for inspection shall be ground for suspension of the permit until access is freely given by the operator.
N.M. Stat. § 21-7-6 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 21-7-6
§ 21-7-6. President; secretary and treasurer; duties and powers
Status: in_force

The president of the board of regents of the university of New Mexico shall preside at all meetings of the board, except that when the president is absent the board may appoint a president pro tem, and sign all instruments required to be executed by the board. The president shall appoint committees of the board. The secretary shall provide for attesting all instruments required to be signed by the president of the board, shall keep a true record of all the proceedings of the board and generally do all other things required of the secretary by the board.
N.M. Stat. § 30-7-22 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 7 / Section 30-7-22
§ 30-7-22. Interference with bomb or fire control
Status: in_force

A. Interference with bomb or fire control consists of:

(1) intentionally interfering with the proper functioning of a fire alarm system;

(2) intentionally interfering with the lawful efforts of a fireman or police officer to control or extinguish a fire or to secure the safety of any object reasonably believed to be a bomb, explosive or incendiary device; or

(3) intentionally interfering with the lawful efforts of a fireman or police officer to preserve for investigation or investigate the scene of a fire or explosion to determine its cause.

B. Any person who commits interference with bomb or fire control is guilty of a misdemeanor.