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N.M. Stat. § 50-9-9 — NM Code / Chapter 50 / Article 9 / Section 50-9-9
§ 50-9-9. Occupational health and safety review commission; creation; organization
Status: in_force

A. The occupational health and safety review commission is hereby established. The commission shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, from among persons who by reason of training, education or experience are qualified to carry out the functions of the commission under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. One member each shall be chosen to reflect the views of labor, industry and of the general public. The governor shall designate one of the members of the commission to serve as chairman.

B. Terms of commission members shall be six years except that members of the commission first taking office shall serve as designated by the governor at the time of appointment: one for a term of two years, one for a term of four years and one for a term of six years. A vacancy caused by death, resignation or removal of a member prior to the expiration of the term for which he was appointed shall be filled only for the remainder of such unexpired term. A member of the commission may be removed by the governor for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.

C. For the purpose of carrying out its functions under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, two members of the commission shall constitute a quorum and official action can be taken only on the affirmative vote of at least two members.

D. Every official act of the commission shall be entered of record and its hearings and records shall be open to the public. The commission is authorized to make such rules as are necessary for the orderly transaction of its proceedings.

E. The commission may order testimony to be taken by deposition in any proceedings pending before it. Any person whose testimony may be material may be compelled to appear and testify, and to produce books, papers or documents in the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify and produce like documentary evidence before the commission.

F. The commission may designate a hearing officer to take evidence in the hearing. The commission will then make its decision based on the evidence in the transcript of the hearing proceedings.

G. Members of the commission shall be reimbursed as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act.
N.M. Stat. § 72-19-25 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 19 / Section 72-19-25
§ 72-19-25. Sinking fund
Status: in_force

Whenever any indebtedness has been incurred by the authority, it is lawful for the board to levy taxes and to collect revenue for the purpose of creating a reserve fund in such amount as the board may determine, which may be used to meet the obligations of the authority, for maintenance and operating charges and depreciation, and to provide improvements for the authority.
N.M. Stat. § 14-7-2 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 7 / Section 14-7-2
§ 14-7-2. Requirements of state agencies, boards and commissions prior to access to a financial institution's records
Status: in_force

A. Prior to a state agency, board or commission receiving access to or copies of the records of a person, corporation, company or organization maintained by a bank, savings and loan association, small loan company or other similar financial institution, the agency, board or commission shall:

(1) allow the institution forty-eight hours to comply with an administrative subpoena;

(2) allow the institution to provide authenticated copies of original records rather than the original copies in response to an administrative subpoena; and

(3) pay the institution the reasonable cost of production of such records including both the cost of materials and wages.

B. The provisions of Subsection A of this section shall not apply to the audit of any bank, savings and loan association, small loan company or other similar financial institution by a state agency when conducted pursuant to the agency's statutory directive.
N.M. Stat. § 31-22-3 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 22 / Section 31-22-3
§ 31-22-3. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Crime Victims Reparation Act:

A. “ child ” means an unmarried person who is under the age of majority and includes a stepchild and an adopted child;

B. “ collateral source ” includes benefits for economic loss otherwise reparable under the Crime Victims Reparation Act which the victim or claimant has received or which are readily available to him from:

(1) the offender;

(2) social security, medicare and medicaid;

(3) workers' compensation;

(4) proceeds of a contract of insurance payable to the victim;

(5) a contract providing prepaid hospital and other health care services or benefits for disability, except for the benefits of any life insurance policy;

(6) applicable indigent funds; or

(7) cash donations;

C. “ commission ” means the crime victims reparation commission;

D. “ dependents ” means those relatives of the deceased or disabled victim who are more than fifty percent dependent upon the victim's income at the time of his death or disability and includes the child of a victim born after his death or disability;

E. “ family relationship group ” means any person related to another person within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity;

F. “ injury ” means actual bodily harm or disfigurement and includes pregnancy and extreme mental distress. For the purposes of this subsection, “ extreme mental distress ” means a substantial personal disorder of emotional processes, thought or cognition that impairs judgment, behavior or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life;

G. “ permanent total disability ” means loss of both legs or arms, loss of one leg and one arm, total loss of eyesight, paralysis or other physical condition permanently incapacitating the worker from performing any work at any gainful occupation;

H. “ relative ” means a person's spouse, parent, grandparent, stepfather, stepmother, child, grandchild, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister or spouse's parents; and

I. “ victim ” means:

(1) a person in New Mexico who is injured or killed by any act or omission of any other person that is a crime enumerated in Section 31-22-8 NMSA 1978;

(2) a resident of New Mexico who is injured or killed by such a crime occurring in a state other than New Mexico if that state does not have an eligible crime victims compensation program; or

(3) a resident of New Mexico who is injured or killed by an act of international terrorism, as provided in 18 U.S.C. Section 2331 .
N.M. Stat. § 66-11-2 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 11 / Section 66-11-2
§ 66-11-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this act:

A. “collector” means the owner of one or more vehicles of historic or special interest who collects, purchases, acquires, trades or disposes of these vehicles or parts thereof for his own use in order to preserve, restore and maintain a vehicle for hobby purposes;

B. “parts car” means a motor vehicle generally in nonoperable condition which is owned by a collector to furnish parts that are usually nonobtainable from normal sources, thus enabling a collector to preserve, restore and maintain a motor vehicle of historic or special interest; and

C. “historic or special interest vehicle” means a vehicle of any age which, because of its significance, is being collected, preserved, restored or maintained by a hobbyist as a leisure pursuit.
N.M. Stat. § 1-5-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 1-5-3
§ 1-5-3. Act is mandatory and supplemental to Election Code
Status: in_force

A. The Voter Records System Act is mandatory and supplemental to the provisions of the Election Code. The provisions of that act shall be implemented in all counties by order of the secretary of state in accordance with the provisions of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.

B. The secretary of state shall maintain the official state voter file based on county registers and shall provide access to the file to the county clerks. The secretary of state shall prescribe any rules, forms and instructions necessary to implement procedures required by the Voter Records System Act and federal law. The secretary of state shall maintain a log, which shall be public, containing all transactions regarding requests for current registration lists of state voters. The log shall indicate the requesting party, the date of the request, the date of fulfilling the request, charges made and any other information deemed advisable by the secretary of state. Requests for registration lists in printed or electronic form shall be fulfilled within a period of ten working days.

C. All registration records required by the Election Code shall be maintained for each of the precincts in addition to those records required by the Voter Records System Act and federal law.
N.M. Stat. § 19-7-22 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 19 / Article 7 / Section 19-7-22
§ 19-7-22. Cemetery or school site lands; subdivision and sale
Status: in_force

Should any state lands be valuable or desirable for cemetery or school site purposes, the commissioner may subdivide and sell such lands for such purposes in accordance with law.
N.M. Stat. § 30-46-1 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 46 / Section 30-46-1
§ 30-46-1. Ticket scalping
Status: in_force

A. Ticket scalping consists of selling, offering for sale or attempting to sell any ticket, privilege, license, admission or pass to any college athletic event at a price greater than the price charged at the place of admission or printed on the ticket.

B. The sale of each ticket, privilege, license, admission or pass in violation of this section shall constitute a separate offense.

C. Nothing in this section shall prohibit charging a fee for services rendered in connection with the sale of a ticket privilege, license, admission or pass to an event if the fee is permitted pursuant to a contract between the ticket seller and the sponsor or promoter of the event.

D. Whoever commits ticket scalping is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine up to five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for a definite term of less than one year, or both.
N.M. Stat. § 34-6-6 — NM Code / Chapter 34 / Article 6 / Section 34-6-6
§ 34-6-6. Judges; third judicial district
Status: in_force

There shall be nine district judges in the third judicial district.
N.M. Stat. § 21-16-13 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 16 / Section 21-16-13
§ 21-16-13. Sharing of facilities
Status: in_force

Technical and vocational institute districts may arrange for the use or sharing of facilities with any school district or with the board of regents of a higher educational institution. Any agreement entered into for the sharing of facilities shall provide that the technical and vocational institute district shall bear an appropriate and equitable share of the expenses for the maintenance and operation of the facilities used.
N.M. Stat. § 34-5-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 34 / Article 5 / Section 34-5-2
§ 34-5-2. Court of appeals; chief judge
Status: in_force

At their first meeting in each odd-numbered year, the judges of the court of appeals shall, by majority vote, designate one of their number to serve as chief judge for a term of two years. In the absence of the chief judge, the senior judge present at the seat of government shall exercise the powers of the chief judge. Seniority shall be determined by the length of present continuous service on the court. In the event of a vacancy in the office of chief judge, the judges shall, by majority vote, designate one of their number to serve for the remainder of the term.
N.M. Stat. § 6-9-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 6 / Article 9 / Section 6-9-6
§ 6-9-6. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the Uniform Facsimile Signature of Public Officials Act.
N.M. Stat. § 28-8-3 — NM Code / Chapter 28 / Article 8 / Section 28-8-3
§ 28-8-3. Duty of peace officer
Status: in_force

A. A peace officer shall make a diligent effort to determin [determine] whether any disabled person he finds is an epileptic or a diabetic or suffers from some other type of illness that would cause the condition. Whenever feasible, this effort shall be made before the person is charged with a crime or taken to a place of detention.

B. In seeking to determine whether a disabled person suffers from an illness, a peace officer shall make a reasonable search for an identifying device and an identification card of the type described in Subsection B of Section 2 of this act and examine them for emergency information. The peace officer may not search for an identifying device or an identification card in a manner or to an extent that would appear to a reasonable person in the circumstances to cause an unreasonable risk of worsening the disabled person's condition.

C. A peace officer who finds a disabled person without an identifying device or identification card is not relieved of his duty to that person to make a diligent effort to ascertain the existence of any illness causing the disabled condition.

D. A claim for relief against a peace officer does not arise from his making a reasonable search of the disabled person to locate an identifying device or identification card, even though the person is not wearing an identifying device or carrying an identification card. However, nothing found on the disabled person during a search authorized under this act shall be admitted into evidence in any court in a criminal proceeding where the disabled person is a defendant if the admission of the product of the search would not be entitled to admission except for the authority to search granted in Subsection C of this section.

E. A peace officer who determines or has reason to believe that a disabled person is suffering from an illness causing his condition shall promptly notify the person's physician, if practicable. If the officer is unable to ascertain the physician's identity or to communicate with him, the officer shall make a reasonable effort to cause the disabled person to be transported immediately to a medical practitioner or to a facility where medical treatment is available. If the officer believes it unduly dangerous to move the disabled person, he shall make a reasonable effort to obtain the assistance of a medical practitioner.
N.M. Stat. § 18-6-25 — NM Code / Chapter 18 / Article 6 / Section 18-6-25
§ 18-6-25. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Reburial Grounds Act:

A. “ department ” means the cultural affairs department;

B. “ descendant group ” means persons demonstrably related to the remains by consanguinity, family affiliation, clan or direct historical association and includes a Native American nation, band, tribe or pueblo in New Mexico;

C. “ funerary object ” means an object or artifact associated with a human burial;

D. “ reburial grounds ” means state or federal land set aside pursuant to the Reburial Grounds Act that secures and preserves unmarked graves for remains not claimed by a descendant group;

E. “ remains ” means a human body, skeletal remains or mummified remains discovered during construction and other projects or exposed through erosion, excavation or accident or other means on state, federal and private lands and includes a funerary object or artifact associated with the remains; and

F. “ state land ” means property owned, controlled or operated by a department, agency, institution or political subdivision of the state.
N.M. Stat. § 3-53-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 53 / Section 3-53-5
§ 3-53-5. Irrigation of trees and shrubs; assessment of cost against abutting property; manner of making assessment; lien; irrigation of private property; annual charge; payment in advance
Status: in_force

A. If the governing body determines it is necessary to procure water for the benefit of the shade or ornamental trees in the streets and public grounds within the municipality, the governing body may:

(1) procure water from any available source at the lowest price for which the water may be obtained; and

(2) construct irrigation ditches, laterals, headgates and other works for properly and economically conducting the water to the streets and public grounds for the benefit of the shade and ornamental trees.

B. On or before the first Monday in April of each year, the governing body by resolution shall for the ensuing calendar year:

(1) determine what streets, parts of streets and public grounds shall be irrigated;

(2) estimate the expense of irrigating the shade and ornamental trees which shall include the cost of water, constructing ditches and laterals, keeping the ditches and laterals in repair, and delivering the water throughout the irrigation system; and

(3) equitably assess each tract or parcel of land along, by or in front of which a ditch or lateral runs and conducts water, its proportion cost of the total estimated expense according to the length of the row of trees along the streets contiguous to the lots or tracts of lands.

C. The resolution shall further provide for the manner of giving notice of the assessment and when the assessment is due and payable.

D. If the owner or agent of the tract or parcel of land assessed as provided in this section fails to pay the assessment within the time provided by the resolution required in this section and after notice is given to the owner or agent of the tract or parcel of land assessed, the assessment becomes a lien against the tract or parcel of land so assessed and shall be enforced as provided in Sections 3-36-1 through 3-36-5 NMSA 1978 .

E. On or before the first Monday in April of each year, the governing body may establish a charge in addition to the assessment provided for in this section for furnishing water to any tract or parcel of land privately owned within the municipality for irrigation purposes but no water shall be delivered to a tract or parcel of land until the annual charge has been paid in advance.

F. The governing body may by ordinance adopt regulations preventing the waste or excess use of water.
N.M. Stat. § 67-13-5 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 13 / Section 67-13-5
§ 67-13-5. Boundaries of scenic highway zones
Status: in_force

The boundaries of a scenic highway zone are limited to a strip of real property five hundred feet wide on each side of the right-of-way of any highways established as a scenic highway zone by ordinance of the county.
N.M. Stat. § 31-15-6 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 31 / Article 15 / Section 31-15-6
§ 31-15-6. Public defender department; powers
Status: in_force

The department may receive on behalf of the state any gifts, grants-in-aid, donations or bequests from any source to be used in carrying out the purposes of the Public Defender Act.
N.M. Stat. § 6-14-12 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 14 / Section 6-14-12
§ 6-14-12. Legislative intent
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the legislature that the provisions of the Supplemental Public Securities Act be applicable to all public securities of all public bodies of this state, notwithstanding any failure of this act or any other act of the legislature to expressly amend the applicable provisions of any other statute authorizing such public securities.
N.M. Stat. § 9-8-7.2 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 8 / Section 9-8-7.2
§ 9-8-7.2. Cooperation with the New Mexico health insurance exchange
Status: in_force

The medical assistance division of the department shall cooperate with the New Mexico health insurance exchange to share information and facilitate transitions in enrollment between the exchange and medicaid.
N.M. Stat. § 10-4-21 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 4 / Section 10-4-21
§ 10-4-21. Order of suspension
Status: in_force

On the date provided in the order, if the defendant appears and offers proof, the court must hear the testimony presented by the district attorney and the defendant, and if in the judgment of the court there is reasonable ground to believe that the matters and things stated in the accusation will be established upon a trial, he may forthwith enter an order suspending the officer until after final hearing.
N.M. Stat. § 35-3-3 — NM Code / Chapter 35 / Article 3 / Section 35-3-3
§ 35-3-3. Jurisdiction; civil actions
Status: in_force

A. Magistrates have jurisdiction in civil actions in which the debt or sum claimed does not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), exclusive of interest and costs.

B. Except as provided in Subsection C of this section, civil jurisdiction extends to actions in contract, quasi-contract and tort and where expressly conferred by law.

C. A magistrate has no jurisdiction in a civil action:

(1) for malicious prosecution, libel or slander;

(2) against public officers for misconduct in office;

(3) for specific performance of contracts for the sale of real property;

(4) in which the title or boundaries of land may be in dispute or drawn into question;

(5) affecting domestic relations, including divorce, annulment or separation or custody, support, guardianship, adoption or dependency of children;

(6) to grant writs of injunction, habeas corpus or extraordinary writs; or

(7) where jurisdiction is vested exclusively in another court.
N.M. Stat. § 66-1-4.8 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 1 / Section 66-1-4.8
§ 66-1-4.8. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Motor Vehicle Code:

A. “ hazardous material ” means a substance or material in a quantity and form that may pose an unreasonable risk to health, safety or property when transported in commerce;

B. “ highway ” or “ street ” means every way or place generally open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel, even though it may be temporarily closed or restricted for the purpose of construction, maintenance, repair or reconstruction;

C. “ historic or special interest vehicle ” means a vehicle of any age that, because of its significance, is being collected, preserved, restored or maintained by a collector as a leisure pursuit;

D. “ horseless carriage ” means a motor vehicle at least thirty-five years old that is owned as a collector's item and used solely for exhibition and educational purposes; and

E. “ house trailer ” means a manufactured home.
N.M. Stat. § 3-23A-3 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 23A / Section 3-23A-3
§ 3-23A-3. Definition
Status: in_force

As used in the Municipal Cable Television Act, “municipality” means a municipality with a population of more than thirty-three thousand people but less than thirty-five thousand people.
N.M. Stat. § 72-19-72 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 19 / Section 72-19-72
§ 72-19-72. Sale discount or commission prohibited
Status: in_force

No discount, except as provided by the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act, or commission shall be allowed or paid on or for any security sale to any purchaser or bidder, directly or indirectly, but nothing contained in that act shall be construed as prohibiting the board from employing legal, fiscal, engineering and other expert services in connection with any project or facilities authorized in that act and with the authorization, issuance and sale of securities.
N.M. Stat. § 2-11-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 2 / Article 11 / Section 2-11-5
§ 2-11-5. Other powers and duties of attorney general not limited or restricted
Status: in_force

The powers and duties of the attorney general pursuant to the Lobbyist Regulation Act shall not be construed to limit or restrict the exercise of his power or the performance of his duties.