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N.M. Stat. § 60-13-23.1 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 13 / Section 60-13-23.1
§ 60-13-23.1. Administrative penalty
Status: in_force

A. Notwithstanding any provisions of the Uniform Licensing Act 1 or the Construction Industries Licensing Act to the contrary, the commission may, in addition to or instead of revocation or suspension of a license issued by the division for any cause specified in the Construction Industries Licensing Act, assess the licensee an administrative penalty in the following amounts:

(1) where the dollar value of the contract or work performed is five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less, the penalty shall be not less than three hundred dollars ($300) or more than five hundred dollars ($500); or

(2) where the dollar value of the contract or work performed is more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), the penalty shall be in an amount equal to not more than ten percent of the dollar amount of the contract or work performed but not less than five hundred dollars ($500).

B. If a person subject to the penalties under Subsection A of this section previously has had his contractor's license suspended or revoked or has been assessed an administrative penalty pursuant to Subsection A of this section, that person shall be assessed twice the amount specified in Paragraph (1) or (2) of Subsection A of this section, as applicable.

C. Failure to pay an administrative penalty upon the date set by the commission shall subject the offender to an additional penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day the offender fails to comply with the order. The attorney general shall institute an action in the district court to recover the appropriate penalties.
N.M. Stat. § 31-15-11 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 31 / Article 15 / Section 31-15-11
§ 31-15-11. Compensation; private practice of law by attorneys employed by the department prohibited
Status: in_force

A. For the purposes of the exempt salaries plan prepared pursuant to Section 10-9-5 NMSA 1978 , each district public defender shall be considered an assistant in the offices of the chief.

B. All employees of the department other than the chief, assistant chief public defenders, appellate defender and district public defenders shall be subject to the provisions of the Personnel Act, 1 unless the employees are exempted from the Personnel Act by the commission.

C. Before the commission may exempt the department from the Personnel Act, the commission shall develop and adopt personnel policies for the department; provided that no employee of the department, except the chief, assistant chief public defenders, appellate defender and district public defenders, shall have fewer rights under these policies than under the Personnel Act and under administrative rules applicable to state employees on the effective date of this 2014 act. 2

D. No chief, assistant chief public defender, appellate defender, district public defender or attorney hired on a full-time basis as an assistant to the chief or to a district public defender, while holding that office or employed in that capacity, shall engage in the private practice of law. Attorneys who serve as counsel for indigent persons under contract with the department may engage in the private practice of law.
N.M. Stat. § 1-19A-17 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 19A / Section 1-19A-17
§ 1-19A-17. Penalties
Status: in_force

A. In addition to other penalties that may be applicable, a person who violates a provision of the Voter Action Act is subject to a civil penalty of up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation. In addition to a fine, a certified candidate found in violation of that act may be required to return to the fund all amounts distributed to the candidate from the fund. If the state ethics commission makes a determination that a violation of that act has occurred, the state ethics commission shall impose a fine and, if the violation is willful or knowing, transmit the finding to the attorney general for criminal prosecution pursuant to Subsection B of this section. In determining whether a certified candidate is in violation of the expenditure limits of that act, the state ethics commission may consider as a mitigating factor any circumstances out of the candidate's control.

B. A person who willfully or knowingly violates the provisions of the Voter Action Act or knowingly makes a false statement in a report required by that act is guilty of a fourth degree felony and, if the person is a certified candidate, shall return to the fund all money distributed to that candidate.
N.M. Stat. § 76-7-8 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7 / Section 76-7-8
§ 76-7-8. Qualified voters in district elections
Status: repealed

A. At any election for the consideration of a proposed noxious weed control district, only the following persons shall be eligible voters:

(1) all persons who are owners of agricultural land within the district or have evidence of title to the lands or who are purchasers under contract of lands within the district;

(2) all resident entrymen of federal public lands and lessees of state agricultural lands within the district;

(3) any authorized officer or agent of a corporation owning land within the proposed district. He may cast the ballot of the corporation in all weed control district elections;

(4) all minors who are the owners of agricultural land within the district and who are entitled to vote under the provisions of the Noxious Weed Control Act. Their vote shall be cast by their father, mother or duly appointed guardian in the order named, and if they have no father, mother or duly appointed guardian, the minor may cast his own ballot; and

(5) any owner of agricultural lands in the district voting by proxy. A landowner may have his vote cast at any election by another person entitled to vote in the election, and whom he may appoint as his proxy. Designation of a proxy for the purposes of district voting shall be in writing and signed by the person authorizing the proxy. Every proxy shall be attached to and deposited with the ballot cast by the designated voter, and the ballot shall be signed in the name of the person authorizing the proxy and the proxy himself. Each proxy shall contain an official acknowledgment duly signed by a person authorized to take acknowledgments in this state.

B. The general election laws of the state, insofar as applicable, except for the requirements for registration under Section 3-2-49 NMSA 1953 [repealed] and residence in state, county and precinct under Section 3-2-51 NMSA 1953 [repealed] and except as otherwise provided in the Noxious Weed Control Act, shall govern all elections under the Noxious Weed Control Act.
N.M. Stat. § 30-37-8 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 37 / Section 30-37-8
§ 30-37-8. Uniform application
Status: in_force

In order to provide for the uniform application of this act to all minors within this state, it is intended that the sole and only regulation of the sale, distribution or provision of any matter described in Section 2, or admission to, or exhibition of, any performance described in Section 3, shall be under this act, and no municipality, county or other governmental unit within this state shall make any law, ordinance or regulation relating to the sale, distribution or provision of any matter described in Section 2, or admission to any performance described in Section 3, including but not limited to criminal offenses, classification of suitable matter or performances for minors, or licenses or taxes respecting the sale, distribution, exhibition or provision of matter regulated under this act. All such laws, ordinances, regulations, taxes or licenses, whether enacted before or after this act, shall be or become void, unenforceable and of no effect upon the effective date of this act.
N.M. Stat. § 17-3-13.5 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 17-3-13.5
§ 17-3-13.5. Elk licenses reserved
Status: in_force

The state game commission shall reserve no more than two elk licenses a year for sale to persons under the age of twenty-one who have been determined by a licensed physician to have a life-threatening illness and who have been qualified through a nonprofit wish-granting organization approved by the commission.
N.M. Stat. § 49-2-8 — NM Code / Chapter 49 / Article 2 / Section 49-2-8
§ 49-2-8. Special meetings; business to be transacted; calling
Status: in_force

Such board of trustees may hold special meetings at such times as the business of the corporation shall require, but at such special meetings the only business transacted shall be such as may be necessary to protect the common lands of said grant from trespassers, the making of assessments against owners and proprietors, and such other business as shall relate only to general routine of the corporation, and no sale, mortgage, lease, or other disposition of the common lands of the grant shall be authorized at any such special meeting. Such special meetings may be called by the president at such times as he shall consider necessary, and shall be called at any time upon the request in writing of three or more members of the board.
N.M. Stat. § 72-2-11 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 2 / Section 72-2-11
§ 72-2-11. Board of water commissioners abolished; pending appeals
Status: in_force

That the board of water commissioners be and the same is hereby abolished, and that any and all records of said board shall, when this act becomes effective, be placed for safekeeping into the custody of the state engineer, provided that appeals pending before said board, together with all papers and records of same shall be transferred to the district court of the county wherein the work or point of desired appropriation, referred to in any such pending appeal or appeals, is situated, to be considered and disposed of by such district court as an appeal, as hereinbefore provided for.
N.M. Stat. § 22-8E-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 8E / Section 22-8E-3
§ 22-8E-3. Charter school district application requirements; process
Status: in_force

A. Before a school district applies for a charter from the department, the local school board shall adopt a resolution approving the application plan and hold at least two public hearings on the matter. The school district shall advertise the charter school district application plan in the same manner as other legal notices of the school district. In addition, the school district shall send a notice to the principal of each school in the district, with instructions that each school distribute the notice to the families whose children are enrolled in the school. The local school board may amend the charter school district application after the public hearings. The local school board shall vote to approve the final application before the school district submits it to the department.

B. Not less than sixty-five percent of the employees of the school district must sign a petition in support of the school district becoming a charter school district.

C. The department shall establish by rule the process and requirements for applying for charter school district status and the process and requirements for renewing charter school district status. In each case, the department shall hold a public hearing.

D. The department shall approve no more than nine charter school districts altogether, three small, three medium and three large districts as determined by the department.

E. The department shall disapprove an initial application or application for renewal of charter school district status when it determines, after a hearing, that the application is not in the best interests of the students, the school district or the community.
N.M. Stat. § 73-16-32 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 16 / Section 73-16-32
§ 73-16-32. Conservation and development fund created; legislative finding
Status: in_force

In addition to the separate funds provided for under Section 501, Subsection 1 of Article V of the Conservancy Act of New Mexico, there is hereby created a separate fund to be known as the “conservation and development fund,” by which shall be meant the proceeds of a special levy hereby authorized to be made against the special benefits appraised, equalized and confirmed; and legislative finding is hereby made that for the purpose of conserving and developing the resources of any conservancy district heretofore or hereafter created under the Conservancy Act of New Mexico, the lands and properties therein have and will be benefited by the construction of the official plan and the conserving and developing of the resources thereof to the extent of the benefits confirmed and approved, and that the same have and will be further benefited and improved by conserving and developing the resources thereof in the manner provided hereunder.
N.M. Stat. § 53-19-39 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 19 / Section 53-19-39
§ 53-19-39. Dissolution
Status: in_force

A. A limited liability company is dissolved upon the happening of any of the following events:

(1) an event specified in the articles of organization or an operating agreement;

(2) except as otherwise provided in the articles of organization or an operating agreement, upon the written consent of members having a majority share of the voting power of all members; or

(3) entry of a decree of judicial dissolution pursuant to Section 53-19-40 NMSA 1978 .

B. On the dissolution of the limited liability company, the limited liability company shall cease to carry on its business and affairs, except insofar as necessary for winding up the company's business and affairs, but its legal existence shall continue until all its business and affairs are wound up.
N.M. Stat. § 5-11-17 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 11 / Section 5-11-17
§ 5-11-17. Finances
Status: in_force

The projects to be constructed or acquired as shown in the general plan may be financed from the following sources of revenue:

A. proceeds received from the sale of bonds of the district;

B. money of the municipality or county contributed to the district;

C. annual property taxes or special levies;

D. state or federal grants or contributions;

E. private contributions;

F. user, landowner and other fees and charges;

G. proceeds of loans or advances; and

H. any other money available to the district by law.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-32-13 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 32 / Section 59A-32-13
§ 59A-32-13. Rules and regulations
Status: in_force

The superintendent may prescribe, amend, supplement and revoke from time to time regulations as he may deem warranted for the administration of the Motor Vehicle Assigned Risks Law.
N.M. Stat. § 7-9-115 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 9 / Section 7-9-115
§ 7-9-115. Deduction; gross receipts tax; goods and services for the department of defense related to directed energy and satellites
Status: in_force

A. Prior to January 1, 2031, receipts from the sale by a qualified contractor of qualified research and development services and qualified directed energy and satellite-related inputs may be deducted from gross receipts when sold pursuant to a contract with the United States department of defense.

B. The purposes of the deduction allowed in this section are to promote new and sophisticated technology, enhance the viability of directed energy and satellite projects, attract new projects and employers to New Mexico and increase high-technology employment opportunities in New Mexico.

C. A taxpayer allowed a deduction pursuant to this section shall report the amount of the deduction separately in a manner required by the department.

D. The department shall compile an annual report on the deduction provided by this section that shall include the number of taxpayers that claimed the deduction, the aggregate amount of deductions claimed and any other information necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the deduction. Beginning in 2017 and each year thereafter that the deduction is in effect, the department and the economic development department shall present the annual report to the revenue stabilization and tax policy committee and the legislative finance committee with an analysis of the effectiveness and cost of the deduction and whether the deduction is performing the purpose for which it was created.

E. As used in this section:

(1) “ directed energy ” means a system, including related services, that enables the use of the frequency spectrum, including radio waves, light and x-rays;

(2) “ inputs ” means systems, subsystems, components, prototypes and demonstrators or products and services involving optics, photonics, electronics, advanced materials, nanoelectromechanical and microelectromechanical systems, fabrication materials and test evaluation and computer control systems related to directed energy or satellites;

(3) “ qualified contractor ” means a person other than an organization designated as a national laboratory by act of congress or an operator of national laboratory facilities in New Mexico; provided that the operator may be a qualified contractor with respect to the operator's receipts not connected with operating the national laboratory;

(4) “ qualified directed energy and satellite-related inputs ” means inputs supplied to the department of defense pursuant to a contract with that department entered into on or after January 1, 2016;

(5) “ qualified research and development services ” means research and development services related to directed energy or satellites provided to the department of defense pursuant to a contract with that department entered into on or after January 1, 2016; and

(6) “ satellite ” means composite systems assembled and packaged for use in space, including launch vehicles and related products and services.
N.M. Stat. § 24-13-4 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 13 / Section 24-13-4
§ 24-13-4. Burial after investigation; cost of opening and closing grave
Status: in_force

The county after proper investigation shall cause an unclaimed decedent to be decently interred or cremated. The cost to be paid by the county of opening and closing a grave shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), which sum shall be in addition to the sums enumerated in Section 24-13-3 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 59A-34-36 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 34 / Section 59A-34-36
§ 59A-34-36. Merger, consolidation of stock insurers
Status: in_force

A. Subject to the provisions of this section a domestic stock insurer may merge or consolidate with one or more domestic or foreign stock insurers by complying with the applicable provisions of the statutes of this state governing merger or consolidation of stock corporations formed for profit. A domestic stock insurer may, as the surviving corporation resulting therefrom, so merge with a domestic general business corporation formed for profit under the general corporation laws of this state if the assets of such general business corporation are in major part such as the insurer could invest its funds in under Article 9 (investments) of the Insurance Code.

B. No such merger or consolidation shall be effectuated unless in advance thereof the plan and agreement therefor have been filed with the superintendent and approved in writing by him after a hearing thereon after notice to the stockholders of each corporation involved. Prior to or at time of filing the plan, a foreign insurer party to the proposed merger or consolidation if not then an authorized insurer shall file with the superintendent the documents and information required as for application for certificate of authority under Paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5) and (7) of Subsection A, and under Subsection B, of Section 88 of the Insurance Code. The superintendent shall give his approval within a reasonable time after such filing unless he finds such plan or agreement:

(1) contrary to law; or

(2) unfair or inequitable to the stockholders of any corporation involved; or

(3) would substantially reduce the security of and service to policyholders of the domestic insurer, or result in a surviving insurer which does not meet paid-in capital stock requirements for certificate of authority of a like insurer under Section 83 of the Insurance Code or is otherwise inadequately financed for reasonable continuing conduct of its business; or

(4) would materially tend to lessen competition in the insurance business in this state or elsewhere as to the kinds of insurance involved, or would materially tend to create a monopoly as to such business; or

(5) is subject to other material and reasonable objections.

C. No director, officer, agent or employee of any corporation party to such merger or consolidation or any other person shall receive any fee, commission, special compensation or other valuable consideration whatsoever for in any manner aiding, promoting, or assisting therein except as set forth in such plan or agreement.

D. Nothing in the Insurance Code shall be deemed to prohibit merger or consolidation between insurers theretofore transacting different kinds of insurance, if the certificate of authority of the surviving and continuing corporation as originally issued or amended covers all the kinds of insurance to be transacted after effectuation of merger or consolidation.
N.M. Stat. § 25-10-5 — NM Code / Chapter 25 / Article 10 / Section 25-10-5
§ 25-10-5. Penalty
Status: in_force

Any person who violates the provisions of the Piñon Nut Act or any regulation promulgated pursuant to that act is guilty of a misdemeanor and each violation shall constitute a separate offense.
N.M. Stat. § 72-18-27 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 18 / Section 72-18-27
§ 72-18-27. Dissolution; petition for election; application
Status: in_force

Whenever the majority of the directors of the board of a district deem it to be in the best interests of the district that it be dissolved, the board shall file an application for dissolution in the district court for the county in which the petition for organization of the district was originally filed.
N.M. Stat. § 60-2F-25 — NM Code / Chapter 60 / Article 2F / Section 60-2F-25
§ 60-2F-25. Duty to enforce act; criminal penalties
Status: in_force

A. It is the duty of all law enforcement officers to enforce the provisions of the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act. It is the duty of the district attorney of the county in which a violation is committed to prosecute such violation of that act in the manner and form as is now provided by law for the prosecutions of crimes and misdemeanors.

B. A licensee, a permittee or an officer, agent or employee of a licensee or any other person who willfully violates or who procures, aids or abets in the willful violation of the New Mexico Bingo and Raffle Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof:

(1) for a first offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both; or

(2) for a subsequent offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.