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N.M. Stat. § 66-3-20.1 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-20.1
§ 66-3-20.1. Providing for extended registration periods for certain motor vehicles; credit for unexpired portion of fee
Status: in_force

A. All vehicles, motorcycles or trucks with a declared gross weight of twenty-six thousand pounds or less may be registered for a period of two years; provided the two-year registration period shall begin on the first day of any month and expire on the last day of any month.

B. The fee for a two-year registration shall be twice the fee for a one-year registration.

C. If the owner of a vehicle that is registered for two years sells, transfers or assigns title to or interest in the vehicle within the first year of registration and applies to have the registration number assigned to another vehicle pursuant to Section 66-3-101 NMSA 1978 , upon assignment, the person may apply for a refund of one-half of the two-year registration fee.
N.M. Stat. § 31-25-2 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 25 / Section 31-25-2
§ 31-25-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Victim Counselor Confidentiality Act:

A. “confidential communication” means any information exchanged between a victim and a victim counselor in private or in the presence of a third party who is necessary to facilitate communication or further the counseling process and which is disclosed in the course of the counselor's treatment of the victim for any emotional or psychological condition resulting from a sexual assault or family violence;

B. “victim” means a person who consults a victim counselor for assistance in overcoming adverse emotional or psychological effects of a sexual assault or family violence;

C. “victim counseling” means assessment, diagnosis and treatment to alleviate the adverse emotional or psychological impact of a sexual assault or family violence on the victim. Victim counseling includes crisis intervention;

D. “victim counseling center” means a private organization or unit of a government agency which has as one of its primary purposes the treatment of victims for any emotional or psychological condition resulting from a sexual assault or family violence; and

E. “victim counselor” means any employee or supervised volunteer of a victim counseling center or other agency, business or organization that provides counseling to victims who is not affiliated with a law enforcement agency or the office of a district attorney, has successfully completed forty hours of academic or other formal victim counseling training or has had a minimum of one year of experience in providing victim counseling and whose duties include victim counseling.
N.M. Stat. § 36-2-23 — NM Code / Chapter 36 / Article 2 / Section 36-2-23
§ 36-2-23. Effect of disbarment; reinstatement
Status: in_force

Every judgment or order of disbarment or suspension made in pursuance of this chapter by the supreme court of this state, shall operate while it continues in force to deny the party against whom the same is rendered the right to appear in any of the courts of this state; but an attorney-at-law, who by such order or judgment of the supreme court has been disbarred from practice or suspended for a longer period than two years for any offense not indictable, on application to the supreme court may be reinstated as such attorney in the discretion of the court at any time after two years from the date of such judgment.
N.M. Stat. § 7-8A-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 8A / Section 7-8A-5
§ 7-8A-5. Dormancy charge
Status: in_force

A holder may deduct from property presumed abandoned a charge imposed by reason of the owner's failure to claim the property within a specified time only if there is a valid and enforceable written contract between the holder and the owner under which the holder may impose the charge and the holder regularly imposes the charge, which is not regularly reversed or otherwise canceled. The amount of the deduction is limited to an amount that is not unconscionable.
N.M. Stat. § 19-7-57 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 7 / Section 19-7-57
§ 19-7-57. Commissioner; powers; easements; rights of way
Status: in_force

The commissioner may grant rights of way and easements over, upon or across state lands for public highways, railroads, tramways, telegraph, telephone and power lines, irrigation works, mining, logging and other purposes upon payment by the grantee of the price fixed by the commissioner, which shall not be less than the minimum price for the lands, used, as fixed by law. The commissioner may grant a right of way or easement over, upon or across state lands for oil, hazardous liquid and gas pipelines if the right-of-way grant or easement requires compliance with the Pipeline Safety Act, Section 70-3-11, et seq., NMSA 1978 , and rules adopted pursuant to that act and provides for regulatory and agencies' access to records of compliance.
N.M. Stat. § 57-26-9 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 26 / Section 57-26-9
§ 57-26-9. Renegotiations and extensions
Status: in_force

A. A renegotiation occurs when any term of a rental-purchase agreement that is required to be disclosed by Section 5 of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act is changed by agreement between the lessor and consumer. A renegotiation creates a new rental-purchase agreement requiring the lessor to give all the disclosures required by Section 5 of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act.

B. A renegotiation shall not include:

(1) reinstatement of a rental-purchase agreement in accordance with Section 7 of the Rental-Purchase Agreement Act;

(2) a lessor's waiver or failure to assert any claim against the consumer;

(3) a deferral, extension or waiver of a portion of a periodic payment or of one or more periodic payments; or

(4) a change, made at the consumer's request, of the day of the week or month on which periodic payments are to be made.
N.M. Stat. § 21-23B-1 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 23B / Section 21-23B-1
§ 21-23B-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 1 through 6 of this act 1 may be cited as the “Interstate Distance Education Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-9-14 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 9 / Section 59A-9-14
§ 59A-9-14. Equipment trust certificates
Status: in_force

An insurer may invest in equipment trust obligations or certificates adequately secured and evidencing an interest in transportation equipment, wholly or in part within or principally based within, the United States or Canada, which obligations or certificates carry the right to receive determined portions of rental, purchase or other fixed obligatory payments to be made for use or purchase of such transportation equipment.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-24A-2 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 24A / Section 59A-24A-2
§ 59A-24A-2. Applicability and scope
Status: in_force

A. Except as otherwise specifically provided, the Medicare Supplement Act shall apply to:

(1) all medicare supplement policies delivered or issued for delivery in this state on or after the effective date of that act;

(2) all certificates issued under group medicare supplement policies, which certificates have been delivered or issued for delivery in this state; and

(3) insurers issuing policies or certificates under Chapter 59A, Articles 44, 46 and 47 NMSA 1978 .

B. The Medicare Supplement Act shall not apply to a master policy or contract of one or more employers or labor organizations or of the trustees of a fund established by one or more employers or labor organizations, or a combination thereof, for employees or former employees, or a combination thereof, or for members or former members, or a combination thereof, of the labor organizations.

C. The provisions of the Medicare Supplement Act are not intended to prohibit or apply to insurance policies or health care benefit plans, including group conversion policies, provided to medicare eligible persons, which policies are not marketed or held to be medicare supplement policies or benefit plans, except that policies designed to reimburse or pay as the result of hospitalization for hospital, medical and surgical expenses of persons eligible for medicare are subject to Sections 59A-24A-6 and 59A-24A-8 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 21-7-2 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 21-7-2
§ 21-7-2. Object
Status: in_force

The object of the university shall be to provide the inhabitants of the state of New Mexico with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science and arts.
N.M. Stat. § 27-7A-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 7A / Section 27-7A-1
§ 27-7A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Employee Abuse Registry Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 69-3-26 — NM Code / Chapter 69 / Article 3 / Section 69-3-26
§ 69-3-26. Trespass against person rightfully in possession
Status: in_force

When any person, firm or corporation shall be lawfully and peaceably in possession of any mining claim in this state and shall have complied with all the requirements of law and regulations in force in the district in which said mining claim is situated, such persons, firm or corporation shall be deemed to be the rightful possessor of such mining claim and of the land included therein; and any person or the officer, agent or employee of any corporation who shall by force, intimidation, fraud or stealth, or in the temporary absence of the rightful possessor, enter upon such mining claim with intent to hold the same, or any part thereof, against the rightful possessor shall be considered a trespasser, and the judge of the district court for the district in which such claim is situated shall, upon the proper showing of such facts made by affidavit or by oral testimony upon a hearing ordered for that purpose, and upon the filing with the clerk of said district court of a good and sufficient bond, grant an order to show cause why a writ of injunction should not issue, enjoining and restraining such trespasser, his servants, agents and employees and any person associated with him, from in any manner interfering with the rightful possessor in the possession of such claim until the final disposition of such cause.
N.M. Stat. § 73-7-17 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 7 / Section 73-7-17
§ 73-7-17. Annual assessment
Status: in_force

Within thirty days after filing such annual report, at a time and place to be fixed by the court, or presiding judge, the court or presiding judge shall examine said report, hear all objections to the same, fix and determine the amount of such assessments and cause such adjudication to be entered of record in said court, and a certified copy of the same to be delivered to said commissioners.
N.M. Stat. § 36-2-31 — NM Code / Chapter 36 / Article 2 / Section 36-2-31
§ 36-2-31. Fee splitting prohibited; division of fees by attorneys excepted
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to divide with or receive from any attorney-at-law, or group of attorneys-at-law, whether practicing in this state or elsewhere, either before or after action is brought, any portion of any fee or compensation charged or received by such attorney-at-law, or any valuable consideration or reward, as an inducement for placing or in consideration of being placed in the hands of such attorney or attorneys-at-law, or in the hands of another person, firm, corporation or association, a claim or demand of any kind, for the purpose of collecting such claim or instituting an action thereon or of representing claimant in the pursuit of any civil remedy for the recovery thereof, or for the settlement or compromise thereof, whether such compromise, settlement, recovery, suit, claim, collection or demand shall be in this state or elsewhere. This paragraph [section] shall not apply to agreements between attorneys to divide compensation received in cases or matters legitimately, lawfully and properly received by them.
N.M. Stat. § 30-31B-1 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 31B / Section 30-31B-1
§ 30-31B-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 30, Article 31B NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Drug Precursor Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 10-1-2 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 1 / Section 10-1-2
§ 10-1-2. Person convicted of crime; ineligibility for office; exception
Status: in_force

That no person convicted of a felonious or infamous crime, unless such person has been pardoned or restored to political rights, shall be qualified to be elected or appointed to any public office in this state.
N.M. Stat. § 3-45-19 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 45 / Section 3-45-19
§ 3-45-19. Exemption of property from taxation
Status: in_force

The real property of a housing project, as defined in Section 3-45-3 NMSA 1978 , is declared to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes and is property of a city of this state and is exempt from taxation until a deed conveying that property to a nonexempt entity is executed and delivered by the city.
N.M. Stat. § 40-4C-2 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 4C / Section 40-4C-2
§ 40-4C-2. Purpose
Status: in_force

To ensure that children have access to quality medical care, it is the purpose of the Mandatory Medical Support Act to require parents to provide or purchase health care coverage for their minor children when such coverage is available.
N.M. Stat. § 9-26-12 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 26 / Section 9-26-12
§ 9-26-12. Advisory committees
Status: in_force

The secretary, with the consent of the governor, may create advisory committees in accordance with the provisions of Section 9-1-9 NMSA 1978 . The secretary shall appoint the members of advisory committees with the consent of the governor. If the existence of an advisory committee, its representational membership requirements or other matters are required or specified under any federal law, regulation, rule or order as a condition for receiving federal funds for any program administered by the department, the secretary and the governor shall comply with such requirements in creating the advisory committee.
N.M. Stat. § 58-18-8.1 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 18 / Section 58-18-8.1
§ 58-18-8.1. Rules and regulations of the authority; multiple-family dwellings, transitional and congregate housing facilities
Status: in_force

Prior to financing a multiple-family dwelling project or transitional or congregate housing facility, the authority shall adopt, subject to prior approval by the Mortgage Finance Authority Act oversight committee, rules and regulations governing the purchase of project mortgage loans and the making of loans to finance project mortgage loans, which shall provide at least for the following:

A. procedures for the submission by mortgage lenders to the authority of:

(1) offers to sell project mortgage loans; or

(2) requests for loans;

B. standards for approving qualifications of sponsors and mortgage lenders;

C. standards for determining minimum equity requirements for sponsors and acceptable debt-to-equity ratios for sponsors;

D. methods for establishing uniform accounting systems for sponsors;

E. standards for approving costs of such projects; and

F. guidelines establishing reasonable geographic allocation procedures for project mortgage loans.
N.M. Stat. § 19-7-23 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 7 / Section 19-7-23
§ 19-7-23. School section used for cemeteries; not to be sold
Status: reserved

Where a school section of the state or any part thereof has been used for cemeteries or cemetery purposes prior to January 6, 1912, that part of said section, not exceeding one hundred and sixty (160) acres may be set aside by the commissioner of public lands and forever reserved for such cemetery purposes and no sale thereof shall be made by the commissioner of public lands.
N.M. Stat. § 73-6-7 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 6 / Section 73-6-7
§ 73-6-7. Notice; personal service
Status: in_force

Personal service of said notice on or service by leaving at the usual place of abode of all owners or reputed owners of lands within said district shall give the court complete jurisdiction, without posting, publication or mailing of said notice.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-51-3 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 51 / Section 59A-51-3
§ 59A-51-3. License required; exemption
Status: in_force

A. No person shall act as property bondsman, limited surety agent or solicitor, or perform any functions or duties or exercise any of the powers prescribed for bail bondsmen or solicitors in Chapter 59A, Article 51 NMSA 1978 unless such person is qualified and licensed as provided in that article.

B. Nothing in Chapter 59A, Article 51 NMSA 1978 shall be construed as to prevent any duly licensed and appointed agent of a surety insurer authorized to transact such business in this state from writing bail bonds for such insurer, and such agent shall be subject to and governed by all laws, rules and regulations relating to bail bondsmen under that article while engaged in the activities thereof.

C. Any bail bondsman licensed under the provisions of the Bail Bondsman Licensing Law shall be entitled to post bail bonds in any court in New Mexico subject to court rules regulating the posting of bonds in that court.
N.M. Stat. § 3-33-30 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 33 / Section 3-33-30
§ 3-33-30. Improvement district; private or public sale of property; redemption period; disposition of proceeds
Status: in_force

A. No real property shall be sold by the trustee to satisfy a delinquent assessment until at least fifteen days after the date of the order, judgment or decree of the court, within which time the owner of the tract or parcel of land may pay off the decree and avoid the sale. Any real estate sold under any order, judgment or decree of court to satisfy the lien may be redeemed at any time within one year of the date of sale by the owner or mortgage holder or other person having an interest, or their assigns by repaying to the purchaser or his assign the amount paid with interest from the date of purchase at the rate of twelve percent per year.

B. After expiration of the fifteen-day period, the trustee may sell the property at a public or private sale subject to the right of redemption, and, if not paid from the proceeds of the sale, subject to the indebtedness claimed under the lien, ad valorem taxes and other special assessments having a lien on the property that is coequal with the lien for ad valorem taxes.

C. The proceeds of the sale of the foreclosed tract or parcel of land at either a private sale or a public sale shall be applied as follows:

(1) first, to the payment of costs in giving notice of the sale and conducting the sale;

(2) second, to costs and fees taxed against the tract or parcel of land in the foreclosure proceedings;

(3) third, on a pro rata basis, to indebtedness claimed under the lien and to ad valorem taxes and other special assessments having a lien on the property that are coequal with the ad valorem taxes; and

(4) fourth, after all such costs, liens and assessments are paid to the former owner, mortgage holder or other parties having an interest in the tract or parcel, upon such persons providing satisfactory proof to the court of an interest and upon approval of the court.

D. Receipts for the satisfaction of the indebtedness claimed under the lien shall be paid into the proper improvement district fund for payment of the interest and the bonds or assignable certificates.

E. In case of the sale of any tract or parcel of land subject to more than one delinquent assessment, such remaining proceeds shall be distributed into the proper improvement district funds for such payment pro rata based upon the total unpaid amount due each such district.
N.M. Stat. § 17-3-43 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 17-3-43
§ 17-3-43. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 17-3-43 through 17-3-47 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Airborne Hunting Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 22-10C-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 10C / Section 22-10C-3
§ 22-10C-3. Scholarship program; department powers and duties; qualifications; applications; preferences; reports
Status: in_force

A. The department may award a “national board certification scholarship” to an eligible teacher seeking certification from the national board for professional teaching standards, which scholarship shall be equal to the certification fees assessed by the national board. A scholarship shall be for no longer than three years, paid annually upon notification that the teacher is still an active participant in the certification process, unless the department finds that exigent circumstances prevent the teacher from finishing the certification process within three years. The department shall provide by rule what circumstances qualify as exigent circumstances.

B. A teacher is eligible to apply for a national board certification scholarship if the teacher:

(1) is a New Mexico resident;

(2) holds a valid level two or higher teaching license;

(3) is teaching in a New Mexico public school; and

(4) submits a reference letter from the teacher's school principal.

C. Applications shall be submitted to the department on forms and in a manner provided by rule of the department.

D. The department may provide by rule for scholarship contractual terms and application evaluation and other criteria to implement the scholarship program, including subject matter and grade-level preferences if there are more applications than available funding. The department may interview applicants.

E. The department shall provide an annual report on the national board certification scholarship program to the governor and the legislature, including the:

(1) number of teachers who receive scholarships each year and the value of each scholarship;

(2) number of teachers who receive national board certification each year through the scholarship program;

(3) length of time each teacher takes to receive certification;

(4) educator evaluation rating for scholarship recipients during their first five years of teaching as board-certified teachers;

(5) name of the school district and public school where the scholarship recipient is employed; and

(6) performance of students in classes taught by scholarship-supported board-certified teachers in comparison to students taught by non-board-certified teachers in the school district or charter school.
N.M. Stat. § 21-9-2 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 9 / Section 21-9-2
§ 21-9-2. Methods of analysis
Status: in_force

The methods of analysis employed by the state chemist of New Mexico shall be those prescribed by the association of official agricultural chemists, and those of the United States pharmacopoeia.
N.M. Stat. § 67-3-20 — NM Code / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 67-3-20
§ 67-3-20. El Camino Real; supervision and control
Status: in_force

The system of highways established by Sections 67-9-2 through 67-9-5 NMSA 1978 shall be under the supervision and control of the state transportation commission, and it shall carry out the provisions at such time as in its judgment is proper.