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N.M. Stat. § 29-15-7 — NM Code / Chapter 29 / Article 15 / Section 29-15-7
§ 29-15-7. Law enforcement requirements; missing person reports; unidentified human remains
Status: in_force

A. A law enforcement agency shall accept without delay and without exception for any reason any report of a missing person and, no later than two hours after receiving a missing person report or additional or supplemental information for the report, shall:

(1) start an appropriate investigation to determine the present location of the missing person and to determine whether the missing person is an endangered person;

(2) provide to the clearinghouse all information the law enforcement agency has relating to an investigation regarding or the location or identification of a missing person;

(3) enter the name of the missing person into the clearinghouse and the national crime information center missing person file; and

(4) if the missing person is determined to be an endangered person, notify the department of public safety in accordance with procedures prescribed by the department.

B. Information not immediately available shall be obtained as soon as possible by the law enforcement agency and, no later than two hours after receipt of the information, entered into the clearinghouse and the national crime information center file as a supplement to the original entry.

C. All New Mexico law enforcement agencies are required to enter information about all unidentified human remains found in their jurisdiction into the clearinghouse and the national crime information center unidentified person file, including all available identifying features of the human remains and a description of the clothing found on the human remains. If an information entry into the national crime information center file results in an automatic entry of the information into the clearinghouse, the law enforcement agency is not required to make a direct entry of that information into the clearinghouse.
N.M. Stat. § 36-1-16 — NM Code / Chapter 36 / Article 1 / Section 36-1-16
§ 36-1-16. Decision of court to be final
Status: in_force

The decision and judgment of the court shall be final.
N.M. Stat. § 12-12-18 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12 / Section 12-12-18
§ 12-12-18. Findings and purpose
Status: in_force

A. The legislature finds that the use of hazardous materials, including radioactive materials, and the transportation of such materials through or within New Mexico occurs on a daily basis, and, no matter how safety-conscious facilities, users, shippers or carriers are, accidents may occur. In the event of an accident, resource requirements may be beyond the capability of local governments, and the state must be prepared to respond quickly and effectively to protect the health and safety of its citizens and the environment.

B. It is the purpose of the Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Act to:

(1) provide that adequate hazardous materials emergency management capability exists in the state to protect the health and safety of New Mexico citizens and the environment;

(2) delineate those state agencies that are responsible for responding to an accident and providing for the control and management of such an accident and to provide for the cooperation of other state agencies and local governments in emergency management; and

(3) provide for the formulation of a comprehensive hazardous materials emergency response plan that will be distributed statewide and that will be complied with by all persons who may be involved in responding to an accident.
N.M. Stat. § 14-14A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 14A / Section 14-14A-1
§ 14-14A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 14, Article 14A NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts”.
N.M. Stat. § 57-12C-5 — NM Code / Chapter 57 / Article 12C / Section 57-12C-5
§ 57-12C-5. Service provider use of personal identifying information; implementation of security measures
Status: in_force

A person that discloses personal identifying information of a New Mexico resident pursuant to a contract with a service provider shall require by contract that the service provider implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the personal identifying information and to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
N.M. Stat. § 2-8F-2 — NM Code / Chapter 2 / Article 8F / Section 2-8F-2
§ 2-8F-2. Membership
Status: in_force

The senate is composed of forty-two members to be elected from districts that are contiguous and that are as compact as is practicable.
N.M. Stat. § 20-12-66 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 20 / Article 12 / Section 20-12-66
§ 20-12-66. Wrongful use and possession of controlled substances
Status: in_force

A. Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who wrongfully uses, possesses, manufactures, distributes, imports into the customs territory of the United States, exports from the United States or introduces into an installation, vessel, vehicle or aircraft used by or under the control of the armed forces a substance described in Subsection B of this section shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

B. The substances referred to in Subsection A of this section are the following:

(1) opium, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, barbituric acid and marijuana and any compound or derivative of any such substance;

(2) any substance not specified in Paragraph (1) of this subsection that is listed on a schedule of controlled substances prescribed by the president of the United States for the purposes of this section; and

(3) any other substance not specified in Paragraph (1) of this subsection or contained on a list prescribed by the president under Paragraph (2) of this subsection that is listed in Schedules I through V of Section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. 812 ).
N.M. Stat. § 22-15-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 15 / Section 22-15-8
§ 22-15-8. Multiple list; selection; review process
Status: in_force

A. The department shall adopt a multiple list to be made available to students pursuant to the Instructional Material Law. At least ten percent of instructional material on the multiple list concerning language arts and social studies shall contain material that is relevant to the cultures, languages, history and experiences of multi-ethnic students. The department shall ensure that parents and other community members are involved in the adoption process at the state level.

B. Pursuant to the provisions of the Instructional Material Law, each school district, state institution or private school as agent may select instructional material for the use of its students from the multiple list adopted by the department. Local school boards shall give written notice to parents and other community members and shall invite parental involvement in the adoption process at the district level. Local school boards shall also give public notice, which notice may include publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district.

C. The department shall establish by rule an instructional material review process for the adoption of instructional material on the multiple list. The process shall include:

(1) a summer review institute at which basal materials in the content area under adoption will be facilitated by content and performance experts in the content area and reviewed by reviewers;

(2) that level two and level three-A teachers are reviewers of record; provided that level one teachers, college students completing teacher preparation programs, parents and community leaders will be recruited and partnered with the reviewers of record;

(3) that reviewed materials shall be scored and ranked primarily against how well they align with state academic content and performance standards, but research-based effectiveness may also be considered; and

(4) the adoption of supplementary materials that are not reviewed.

D. Participants in the summer review institute shall receive a stipend commensurate with the level of responsibility and participation as determined by department rule.

E. The department shall charge a processing fee to vendors of instructional materials not to exceed the retail value of the instructional material submitted for adoption.
N.M. Stat. § 12-12B-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12B / Section 12-12B-4
§ 12-12B-4. Declaration of emergency or disaster; employment of gas pilot relighting technicians; reimbursement
Status: in_force

A. Upon a declaration by the governor of an emergency or disaster, a person certified as a journeyman plumber or journeyman gas fitter pursuant to the Construction Industries Licensing Act may employ no more than five gas pilot relighting technicians during the period of the declared emergency or disaster.

B. A gas pilot relighting technician employed by a journeyman plumber or journeyman gas fitter pursuant to Subsection A of this section shall be an employee of the journeyman plumber or journeyman gas fitter and shall be covered by liability insurance provided by the journeyman plumber or journeyman gas fitter.

C. The duties of a gas pilot relighting technician employed by a journeyman plumber or journeyman gas fitter pursuant to Subsection A of this section shall be limited to work directly related to the relighting of pilot lights for residential equipment and appliances serving residences with not more than four dwelling units.

D. If authorized in the declaration of emergency or disaster issued by the governor and subject to funds being made available pursuant to such a declaration, the secretary of homeland security and emergency management may adopt rules permitting state funds to be used to pay the cost of journeyman plumbers, journeyman gas fitters or gas pilot relighting technicians for services rendered during the declared period of the emergency or disaster to restore natural gas service to residences within the area covered by the declaration of emergency or disaster.
N.M. Stat. § 33-1-18 — NM Code / Chapter 33 / Article 1 / Section 33-1-18
§ 33-1-18. Funds created
Status: in_force

There are created in the state treasury special funds to be known as the “corrections department building fund”, the “Guadalupe county prison fund” and the “New Mexico prison fund”. The funds shall consist of money appropriated by the legislature, from year to year, from the income of the permanent fund and land income of which the penitentiary of New Mexico is the beneficiary and any other revenues that are appropriated to the funds, other than revenues derived from property taxes or general fund revenues. Income from investment of each special fund created by this section shall be credited to that fund.
N.M. Stat. § 12-8-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8 / Section 12-8-12
§ 12-8-12. Decision
Status: in_force

No agency or member thereof shall:

A. participate in a final decision in an adjudicatory proceeding unless he has heard the evidence or read the record. A final decision or order in an adjudicatory proceeding shall be in writing or stated in the record. A final or tentative decision shall include findings of fact and conclusions of law, separately stated. Findings of fact, if set forth in statutory language, shall be accompanied by a concise and explicit statement of the underlying facts supporting the findings. If, in accordance with agency rules or practice or as authorized by the Administrative Procedures Act, a party submits proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, the agency shall rule upon each proposed finding and conclusion. Parties shall be notified either personally or by mail of any decision or order. A copy of the decision or order shall be delivered or mailed forthwith to each party or to his attorney of record; or

B. impose any sanction or substantive rule or order except within jurisdiction delegated to the agency and as authorized by law.
N.M. Stat. § 73-13-32 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 13 / Section 73-13-32
§ 73-13-32. Collection of taxes
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the assessor-collector of said irrigation district to collect and receipt for all taxes levied as herein provided in the same manner and at the same time as is required in the receipt for, and the collection of, taxes upon real estate for county purposes; provided, that such collector shall receive in payment of the district bond fund taxes above mentioned for the year in which said taxes were levied, interest coupons or bonds issued by said irrigation district maturing within said year, the same as so much lawful money of the United States, if such interest coupons do not exceed the amount of taxes for district bond fund which the person tendering the same owes. The assessor-collector shall on or before the first Monday of each month, turn over to the treasurer all monies and coupons theretofore collected or received by him or an account of such taxes.
N.M. Stat. § 22-14-25 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 14 / Section 22-14-25
§ 22-14-25. Definitions
Status: in_force

For the purposes of Sections 22-14-24 through 22-14-29 NMSA 1978:

A. “blind person” means a person having not more than ten percent visual acuity in the better eye with correction. This means a person who has:

(1) not more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye after correction; or

(2) an equally disabling loss of the visual field, i.e., a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees. Such blindness shall be certified by a duly licensed ophthalmologist, subject to approval of the New Mexico board of medical examiners;

B. “commission” means the commission for the blind;

C. “license” means a written instrument issued by the commission to a blind person pursuant to Sections 22-14-24 through 22-14-29 NMSA 1978 , authorizing the blind person to operate a vending stand on state, federal or other property;

D. “state property” means any building or land owned, leased or occupied by any department or agency of the state or any instrumentality wholly owned by the state or by any county or municipality or by any other local governmental entity; and

E. “vending stand” means:

(1) such shelters, counters, shelving, display and wall cases, refrigerating apparatus and other appropriate auxiliary equipment as are necessary for the vending of such articles as may be approved by the commission, agency or person having control of the property on which the stand is to be located; and

(2) manual or coin-operated vending machines or similar devices for vending the articles mentioned in Paragraph (1) of this subsection.
N.M. Stat. § 17-5-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 17 / Article 5 / Section 17-5-7
§ 17-5-7. Disposition of license fees
Status: in_force

All fees for trappers' licenses and fur dealers' licenses shall be collected by the state game warden [director of the department of game and fish] and turned over to the state treasurer to be credited to the game protection fund; provided, that license vendors shall retain ten cents (10¢) for each license sold as compensation for his [their] services, but no regular employee of the state game department shall be entitled to such fee.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-34-40 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 34 / Section 59A-34-40
§ 59A-34-40. Bulk reinsurance
Status: in_force

A. A domestic insurer shall not reinsure with another insurer all or substantially all of its insurance business in force, or of a major class thereof, except under an agreement of bulk reinsurance and in compliance with this section. No such agreement shall become effective unless filed with the superintendent and approved by him in writing.

B. The superintendent shall approve such agreement within a reasonable time after filing if he finds that:

(1) the plan and agreement of bulk reinsurance are fair and equitable to each insurer and to the policyholders involved; and

(2) the reinsurance if effectuated would not materially reduce the protection or service to policyholders of the insurers; and

(3) the agreement embodies adequate provisions by which the assuming reinsurer becomes liable to the original insureds for protection and benefits under policies reinsured in accordance with the terms of such policies; and

(4) the assuming reinsurer is authorized to transact such insurance in this state, or is qualified as for such authorization and will appoint the superintendent and his successors as its irrevocable attorney for service of process so long as any policy so reinsured or liability thereunder remains in force or outstanding; and

(5) the reinsurance would not materially tend to lessen competition in the insurance business in this state or elsewhere as to the kinds of insurance involved and would not materially tend to create any monopoly as to such business; and

(6) the proposed bulk reinsurance is free of other reasonable objections.

C. If the superintendent does not so approve he shall forthwith notify each insurer involved in writing specifying the reasons therefor.

D. If for reinsurance of all or substantially all of the business in force of a mutual insurer at a time when the insurer's surplus is not impaired, the plan and agreement for reinsurance must be approved by vote of not less than two-thirds of the mutual insurer's members who vote thereon in person or by proxy at a meeting of members called for the purpose pursuant to such reasonable notice by mail or publication as may be provided for in the plan. For a life insurer, the right to vote may be limited to members whose policies are other than term policies for term of less than twenty (20) years or group policies, and have been in effect for more than one year.
N.M. Stat. § 63-3-33 — NM Code / Chapter 63 / Article 3 / Section 63-3-33
§ 63-3-33. Failure of district attorney to act; prosecution by attorney general
Status: in_force

In case of the failure of any district attorney to bring such suit within a reasonable time after information shall have been lodged with him, by the state corporation commission [public regulation commission] or any other person, of any violation of this act, it shall be the duty of the attorney general upon being informed of such fact to cause such prosecution to be commenced.
N.M. Stat. § 22-24-2 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 24 / Section 22-24-2
§ 22-24-2. Purpose of act
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Public School Capital Outlay Act is to ensure that, through a standards-based process for all school districts, the physical condition and capacity, educational suitability and technology infrastructure of all public school facilities in New Mexico meet an adequate level statewide and the design, construction and maintenance of school sites and facilities encourage, promote and maximize safe, functional and durable learning environments in order for the state to meet its educational responsibilities and for New Mexico's students to have the opportunity to achieve success.
N.M. Stat. § 10-7C-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7C / Section 10-7C-5
§ 10-7C-5. Authority created
Status: in_force

There is created the “retiree health care authority”, which is established to provide for comprehensive group health insurance programs under the Retiree Health Care Act.
N.M. Stat. § 9-19-6.1 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 19 / Section 9-19-6.1
§ 9-19-6.1. Secretary; duty to develop career pay system for state police
Status: in_force

In addition to all other duties established in Section 9-19-6 NMSA 1978 , the secretary, in consultation with the chief of the New Mexico state police, shall develop a career pay system for the state police. This career pay system shall consist of steps within salary ranges based on objective criteria developed by the secretary. This career pay system shall allow an officer to progress on a career ladder with appropriate salary steps linked to a recognition of additional training, skills acquired and other meritorious performance.
N.M. Stat. § 61-14D-14 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 14D / Section 61-14D-14
§ 61-14D-14. Fees
Status: in_force

Except as provided in Section 61-1-34 NMSA 1978 , the board shall establish a schedule of reasonable fees, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) each for applications, licenses, expedited licenses, provisional permits, renewal of licenses, placement on inactive status and necessary and reasonable administrative fees and initial prorated licensing fees.
N.M. Stat. § 17-3-49 — NM Code / Chapter 17 / Article 3 / Section 17-3-49
§ 17-3-49. Computer-assisted remote hunting prohibited; penalties
Status: in_force

A. A person shall not:

(1) engage in computer-assisted remote hunting;

(2) provide or operate facilities for the purpose of computer-assisted remote hunting;

(3) create, maintain, provide, advertise or sell computer software or an internet web site for the purpose of computer-assisted remote hunting; or

(4) entice, possess or confine an animal or bird for the purpose of computer-assisted remote hunting.

B. A person who violates the provisions of this section shall be sentenced in accordance with the provisions of Section 17-2-10 NMSA 1978 .

C. When a person who violates the provisions of this section possesses a license, certificate or permit issued by the state game commission, the license, certificate or permit shall be subject to revocation by the commission pursuant to Sections 17-1-14 and 17-3-34 NMSA 1978 .

D. As used in this section:

(1) “ computer-assisted remote hunting ” means the use of a computer or other electronic device, equipment or software to access the internet and remotely control the aiming and discharge of a bow, crossbow or firearm of any kind for the purpose of hunting, taking or capturing an animal or bird; and

(2) “ facilities for computer-assisted remote hunting ” means the real property and improvements on the property associated with computer-assisted remote hunting, including hunting blinds, offices and rooms equipped to facilitate computer-assisted remote hunting.
N.M. Stat. § 9-27-21 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 27 / Section 9-27-21
§ 9-27-21. Central telecommunication network services; staff; budget
Status: in_force

The telecommunications bureau of the enterprise services division of the department shall provide the staff and material necessary to properly and adequately operate the central telecommunication network. The budget for the central telecommunication network shall be approved as part of the total operating budget of the department.
N.M. Stat. § 73-7-4 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 7 / Section 73-7-4
§ 73-7-4. Report; notice of hearing
Status: in_force

Upon the filing of said report, the court shall make and enter an order fixing the time and place when and where all persons interested may appear and remonstrate against the confirmations thereof, and the clerk of said court shall cause notice of the time and place of such hearing to be given to all parties interested, which notice shall contain a brief description of the lands benefited and damaged, together with the net damage awarded to the several tracts, parcels, easements and corporations to which damages are awarded and the sum in each case assessed for construction against said several benefited parcels, tracts, easements and corporations.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-5A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 5A / Section 59A-5A-1
§ 59A-5A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 59A, Article 5A NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Risk-Based Capital Act”.