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N.M. Stat. § 73-10-7 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 10 / Section 73-10-7
§ 73-10-7. Districts 25,000 acres or less; qualified electors
Status: in_force

A. In any district having an irrigable area of twenty-five thousand acres or less, a “qualified elector” is any person who:

(1) owns one-half acre or more of agricultural land within the district or has evidence of title to such lands or is a purchaser of such lands under contract for the purchase of such lands from the state; or

(2) is a resident entryman of public lands within the district; and

(3) meets all other requirements of Section 73-10-7 NMSA 1978 .

B. Any person who meets the qualifications of Paragraph A(1) is a resident freeholder.
N.M. Stat. § 36-1-23.1 — NM Code / Chapter 36 / Article 1 / Section 36-1-23.1
§ 36-1-23.1. Special prosecutors in conflict cases
Status: in_force

Each district attorney may, when he cannot prosecute a case for ethical reasons or other good cause, appoint a practicing member of the bar of this state to act as special assistant district attorney. Any person so appointed shall have authority to act only in the specific case or matter for which the appointment was made. An appointment and oath shall be required of special assistant district attorneys in substantially the same form as that required for assistant district attorneys in Section 36-1-2 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 10-16B-1 — NM Code / Chapter 10 / Article 16B / Section 10-16B-1
§ 10-16B-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 10, Article 16B NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Gift Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 4-3A-4 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 3A / Section 4-3A-4
§ 4-3A-4. Precincts
Status: in_force

The precincts now existing in the territory included within the county of Cibola shall remain the same as they are now until changed according to law.
N.M. Stat. § 39-3-2 — NM Code / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 39-3-2
§ 39-3-2. Civil appeals from district court
Status: in_force

Within thirty days from the entry of any final judgment or decision, any interlocutory order or decision which practically disposes of the merits of the action, or any final order after entry of judgment which affects substantial rights, in any civil action in the district court, any party aggrieved may appeal therefrom to the supreme court or to the court of appeals, as appellate jurisdiction may be vested by law in these courts.
N.M. Stat. § 9-5B-5 — NM Code / Chapter 9 / Article 5B / Section 9-5B-5
§ 9-5B-5. Commission created; membership; appointments; terms; vacancies; compensation
Status: in_force

A. There is created a nine-member “New Mexico youth conservation corps commission” which is administratively attached to the department. The commission consists of the following members:

(1) the superintendent of public instruction or his designee;

(2) the commissioner of public lands or his designee;

(3) the secretary of energy, minerals and natural resources or his designee;

(4) the secretary of the youth authority [children, youth, and families department] or his designee; and

(5) five members of the general public appointed by the governor to reflect the geographic diversity of the state, one of whom is knowledgeable in the current policies of the United States forest service and one of whom is Native American.

B. One of the members of the commission shall be appointed by the governor for a one-year term, two members shall be appointed for two-year terms, two members shall be appointed for three-year terms and all subsequent appointments shall be made for three-year terms.

C. The public members shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. Vacancies on the commission shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the unexpired term within sixty days of the vacancy. Commission members shall serve until their successors have been appointed.

D. A majority of the members of the commission constitutes a quorum for transaction of business. The commission shall elect a chairman from its membership.

E. Members of the commission shall be compensated as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act 1 and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.
N.M. Stat. § 61-14B-3 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 14B / Section 61-14B-3
§ 61-14B-3. Scope of practice; speech-language pathology
Status: in_force

A. The scope of practice for speech-language pathologists shall include:

(1) rendering or offering to render professional services, including diagnosis, prevention, identification, evaluation, consultation, habilitation, rehabilitation, instruction, counseling, prognostication, training and research to individuals or groups of individuals who have or are suspected of having disorders of communication, including speech comprehension, voice, fluency, language in all its expressive and receptive forms, including oral expression, reading, writing and comprehension, oral pharyngeal function, oral motor function, dysphagia, functional maintenance therapy or cognitive-communicative processes; and

(2) determining the need for personal augmentative and alternative communication systems, computer access or assistive technology, recommending such systems, and providing set-up, modification, training, trouble-shooting and follow-up in the utilization of such systems.

B. The scope of practice for speech-language pathologists may include:

(1) conducting pure-tone air conduction hearing screening, tympanometry screening, limited to a pass or fail determination, for the purpose of performing a speech and language evaluation or for the initial identification of individuals with other disorders of communications;

(2) aural rehabilitation that is defined as services and procedures for facilitation of adequate receptive and expressive communication in individuals with hearing impairment; or

(3) supervision of graduate students, clinical fellows or paraprofessionals.
N.M. Stat. § 20-4-7 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 20 / Article 4 / Section 20-4-7
§ 20-4-7. Military leave for national guard and reserves
Status: in_force

All state, county, municipal, school district and other public employees who are members of organized units of the army or air national guard or army, air force, navy, marine or coast guard reserves shall be given not to exceed fifteen working days' military leave with pay per federal fiscal year when they are ordered to duty for training, such leave to be in addition to other leave or vacation time with pay to which such employees are otherwise entitled. The governor may grant any member of the national guard or reserves who is a state employee additional military leave with pay in excess of that allowed above, not to exceed fifteen working days per federal fiscal year, for periods of active duty for training when he deems that such training will benefit the state by enabling that employee to better perform the duties required in his state occupation.
N.M. Stat. § 11-8-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 11 / Article 8 / Section 11-8-5
§ 11-8-5. Powers; Article IV
Status: in_force

In addition to authority conferred on the commission by other provisions of the compact, the commission shall have authority to:

A. collect, correlate, analyze and interpret information and data concerning educational needs and resources;

B. encourage and foster research in all aspects of education, but with special reference to the desirable scope of instruction, organization, administration, and instructional methods and standards employed or suitable for employment in public educational systems;

C. develop proposals for adequate financing of education as a whole and at each of its many levels;

D. conduct or participate in research of the types referred to in this article in any instance where the commission finds that such research is necessary for the advancement of the purposes and policies of this compact, utilizing fully the resources of national associations, regional compact organizations for higher education and other agencies and institutions, both public and private;

E. formulate suggested policies and plans for the improvement of public education as a whole, or for any segment thereof, and make recommendations with respect thereto available to the appropriate governmental units, agencies and public officials;

F. do such other things as may be necessary or incidental to the administration of any of its authority or functions pursuant to this compact.
N.M. Stat. § 61-11A-2 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 11A / Section 61-11A-2
§ 61-11A-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Impaired Pharmacists Act:

A. “board” means the New Mexico board of pharmacy;

B. “board-approved intervenors” means persons trained to intervention and designated by the board to implement the intervention process when necessary;

C. “committee” means a committee appointed by the board to formulate and administer the impaired pharmacists program;

D. “impaired pharmacist” means a pharmacist who is unable to practice pharmacy with reasonable skill, competency or safety to the public because of substance abuse, mental illness, the aging process or loss of motor skills;

E. “impaired pharmacist program” means a plan approved by the board for treatment and rehabilitation of an impaired pharmacist;

F. “intervention” means a process whereby an alleged impaired pharmacist is confronted by the board or board-approved intervenors who provide documentation that a problem exists and attempt to convince the pharmacist to seek evaluation and treatment;

G. “rehabilitation” means the process whereby an impaired pharmacist advances in an impaired pharmacists program to an optimal level of competence to practice pharmacy without endangering the public; and

H. “verification” means a process whereby alleged professional impairment is identified or established.
N.M. Stat. § 56-15-8 — NM Code / Chapter 56 / Article 15 / Section 56-15-8
§ 56-15-8. Enforcement by notification to assignor
Status: in_force

A. Upon the assignor's default, or as otherwise agreed by the assignor, the assignee may give the assignor a notification demanding that the assignor pay over the proceeds of any rents that the assignee is entitled to collect pursuant to Section 6 of the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act. The assignee shall also give a copy of the notification to any other person that, ten days before the notification date, held a recorded assignment of rents arising from the real property.

B. If an assignee enforces an assignment of rents pursuant to this section, the date of enforcement is the date on which the assignor receives a notification pursuant to Subsection A of this section.

C. An assignee's failure to give a notification pursuant to Subsection A of this section to any person holding a recorded assignment of rents does not affect the effectiveness of the notification as to the assignor, but the other person is entitled to any relief permitted pursuant to any law of New Mexico other than the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act.

D. An assignee that holds a security interest in rents solely by virtue of Subsection A of Section 4 of the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act shall not enforce the security interest pursuant to this section while the assignor occupies the real property as the assignor's primary residence.
N.M. Stat. § 35-15-3 — NM Code / Chapter 35 / Article 15 / Section 35-15-3
§ 35-15-3. Procedure; commitment
Status: in_force

A. In any action for the violation of any ordinance in which an arrest has not been made, a warrant for the arrest of the defendant may issue in the first instance upon the affidavit of any person making a complaint that he has reasonable grounds to believe the party charged is guilty. Any person arrested upon such warrant shall, without unnecessary delay, be taken before the proper officer to be tried for the alleged offense or be allowed to post an appropriate bond.

B. Any municipality may provide by ordinance that the first process shall be a citation or summons in cases involving violations of any municipal ordinance not amounting to a breach of the peace, requiring the party charged to appear before the municipal court at a time fixed in the citation or summons. The ordinance may also provide that, upon the failure of the party charged to appear, a warrant for his arrest shall immediately issue by the municipal judge for the offense specified in the citation or summons, commanding that the party charged shall be arrested and proceedings had as in the case when arrest is made upon a warrant issued upon affidavit as provided in Subsection A of this section.

C. Any person upon whom any fine or penalty is imposed may, upon order of the court convicting him, be committed to the county jail, municipal jail, detention facility or other place provided by the municipality for the incarceration of offenders until the fine or penalty is fully paid. The period of incarceration shall not exceed sixty days for any one offense except as authorized in Subsection C of Section 3-17-1 NMSA 1978 . The municipal governing body may provide by ordinance that every person so committed shall work for the municipal corporation, at such labor as his strength will permit, within or without the jail or other place provided for the incarceration, not exceeding ten hours each working day. Each offender shall be credited with eight times the federal hourly minimum wage per day in reduction of any fine.
N.M. Stat. § 5-14-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 5 / Article 14 / Section 5-14-5
§ 5-14-5. Exemptions
Status: in_force

The convention center fee shall not apply:

A. if a vendee:

(1) has been a permanent resident of the lodging facility for a period of at least thirty consecutive days; or

(2) enters into or has entered into a written agreement for a room at a lodging facility for a period of at least thirty consecutive days;

B. if the consideration paid by a vendee is less than two dollars ($2.00) a day;

C. to rooms at institutions of the federal government, the state or any political subdivision thereof;

D. to rooms at religious, charitable, educational or philanthropic institutions, including rooms at summer camps operated by such institutions;

E. to clinics, hospitals or other medical facilities;

F. to privately owned and operated convalescent homes or homes for the aged, infirm, indigent or chronically ill; or

G. if the vendor does not offer at least three rooms at its lodging facility. The convention center fee shall be imposed on the lodging facilities of a vendor that owns three or more lodging facilities within local governmental entities that have imposed a convention center fee, regardless of the number of rooms available for occupancy.
N.M. Stat. § 72-17-91 — NM Code / Chapter 72 / Article 17 / Section 72-17-91
§ 72-17-91. Funding
Status: in_force

For the purpose of funding any interim debenture or interim debentures, any bond or bonds pledged as collateral security to secure the payment of such interim debenture or interim debentures may be reissued without an election, and any bonds not previously issued but authorized to be issued at an election for a purpose the same as or encompassing the purpose for which the interim debentures were issued may be issued for such a funding. Any such bonds shall mature at such time or times as the board may determine, but in no event exceeding forty years from the date of either any of the interim debentures so funded or any of the bonds so pledged as collateral security, whichever date be the earlier. Bonds for funding, including but not necessarily limited to any such reissued bonds, and bonds for any other purpose or purposes herein authorized may be issued separately or issued in combination in one series or more. Except as herein otherwise provided in Sections 89 and 90 and in this section, any such funding bonds shall be issued as is provided herein for refunding bonds in Sections 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, and 88 hereof, and provided herein for securities in Sections 47 to 80, both inclusive.
N.M. Stat. § 10-7E-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 10 / Article 7E / Section 10-7E-5
§ 10-7E-5. Rights of public employees
Status: in_force

A. Public employees, other than management employees and confidential employees, may form, join or assist a labor organization for the purpose of collective bargaining through representatives chosen by public employees without interference, restraint or coercion and shall have the right to refuse those activities.

B. Public employees have the right to engage in other concerted activities for mutual aid or benefit. This right shall not be construed as modifying the prohibition on strikes set forth in Section 10-7E-21 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 32A-18-3 — NM Code / Chapter 32A / Article 18 / Section 32A-18-3
§ 32A-18-3. Delinquency proceeding; training required for person who represents a child
Status: in_force

A person who represents a child during a delinquency proceeding shall participate in the training required pursuant to the provisions of Section 32A-18-1 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 25-6-9 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 25 / Article 6 / Section 25-6-9
§ 25-6-9. Egg inspection fee
Status: in_force

The Egg Grading Act shall be financed in part by the collection of a fee on all eggs sold to the retailer or consumer. The board shall have authority to establish the fee at their discretion, but in no case shall the fee exceed one-half cent per dozen. The fee shall be paid by the egg dealer or producer who packages the eggs for sale to the retailer or consumer. All money collected under the provisions of the Egg Grading Act shall be deposited with the New Mexico state university for the purposes of administering the provisions of that act and promoting the poultry industry and its products, and shall be expended upon the order of the board in the same manner as other funds of the New Mexico state university.
N.M. Stat. § 61-14B-6 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 14B / Section 61-14B-6
§ 61-14B-6. Scope of practice; hearing aid dispenser
Status: in_force

The scope of practice of the hearing aid dispenser shall include:

A. the measurement and evaluation of the sensitivity of human hearing by means of appropriate behavioral testing equipment for the purpose of amplification;

B. the otoscopic observation of the outer ear in connection with the evaluation of hearing and the fitting of hearing aids and for the purpose of referral to other professionals;

C. the fabrication of ear impressions or ear molds for the purpose of selecting and fitting hearing aids;

D. the analysis of hearing aid function by means of the appropriate testing equipment;

E. the selection and fitting of hearing aids with appropriate instruction, orientation, counseling and management regarding the use and maintenance of these devices; and

F. the modification and general servicing of hearing aids.
N.M. Stat. § 21-21Q-1 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21Q / Section 21-21Q-1
§ 21-21Q-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Community Governance Attorney Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 61-14B-19 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 14B / Section 61-14B-19
§ 61-14B-19. License renewal
Status: in_force

A. Each licensee shall renew the licensee's license biennially by submitting a renewal application as provided for in the board's regulations. The board may require proof of continuing education as a requirement for renewal. The board may establish a method to provide for staggered biennial terms. The board may authorize license renewal for one year to establish the renewal cycle.

B. A sixty-day grace period shall be allowed to each licensee after each licensing period. A license may be renewed during the grace period upon payment of a renewal fee and a late fee as prescribed by the board.

C. Any license not renewed by the end of the grace period will be considered expired and the licensee shall not be eligible to practice within the state until the license is renewed. The board shall develop rules regarding requirements for renewal of an expired license and may require the licensee to reapply as a new applicant.

D. Clinical fellow licenses may be renewed annually for no more than three years; provided the clinical fellow has submitted evidence of passing a recognized standard national examination in speech-language pathology prior to or within the clinical fellow's second year of the CFY. The CFY license shall not be renewed for a second year without evidence of passing a recognized standard national examination in speech-language pathology.

E. An apprentice in speech-language pathology shall renew the apprentice's license annually; provided that the apprentice is accepted into a master's-level program in speech-language pathology or communicative disorders within two years of initial licensing.

F. The board may issue rules providing for inactive status of licenses.
N.M. Stat. § 4-55A-42 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 55A / Section 4-55A-42
§ 4-55A-42. Street and road improvement fund; repurchasing bonds or certificates; pledging income
Status: in_force

A. The board of county commissioners may, by ordinance approved by three-fourths of all the members of the board of county commissioners and irrepealable during the term of the contract and for a period not exceeding twenty-one years, contract:

(1) to repurchase bonds or assignable certificates authorized in Section 4-55A-20 NMSA 1978 for construction of a street, road, bridge, walkway, overpass, underpass, pathway, alley, curb, gutter or sidewalk project with the money in the street and road improvement fund; or

(2) to pledge the income of the street and road improvement fund to pay the interest and principal of bonds or assignable certificates when default in payment may occur by reason of nonpayment of any assessment levied for the payment of a street, road, bridge, walkway, overpass, underpass, pathway, alley, curb, gutter or sidewalk project authorized in the County Improvement District Act.

B. The county may anticipate the annual income to be received by the street and road improvement fund. The amount contracted or pledged to be expended each year as authorized in this section shall not exceed the amount that is accumulated in the street and road improvement fund.

C. The ordinance authorized in this section shall state that:

(1) all disbursements made pursuant to the contract shall be paid solely from the street and road improvement fund and from no other source;

(2) the obligations created by the contract are not general obligations of the county; and

(3) the contracting parties may not look to any other fund for the performance of the contractual obligation.

D. In the event of disbursement from the street and road improvement fund pursuant to the obligations created by the contract, the county shall be subrogated for the benefit of the street and road improvement fund to all the rights and remedies of the holders of the securities upon which payment is made.