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N.M. Stat. § 24-6B-20 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 6B / Section 24-6B-20
§ 24-6B-20. Donor registry
Status: in_force

A. The motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department shall establish a donor registry pursuant to the provisions of Subsection B of Section 66-5-10 NMSA 1978 .

B. The motor vehicle division of the taxation and revenue department shall cooperate with a person that administers any donor registry that this state establishes, contracts for or recognizes for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor's making, amendment to or revocation of an anatomical gift.

C. A donor registry shall:

(1) allow a donor or other person authorized pursuant to Section 4 of the Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift;

(2) be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift; and

(3) be accessible for purposes of Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection seven days a week on a twenty-four-hour basis.

D. Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor or person who made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift.

E. This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such registry shall comply with the provisions of Subsections C and D of this section.
N.M. Stat. § 73-16-31 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 16 / Section 73-16-31
§ 73-16-31. Conservation and development fund assessment; levy; records; payment
Status: in_force

Said special assessment shall be known as the “conservation and development fund assessment”; it shall be made by resolution of the board and duly extended on the proper district and tax records in like manner and in accordance with the same procedure as the construction fund assessment under the provisions of the Conservancy Act of New Mexico. A complete record in duplicate shall be kept of the conservation and development fund assessment similar to the records and extension thereof required to be made for the construction fund assessment, and said conservation and development fund assessment may, by sufficient columns provided therefor, be recorded on the same books as the construction fund assessment record, or in such manner as shall be most convenient for the proper recording thereof.

Under the terms of a resolution levying and extending said conservation and development fund assessment, principal payments thereon by the property owners shall commence to be paid within five years from the date thereof, and be apportioned over the remainder of the life of the conservancy bonds theretofore issued, but like opportunity shall be given the property owners to pay said assessment in cash as provided for in the case of the construction fund assessment under the Conservancy Act; and nothing herein contained shall impair the right of said districts in the making of annual levies for construction fund and maintenance fund assessments to levy sufficient amounts as may be necessary to service all of the outstanding obligations of said district, including interest and principal as needed to pay and discharge those authorized under the provisions hereof, at the time and in the manner prescribed for annual levies under Section 514 of the Conservancy Act.
N.M. Stat. § 73-17-17 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 17 / Section 73-17-17
§ 73-17-17. Appeals shall not delay proceedings
Status: in_force

A. No appeal under this act shall be permitted to interrupt or delay any action or the prosecution of any work, except where the appellant is entitled to a jury trial under the constitution of the state, in which case, only so much of the work shall be interrupted or delayed as would constitute a taking or damaging of the property of such appellant.

B. The right of appeal from orders and decrees of said court shall exist as in civil cases, except no proceeding to review an order or decree of the court, entered under the provisions of this act, shall be commenced after thirty (30) days from the entry of the order or decree sought to be reviewed.

C. The board shall have the same right as property owners to invoke the jurisdiction of the supreme court of the state of New Mexico to review any reviewable order or decree of the court made in any proceeding.

D. The failure to appeal from or seek a review of any order or decree of the court in any proceedings, within the time specified herein, shall constitute a waiver of any irregularity in the proceedings, and the remedies provided herein shall exclude all other remedies except as herein provided.
N.M. Stat. § 61-14B-24 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 14B / Section 61-14B-24
§ 61-14B-24. Fund established
Status: in_force

A. There is created in the state treasury the “speech-language pathology, audiology and hearing aid dispensing practices board fund”.

B. All money received by the board under the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act shall be deposited with the state treasurer for credit to the speech-language pathology, audiology and hearing aid dispensing practices board fund. The state treasurer shall invest the fund as other state funds are invested. All balances in the fund shall remain in the fund and shall not revert to the general fund.

C. Money in the speech-language pathology, audiology and hearing aid dispensing practices board fund is appropriated to the board and shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act.
N.M. Stat. § 6-13-18 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 13 / Section 6-13-18
§ 6-13-18. Security; priority of liens
Status: in_force

A. All bonds of the same issue under the Institution Bond Act have a prior and paramount lien upon income from the permanent fund and upon the income and current fund of the institution issuing the bonds. This lien is ahead of all bonds of any series secured by a pledge of this income and fund which may be subsequently authorized, and is ahead of any claims or other obligations of any nature against this income and fund subsequently arising or incurred.

B. The bonds are subject to any prior and superior rights of any outstanding bonds, claims or other obligations previously issued, arising or incurred, but the resolution authorizing issuance of bonds under the Institution Bond Act may provide for subsequent authorization of bonds having a lien for payment on income from the permanent fund and on the income and current fund of the institution at a parity with the lien of earlier bonds upon conditions provided in the resolution.

C. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the resolution, all bonds of the same series issued under the Institution Bond Act shall be equally and ratably secured without priority by reason of number, date or [of] bonds, sale, execution or delivery, by a lien on income from the permanent fund and on the income and current fund of the issuing state institution in accordance with the terms of the Institution Bond Act.
N.M. Stat. § 21-7-26 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 21-7-26
§ 21-7-26. Temporary provision; medical residency programs; state cooperation
Status: in_force

A. The legislature finds that the expansion of hospital physician residency programs may extend and expand limited health delivery resources into rural and other medically underserved areas of the state.

B. The department of health and the university of New Mexico school of medicine shall assist hospitals in the state to develop and expand physician residencies in family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology and pediatrics in rural or other medically underserved areas. The department and the school of medicine shall provide information and technical assistance to enhance hospital physician residency programs in rural or other medically underserved areas.
N.M. Stat. § 58-4-5 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 4 / Section 58-4-5
§ 58-4-5. Merger; approval by stockholders of state banks
Status: in_force

A. To be effective, a merger which is to result in a state bank must be approved by the stockholders of each merging state bank by a vote of two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock of each class at a meeting called to consider such action, which vote shall constitute the adoption of the charter and bylaws of the resulting state bank, including the amendments in the merger agreement.

B. Notice of the meeting of stockholders of each state bank shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the place where its principal office is located at least once a week for four successive weeks, and by mail at least fifteen days before the date of the meeting, to each stockholder of record of each merging bank at his address on the books of his bank; no notice by publication need be given if written waivers are received from the holders of two-thirds of the outstanding shares of each class of stock. The notice shall be accompanied by a copy of Section 10 and shall state that the section sets forth the exclusive rights and remedies of dissenting stockholders.
N.M. Stat. § 47-16-3 — NM Code / Chapter 47 / Article 16 / Section 47-16-3
§ 47-16-3. Creation of homeowner association
Status: in_force

An association pursuant to the Homeowner Association Act shall be organized in accordance with the laws of the state and be identified in a recorded declaration. The membership of the association shall consist exclusively of all lot owners in the development.
N.M. Stat. § 34-6-12 — NM Code / Chapter 34 / Article 6 / Section 34-6-12
§ 34-6-12. Judges; ninth judicial district
Status: in_force

There shall be five district judges in the ninth judicial district.
N.M. Stat. § 61-29-29 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 29 / Section 61-29-29
§ 61-29-29. Disciplinary action not limited
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in the Real Estate Recovery Fund Act shall limit the authority of the real estate commission to take disciplinary action against a licensee for a violation of any of the provisions of Section 61-29-12 NMSA 1978 or of the rules and regulations of the real estate commission, nor shall the repayment in full of all obligations to the real estate recovery fund by any licensee nullify or modify the effect of any other disciplinary proceeding brought pursuant to the provisions of Section 61-29-12 NMSA 1978 or the rules and regulations promulgated by the commission.
N.M. Stat. § 7-2C-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 2C / Section 7-2C-5
§ 7-2C-5. Department to aid in collection of debts through setoff
Status: in_force

Subject to the limitations contained in the Tax Refund Intercept Program Act, the department, upon request, shall render assistance in the collection of any debt owed to a claimant agency or any debt that a claimant agency is obligated by law to collect. This assistance shall be provided by withholding from any refund due to the debtor pursuant to the Income Tax Act 1 the amount of debt meeting the requirements of the Tax Refund Intercept Program Act and paying over to the claimant agency the amount withheld.
N.M. Stat. § 69-25A-33 — NM Code / Chapter 69 / Article 25A / Section 69-25A-33
§ 69-25A-33. Experimental practices or other use
Status: in_force

To encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices or to allow post-mining land use for industrial, commercial, residential or public use, including recreational facilities, the director may, with the approval by the secretary of the United States department of the interior, authorize departures in individual cases on an experimental basis from the environmental protection standards established under Sections 19 and 20 of the Surface Mining Act. Such departures may be authorized if:

A. the experimental practices are potentially at least as environmentally protective, during and after mining operations, as the performance standards of Sections 19 and 20 of the Surface Mining Act;

B. the mining operations approved for particular land use or other purposes are not larger or more numerous than necessary to determine the effectiveness and economic feasibility of the experimental practices; and

C. the experimental practices do not reduce the protection afforded public health and safety below that provided by the performance standards of Sections 19 and 20 of the Surface Mining Act.
N.M. Stat. § 29-7C-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 29 / Article 7C / Section 29-7C-2
§ 29-7C-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Act:

A. “ board ” means the law enforcement certification board;

B. “ certified ” means meeting the training standards established by statute and rule as determined by the board;

C. “ council ” means the New Mexico law enforcement standards and training council;

D. “ director ” means the director of the New Mexico law enforcement academy;

E. “ dispatch ” means the relay of information to public safety personnel by all forms of communication;

F. “ safety agency ” means a unit of state or local government, a special purpose district or a private business that provides police, firefighting or emergency medical services; and

G. “ telecommunicator ” means an employee or volunteer of a safety agency who:

(1) receives calls or dispatches the appropriate personnel or equipment in response to calls for police, fire or medical services; and

(2) makes decisions affecting the life, health or welfare of the public or safety employees.
N.M. Stat. § 1-8-5 — NM Code / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 1-8-5
§ 1-8-5. Canvassing boards; certification of nominees of parties participating in primary
Status: in_force

Immediately upon completion of their respective canvasses, the state and county canvassing boards shall certify to the county clerk the name of each person who has been nominated by each participating political party in the primary election, and the offices for which they have been nominated. The county clerk shall send a certified list of all persons so nominated to the secretary of state.
N.M. Stat. § 19-7-62 — NM Code / Chapter 19 / Article 7 / Section 19-7-62
§ 19-7-62. Annual appropriation for refunds; payment from state lands maintenance fund
Status: in_force

There is appropriated annually out of the state lands maintenance fund created by Section 19-1-11 NMSA 1978 the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) or such part thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of making refunds of payments determined in the manner provided by Sections 19-7-59 through 19-7-63 NMSA 1978 to have been erroneously collected; provided, however, that any refund of money paid into any fund other than the state lands maintenance fund shall be made only out of that part of the state lands maintenance fund distributable to the fund into which such payment was erroneously made, under the provisions of Section 19-1-13 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 3-59-11 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 59 / Section 3-59-11
§ 3-59-11. Bonds made legal investments
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under the provisions of the Pollution Control Revenue Bond Act shall be legal investments for savings banks and insurance companies organized under the laws of this state and shall be eligible for pledging as collateral for public deposits.
N.M. Stat. § 52-1-3 — NM Code / Chapter 52 / Article 1 / Section 52-1-3
§ 52-1-3. Workers' compensation coverage; coverage by state agencies
Status: in_force

A. The risk management division of the general services department shall provide workers' compensation coverage for all public employees, as defined in the Workers' Compensation Act, of all state agencies regardless of the hazards of their employment.

B. The director of the risk management division shall ascertain the most economical means of providing such coverage and may secure a policy or policies of insurance to provide the coverage required. The director of the risk management division shall collect or transfer funds from each agency to cover the agency's respective share of the cost of the coverage.

C. The director of the risk management division shall determine the possibilities for including school districts under uniform coverage and the methods of administration therefor.

D. For purposes of this section, “state” or “state agency” means the state of New Mexico or any of its branches, agencies, departments, boards, instrumentalities or institutions.
N.M. Stat. § 73-8-15 — NM Code / Chapter 73 / Article 8 / Section 73-8-15
§ 73-8-15. Directors' offices; conduct of elections after organization
Status: in_force

The offices of the board of directors shall be located in the county where the organization is effected.

Fifteen days prior to any election held under the provisions of this act, subsequent to the organization of the district the secretary of such district shall cause to be posted in three public places in each precinct notices setting forth the time and place of holding the election and shall also post a general notice of the same in the office of the board. Prior to the time for the posting of such notices the board shall name from the qualified electors of each precinct three judges, one of whom shall act as clerk, who shall constitute a board of election for each such precinct. Should the board fail to name election judges as aforesaid, or should the persons appointed by the board of directors or any thereof fail to attend at the opening of the polls on the morning of the day fixed for any election, the qualified electors of the precinct present at the hour fixed for the opening of the polls may elect person [persons] qualified as aforesaid to act in the place of any absent member of any such board. In its order calling any election the board shall designate the hour and the place of each precinct where the election shall be held.
N.M. Stat. § 36-1-15 — NM Code / Chapter 36 / Article 1 / Section 36-1-15
§ 36-1-15. Issues to be tried without jury; applicability of Rules of Civil Procedure; burden of proof
Status: in_force

The issues shall be tried to the court without a jury. So far as they may conveniently be applied and except as varied herein, the Rules of Civil Practice and Procedure in the District Courts shall govern the conduct of the trial, including compulsory attendance of witnesses, examination of witnesses, the admissibility of evidence and the amendment of pleadings. Upon the issues the burden of proof shall be upon the prosecution.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-17-5.1 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 17 / Section 59A-17-5.1
§ 59A-17-5.1. Underwriting guidelines
Status: in_force

A. The superintendent may direct an insurer writing homeowners insurance, private passenger non-fleet automobile insurance or other lines, kinds or classes of noncommercial insurance in New Mexico to file with the superintendent underwriting guidelines that determine the acceptance of applicants and tiering guidelines that determine the placement of applicants and insureds into rating tiers, regardless of whether such tiers exist within the insurer or within a group of insurers under common ownership or management.

B. The superintendent, after notice and hearing, may order an insurer to cease using underwriting or tiering guidelines that are unfairly discriminatory or that fail to place applicants and insureds into tiers in a clear, objective, risk-based and mutually exclusive manner.

C. Filings made pursuant to this section shall be considered confidential trade secrets under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
N.M. Stat. § 4-50-10 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 4 / Article 50 / Section 4-50-10
§ 4-50-10. Emergency flood districts; establishment
Status: in_force

Each county of the state through which runs any river, stream or arroyo subject to flood conditions destructive to property or dangerous to human life shall be by the board of county commissioners, within thirty days after the passage and approval of this act, divided into emergency flood districts, and said board shall set out the limits and boundaries of each said district, and cause the same to be properly numbered so that the same may be known and identified.
N.M. Stat. § 7-12-13.2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 7 / Article 12 / Section 7-12-13.2
§ 7-12-13.2. Criminal offenses; criminal penalties; seizure and destruction of evidence
Status: in_force

A. Whoever violates a provision of the Cigarette Tax Act or a rule adopted pursuant to that act is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978 .

B. Whoever, with intent to defraud, fails to comply with a licensing, reporting or stamping requirement of the Cigarette Tax Act or with a licensing, reporting or stamping rule adopted pursuant to that act is guilty of a fourth degree felony and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978 .

C. Whoever packages cigarettes for sale in New Mexico or whoever sells cigarettes in New Mexico, in packages of other than five, ten, twenty or twenty-five cigarettes is:

(1) for the first offense, guilty of a misdemeanor and when convicted shall be sentenced pursuant to Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978; and

(2) for the second or subsequent offense, guilty of a fourth degree felony and when convicted shall be sentenced pursuant to Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978 .

D. Whoever purchases or otherwise knowingly obtains counterfeit stamps or whoever produces, uses or causes counterfeit stamps to be used is guilty of a fourth degree felony and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978 .

E. Whoever sells or possesses for the purpose of sale contraband cigarettes is in violation of the Cigarette Tax Act and shall have the product and related equipment seized. If convicted of selling or possessing for sale contraband cigarettes, the person shall be sentenced as follows:

(1) a violation with a quantity of fewer than two cartons of contraband cigarettes, or the equivalent, is a petty misdemeanor and is punishable in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978;

(2) a first violation with a quantity of two cartons or more of contraband cigarettes, or the equivalent, is a misdemeanor and is punishable in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978; and

(3) a second or subsequent violation with a quantity of two cartons or more of contraband cigarettes, or the equivalent, is a fourth degree felony and is punishable by a fine not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or imprisonment for a definite term not to exceed eighteen months, or both, and shall also result in the revocation by the department of the manufacturer's or distributor's license, if any.

F. Contraband cigarettes or counterfeit stamps seized by the department or by a law enforcement agency shall be retained as evidence to the extent necessary. Contraband cigarettes or counterfeit stamps no longer needed as evidence shall be destroyed.

G. Prosecution for a violation of a provision of this section does not preclude prosecution under other applicable laws.