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N.M. Stat. § 66-3-424.38 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 3 / Section 66-3-424.38
§ 66-3-424.38. Childhood cancer family support special registration plate
Status: in_force

A. The department shall issue a standardized childhood cancer family support special registration plate with a logo specified in Section 66-3-424 NMSA 1978 indicating that the recipient supports families with a child with cancer.

B. For an initial fee of forty dollars ($40.00), which shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fees, a motor vehicle owner may apply for issuance of a special registration plate as provided in Subsection A of this section. The vehicle owner shall pay a renewal fee of forty dollars ($40.00) each year to retain and renew the childhood cancer family support special registration plate.

C. The revenue from the fees imposed by Subsection B of this section for the childhood cancer family support special registration plate shall be distributed as follows:

(1) ten dollars ($10.00) of the initial fee collected shall be retained by the department and is appropriated to the department for the manufacture and issuance of the special registration plate; and

(2) thirty dollars ($30.00) of the initial fee and the entire renewal fee collected shall be distributed to and are appropriated to the department of health for childhood cancer awareness, outreach and education.

D. Beginning on July 1, 2023, and on July 1 of each subsequent year, the department shall compare the number of childhood cancer family support special registration plates issued or registration renewals for those plates in the previous fiscal year with the average of the number of such plates issued in fiscal years 2021 and 2022.

E. By September 1 of a fiscal year in which the department determines that the number of childhood cancer family support special registration plates issued or registration renewals for those plates in the previous fiscal year is less than fifty percent of the average number of such plates issued in fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the department shall stop issuing childhood cancer family support special registration plates.
N.M. Stat. § 66-6-11 — NM Code / Chapter 66 / Article 6 / Section 66-6-11
§ 66-6-11. Computation of weight
Status: in_force

The weight for determining registration fees for all vehicles shall be the gross factory shipping weight, or if the gross factory shipping weight is unavailable, the actual empty weight of the vehicle, except as otherwise provided by law for trucks, truck tractors, road tractors, buses, freight trailers, utility trailers and travel trailers.
N.M. Stat. § 53-12-4 — NM Code / Chapter 53 / Article 12 / Section 53-12-4
§ 53-12-4. Effect of incorporation
Status: in_force

Unless the commission [secretary of state] disapproves pursuant to Subsection A of Section 53-18-2 NMSA 1978 , upon delivery of the articles of incorporation to the commission [secretary of state], the corporate existence shall begin, and the certificate of incorporation shall be conclusive evidence that all conditions precedent required to be performed by the incorporators have been complied with and that the corporation has been incorporated under the Business Corporation Act, except as against this state in a proceeding to cancel or revoke the certificate of incorporation or for involuntary dissolution of the corporation.
N.M. Stat. § 5-11-14 — NM Code / Chapter 5 / Article 11 / Section 5-11-14
§ 5-11-14. Participation by municipality or county
Status: in_force

The governing body of the municipality or county by resolution may summarily provide public services to the district or participate in the costs of any public infrastructure purpose.
N.M. Stat. § 3-50-8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 50 / Section 3-50-8
§ 3-50-8. Lease of parking facilities; bids
Status: in_force

If a city desires to lease any project acquired by it under the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law, it shall do so by publication of notice and award to the highest responsible bidder. The governing body shall by ordinance prescribe the method of giving notice inviting bids. The notice shall distinctly and specifically describe the project and the facilities in connection therewith which are to be leased, the period of time for which the project is to be leased and the minimum rental to be paid under the lease. The governing body may reject any and all bids presented, and readvertise.
N.M. Stat. § 39-7-4 — NM Code / Chapter 39 / Article 7 / Section 39-7-4
§ 39-7-4. Power to answer
Status: in_force

The supreme court of this state may answer a question of law certified to it by a court of the United States or by an appellate court of another state, a tribe, Canada, a Canadian province or territory, Mexico or a Mexican state if the answer may be determinative of an issue in pending litigation in the certifying court and there is no controlling appellate decision, constitutional provision or statute of this state.
N.M. Stat. § 14-6-3 — NM Code / Chapter 14 / Article 6 / Section 14-6-3
§ 14-6-3. Access to medical records by applicants for disability benefits; violations
Status: in_force

A. Within thirty days of receiving a request from a patient or former patient who is applying for benefits based on social security disability or who is appealing a denial of such benefits or from an authorized representative of such a patient or former patient, a health care provider shall furnish the requestor with a copy of that patient's medical records. A fee as established by the department of health, may be charged by the health care provider to the requestor for the copies or for the service in obtaining the records.

B. A request made pursuant to Subsection A of this section shall include a statement or document from the agency that administers the benefits that confirms the application or appeal.

C. As used in this section:

(1) “ health care provider ” means a person who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by law to provide or render health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession and includes a facility employing, or contracting with, such a person; and

(2) “ medical records ” means information in a medical or mental health patient file, including drug or alcohol treatment records, medical reports, clinical notes, nurses' notes, history of injury, subjective and objective complaints, test contents and results, interpretations of tests, reports and summaries of interpretations of tests and other reports, diagnoses and prognoses, bills, invoices, referral requests, consultative reports and reports of services requested by the health care provider.

D. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to grant access for a patient or patient's representative to medical records that are otherwise protected by law.

E. The department of health shall enforce the provisions of this section and may impose a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for a violation of this section. The department may promulgate rules necessary for the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this section, including a fee schedule by obtaining records as provided in Subsection A of this section for a patient who has a financial ability to pay.
N.M. Stat. § 9-21-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 21 / Section 9-21-1
§ 9-21-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 1 through 15 of this act may be cited as the “Indian Affairs Department Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 3-60A-13.1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 60A / Section 3-60A-13.1
§ 3-60A-13.1. Payments in lieu of property taxes and assessments
Status: in_force

A. If interests in project property are exempt from property taxation and assessments under Subsection B of Section 3-60A-13 NMSA 1978 or Section 7-36-3.1 NMSA 1978 , then during the period extending from the date of acquisition of the property by the local government through December 31 of the year in which the seventh anniversary of that acquisition date occurs, any lessee of the project property or owner of a substantial beneficial interest in the project property, in whose ownership the property would not be exempt from property taxation except for the exemption granted under Section 7-36-3.1 NMSA 1978 , shall pay to the county treasurer annually, at the same time property tax payments are due under the Property Tax Code, an amount equal to the sum of:

(1) general property taxes that would have been imposed under Subsection B of Section 7-37-7 NMSA 1978 had it not been exempt and had it been valued at the valuation for property taxation purposes that existed in the year immediately preceding the year of acquisition by the local government;

(2) amounts that would have been imposed under Subsection C of Section 7-37-7 NMSA 1978 on the project property had it not been exempt and had it been valued at the valuation for property taxation purposes that existed in the year immediately preceding the year of acquisition by the local government; and

(3) amounts that would have been imposed as benefit assessments on the project property had it not been exempt and had it been valued at the valuation for property taxation purposes that existed in the year immediately preceding the year of acquisition by the local government if those benefit assessments are authorized by law and are expressed in mills per dollar or dollars per thousand dollars of net taxable value of property, assessed value of property or similar terms.

B. The county treasurer shall distribute all amounts collected under Subsection A of this section in the same manner as the amounts would have been distributed if they had been collected as taxes or assessments on nonexempt property.

C. The provisions of this section shall apply only to project property acquired by a local government under the provisions of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code on or after January 1, 1986.
N.M. Stat. § 27-7A-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 7A / Section 27-7A-2
§ 27-7A-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Employee Abuse Registry Act:

A. “ abuse ” means:

(1) knowingly, intentionally or negligently and without justifiable cause inflicting physical pain, injury or mental anguish; or

(2) the intentional deprivation by a caretaker or other person of services necessary to maintain the mental and physical health of a person;

B. “ department ” means the department of health;

C. “ direct care ” means face-to-face services provided or routine and unsupervised physical or financial access to a recipient of services;

D. “ employee ” means a person employed by or on contract with a provider, either directly or through a third party arrangement to provide direct care. “Employee” does not include a New Mexico licensed health care professional practicing within the scope of the profession's license or a certified nurse aide;

E. “ exploitation ” means an unjust or improper use of a person's money or property for another person's profit or advantage, pecuniary or otherwise;

F. “ neglect ” means, subject to a person's right to refuse treatment and subject to a provider's right to exercise sound medical discretion, the failure of an employee to provide basic needs such as clothing, food, shelter, supervision and care for the physical and mental health of a person or failure by a person that may cause physical or psychological harm;

G. “ provider ” means an intermediate care facility for individuals with developmental or intellectual disabilities; a rehabilitation facility; a home health agency; a homemaker agency; a home for the aged or disabled; a group home; an adult foster care home; a case management entity that provides services to elderly people or people with developmental disabilities; a corporate guardian; a private residence that provides personal care, adult residential care or natural and surrogate family services provided to persons with developmental disabilities; an adult daycare center; a boarding home; an adult residential care home; a residential service or habilitation service authorized to be reimbursed by medicaid; any licensed or medicaid-certified entity or any program funded by the aging and long-term services department that provides respite, companion or personal care services; programs funded by the children, youth and families department that provide homemaker or adult daycare services; and any other individual, agency or organization that provides respite care or delivers home- and community-based services to adults or children with developmental disabilities or physical disabilities or to the elderly, but excluding a managed care organization unless the employees of the managed care organization provide respite care or deliver home- and community-based services to adults or children with developmental disabilities or physical disabilities or to the elderly;

H. “ registry ” means an electronic database that provides information on substantiated employee abuse, neglect or exploitation; and

I. “ secretary ” means the secretary of health.
N.M. Stat. § 59A-23-28 — NM Code / Chapter 59A / Article 23 / Section 59A-23-28
§ 59A-23-28. Level of care determinations for the provision of mental health or substance use disorder services
Status: in_force

A. An insurer shall provide coverage for all in- network mental health or substance use disorder services, consistent with generally recognized standards of care, including placing an insured into a medically necessary level of care.

B. Changes in level and duration of care shall be determined by the insured's provider in consultation with the insurer.

C. Level of care determinations shall include placement of an insured into a facility that provides detoxification services, a hospital, an inpatient rehabilitation treatment facility or an outpatient treatment program.

D. Level of care services for an insured with a mental health or substance use disorder shall be based on the mental health or substance use disorder needs of the insured rather than arbitrary time limits.
N.M. Stat. § 62-16A-12 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 16A / Section 62-16A-12
§ 62-16A-12. Renewable energy transmission bonds tax exempt
Status: in_force

All renewable energy transmission bonds are exempt from taxation by the state or any of its political subdivisions.
N.M. Stat. § 1-6B-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 6B / Section 1-6B-5
§ 1-6B-5. Methods of registering to vote
Status: in_force

A. A federal qualified elector may register to vote using any of the following methods; provided that the document is received by the county clerk by the deadline for registering to vote as provided in Section 1-4-8 NMSA 1978:

(1) using the procedures provided in Chapter 1, Article 4 NMSA 1978; or

(2) using a federal postcard application or the application's approved electronic equivalent.

B. A voter's certificate of registration completed pursuant to the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act shall remain valid until canceled in accordance with the procedures specified in Chapter 1, Article 4 NMSA 1978 .

C. In registering to vote, a federal qualified elector shall use and must be assigned to the voting precinct of the address of:

(1) the residence of the voter, if the voter resides in this state; or

(2) the last place of residence of the voter in this state, or the last place of residence in this state of the parent or legal guardian of the voter if the voter did not reside in this state; provided that if that address is no longer a recognized residential address, the voter shall be assigned an address or other location within that precinct.

D. A federal qualified elector who registered for the first time in this state by mail is exempt pursuant to federal law from the requirement to provide documentary identification as otherwise required by Subsection F of Section 1-6-4 NMSA 1978 .
N.M. Stat. § 12-8A-5 — NM Code / Chapter 12 / Article 8A / Section 12-8A-5
§ 12-8A-5. Effect on other laws
Status: in_force

Nothing in the Governmental Dispute Prevention and Resolution Act and rules, agreements and procedures developed pursuant to that act:

A. limits other dispute prevention or resolution procedures available to an agency;

B. denies a person a right granted under federal or other state law, including a right to an administrative or judicial hearing;

C. waives immunity from suit or affects a waiver of immunity from suit contained in any other law;

D. waives immunity granted under the eleventh amendment to the constitution of the United States;

E. authorizes or prohibits binding arbitration as a method of alternative dispute resolution when mutually agreed to in writing by the interested parties;

F. authorizes or requires an agency to take any action that is inconsistent or contrary to any law or rule;

G. authorizes or requires any meeting, otherwise required to be open to the public, to be closed;

H. authorizes or requires any record, otherwise open to public inspection, to be sealed; or

I. shall be interpreted to create an additional layer of administrative process or to discourage or impede the use of alternative dispute resolution.
N.M. Stat. § 58-18-21 — NM Code / Chapter 58 / Article 18 / Section 58-18-21
§ 58-18-21. Limitation of liability
Status: in_force

Neither the members of the authority nor any person acting in its behalf, while acting within the scope of their authority, shall be subject to any personal liability for any action taken or omitted within that scope of authority.
N.M. Stat. § 61-17A-8 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 17A / Section 61-17A-8
§ 61-17A-8. Licensure requirements; barbers
Status: in_force

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, a barber license shall be issued to any person who files a completed application, accompanied by the required fees and documentation, and who:

(1) is at least seventeen years of age;

(2) has completed a course in barbering of at least one thousand two hundred hours or equivalent credits in a school or apprenticeship approved by the board; and

(3) has passed an examination approved by the board.

B. A barbering license shall be issued to a person who files a completed application, accompanied by the required fees and documentation, meets the requirements of Paragraphs (1) through (3) of Subsection A of this section and shows proof of having successfully completed a registered barbering apprenticeship approved by the state apprenticeship agency and the board of barbers and cosmetologists.

C. The holder of a barber license has the right and privilege to use the title “barber”, and the initials “R.B.” following the holder's surname and to use a barber pole, the traditional striped, vertical emblem of the barbering trade.
N.M. Stat. § 74-10-90 — NM Code / Chapter 74 / Article 10 / Section 74-10-90
§ 74-10-90. Failure to contest legality constitutes bar
Status: in_force

If no such action or proceedings are commenced or instituted within twenty days after the first publication of such resolution, other proceedings or notice, then all residents and taxpayers and owners of property in the authority and all public bodies and all other persons whatsoever shall be forever barred and foreclosed from instituting or commencing any action or proceeding in any court or from pleading any defense to any action or proceedings questioning the validity of the creation and establishment of the authority, the validity or proper authorization of such securities or the validity of any such covenants, agreements or contracts. The securities, covenants, agreements and contracts shall be conclusively deemed to be valid and binding obligations in accordance with their terms and tenor.
N.M. Stat. § 40-7B-2 — NM Code / Chapter 40 / Article 7B / Section 40-7B-2
§ 40-7B-2. Human services department [health care authority department] to administer compact; rules and regulations
Status: in_force

The New Mexico human services department [health care authority department], hereinafter called “the department”, or its successor agency is the compact administrator of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance, hereinafter called “the compact”. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms of the compact. Where appropriate, the department shall act jointly with the officers of other party states in promulgating such rules and regulations. The department may cooperate with all other departments and agencies of this state and its political subdivisions in facilitating the proper administration of the compact and any amendments or supplementary agreements thereunder entered into by this state.
N.M. Stat. § 39-6-1 — NM Code / Chapter 39 / Article 6 / Section 39-6-1
§ 39-6-1. Levy on range cattle; gathering; filing, noting, indexing, copy of writ
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall be necessary to levy any writ of attachment, replevin or execution under the laws of this state upon any livestock or herd of cattle that are ranging at large with other livestock or cattle over any range country, and when it would be impossible or impracticable to round up, gather or take possession of the same under such process without, at the same time, rounding up and cutting out the livestock belonging to other owners, then and in such case, the sheriff or other officer holding such writ, shall only take possession of such stock as he may be able to get without interfering with the livestock of other owners, and as to the balance, it shall be sufficient, in order to subject them to the lien of said writ, that the officer shall file with the county clerk of the county in which the brand of such livestock is recorded, a certified copy of said writ, and immediately upon the filing thereof the county clerk shall note the same in the reception book of his office, and shall also note the same in red ink on the margin of the page of the book where such brand is recorded, and shall properly index the process in the general and other proper indices of his office: provided, that if said livestock range is in more than one county, then the officer may file a like certified copy of the writ and brand in any such county, and the same shall have like binding effect as a lien upon such livestock.