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N.M. Stat. § 62-13-15 — NM Code / Chapter 62 / Article 13 / Section 62-13-15
§ 62-13-15. Appointment of receiver
Status: in_force

Whenever the commission determines, after notice and hearing, that a public utility is unable or unwilling to adequately service its customers or has been actually or effectively abandoned by its owners or operator, or consistently violates the rules or orders of the commission, the commission may commence an action in the district court of the county where the utility has its principal office or place of business for the appointment of a receiver to assume possession of its property and to operate its system upon terms and conditions in accordance with the provisions of the Public Utility Act, commission rules and orders of the court. Upon the order of the court, the receiver may issue receiver's certificates to provide funds to operate, repair, improve or enlarge the public utility. Unless otherwise provided in the court order, payment of the receiver's certificates is a first lien on the real and personal property of the public utility. The court shall prescribe the certificate's form, term and rate of interest. Receiver's certificates are exempt from the operation of any law that regulates the issuance or sale of securities of public utilities.
N.M. Stat. § 18-12-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 12 / Section 18-12-2
§ 18-12-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the National Hispanic Cultural Center Act:

A. “ board ” means the board of directors of the center;

B. “ center ” means the national Hispanic cultural center;

C. “ division ” means the Hispanic cultural division of the cultural affairs department; and

D. “ director ” means the director of the division.
N.M. Stat. § 9-15-19.2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 9 / Article 15 / Section 9-15-19.2
§ 9-15-19.2. New Mexico 9000 program enterprise fund; created; purpose
Status: in_force

The “New Mexico 9000 program enterprise fund” is created in the state treasury. The fund consists of fees paid by participants for the New Mexico 9000 program, appropriations, gifts, grants and donations. Interest earned on balances in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund. The economic development department shall administer the fund, and money in the fund is appropriated to the economic development department for the purpose of implementing and maintaining the New Mexico 9000 program. The fund is to be used for expenses associated with the delivery of training, auditing and certification, as well as expenses associated with administering the program and supporting participating New Mexico businesses in obtaining and maintaining international organization for standardization certification. Disbursements from the fund shall be made by warrant of the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary of economic development or the secretary of economic development's designee.
N.M. Stat. § 30-16-17 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 16 / Section 30-16-17
§ 30-16-17. Unlawful removal of effects
Status: in_force

Unlawful removal of effects consists of any person removing or causing to be removed any baggage or effects from any hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boarding house while there is a lien existing thereon for the proper charges due for fare or board furnished from such hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boarding house, and where the owner or person in possession of such baggage or effects is given actual notice of the fact of such lien, or where a notice of such lien has been conspicuously posted upon the premises adjacent to such baggage or effects, giving notice of the fact of such lien and the amount thereof.

Whoever commits unlawful removal of effects is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
N.M. Stat. § 30-31-35 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 31 / Section 30-31-35
§ 30-31-35. Forfeiture; procedure
Status: in_force

The provisions of the Forfeiture Act 1 apply to the seizure, forfeiture and disposal of property subject to forfeiture and disposal pursuant to the Controlled Substances Act.
N.M. Stat. § 22-13-3.4 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 13 / Section 22-13-3.4
§ 22-13-3.4. Purpose
Status: in_force

The purpose of the Literacy For Children At Risk Act is to promote greater literacy among children.
N.M. Stat. § 61-30-5 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 30 / Section 61-30-5
§ 61-30-5. Real estate appraisers board created
Status: in_force

A. There is created a “real estate appraisers board” consisting of seven members appointed by the governor. The board is administratively attached to the regulation and licensing department.

B. There shall be four real estate appraiser members of the board who shall be licensed or certified. Membership in a professional appraisal organization or association shall not be a prerequisite to serve on the board. No more than two real estate appraiser members shall be from any one licensed or certified category.

C. Board members shall be appointed to five-year terms and shall serve until a successor is appointed and qualified. Real estate appraiser members may be appointed for no more than two consecutive five-year terms.

D. No more than two members shall be from any one county within New Mexico, and at least one real estate appraiser member shall be from each congressional district.

E. One member of the board shall represent lenders or their assignees engaged in the business of lending funds secured by mortgages or in the business of appraisal management. Two members shall be appointed to represent the public. The public members shall not have been real estate appraisers or engaged in the business of real estate appraisals or have any financial interest, direct or indirect, in real estate appraisal or any real-estate-related business.

F. Vacancies on the board shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the unexpired term within sixty days of the vacancy.

G. The board is administratively attached to the regulation and licensing department, and, pursuant to Title 11 of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the appraisal subcommittee may monitor the board for the purposes of determining whether the board:

(1) has policies, practices, funding, staffing and procedures that are consistent with the requirements of the appraisal subcommittee and pursuant to Title 11 of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989;

(2) processes complaints and completes investigations in a reasonable time period;

(3) appropriately disciplines sanctioned appraisers and appraisal management companies;

(4) maintains an effective regulatory program; and

(5) reports complaints and disciplinary actions on a timely basis to the national registries on appraisers and appraisal management companies maintained by the appraisal subcommittee.

H. The appraisal subcommittee may impose sanctions against the board if it fails to have an effective appraiser regulatory program.
N.M. Stat. § 27-2-15 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 27 / Article 2 / Section 27-2-15
§ 27-2-15. Cooperation with United States
Status: in_force

The state department is hereby designated as the state agency to cooperate with the federal government in the administration of the provisions of Title 1, Title 4, Part 2 and 3 of Title 5, and Title 10 of the federal Social Security Act. 1 The state board is hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the proper departments of the federal government, and with all other departments of the state and local governments in the enforcement and administration of such provisions of the federal Social Security Act, and any amendments thereto and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, and in compliance therewith in the manner prescribed in this act, or as otherwise provided by law.

The department shall also make reports in such form and containing such information as any agency or instrumentality of the United States, with which it is cooperating, may from time to time require, and shall comply with such provisions as any such agency or instrumentality may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.
N.M. Stat. § 31-1-5 — NM Code / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 31-1-5
§ 31-1-5. Procedures on arrest; reports
Status: in_force

A. Following arrest, any person accused of a crime is entitled to have reasonable opportunity to make three telephone calls beginning not later than twenty minutes after the time of arrival at a police station, sheriff's office or other place of detention. Nothing in this subsection limits any right to make telephone calls at any time later than twenty minutes after the time of arrival at the police station.

B. Every accused shall be brought before a court having jurisdiction to release the accused without unnecessary delay.

C. Within eighteen hours after the arrest of any person accused with having committed a misdemeanor or a felony, the arresting law enforcement agency shall notify the district attorney of:

(1) the name of the accused; and

(2) the offense charged.
N.M. Stat. § 63-9D-16 — NM Code / Chapter 63 / Article 9D / Section 63-9D-16
§ 63-9D-16. Enhanced 911 bonds; terms
Status: in_force

Enhanced 911 bonds:

A. shall bear interest at a coupon rate or coupon rates not exceeding the maximum coupon rate which is permitted by the Public Securities Act; provided that interest shall be payable annually or semiannually and may or may not be evidenced by coupons; and provided further that the first interest payment date may be for interest accruing for any period not exceeding one year;

B. may be subject to a prior redemption at the board's option at such time or times and upon such terms and conditions, with or without the payment of such premium or premiums, as may be provided by action of the board;

C. may mature at any time or times not exceeding twenty years after the date of issuance;

D. may be serial in form and maturity or may consist of one bond payable at one time or in installments;

E. shall be sold for cash at, above or below par and at a price which results in a net effective interest rate which does not exceed the maximum permitted by the Public Securities Act; and

F. may be sold at public or private sale.
N.M. Stat. § 20-12-29 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 20 / Article 12 / Section 20-12-29
§ 20-12-29. Mutiny or sedition
Status: in_force

A. Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who:

(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;

(2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition; or

(3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place;

is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.

B. A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
N.M. Stat. § 31-6-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 31 / Article 6 / Section 31-6-3
§ 31-6-3. Challenge to grand jury
Status: in_force

Any person held to answer for an offense by grand jury indictment, upon arraignment to the charge therein, by motion to quash the indictment stating with particularity the ground therefor, may challenge the validity of the grand jury. A failure to file such motion is a waiver of the challenge. Grounds that may be presented by such motion are limited to the following:

A. the grand jury was not selected in accordance with law;

B. a member of the grand jury returning the indictment was ineligible to serve as a juror;

C. a member of the grand jury returning the indictment was a witness or is likely to become a witness; or

D. a member of the grand jury returning the indictment was not qualified to serve due to a conflict of interest, bias, partiality or inability to follow the law.
N.M. Stat. § 21-16-5.1 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 16 / Section 21-16-5.1
§ 21-16-5.1. Board members; elected from districts; elections
Status: in_force

A. A district board shall be composed of five or seven members elected for four-year terms who shall reside in and be elected from single-member districts as provided in this section. If the board is a seven-member board, board members shall be elected for all seven positions on the board, with the board members elected to positions 1, 3, 5 and 7 to be elected for initial terms of two years and the board members elected to positions 2, 4 and 6 to be elected for initial terms of four years. If the board is a five-member board, board members elected to positions 1, 3 and 5 shall be elected for initial terms of two years and board members elected to positions 2 and 4 shall be elected for initial terms of four years. After the initial election for a district board, each board member shall be elected for a term of four years.

B. All election proceedings for technical and vocational institute district elections shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Local Election Act.

C. Once following each federal decennial census, the board shall redistrict the technical and vocational institute district into election districts to ensure that the districts remain as equal in population as is practicable and shall notify the county clerk of the new boundaries upon completion of the redistricting process. The new districts shall go into effect at the first regular board election thereafter. Candidates for the new single-member districts that are scheduled to be voted on at the election shall reside in and be elected from the appropriate new single-member district. Incumbent board members whose districts before redistricting were not scheduled to be voted on at the election need not reside in the new single-member districts corresponding to their position numbers and may serve out their terms. At the second regular board election held after the redistricting, all candidates for the new single-member districts that are scheduled to be voted on shall reside in and be elected from the appropriate single-member district.

D. All election districts covered by this section shall be contiguous, compact and as equal in population as is practicable.

E. A vacancy occurring on the board shall be filled in the same manner as provided for school board vacancies in Section 22-5-9 NMSA 1978; provided, however, that a vacancy that occurs in an election district where a nonresident board member had been serving shall be filled by a resident of that district.
N.M. Stat. § 56-9-16 — NM Code / Chapter 56 / Article 9 / Section 56-9-16
§ 56-9-16. Compensation of appraisers
Status: in_force

The appraisers shall receive four dollars [($4.00)] per day for their necessary attendance and services.
N.M. Stat. § 3-25-5 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 25 / Section 3-25-5
§ 3-25-5. Gas or geothermal utility; eminent domain power; procedure
Status: in_force

Any municipality acquiring a natural gas or geothermal utility may exercise the power of eminent domain within or without the municipality boundary for the purpose of acquiring property or interest in property for the location of or for the extension of the facilities of a natural gas or geothermal utility. Proceedings to obtain such condemnation shall be in the manner provided by the Eminent Domain Code.
N.M. Stat. § 6-21-1 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 21 / Section 6-21-1
§ 6-21-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Chapter 6, Article 21 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “New Mexico Finance Authority Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 28-1-12 — NM Code / Chapter 28 / Article 1 / Section 28-1-12
§ 28-1-12. Enforcement
Status: in_force

If a respondent to a complaint filed pursuant to the Human Rights Act is not complying with an order of the commission, the attorney general or district attorney, at the request of the secretary, shall secure enforcement of the commission's order by a district court. The proceeding shall be initiated by the filing of a petition in the district court where the respondent is doing business or the alleged discriminatory practice occurred. A copy of the petition shall be served on the respondent personally or by registered mail, return receipt requested. The court may make and enter upon the proceedings an order to decree enforcement of the order of the commission.
N.M. Stat. § 18-17-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 18 / Article 17 / Section 18-17-2
§ 18-17-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Veterans Museum Act:

A. “ board ” means the board of trustees of the museum;

B. “ director ” means the director of the division;

C. “ division ” means the veterans museum division of the cultural affairs department;

D. “ museum ” means the New Mexico veterans museum; and

E. “ secretary ” means the secretary of cultural affairs.
N.M. Stat. § 12-12B-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 12 / Article 12B / Section 12-12B-2
§ 12-12B-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Emergency Gas Pilot Relighting Act:

A. “ gas pilot relighting technician ” means an individual who has successfully completed a program pursuant to Section 3 of the Emergency Gas Pilot Relighting Act;

B. “ natural gas ” means any combustible vapor composed chiefly of hydrocarbons occurring naturally; and

C. “ program ” means a program for training and certifying persons to relight pilot lights for residential equipment and appliances pursuant to Section 3 of the Emergency Gas Pilot Relighting Act.
N.M. Stat. § 21-1-12 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 21-1-12
§ 21-1-12. Annual reports; contents
Status: in_force

All of the managing boards of the said institutions shall annually, on or before the first day of December, make a full and true report in detail under oath, of all their acts and doings during the previous year, their receipts and expenditures, the exact status of their institution and any other information that they may deem proper and useful or which may be called for by the governor, which said reports shall be made to the governor and he shall transmit the same to the succeeding session of the legislature.
N.M. Stat. § 61-6D-6 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 6D / Section 61-6D-6
§ 61-6D-6. Inactive license
Status: in_force

A. An anesthesiologist assistant who notifies the board in writing on forms prescribed by the board may elect to place the anesthesiologist assistant's license on inactive status. An anesthesiologist assistant with an inactive license shall be excused from payment of renewal fees and shall not practice as an anesthesiologist assistant.

B. An anesthesiologist assistant who engages in practice while the anesthesiologist assistant's license is lapsed or on inactive status is practicing without a license and is subject to disciplinary action pursuant to the Anesthesiologist Assistants Act and Medical Practice Act.

C. An anesthesiologist assistant requesting restoration from inactive status shall pay the current renewal fee and fulfill the requirement for renewal pursuant to the Anesthesiologist Assistants Act.
N.M. Stat. § 30-40-2 — NM Code / Chapter 30 / Article 40 / Section 30-40-2
§ 30-40-2. Unlawful use of food stamp identification card or medical identification card
Status: in_force

A. Unlawful use of food stamp identification card or medical identification card consists of the use of a food stamp or medical identification card by a person to whom it has not been issued, or who is not an authorized representative of the person to whom it has been issued, for a food stamp allotment.

B. Whoever commits unlawful use of food stamp identification card or medical identification card when the value of the food stamps or medical services wrongfully received is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or less is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

C. Whoever commits unlawful use of food stamp identification card or medical identification card when the value of the food stamps or medical services wrongfully received is more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) but not more than five hundred dollars ($500) is guilty of a misdemeanor.

D. Whoever commits unlawful use of food stamp identification card or medical identification card when the value of the food stamps or medical services wrongfully received is more than five hundred dollars ($500) but not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

E. Whoever commits unlawful use of food stamp identification card or medical identification card when the value of the food stamps or medical services wrongfully received is more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) but not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is guilty of a third degree felony.

F. Whoever commits unlawful use of food stamp identification card or medical identification card when the value of the food stamps or medical services wrongfully received exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is guilty of a second degree felony.

G. For the purpose of this section, the value of the medical assistance received is the amount paid by the human services department [health care authority department] for medical services received through use of the medical identification card.
N.M. Stat. § 76-7A-9 — NM Code / Chapter 76 / Article 7A / Section 76-7A-9
§ 76-7A-9. Prohibited acts; permits
Status: in_force

No person shall knowingly move a harmful plant or article that is capable of harboring a harmful plant into or within New Mexico unless such person is granted a permit for such purpose by the department in accordance with regulations of the board. The department may refuse to issue a permit for the movement of harmful plants when in the opinion of the department such movement would involve a danger of dissemination of the harmful plant within the state. No person, unless granted a permit for such purpose by the department, shall sell, purchase, barter, exchange, give or receive a plant that has been declared to be a harmful plant by the board.