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N.M. Stat. § 69-8-17 — NM Code / Chapter 69 / Article 8 / Section 69-8-17
§ 69-8-17. Employee rights
Status: in_force

An employer shall not discharge or in any manner discriminate against, cause to be discharged or cause discrimination against an employee, representative of employees or applicant for employment in a mine subject to the Mining Safety Act because the employee, representative of employees or applicant for employment has filed or made a complaint under or related to that act or Chapter 69, Article 5 NMSA 1978 , including a complaint notifying the operator, the operator's agent or the state mine inspector of an alleged danger or a safety or health violation in a mine, or because the employee, representative of employees or applicant for employment has instituted or caused to be instituted a proceeding under or related to the Mining Safety Act or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding.
N.M. Stat. § 23-9-2 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 23 / Article 9 / Section 23-9-2
§ 23-9-2. Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in the Adolescent Treatment Hospital Act:

A. “ adolescent ” means a person aged thirteen through twenty;

B. “ adolescent treatment hospital ” means the hospital created pursuant to the Adolescent Treatment Hospital Act;

C. “ board ” means the adolescent treatment hospital governing board;

D. “ adolescent residential treatment facility ” means the facility created pursuant to the Adolescent Treatment Hospital Act; and

E. “ coordinated treatment panel ” means the group made up of trained health and mental health professionals who review and approve psychosocial treatment recommendations, develop psychosocial treatment alternatives, track costs and cost-effectiveness and evaluate outcomes; and

F. “ secretary ” means the secretary of health.
N.M. Stat. § 3-27-6 — NM Code / Chapter 3 / Article 27 / Section 3-27-6
§ 3-27-6. Judicial examination, approval and confirmation
Status: in_force

In their discretion, municipalities through their respective governing bodies, may file a petition at any time in the district court in and for the county in which such municipality is located, praying a judicial examination, approval and confirmation of contracts authorized by Section 3-27-5 NMSA 1978 . The petition shall set forth the facts whereon the validity of the contract is founded and shall be verified by an appropriate official of the governing body. The action shall be in the nature of a proceeding in rem, and jurisdiction of all parties interested may be had by publication and posting. The court shall fix the time for the hearing of the petition and shall order the clerk of the court, under the seal thereof, to give notice of the filing of the petition, stating in brief outline the contents of the petition and showing where a full copy of any contract therein mentioned may be examined. The notice shall also state the time and place fixed for the hearing of the petition, and that any owner of property, or any resident, within the limits of the municipality, or any person interested in the contract or in the premises, may at any time, prior to the date fixed for the hearing or within such further time as may be allowed by the court, appear and move to dismiss or answer the petition. The notice shall be served by publication once each week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county wherein the case is pending, and by posting the notice in the office of the clerk of the municipality, at least thirty days prior to the date fixed in the notice for the hearing of the petition. Jurisdiction shall be complete after the publication and posting. Any owner of property, or any resident, within the limits of the municipality, or any person interested in the contract or in the premises, may appear and move to dismiss or answer the petition at any time prior to the date fixed for the hearing or within any additional time as may be allowed by the court, and the petition shall be taken as confessed by all persons who fail so to appear.
N.M. Stat. § 24-14C-3 — NM Code / Chapter 24 / Article 14C / Section 24-14C-3
§ 24-14C-3. Health care work force database; collection of data; housing of data; analysis and reporting
Status: in_force

A. Subject to the availability of state, federal or private foundation funding or other sources of funding, the chancellor shall create and maintain the “health care work force database”. The chancellor shall:

(1) enter into agreements with entities to create, house and provide information to state agencies, the legislature and the governor and, as the legislature or governor deems appropriate, any others regarding the state's health care work force; and

(2) seek federal or other sources of funding to create a New Mexico center for health care workforce analysis and to ensure the additional funding and staffing needed to achieve the anticipated outcomes.

B. A board shall supply the university with data pertaining to licensed health care providers for inclusion in the database. A board shall collect a core essential data set at the time of new licensure or licensure renewal, including, but not limited to, a provider's:

(1) demographics, including race, ethnicity and primary and other languages spoken;

(2) practice status, including, but not limited to:

(a) active practices in New Mexico and other locations;

(b) practice type; and

(c) practice settings, such as hospitals, public schools, higher education institutions, clinics and other clinical settings;

(3) education, training and primary and secondary specialties for all health professions as appropriate;

(4) average hours worked per week and the average number of weeks worked per year in the licensed profession over the past twelve months;

(5) percentage of practice engaged in direct patient care and in other activities, such as teaching, research and administration, in the licensed profession;

(6) practice plans for the next five years, including retiring from a health care profession, moving out of state or changing health care work hours; and

(7) professional liability insurance costs and availability as they relate to barriers to practice.

C. The chancellor shall provide to the department of health, in a manner that conforms to department of health rules, access to health care work force data that the university administers pursuant to the Health Care Work Force Data Collection, Analysis and Policy Act.
N.M. Stat. § 22-15-30 — NM Code / Chapter 22 / Article 15 / Section 22-15-30
§ 22-15-30. Guidelines
Status: in_force

The department, in consultation with representatives from educational institutions and publishers, shall adopt guidelines consistent with the Braille Access Act for the implementation and administration of that act. The guidelines shall address all of the following:

A. the designation of instructional materials deemed required or essential to student success;

B. definitions clarifying what constitutes nontextual mathematics or science instructional materials that use mathematical notations and clarifying a publisher's obligations in regard to such instructional materials;

C. definitions clarifying what is required to maintain structural integrity and requirements for textual descriptions of pictures, illustrations, graphs and charts;

D. requirements for approval and procurement of textbooks that are available in a computer or electronic format and procedures for suspension of publishers from the procurement process if the publisher fails to comply with the provisions of the Braille Access Act;

E. an administrative complaint process to be followed for complaints against a publisher;

F. definitions clarifying what constitutes “educational purposes”; and

G. any other matters the department deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the Braille Access Act.
N.M. Stat. § 25-7A-6 — NM Code / Chapter 25 / Article 7A / Section 25-7A-6
§ 25-7A-6. Detention of dairy products at a dairy establishment believed adulterated or misbranded; condemnation; destruction or correction of defect
Status: in_force

A. Whenever the director finds or has probable cause to believe that any dairy product within a dairy establishment is adulterated or so misbranded as to be dangerous or fraudulent within the meaning of the New Mexico Dairy Product Act, he shall affix to such dairy product a tag or other appropriate marking giving notice that the dairy product is or is suspected of being adulterated or misbranded and has been detained or embargoed and warning all persons not to remove or dispose of the dairy product by sale or otherwise until permission for removal or disposal is given by the director or the court. It is unlawful for any person to remove or dispose of the detained or embargoed dairy product by sale or otherwise without such permission.

B. When a dairy product detained or embargoed under Subsection A of this section has been found by the director to be adulterated or misbranded, he shall petition the judge of the district court in whose jurisdiction the dairy product is detained or embargoed for a libel for condemnation of the dairy product. When the director has found that a dairy product so detained or embargoed is not adulterated or misbranded, he shall remove the tag or other marking.

C. If the court finds that a detained or embargoed dairy product is adulterated or misbranded, the dairy product shall, after entry of the decree, be destroyed at the expense of the claimant of the dairy product under the supervision of the director, and all court costs and fees and storage and other proper expenses shall be taxed against the claimant of the dairy product or his agent; provided that when the adulteration or misbranding can be corrected by proper labeling or processing of the dairy product, the court, after entry of the decree and after such costs, fees and expenses have been paid and a good and sufficient bond, conditioned that the dairy product shall be so labeled or processed, has been executed, may by order direct that the dairy product be delivered to the claimant for such labeling or processing under the supervision of the director. The expense of such supervision shall be paid by the claimant. The bond shall be returned to the claimant of the dairy product on representation to the court by the director that the dairy product is no longer in violation of the New Mexico Dairy Product Act and that the expenses of supervision have been paid.

D. Whenever the director finds in any room, building or vehicle of transportation at a dairy establishment any dairy product that is unsound or contains any filthy, decomposed or putrid substance or that may be poisonous or deleterious to health or otherwise unsafe, the same being hereby declared to be a nuisance, he shall condemn or destroy the dairy product or in any other manner render it unsaleable as human food.
N.M. Stat. § 1-18-3 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 1 / Article 18 / Section 1-18-3
§ 1-18-3. Federal constitutional amendments; ratification convention; composition
Status: in_force

The ratification convention shall be composed of each member of the state legislature. The convention shall meet in the chamber of the house of representatives and, where applicable, the rules of the house of representatives shall govern the proceedings of the convention. The lieutenant governor shall be the president of the convention and shall be the presiding officer. He shall be assisted in his duties by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate.
N.M. Stat. § 21-23A-1 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 23A / Section 21-23A-1
§ 21-23A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 2 through 7 of this act may be cited as the “American Indian Post-Secondary Education Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 38-1-10 — NM Code / Chapter 38 / Article 1 / Section 38-1-10
§ 38-1-10. Attorney fees
Status: in_force

In any action against an unauthorized foreign or alien insurer upon a contract of insurance issued or delivered in this state to a resident thereof or to a corporation authorized to do business therein, if the insurer has failed for thirty days after demand prior to the commencement of the action to make payment in accordance with the terms of the contract, and it appears to the court that such refusal was vexatious and without reasonable cause, the court may allow to the plaintiff a reasonable attorney fee and include such fee in any judgment that may be rendered in such action. Such fee shall not exceed twelve and one-half percent of the amount which the court or jury finds the plaintiff is entitled to recover against the insurer, but in no event shall such fee be less than twenty-five dollars [($25.00)]. Failure of an insurer to defend any such action shall be deemed prima facie evidence that its failure to make payment was vexatious and without reasonable cause.
N.M. Stat. § 14-9A-1 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 14 / Article 9A / Section 14-9A-1
§ 14-9A-1. Short title
Status: in_force

This act may be cited as the “Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 61-17B-18 — NM Code / Chapter 61 / Article 17B / Section 61-17B-18
§ 61-17B-18. Termination of agency life; delayed repeal
Status: repealed

The board of body art practitioners is terminated on July 1, 2027 pursuant to the Sunset Act. The board shall continue to operate according to the provisions of the Body Art Safe Practices Act until July 1, 2028. Effective July 1, 2028, the Body Art Safe Practices Act is repealed.
N.M. Stat. § 3-36-5 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 3 / Article 36 / Section 3-36-5
§ 3-36-5. Municipal lien; provisions supplementary to other methods of foreclosing liens
Status: in_force

The provisions of Sections 3-36-1 through 3-36-5 NMSA 1978 , are intended to afford another and additional method of filing and enforcing municipal liens and are not intended to be construed as repealing any other method provided by law for the filing and foreclosure of liens.
N.M. Stat. § 5-8-13 — NM Code / Chapter 5 / Article 8 / Section 5-8-13
§ 5-8-13. Authority of municipality or county to spend funds or enter into agreements to reduce fees
Status: in_force

Municipalities or counties may spend funds from any lawful source or pay for all or a part of the capital improvements or facility expansions to reduce the amount of impact fees. A developer and a municipality or county may agree to offset or reduce part or all of the impact fee assessed on that new development, provided that the public policy which supports the reduction is contained in the appropriate planning documents of the municipality or county and provided that the development's new proportionate share of the system improvement is funded with revenues other than impact fees from other new developments.
N.M. Stat. § 21-21Q-3 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21Q / Section 21-21Q-3
§ 21-21Q-3. Community governance attorney and conditional tuition waiver program created; administration; rulemaking selection process; repayment
Status: in_force

A. The “community governance attorney and conditional tuition waiver program” is created and shall be administered by the department. The department shall:

(1) promulgate rules for implementing the program and for a reasonable living stipend in consultation with the university; provided that the maximum living stipend shall be based upon the availability of funds and information provided by the university regarding the current cost of attendance at the university;

(2) publicize the program to law students and to prospective law students;

(3) collect and manage repayment from students who do not meet their obligations under the program; and

(4) solicit and accept funds for the program, including grants and donations.

B. Participants shall enter the program in their final year of law school. The department shall select participants according to rules it promulgates and, in consultation with the commission, shall create a standard process for law students to apply to participate in the program.

C. The department shall award no more than two new waivers a year, in addition to renewing existing waivers for eligible participants, subject to the availability of funding.

D. Participation in the program shall be evidenced by a contract between the participant and the department. The contract shall provide for the payment of a participant's waiver and shall be conditioned upon the participant fulfilling the program obligations and meeting the university's standards for satisfactory academic progress. An applicant to the program shall sign the contract prior to being accepted into the program.

E. The contract shall include the following terms for repayment of the waiver:

(1) interest shall accrue upon termination of the participant's course of study at the following interest rates:

(a) eighteen percent per year if the participant completes a course of study and no portion of the principal and interest is forgiven pursuant to Subsection F of this section; and

(b) seven percent per year in all other cases; and

(2) the maximum period for repayment shall be ten years, commencing six months from the date the participant completes or discontinues the course of study.

F. The contract shall provide that the department forgive fifty percent of a waiver for each year that a participant is employed full time as a community governance attorney with a maximum salary of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per year, subject to adjustment by the commission pursuant to Subsection G of this section.

G. The commission may approve subsequent increases in the maximum salary established pursuant to Subsection F of this section; provided that the maximum salary shall not exceed the salary rate for entry-level attorneys paid by legal service assistance entities in New Mexico that receive funding from the federally established legal services corporation.
N.M. Stat. § 48-1-6 — NM Code / Chapter 48 / Article 1 / Section 48-1-6
§ 48-1-6. Short title
Status: in_force

Sections 48-1-1 through 48-1-7 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act”.
N.M. Stat. § 22-5-4.8 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 22 / Article 5 / Section 22-5-4.8
§ 22-5-4.8. Area vocational high schools
Status: in_force

A. A local school board, alone or in cooperation with other local school boards, may develop a plan for the establishment of an area vocational high school. The plan shall be submitted to the department for its approval.

B. The department may approve a plan for an area vocational high school if the plan adequately provides for:

(1) sufficient financing for the operation of the school, which may include an election for a special levy not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) for each one thousand dollars ($1,000) of net taxable value, and that may be in addition to levies authorized by the College District Tax Act; 1

(2) a broad vocational and technical education program serving a sufficient number of students to achieve economic viability; and

(3) compliance with the state plan for vocational education.
N.M. Stat. § 21-21-17 — NM Code / Chapter 21 / Article 21 / Section 21-21-17
§ 21-21-17. Loan guarantees; powers and duties of board
Status: in_force

The board [commission [department]] shall be the guarantor under the Student Loan Guarantee Act and shall have the following powers in furtherance of the guarantee loan [guaranteed-loan] program:

A. to guarantee the loan of money, upon such terms and conditions as the board may prescribe, to residents of this state who are attending or have been accepted for enrollment at an institution of higher education in this state or elsewhere, for the purpose of meeting expenses of higher education; provided, that such guarantees shall not be payable from funds received or to be received from state taxation. Loans may be guaranteed in amounts not to exceed the yearly or aggregate totals authorized by the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended; 1

B. to sue and be sued in the name of the board;

C. to adopt rules and regulations governing the guarantee of loans and any other matters relating to the activities of the board in connection with the Student Loan Guarantee Act;

D. to perform such other acts as may be necessary or appropriate in connection with the guarantee of loans;

E. to require that any loan guaranteed under the Student Loan Guarantee Act shall be repaid in such manner and at such time as the board prescribes;

F. to enter into such participation contracts, contracts for administrative services and guarantee agreements with the fiscal agent, with any other governmental agency of this state and any agency of the United States, including agreements for federal reinsurance of losses resulting from the bankruptcy, death, default or total and permanent disability of student borrowers, as are necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and to carry out its functions under the Student Loan Guarantee Act;

G. to receive and accept from any agency of the United States or from any individual, association or corporation, gifts, grants or donations of money for the purposes of the guaranteed-loan program;

H. to participate in any federal governmental program for guaranteed loans or subsidies to students and to receive, hold and disburse funds made available by any agency of the United States for the purpose or purposes for which they are made available;

I. to pay the federal government a portion of those funds obtained by the board from collection and recoupment of losses on defaulted loans in such amounts and in such manner as provided by any federal reinsurance agreement; and

J. to contract with private business concerns in any attempt to make recovery on defaulted loans.
N.M. Stat. § 24-1-5.9 — NM_STATUTES Code / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 24-1-5.9
§ 24-1-5.9. Reporting requirements
Status: in_force

A. A hospital, a long-term care facility or a primary care clinic shall provide information sufficient for the secretary to make a reasonable assessment based on clear and convincing evidence of its financial viability, sustainability and potential impact on health care access. Information provided to the secretary pursuant to this section shall remain confidential, is exempt from the Inspection of Public Records Act, unless disclosure or use is mandated by the state or federal law, and shall not be used as a basis for suspension, revocation or issuance of a license. The hospital, long-term care facility or primary care clinic shall provide this information to the secretary at least sixty days before the anticipated effective date of a proposed licensure, closure, disposition or acquisition of the hospital, the long-term care facility or the primary care clinic or its essential services.

B. The secretary shall issue a notice of finding to the facility within sixty days of receiving information from the facility.

C. For the purposes of this section:

(1) “ hospital ” means a facility providing emergency or urgent care, inpatient medical care and nursing care for acute illness, injury, surgery or obstetrics. “ Hospital ” includes a facility licensed by the department as a critical access hospital, general hospital, long-term acute care hospital, psychiatric hospital, rehabilitation hospital, limited services hospital and special hospital;

(2) “ long-term care facility ” means a nursing home licensed by the department to provide intermediate or skilled nursing care; and

(3) “ primary care clinic ” means a community-based clinic that provides the first level of basic or general health care for an individual's health needs, including diagnostic and treatment services and, if integrated into the clinic's service array, mental health services.
N.M. Stat. § 6-28-8 — NM Code / Chapter 6 / Article 28 / Section 6-28-8
§ 6-28-8. Rulemaking authority
Status: in_force

The department of finance and administration or the Indian affairs department shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of this act.