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NM Stat § 14-3-21 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 3 - Public Records|Section 14-3-21 - [State publications; manuals of procedure; rules; reports; uniform style and form.]

The state records administrator shall develop and recommend to the state commission of public records uniform standards of style and format for the following: A. manuals of procedure prepared and published by state agencies for the guidance of public officers and employees engaged in operations required for the efficient operation of state and local government, including but not limited to acquiring space, budgeting, accounting, purchasing, contracting, vouchering, printing, appointment and dismissal of employees and record maintenance; B. manuals of procedures prepared and published by state agencies for the guidance of their own employees and for their own operations; C. official rules and regulations and reprints of laws published by state agencies, excluding session laws published by the secretary of state; and D. official reports of state agencies required by law, excluding the budget document presented to the legislature. The state commission of public records, after consultation with the affected agencies, and with the approval of the governor, shall adopt and promulgate uniform standards of style and format for the above publications and a schedule of distribution for each class of publication which shall be binding upon all state agencies. "Agencies" means, for the purposes of this section, all state departments, bureaus, commissions, committees, institutions and boards, except those agencies of the legislative and judicial branches, and those educational institutions listed in Article 12, Section 11 of the New Mexico Constitution. History: 1953 Comp., § 71-6-20, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 154, § 1. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Cross references. — For provisions of the State Rules Act, see Chapter 14, Article 4 NMSA 1978.
NM Stat § 14-3-22 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 3 - Public Records|Section 14-3-22 - Public policy on certain publications; state commission of public records duties.

A. It is the intent of the legislature and the public policy of this state to reduce unnecessary expense to the taxpayers of this state in connection with publications of state agencies designed primarily for the purpose of reporting to or the informing of the governor, the legislature, other state agencies or the political subdivisions of this state. B. The state commission of public records shall develop and adopt regulations which shall be binding upon all state agencies. The regulations shall provide for uniform standards for those publications set forth in Subsection A of this section and shall include but be not limited to: (1) a standard size format to accommodate paper of the most economical type available; (2) prohibiting the use of expensive covers, binders and fasteners; (3) prohibiting the use of photographs, art work and design, unless absolutely necessary for clarification of the report; (4) limiting the use of color stock paper, where such color stock would be more expensive than the use of white paper; and (5) requiring offset or mimeograph or other means of duplication when it cannot be demonstrated that printing of such publication would be equal to or less than the cost of offset, mimeograph or other means of duplication. C. The state commission of public records shall maintain constant and continuing supervision of such publications by state agencies and shall report persistent violations of the regulations made pursuant to this act [Chapter 14, Article 3 NMSA 1978] to the secretary of general services. History: 1953 Comp., § 71-6-21, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 209, § 1; 1983, ch. 301, § 34.
NM Stat § 14-3-23 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 3 - Public Records|Section 14-3-23 - [Manuals of procedure; preparation by state agencies; review by state records administrator; publication.]

Each state agency which has an official duty to establish methods and procedures involved in the internal structure and operation of state government, including but not limited to acquiring space, budgeting, accounting, purchasing, contracting, vouchering, printing, appointment and dismissal of employees and record-keeping, shall prepare, within the means provided by current operating budgets, manuals of procedure for the guidance of public officers and employees engaged in such work. Such manual or manuals shall be reviewed and ordered published by the state records administrator and in accordance with uniform standards of style and format promulgated by the state commission of public records. History: 1953 Comp., § 71-6-22, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 154, § 3. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
NM Stat § 14-3-25 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 3 - Public Records|Section 14-3-25 - Recompiled.

ANNOTATIONSRecompilations. — Laws 1995, ch. 110, § 9, recompiled former 14-3-24 and 14-3-25 NMSA 1978, describing duties of the state records administrator, as 14-4-10 and 14-4-11 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 1995.
NM Stat § 14-3A-1 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 3A - Confidential Materials|Section 14-3A-1 - Short title.

Sections 1 and 2 [14-3A-1, 14-3A-2 NMSA 1978] of this act may be cited as the "Confidential Materials Act". History: Laws 1981, ch. 47, § 1. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For public records generally, see Chapter 14, Article 3 NMSA 1978. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — What constitutes "confidential source" within Freedom of Information Act exemption permitting nondisclosure of identity of confidential source and, in specified instances, of confidential information furnished only by confidential source (5 USCS § 522(b)(7)(D)), 59 A.L.R. Fed. 550.
NM Stat § 14-3A-2 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 3A - Confidential Materials|Section 14-3A-2 - Donation of confidential material.

A. Any library, college, university, museum or institution of the state or any of its political subdivisions may hold in confidence materials of a historical or educational value upon which the donor or seller has imposed restrictions with respect to access to and inspection of the materials for a definite period of time as specified by the donor or seller. B. Access to and inspection of such materials may be restricted during the period specified by the donor or seller in the manner specified by the donor or seller. C. The provisions of Subsections A and B of this section do not apply to materials which were public records of New Mexico as defined in Section 14-2-1 NMSA 1978 while in the possession of the donor or seller at the time of the donation or sale. History: Laws 1981, ch. 47, § 2.
NM Stat § 14-4-1 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-1 - Short title.

Chapter 14, Article 4 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the "State Rules Act". History: 1953 Comp., § 71-7-1, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 275, § 1; 1995, ch. 110, § 1. ANNOTATIONSThe 1995 amendment, effective July 1, 1995, substituted "Chapter 14, Article 4, NMSA 1978" for "This act". This act is inapplicable to interstate agreements. State v. Ellis, 1980-NMCA-187, 95 N.M. 427, 622 P.2d 1047. Interstate contract is not similar to rules, reports and notices issued by state agencies. State v. Ellis, 1980-NMCA-187, 95 N.M. 427, 622 P.2d 1047. State corporation commission (now public regulation commission) may promulgate regulations interpreting school bus exemption in Motor Carrier Act without holding hearing prior to the issuance of the regulation, so long as it complies with State Rules Act, unless and until the legislature were to place the state corporation commission (now public regulation commission) under the Administrative Procedures Act, 12-8-1 NMSA 1978 et seq. 1969 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 69-100. Law reviews. — For article, "An Administrative Procedure Act for New Mexico," see 8 Nat. Resources J. 114 (1968). For note, "On Building Better Laws for New Mexico's Environment," see 4 N.M. L. Rev. 105 (1973). For 1984-88 survey of New Mexico administrative law, 19 N.M.L. Rev. 575 (1990). For survey of 1988-89 Administrative Law, see 21 N.M.L. Rev. 481 (1991). Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 73 C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure §§ 112, 114.
NM Stat § 14-4-4 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-4 - Publication filing and distribution; official depository.

Each agency issuing any publication, pamphlet, report, notice, proclamation or similar instrument shall immediately file five copies thereof with the records center. The records center shall deliver three copies to the state library, which shall keep one copy available for public inspection during office hours. All other copies may be circulated. The state library is designated to be an official depository of all such publications, pamphlets, reports, notices, proclamations and similar instruments. History: 1953 Comp., § 71-7-5, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 275, § 5; 1969, ch. 92, § 3; 1995, ch. 110, § 3. ANNOTATIONSThe 1995 amendment, effective July 1, 1995, added the section heading. No fundamental right to notice and hearing. — There is no fundamental right to notice and hearing before the adoption of a rule. Such a right is statutory only. Livingston v. Ewing, 1982-NMSC-110, 98 N.M. 685, 652 P.2d 235. Actual notice of rule does not dispel necessity of compliance with State Rules Act. State v. Joyce, 1980-NMCA-086, 94 N.M. 618, 614 P.2d 30. What and with whom matters to be filed. — Formerly, all official reports, pamphlets, publications, regulations, rules, codes of fair competition, proclamations and orders issued, prescribed or promulgated by the state corporation commission (now public regulation commission) of general application were to be filed, in accordance with statute, with the supreme court librarian of the state of New Mexico, with the exception of any rule or regulation or order or other document of the corporation commission (now public regulation commission), wherein it is exercising its duty of fixing, determining, supervising, regulating and controlling all charges and rates of railway, express, telephone, telegraph, sleeping car or similar company and common carrier within the state. 1953 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 53-5814. Law reviews. — For article, "Survey of New Mexico Law, 1979-80: Administrative Law," see 11 N.M. L. Rev. 1 (1981).
NM Stat § 14-4-5.1 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.1 - Temporary provision.

Notwithstanding the provisions of 14-4-5 NMSA 1978, rules filed prior to July 1, 1995 shall continue in effect if such rules were filed with the state records center in accordance with the law applicable at the time of filing, and they have not otherwise been repealed, amended, or superseded. History: Laws 1995, ch. 110, § 10.
NM Stat § 14-4-5.2 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.2 - Notice of proposed rulemaking.

A. Not later than thirty days before a public rule hearing, the agency proposing the rule shall provide to the public and publish in the New Mexico register a notice of proposed rulemaking. The notice shall include: (1) a summary of the full text of the proposed rule; (2) a short explanation of the purpose of the proposed rule; (3) a citation to the specific legal authority authorizing the proposed rule and the adoption of the rule; (4) information on how a copy of the full text of the proposed rule may be obtained; (5) information on how a person may comment on the proposed rule, where comments will be received and when comments are due; (6) information on where and when a public rule hearing will be held and how a person may participate in the hearing; and (7) a citation to technical information, if any, that served as a basis for the proposed rule, and information on how the full text of the technical information may be obtained. B. An agency may charge a reasonable fee for providing any records in nonelectronic form when provided to a person pursuant to this section. An agency shall not charge a fee for providing any records in electronic form when provided to a person pursuant to this section. C. An internet link providing free access to the full text of the proposed rule shall be included on the notice of proposed rulemaking. D. If the agency changes the date of the public rule hearing or the deadline for submitting comments as stated in the notice, the agency shall provide notice to the public of the change. E. The state records administrator or the administrator's designee shall timely publish the notice of proposed rulemaking in the next publication of the New Mexico register. History: Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 4. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 11 made Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 4 effective July 1, 2017.
NM Stat § 14-4-5.3 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.3 - Public participation, comments and rule hearings.

A. The notice of proposed rulemaking shall specify a public comment period of at least thirty days after publication in the New Mexico register during which a person may submit information and comment on the proposed rule. The information or comment may be submitted in an electronic or written format or at a public rule hearing pursuant to Subsection B of this section. The agency shall consider all information and comment on a proposed rule that is submitted within the comment period. B. At the public rule hearing, members of the public shall be given a reasonable opportunity to submit data, views or arguments orally or in writing. Each agency shall determine, in accordance with governing statutory and case law, the manner in which parties to the proceeding and members of the public will be able to participate in public hearings. All public hearings shall be conducted in a fair and equitable manner. Except as otherwise provided by law, an agency representative or hearing officer shall preside over a public rule hearing. C. The public rule hearing shall be open to the public and be recorded. History: Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 5. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 11 made Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 5 effective July 1, 2017.
NM Stat § 14-4-5.4 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.4 - Agency record in rulemaking proceeding.

A. An agency shall maintain a rulemaking record for each rule it proposes to adopt. The record and materials incorporated by reference in the proposed rule shall be readily available for public inspection in the central office of the agency and available for public display on the state sunshine portal. If an agency determines that any part of the rulemaking record cannot be practicably displayed or is inappropriate for public display on the sunshine portal, the agency shall describe that part of the record, shall note on the sunshine portal that the part of the record is not displayed and shall provide instructions for accessing or inspecting that part of the record. B. A rulemaking record shall contain: (1) a copy of all publications in the New Mexico register relating to the proposed rule; (2) a copy of any technical information that was relied upon in formulating the final rule; (3) any official transcript of a public rule hearing or, if not transcribed, any audio recording or verbatim transcript of the hearing, and any memoranda summarizing the contents of the hearing prepared by the hearing officer or agency official who presided over the hearing; (4) a copy of all comments and other material received by the agency during the public comment period and at the public hearing; (5) a copy of the full text of the initial proposed rule and the full text of the final adopted rule and the concise explanatory statement filed with the state records administrator or the administrator's designee; and (6) any corrections made by the state records administrator pursuant to Section 14-4-3 NMSA 1978. History: Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 6. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 11 made Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 6 effective July 1, 2017.
NM Stat § 14-4-5.5 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.5 - Concise explanatory statement.

At the time it adopts a rule, an agency shall provide to the public a concise explanatory statement containing: A. the date the agency adopted the rule; B. a reference to the specific statutory or other authority authorizing the rule; and C. any findings required by a provision of law for adoption of the rule. History: Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 7. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 11 made Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 7 effective July 1, 2017.
NM Stat § 14-4-5.6 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.6 - Emergency rule.

A. An agency shall comply with the rulemaking procedures of the State Rules Act unless the agency finds that the time required to complete the procedures would: (1) cause an imminent peril to the public health, safety or welfare; (2) cause the unanticipated loss of funding for an agency program; or (3) place the agency in violation of federal law. B. The agency shall provide to the public a record of any finding pursuant to Subsection A of this section and a detailed justification for that finding before issuing an emergency rule. The record shall include a statement that the emergency rule is temporary. After such record has been provided to the public, the agency may issue the emergency rule immediately without a public rule hearing or with any abbreviated notice and hearing that it finds practicable. C. When an agency makes a finding pursuant to Subsection A of this section, the agency shall follow the provisions of this section in addition to any more specific requirements in statute that pertain to the agency regarding promulgating emergency or interim rules. D. Emergency rules may take effect immediately upon filing with the state records administrator or the administrator's designee or at a later date specified in the emergency rule. Emergency rules shall be published in the New Mexico register. E. No emergency rule shall permanently amend or repeal an existing rule. An emergency rule shall remain in effect until a permanent rule takes effect under the normal rulemaking process. If no permanent rule is adopted within one hundred eighty days from the effective date of the emergency rule, the emergency rule shall expire and may not be readopted as an emergency rule. If an expired emergency rule temporarily amended or repealed an existing rule, the rule shall revert to what it would have been had the emergency rule not been issued. History: Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 8. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 11 made Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 8 effective July 1, 2017.
NM Stat § 14-4-5.7 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.7 - Conflicts between rule and statute; variance between proposed and final action.

A. No rule is valid or enforceable if it conflicts with statute. A conflict between a rule and a statute is resolved in favor of the statute. B. A word or phrase that is defined in an applicable statute should not be defined in rule. A conflict between a definition that appears in a rule and in an applicable statute is resolved in favor of the statute. History: Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 9. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 11 made Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 9 effective July 1, 2017.
NM Stat § 14-4-5.8 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-5.8 - Procedural rules.

No later than January 1, 2018, the attorney general shall adopt default procedural rules for public rule hearings for use by agencies that have not adopted their own procedural rules consistent with the State Rules Act. Each agency may adopt its own procedural rules, or continue in effect existing rules, which shall provide at least as much opportunity for participation by parties and members of the public as is provided in the procedural rules adopted by the attorney general. An agency that adopts its own procedural rules shall send a copy of those procedural rules to the attorney general and shall maintain those procedural rules on the agency's website. History: Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 10. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 11 made Laws 2017, ch. 137, § 10 effective July 1, 2017.
NM Stat § 14-4-6 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 4 - State Rules|Section 14-4-6 - [Trade, sale and exchange of agency rules, publications and reports by records center.]

The records center is hereby authorized to trade, sell or exchange such rules, pamphlets, reports or similar instruments for rules, pamphlets, reports or similar instruments of similar value and to sell the same at a reasonable price. History: 1953 Comp., § 71-7-7, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 275, § 7. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Law reviews. — For article, "An Administrative Procedure Act for New Mexico," see 8 Nat. Resources J. 114 (1968).