2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 62 - Electric, Gas and Water Utilities › Article 17A - Community Energy Efficiency Development Block Grant › Section 62-17A-2 - Definitions.

As used in the Community Energy Efficiency Development Block Grant Act:
A. "affordable housing" means residential housing primarily for low-income persons, including housing currently occupied by low-income persons or housing that is affordable to low-income persons based on assessed value, rent or estimated mortgage;
B. "community energy efficiency project" means a project that provides improvements to residential buildings in an underserved community that will in the aggregate reduce energy consumption, energy-related operating costs or the carbon intensity of energy consumption;
C. "community partner" means an organization that provides services or outreach to an underserved community to implement a community energy efficiency project;
D. "department" means the energy, minerals and natural resources department;
E. "division" means the energy conservation and management division of the department;
F. "energy efficiency" means measures that target efficient energy consumer behavior, equipment or devices and result in a decrease in energy consumption without reducing the amount or quality of energy services, and includes health and safety measures that use efficient equipment or devices to improve indoor air or drinking water quality;
G. "low-income person" means an individual, couple or family whose annual household adjusted gross income, as defined in Section 62 of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as that section may be amended or renumbered, does not exceed two hundred percent of the federal poverty level;
H. "registered apprenticeship program that promotes diversity" means an apprenticeship program registered pursuant to the Apprenticeship Assistance Act [Chapter 21, Article 19A NMSA 1978] that encourages diversity among participants, participation by those underrepresented in the industry associated with the apprenticeship program and participation from disadvantaged communities as determined by the workforce solutions department;
I. "residential housing" means:
(1) a building, structure or portion thereof that is primarily occupied or designed for or intended primarily for occupancy as a residence by one or more households, including congregate housing, manufactured homes and other facilities; or
(2) real property that is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location on that real property of a building, structure or portion thereof that is intended primarily for occupancy as a residence by one or more households; and
J. "underserved community" means an area in the state, including a county, municipality or neighborhood, or subset of an area, where:
(1) the median adjusted gross income, as defined in Section 62 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as that section may be amended or renumbered, does not exceed two hundred percent of the federal poverty level; or
(2) there is a high energy burden or limited access to energy efficiency services as determined by department rule.
History:
Laws 2022, ch. 10, § 2.
ANNOTATIONS
Cross references.
— For the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
see
26 U.S.C.
Effective dates.
— Laws 2022, ch. 10 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective May 18, 2022, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.