Section 33-2-12 – Visitors.
The following persons are authorized to visit the penitentiary at pleasure: the governor, judges of the supreme court and the secretary of the criminal justice department [corrections department] or his duly authorized representative; and no other persons shall be permitted to go within the walls of the penitentiary where the convicts are confined except by […]
Section 33-2-12.1 – Corrections; family visits.
The secretary of corrections may promulgate rules and regulations providing for family visits between minimum or medium security inmates confined at state correctional facilities and their families. As used in this section: A. “family” means the inmate’s legal spouse, natural parents, adoptive parents, if the adoption occurred and a family relationship existed prior to the […]
Section 33-1A-4 – Lease terms.
A. Upon expiration of the long-term housing lease, the low-rent housing units constructed pursuant to Chapter 33, Article 1A NMSA 1978 shall become the exclusive property of the state, free of any encumbrances of any kind arising from the construction or leasing of the housing units. B. The low-rent housing units constructed pursuant to Chapter […]
Section 33-1A-5 – Board of finance approval.
No lease of low-rent housing units constructed pursuant to Chapter 33, Article 1A NMSA 1978 shall be binding against the facilities management division of the general services department until it has been approved by the state board of finance. History: Laws 1983, ch. 186, § 5; 2013, ch. 115, § 28. ANNOTATIONS The 2013 amendment, […]
Section 33-2-1 – Adoption of rules.
The corrections division [corrections department] shall adopt such rules concerning all prisoners committed to the penitentiary as shall best accomplish their confinement and rehabilitation. History: 1953 Comp., § 42-1-1.1, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 149, § 1; 1977, ch. 257, § 62. ANNOTATIONS Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and […]
Section 33-2-2 – [Present penitentiary identified as one referred to in constitution as a beneficiary; rights and titles.]
The penitentiary of New Mexico as herein established as a body politic and corporate, is hereby declared to be the same institution enumerated in Section 1 of Article XIV of the constitution of New Mexico, and the same institution which is one of the beneficiaries of the lands donated by the United States government to […]
Section 33-2-3 – [Previous matters unimpaired.]
That nothing in this act contained is intended to alter or in any manner affect the validity of the commitment, imprisonment, parole or discharge of any and all prisoners now confined in said penitentiary, or in any way to alter the rules and regulations thereof, except as herein specifically provided. History: Laws 1939, ch. 55, […]
Section 33-2-4 – [Transfer of title to new corporation.]
That the governor of the state of New Mexico is hereby authorized and empowered upon the application of the penitentiary of New Mexico, as a body corporate, to execute in the name of the state of New Mexico any necessary deed or deeds, or other conveyances or assurances of title to vest in the penitentiary […]
Section 33-2-5 – Disposition of unneeded property.
A. If the penitentiary of New Mexico, as a body corporate, possesses any real, personal or mixed property of any kind that, in the judgment of the secretary of corrections is no longer required for the use of the penitentiary, then the penitentiary of New Mexico has the right to sell, trade, mortgage or otherwise […]
Section 33-2-6 – Improvements in penitentiary; labor by convicts.
The corrections division [corrections department] shall decide what improvements shall be made in the penitentiary and on property owned by the penitentiary, whether the same shall be enlarged, or the erection of the extension of the prison or prison walls, the erection of workshops or other buildings or improvements shall be made; provided that the […]