Section 8-7-5 – Precincts. (Repealed effective January 1, 2023.)
A. Designations and boundaries used in the Public Regulation Commission Apportionment Act are those precinct designations and boundaries established pursuant to the Precinct Boundary Adjustment Act [1-3-10 to 1-3-14 NMSA 1978] and revised and approved by the secretary of state as of August 31, 2001. B. A board of county commissioners shall not create any […]
Section 8-7-6 to 8-7-10 – Unconstitutional.
History: 1978 Comp., § 8-7-6, enacted by Laws 2001 (1st S.S.), ch. 3, § 3. ANNOTATIONS Compiler’s notes. — The public regulation commission districts set forth in Sections 8-7-6 through 8-7-10 NMSA 1978, were held to be malapportioned and therefore unconstitutional in Egolf v. Duran, D-101-CV-2011-02942 (1st Jud. Dist. January 25, 2012). The redistricting plan […]
Section 8-7-11 – Election of public regulation commissioners. (Repealed effective January 1, 2023.)
Commissioners for public regulation commission districts two, four and five shall be elected from the districts described in Sections 8-7-7, 8-7-9 and 8-7-10 NMSA 1978 at the 2002 and subsequent general elections. Commissioners for public regulation commission districts one and three shall be elected from the districts described in Sections 8-7-6 and 8-7-8 NMSA 1978 […]
Section 8-7-12 – [Public regulation commission districts.]
Public regulation commission district one is composed of Bernalillo county precincts 4 through 18, 20 through 30, 39, 86, 107, 108, 119 through 121, 125, 131, 150 through 154, 161 through 166, 180 through 187, 191 through 197, 211, 212, 215, 216, 241 through 246, 251 through 258, 271 through 275, 278, 281 through 287, […]
Section 8-8-1 – Short title.
Chapter 8, Article 8 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Public Regulation Commission Act”. History: Laws 1998, ch. 108, § 1; 2007, ch. 161, § 1. ANNOTATIONS Compiler’s notes. — Laws 2020, ch. 9, § 15 recompiled and amended former 8-8-1 NMSA 1978 as part of Chapter 62, Article 19 NMSA 1978, (see 62-19-1 […]
Section 8-8-2 – Definitions.
As used in the Public Regulation Commission Act: A. “commission” means the public regulation commission; B. “commissioner” means a person elected or appointed to the public regulation commission; and C. “person” means an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, association, joint venture or similar legal entity. History: Laws 1998, ch. 108, § 2. ANNOTATIONS Compiler’s notes. — […]
Section 8-6-7 – Wrongful drawing or payment of warrant by secretary or treasurer; penalty.
A. If the secretary of finance and administration draws any warrant on the state treasurer when he knows or, with the use of available accounting information, should reasonably know there is an insufficient unexpended and unencumbered balance available for the purpose for which the warrant is drawn, he is in violation of this section unless […]
Section 8-5-17 – Attorney general; consumer representation before commission.
A. The attorney general shall represent residential and small business consumers in matters before the public regulation commission as the attorney general deems appropriate. B. The attorney general: (1) shall research, study and analyze residential and small business consumer interests; (2) shall prepare and present briefs, arguments, proposed rates or orders and intervene or appear […]
Section 8-5-18 – Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty division.
A. The “Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty division” is created within the office of the attorney general. The division shall review, oversee and address concerns relating to the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that have not been implemented or observed in the spirit of Article 2, Section 5 of the constitution of New Mexico and […]
Section 8-6-1 – [Treasurer and auditor; offices; bonds.]
The state treasurer and the state auditor shall keep their offices at the seat of government of the state. They shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, respectively, execute, and deliver to the secretary of state a bond to the state in the sum of three hundred thousand dollars [($300,000)] for the treasurer, […]