A. The “public regulation commission”, created in Article 11, Section 1 of the constitution of New Mexico, is composed of three commissioners appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate as provided in that article.
B. The commission shall annually elect one of its members chair, who shall preside at hearings. In the absence of the chair, the commission may appoint any other member to preside.
History: Laws 1998, ch. 108, § 3; § 8-8-3, recompiled and amended as § 62-19-3 by Laws 2020, ch. 9, § 17.
ANNOTATIONS
Compiler’s notes. — Laws 2020, ch. 9, § 15 recompiled and amended former 8-8-3 NMSA 1978 as part of Chapter 62, Article 19 NMSA 1978, effective January 1, 2023, contingent upon the adoption of Laws 2019, SJC/SRC/SJR Nos. 1 and 4, Constitutional Amendment 1, at the general election held on November 3, 2020. Constitutional Amendment 1 was adopted by a vote of 445,655 for and 355,471 against. The section number was assigned by the compiler.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2023, changed the composition of the public regulation commission from five elected commissioners to three commissioners appointed by the governor, and made certain technical amendments; and in Subsection A, after “composed of”, deleted “five” and added “three”, after “commissioners”, deleted “elected from districts” and added “appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate”, and after “article”, deleted “and the Public Regulation Commission Apportionment Act”.