2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 10: Public Officers and Employees
Article 6: Abandonment of Public Office or Employment, 10-6-1 through 10-6-6
Section 10-6-1: Effect of public officer or employee entering military service.
10-6-1. [Effect of public officer or employee entering military service.]
Any incumbent of any public office or employment of the state of New Mexico, or of any of its departments, agencies, counties, municipalities or political subdivisions whatsoever, who shall heretofore have entered or who hereafter shall enter military, naval, United States merchant marine, or other armed service of the United States of America, and who by reason of the duties imposed upon him in such service shall fail to devote his time to the performance in person of the duties of such office or employment shall, by entering or continuing in such service, be deemed to have waived and renounced the salary of, and to have abandoned such office or employment until, but only until, he shall have been relieved from active duty in such service and shall have resumed the personal performance of the duties of such public office or employment.
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