2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 72 - Water Law
Section 17 Las Cruces Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control
Section 72-17-101 Legal investments in securities.
72-17-101. Legal investments in securities.
It shall be legal for the state and any of its agencies, departments, instrumentalities, corporations, or political subdivisions, or any political or public corporation, any bank, trust company, banker, savings bank or institution, any building and loan association, savings and loan association, investment company and any other person carrying on a banking or investment business, any insurance company, insurance association, or any other person carrying on an insurance business and any executor, administrator, curator, trustee or any other fiduciary, to invest funds or moneys in their custody in any of the securities authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions hereof. Such securities shall be authorized security for all public deposits. Nothing contained in this section with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any public body or other person of any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
History: 1953 Comp., 75-38-101, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 156, 101.
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