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2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 12 - Miscellaneous Public Affairs Matters
Article 11 - Disaster Acts
Section 12-11-4 - Disaster successors to the governor.
Universal Citation: NM Stat § 12-11-4 (2018)
12-11-4. Disaster successors to the governor.
If the governor and all of his constitutional successors are unavailable, the holders of the following offices shall be the disaster successors in the order named:
A. the attorney general;
B. the state auditor;
C. the commissioner of public lands;
D. the state treasurer.
History: 1953 Comp., § 4-18-4, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 137, § 4.
Cross references. — For constitutional successors to governor, see N.M. Const., art. V, § 7.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 81A C.J.S. States §§ 87 to 90.
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