2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 74 - Environmental Improvement
Article 3 - Radiation Control
Section 74-3-7 - Continued care fund created; appropriation; approval; regulation.
A. The "radiation protection continued care fund" is created in the state treasury. Cash balances in the fund shall be invested by the state treasurer as other state funds under his jurisdiction are invested.
B. Money in the continued care fund is appropriated to the agency for use in remedying and preventing situations which may be harmful to the health, safety, welfare or property of the people and which involve abandoned wastes or inoperative facilities which are or were operated by depositors to the continued care fund.
C. Emergency expenditures up to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for any single emergency incident may be made from the continued care fund by the director subject to approval of the chairman of the board. Expenditures involving more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall be made only after prior approval of the state board of finance.
D. Subject to the provisions of this section, the board shall adopt regulations governing the administration of the continued care fund.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-9-5.2, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 343, § 7; 1989, ch. 324, § 35.
Cross references. — For definitions of "agency," "director" and "board," see 74-3-4 NMSA 1978 and notes thereto.
