2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 15 - Administration of Government
Article 3B - Property Control
Section 15-3B-22 - Public facilities; naming; prohibition; exceptions.

A. As used in this section:

(1) "public facility" means a building or other real property under the control of the division; and

(2) "public officer" means a person elected to public office or any person appointed or employed by the state or a political subdivision of the state.

B. A public facility shall not be named for a public officer during the period in which that person is a public officer.

C. A public facility shall not be named for a public officer or other person who has been convicted of a felony. The division shall remove the name from a public facility named for such person immediately upon conviction, whether or not another name has been offered or approved for substitution and renaming. The secretary shall promulgate a rule for the removal of the name.

D. A public facility that has been named for a person who was not a public officer at the time of the naming may continue to bear that name if the person subsequently becomes a public officer.

E. Except as provided in Subsection C of this section, a public facility named for a public officer prior to the effective date of this section may continue to bear the name of that public officer.

F. The secretary shall submit a list of names for naming a public facility for consideration by the governor. The secretary shall promulgate a rule for the development of the list of names.

History: Laws 2018, ch. 13 , § 1.

Effective dates. — Laws 2018, ch. 13 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective May 16, 2018, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.