2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 8 - Nominations and Primary Elections
Section 1-8-27 - Primary Election Law; declaration of candidacy; manner of filing.
Each declaration of candidacy, by nominating petition or by pre-primary convention designation, shall be delivered for filing in person by the candidate therein named or by a person acting, by virtue of written authorization, solely on the candidate's behalf. The proper filing officer shall not accept for filing more than one declaration of candidacy from any one individual except that candidates who seek but fail to receive pre-primary convention designation shall file a declaration of candidacy by nomination, according to provisions of the Primary Election Law [1-8-10 to 1-8-52 NMSA 1978], to have their names placed on the primary election ballot.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-8-22, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 172; 1975, ch. 295, § 13; 1985, ch. 2, § 5; 1993, ch. 55, § 4.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1993 amendment, effective November 15, 1993, inserted "by nominating petition or by pre-primary convention designation" in the first sentence and added the language beginning "except that candidates" at the end of the second sentence.
Simultaneous declarations prohibited. — A district judge may not file a declaration of candidacy for retention of office and, at the same time, file a declaration of candidacy in a primary election for a statewide judicial office. 1990 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 90-04.
