2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 8 - Nominations and Primary Elections
Section 1-8-3 - Nomination by minor political party; other methods. (Contingent effective date. See note below.)
If the rules and regulations of a minor political party require nomination by a method other than a political convention:
A. the state chair and the governing board of the state party shall certify to the secretary of state the names of their party's nominees for United States senator, United States representative, all elective state offices, legislative offices elected from multicounty districts, all elective judicial officers in the judicial department and all offices representing a district composed of more than one county;
B. the county chair and the governing board of the county party shall certify to the county clerk the names of their party's nominees for elected county offices and for legislative offices elected from a district located wholly within one county or that is composed of only one county; and
C. the names of such nominees shall be filed in the same time and manner prescribed by the Election Code for convention-designated nominees of minor political parties, and each list of names certified shall be accompanied by the petition containing a list of signatures and addresses of voters as prescribed for convention-designated nominees.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-8-3, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 153; 1975, ch. 255, § 101; 1998, ch. 36, § 2; 2020, ch. 9, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSContingent effective date. — Laws 2020, ch. 9, § 3 amended 1-8-3 NMSA 1978, effective January 1, 2023, contingent upon certification by the secretary of state that the constitution of New Mexico has been amended as proposed by a joint resolution of the first session of the fifty-fourth legislature (Laws 2019, SJC/SRC/SJR Nos. 1 and 4, CA #1) at the general election to be held on November 3, 2020.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2023, removed the public regulation commission from the rules that minor political parties use to elect certain officers, and made certain technical amendments; and in Subsection A, after "multicounty districts", deleted "public regulation commission".
