2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 14 - Vocational Education or Rehabilitation
Section 22-14-20 - New Mexico school for the visually handicapped; certain functions transferred.
There is transferred to the services for the blind administrative unit of the vocational rehabilitation division of the department of education [public education department] those powers, fiscal responsibilities, duties, records, equipment, lands, buildings and personnel of the New Mexico school for the visually handicapped pertaining to the training, rehabilitating and employing of blind persons over the age of eighteen years in cooperation with any other federal or state agency.
History: 1953 Comp., § 73-23-1.2, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 324, § 5; 1973, ch. 209, § 2; 1978 Comp., § 21-5-3, recompiled as § 22-14-20 by Laws 1983, ch. 60, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Laws 2004, ch. 25, § 27, provided that all references to the superintendent of public instruction shall be deemed references to the secretary of public education and all references to the former state board of education or state department of education shall be deemed references to the public education department. See 9-24-15 NMSA 1978.
Cross references. — For divisions of the department, see 9-24-14 NMSA 1978.
