2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 53 - Corporations
Article 8 - Nonprofit Corporations
Section 53-8-70 - Effect of [certificate of] authority.
Unless the corporation commission [secretary of state] disapproves pursuant to Subsection A of Section 53-8-91 NMSA 1978, upon delivery of the application for a certificate of authority to the corporation commission [secretary of state], the corporation shall be authorized to conduct affairs in New Mexico for those purposes set forth in its application, subject, however, to the right of this state to suspend or to revoke such authority as provided in the Nonprofit Corporation Act.
History: 1953 Comp., § 51-14-112, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 217, § 70; 1983, ch. 304, § 15.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Laws 2013, ch. 75, § 9 provided that as of July 1, 2013, the secretary of state, pursuant to N.M. const., Art. 11, § 19, shall assume responsibility for chartering corporations as provided by law, including the performance of the functions of the former corporations bureau of the public regulation commission, and that except for Subsection D of 53-5-8 NMSA 1978, references to the "public regulation commission", "state corporation commission" or "commission" shall be construed to be references to the secretary of state. See 8-4-7 NMSA 1978.
The 1983 amendment, effective June 17, 1983, substituted "Unless the corporation commission . . . to the corporation commission," for "Upon the issuance of a certificate of authority by the corporation commission."
