2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 59A - Insurance Code
Article 52 - State Fire Marshal
Section 59A-52-21 - Administrative appeal of orders and modifications. (Effective July 1, 2021.)
Any person aggrieved by any order of the state fire marshal or the marshal's deputy, authorized officer or designated agent may appeal to the fire services council within ten days from the date of the service of such order. The council shall hear such party within twenty days after receipt of an appeal request and shall give not less than ten days' written notice of the hearing. Within fifteen days after such hearing, the council shall file its decision and, unless by its authority the order is revoked or modified, the order shall be complied with within the time fixed in the decision, with such time to be not less than thirty days.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 967; 1998, ch. 108, § 41; 2020, ch. 9, § 48.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2020 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, required the fire services council to hear appeals of orders issued by the state fire marshal, and made certain technical amendments; and after "may appeal to the", deleted "commission" and added "fire services council", and substituted each succeeding occurrence of "commission" with "council".
