2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 60 - Business Licenses
Article 14 - Manufactured Housing
Section 60-14-7 - License required; classification; examination.
A. No person shall engage in business as a manufacturer, dealer, broker, repairman, installer or salesperson unless licensed as provided in the Manufactured Housing Act or the Construction Industries Licensing Act [Chapter 60, Article 13 NMSA 1978].
B. The committee shall adopt regulations creating a system of license classifications covering the occupations of dealer, broker, manufacturer, repairman, installer and salesperson and providing for the qualifications and examination for each class of license.
C. No person shall import for sale or exchange, or engage in the business of selling, leasing or exchanging or offering for sale, lease or exchange, any manufactured home manufactured by any person who is not licensed as a manufacturer under the Manufactured Housing Act.
History: 1953 Comp., § 67-41-8, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 331, § 8; 1977, ch. 245, § 222; 1983, ch. 295, § 13; 2013, ch. 36, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the Parental Responsibility Act, see Chapter 40, Article 5A NMSA 1978.
The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, permitted licensees under the Construction Industries Licensing Act to engage in activities regulated by the Manufactured Housing Act; and in Subsection A, after "Manufactured Housing Act", added "or the Construction Industries Licensing Act".
When real estate broker must be licensed. — When a real estate broker or salesperson acts as the agent for another person in the sale, exchange, lease or purchase of a mobile housing unit which is not attached to real property he is no longer engaging in the real estate business as defined in the Real Estate Licensing Act. Rather, he is engaged in the business of acting as an agent for another in the sale of a mobile housing unit and must be licensed as a dealer under this article. 1982 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 82-12.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 51 Am. Jur. 2d Licenses and Permits § 1 et seq.
53 C.J.S. Licenses §§ 26, 27.
