• ARTICLE 1 PRESERVATION, RESTORATION AND DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS
    • 14-1-1. [Filing certified copy of document when original is in danger of damage or destruction.]
    • 14-1-2. [Effect of filing certified copy.]
    • 14-1-3. [Method of copying.]
    • 14-1-4. ["Public officer" defined for purpose of microfilming records.]
    • 14-1-5. [Authorization for photographing and microfilming public records.]
    • 14-1-6. [Photographed or microfilmed copies deemed original records.]
    • 14-1-7. Destruction of obsolete county records.
    • 14-1-8. [Obsolete county records; notice of proposed destruction; preservation desired by state records administrator; delivery of documents.]
  • ARTICLE 2 INSPECTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS
    • 14-2-1. Right to inspect public records; exceptions.
      • ANNOTATIONS
    • 14-2-2. [Officers to provide opportunity and facilities for inspection.]
    • 14-2-2.1. Copies of public records furnished.
    • 14-2-3. Public record inspection; mandamus.
  • ARTICLE 3 PUBLIC RECORDS
    • 14-3-1. Short title.
    • 14-3-2. Definitions.
    • 14-3-3. State commission of public records; creation.
    • 14-3-4. Duties and powers of commission.
    • 14-3-5. Gifts, donations and loans.
    • 14-3-6. Administrator; duties.
    • 14-3-7. Inspection and survey of public records.
    • 14-3-8. Records center.
    • 14-3-9. Disposition of public records.
    • 14-3-10. Disagreement as to value of records.
    • 14-3-11. Destruction of records.
    • 14-3-12. Transfer of records upon termination of state agencies.
    • 14-3-13. Protection of records.
    • 14-3-14. Advisory groups.
    • 14-3-15. Reproduction on film; evidence; review, inventory and approval of systems.
    • 14-3-16. Attorney general may replevin state records.
    • 14-3-17. Approval of existing state agency systems.
    • 14-3-18. County and municipal records.
    • 14-3-19. Storage equipment, supplies and materials; microfilm services and supplies; purchase by state records commission [state commission of public records] for resale.
    • 14-3-20. Interstate compacts; filing; index.
    • 14-3-21. [State publications; manuals of procedure; rules; reports; uniform style and form.]
    • 14-3-22. Public policy on certain publications; state commission of public records duties.
    • 14-3-23. [Manuals of procedure; preparation by state agencies; review by state records administrator; publication.]
    • 14-3-24. State publications for sale or issue by state agencies; listing by state records administrator.
    • 14-3-25. [Personal files, records and documents of elected state officials; placing in state archives by the state records administrator.]
  • ARTICLE 3A CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS
    • 14-3A-1. Short title.
    • 14-3A-2. Donation of confidential material.
  • ARTICLE 4 STATE RULES
    • 14-4-1. Short title.
    • 14-4-2. Definitions.
    • 14-4-3. Format of rules; filing; distribution.
    • 14-4-4. [Filing and distribution of publications and reports; official depository.]
    • 14-4-5. [Filing and compliance required for valid rule.]
    • 14-4-6. [Trade, sale and exchange of agency rules, publications and reports by records center.]
    • 14-4-7. Current listing of rules; rule repeals.
    • 14-4-7.1. New Mexico register.
    • 14-4-8. Documents not required to be filed with state library.
    • 14-4-9. [Law governing filing of agency rules, documents and publications.]
  • ARTICLE 5 PUBLIC RECORDS RECOVERY
    • 14-5-1. Short title.
    • 14-5-2. Definitions.
    • 14-5-3. Recovery authorized.
    • 14-5-4. Method of recovery.
    • 14-5-5. Return of public record.
    • 14-5-6. Refusal to appear and produce document; procedure.
    • 14-5-7. District court findings and orders.
    • 14-5-8. Replacement of recovered document.
    • 14-5-9. Effect of replacement of recovered document.
    • 14-5-10. Alternative method.
  • ARTICLE 6 HEALTH AND HOSPITAL RECORDS
    • 14-6-1. Health information; confidentiality; immunity from liability for furnishing.
    • 14-6-2. Hospital records; retention.
  • ARTICLE 7 FINANCIAL INSTITUTION RECORDS
    • 14-7-1. Requiring notice of intent to gain access to records of financial institutions.
    • 14-7-2. Requirements of state agencies, boards and commissions prior to access to a financial institution's records.
  • ARTICLE 8 RECORDING
    • 14-8-1. [County clerk as ex-officio recorder.]
    • 14-8-2. [Duties of recorder.]
    • 14-8-3. Recording books.
    • 14-8-4. Acknowledgment necessary for recording; decrees; exceptions.
    • 14-8-5. [Mining location notices; recording.]
    • 14-8-6. [Endorsement on receipt of documents; constructive notice of contents.]
    • 14-8-7. [Durability of records; required inks and ribbons.]
    • 14-8-8. [Noncompliance with durability requirements; penalty.]
    • 14-8-9. [Security of books of record; delivery to successors.]
    • 14-8-10. County clerks; failure to perform duties as recorder; fees.
    • 14-8-11. [Standard form of instruments; supplies.]
    • 14-8-12. Recording fees; when instrument not photocopied.
    • 14-8-12.1. Temporary provision; validation.
    • 14-8-12.2. Recording fee; when instrument is photocopied.
    • 14-8-12.3. Recording fee; assignments or releases of interest in property.
    • 14-8-12.4. Recording fee; more than two acknowledgments; more than two hundred words; when number of words is in excess of standard form.
    • 14-8-13. [Fees; copying records; issuing licenses; acknowledgments.]
    • 14-8-14. [Searching records; fees.]
    • 14-8-15. [Payment of fees.]
    • 14-8-16. Filings of legal descriptions and plats of real property authorized; recording; fees.
  • ARTICLE 9 RECORDS AFFECTING REAL PROPERTY
    • 14-9-1. Instruments affecting real estate; recording.
    • 14-9-2. [Constructive notice of contents.]
    • 14-9-3. Unrecorded instruments; effect.
    • 14-9-4. Filing for record; effect; reception book.
    • 14-9-5. Repealed.
      • ANNOTATIONS
    • 14-9-6. [Wills not affected.]
    • 14-9-7. Conveyances to state and public corporations; recording; filing in lieu of recording; maximum fee.
    • 14-9-8. [Lost patent; recording certified copy; effect.]
    • 14-9-9. [Federal court judgment; county for filing; lien against realty.]
  • ARTICLE 10 INDEX OF RECORDS
    • 14-10-1. [Authority for index.]
    • 14-10-2. [Index books; alphabetical and reverse order arrangement.]
    • 14-10-3. [Form of index.]
    • 14-10-4. [Description of lands.]
    • 14-10-5. [Standard form; use required.]
  • ARTICLE 11 PUBLICATION OF NOTICE
    • 14-11-1. "Legal notices and advertisements" defined.
    • 14-11-2. ["Legal newspaper" defined.]
    • 14-11-3. [Frequency of newspaper's publication; effect.]
    • 14-11-4. Proof of publication.
    • 14-11-5. [Affidavit of proof; contents.]
    • 14-11-6. [Filing affidavit of publication; evidential value.]
    • 14-11-7. Rates for legal notice or advertisement; costs.
    • 14-11-8. [Violation of legal publication law; penalty.]
    • 14-11-9. [Legal publications by county, municipality or school district; payment.]
    • 14-11-10. Litigation; publication of notice; posting.
    • 14-11-10.1. Legal notices; simple description also required.
    • 14-11-11. [County and municipal boards and officers; publication of proceedings; language requirements.]
    • 14-11-12. [Publication in lieu of posting.]
    • 14-11-13. Official Spanish newspapers.
  • ARTICLE 12 NOTARIES PUBLIC
    • 14-12-1. Notaries; powers and duties.
    • 14-12-2. Notaries; qualifications.
    • 14-12-3. Notaries; application.
    • 14-12-4. Notaries; appointment; term.
    • 14-12-5. Notaries; seal or stamp.
    • 14-12-6. Notarial seal.
    • 14-12-7. Notaries; certification.
    • 14-12-8. Notaries; action on bond.
    • 14-12-9. Notaries; reappointment.
    • 14-12-10. [Protesting bills and notes; notice.]
    • 14-12-11. [Service of notice of protest.]
    • 14-12-12. [Recording protest notices; use as evidence.]
    • 14-12-13. Notaries; removal from office.
    • 14-12-14. Notaries; change of address.
    • 14-12-15. Notaries; change of name.
    • 14-12-16. [Endorsing expiration date of commission.]
    • 14-12-17. [Disqualified notary exercising powers; penalty.]
    • 14-12-18. [False certificate; authenticating documents in absence of proper party; penalty.]
    • 14-12-19. Fees.
    • 14-12-20. [Notary affiliated with bank or corporation; power restricted.]
  • ARTICLE 13 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND OATHS
    • 14-13-1. [Administration of oath.]
    • 14-13-2. [Administration of affirmation in lieu of oath.]
    • 14-13-3. Oaths; power to administer.
    • 14-13-4. [Officers authorized to take acknowledgments.]
    • 14-13-5. [Acknowledgments outside state.]
    • 14-13-6. [Acknowledgments in foreign countries.]
    • 14-13-7. Military officers; power to take acknowledgments and administer oaths.
    • 14-13-8. [Contents of certificate of acknowledgment.]
    • 14-13-9. [Forms; instruments affecting real estate.]
    • 14-13-10. [Acknowledgment by married woman.]
    • 14-13-11. Wage and salary assignments.
    • 14-13-12. [Instrument needs no acknowledgment in absence of statutory requirement.]
    • 14-13-13. [Validation of former acknowledgments; 1951 act.]
    • 14-13-14. [Validation of former acknowledgments; 1957 act.]
    • 14-13-15. [Validation of former acknowledgments; 1965 act.]
    • 14-13-16. Validation of former acknowledgments; 1967 act.
    • 14-13-17. Validation of former acknowledgments; 1971 act.
    • 14-13-18. Validation of former acknowledgments; 1975 act.
    • 14-13-19. [Short forms for acknowledgments authorized.]
    • 14-13-20. [Application of act.]
    • 14-13-21. Definition.
    • 14-13-22. [Prima facie evidence of execution.]
    • 14-13-23. Short forms of acknowledgment.
    • 14-13-24. [Validation of certain prior acknowledgments.]
    • 14-13-25. Validation of certain prior acknowledgments.
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Historical New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978

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Chapter 14 - Records, Legal Notices and Oaths (1991)

Collection Historical New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978
File Number Chapter 14 NMSA 1978

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