New Mexico Code § 61-1-32

Petition for adoption, amendment or repeal of rules
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An interested person may request in writing that a board subject to the Uniform Licensing Act adopt, amend or repeal a rule. Within one hundred twenty days after receiving the written request, the board shall either initiate proceedings in accordance with the State Rules Act [Chapter 14, Article 4 NMSA 1978] or issue a concise written statement of its reason for denial of the request. The denial of such a request is not subject to judicial review.
History: 1978 Comp., § 61-1-32, enacted by Laws 1981, ch. 349, § 22; 2022, ch. 39, § 9.
The 2022 amendment, effective May 18, 2022, clarified a provision that allows members of the public to make a written request to a board to adopt, amend, or repeal a rule; in the section heading, deleted "regulations" and added "rules"; after "may request in writing that a board", added "subject to the Uniform Licensing Act", and after "proceedings in accordance with", deleted "Section 61-1-29 NMSA 1978 to adopt the regulation" and added "the State Rules Act".

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