Title 2, Natural Resources

Use of the Funds. (a) NMHC shall use the loan from MPLT authorized by this article to establish a comprehensive program or multiple programs for home finance with private banks or by NMHC itself. NMHC shall take steps to ensure that an amount of the money used for home constructi…

Homestead Participation and Real Property Security. (a) Borrowers who participate in the programs created by NMHC secured by the loan from MPLT authorized by this article must pledge their real property interests as security for their home loans. NMHC shall take a deed of trust o…

Program Requirements. (a) Eligibility. Only persons eligible under N.M.I. Const. art. XII to acquire permanent and long-term interests in real property in the Commonwealth shall be eligible for home loans under programs authorized by this article. Nothing in this article shall be…

Special Trust Fund. (a) There is hereby established within the Commonwealth General Fund a special trust fund to be known as the Homestead Development Home Financing Security Fund. (b) The Secretary of Finance shall deposit all moneys received from public lands into the special t…

Enforcement. (a) The office of the Public Auditor shall audit NMHC annually to ensure that NMHC is in compliance with all aspects of the loan agreement between MPLT and NMHC, and with the requirements for the making of home loans to qualified residents of the Commonwealth as publ…

Short Title. This act may be cited as the “Refinance Act for the MPLT/NMHC Loan Arrangement.” Source: PL 12-27, § 1. Commission Comment: PL 12-27 took effect on October 19, 2000 and contained findings, severability, and savings clauses as follows: Section 1. Findings. The Legisla…

Definitions. The definitions stated in 2 CMC § 4482 shall also apply to this act and are hereby incorporated herein as though a part thereof. Source: PL 12-27, § 3, modified.

Approval of Loan. The proposed restructured loan by MPLT to NMHC for ten million dollars, payable over a term of fifteen years, with interest accrued at a rate of eight and one-half percent, is approved by the Commonwealth, and all of its agencies and instrumentalities, as may be…

Guarantee Pledged. The Commonwealth Government hereby fully, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, underwrites and secures all payments due to MPLT under the terms and conditions of the loan. The loan is accepted as a general obligation of the Commonwealth government and its…

Payment by Appropriations. The loan made to NMHC by MPLT pursuant to Public Law Nos. 10-29 and 12-27 including the various subsequent short-term loans made by MPLT to NMHC, plus the additional three-million-eight-hundred-thousand dollars, which total ten-million dollars, shall be…

Confirmation of Prior Loans. This act does not affect any of the terms and provisions of Public Law No. 1029 (codified as 2 CMC § 4481 et seq.), as amended, the loan made by MPLT to NMHC, or the use of the loan proceeds or any other matters, except the original repayment terms co…

Short Title. This chapter may be cited as the Commonwealth Export Meat Inspection Act. Source: 25 TTC § 78.

Definitions. As used in this chapter, except as otherwise specified, the following terms shall have the meanings stated below: (a) “Adulterated” means any carcass, part thereof, meat or meat food product under one or more of the following circumstances: (1) If it bears or contain…

Examination and Inspection of Animals Prior to Slaughtering. For the purpose of preventing the use in export commerce of meat and meat food products which are adulterated, the director shall cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that purpose, an examination and inspection…

Methods of Slaughtering Allowed. No method of slaughtering or handling in connection with slaughtering shall be deemed to comply with the public policy of the Commonwealth unless it is humane. The following methods of slaughtering and handling are hereby found to be humane in the…

Post-Mortem Examination. For the purposes set forth in 2 CMC §§ 5412 to 5414: (a) The director shall appoint inspectors and cause them to make post-mortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats capable of use as human …

Application of Provisions. 2 CMC §§ 5413 to 5415 apply to all carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, or the meat or meat products thereof, capable of use as human food, which may be brought into any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, render…

Examination and Inspection of Meat Products Prepared for Export. For the purposes of this chapter, the director shall appoint inspectors and cause the same to make an examination and inspection of all meat food products prepared in any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing…

Labeling of Packaged Meat Products. (a) When any meat or meat food product prepared for export commerce which has been inspected as provided in 2 CMC § 5417 and marked “CommonwealthInspected and Passed” is placed or packed in any can, pot, tin, canvas, or other receptacle or cove…

Sanitation Inspections: Authorized; Action on Discovery of Unsanitary Conditions. The director shall cause to be made, by experts in sanitation or by other competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering or similar establishmen…

Sanitation Inspections: When Made. The director shall cause an examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, and the food products thereof, slaughtered and prepared in the establishments described in the preceding sections of this chapter for the purposes of …

Compliance with Chapter Required. No person may, with respect to any cattle, sheep, swine or goats or any carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of any such animals: (a) Slaughter any such animals or prepare any such articles which are capable of use as human f…

Marking to be Authorized; Practices Prohibited. (a) No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person, firm or corporation shall cast, print, lithograph or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation…

Appointment of Inspectors; Rules and Regulations on Inspections. The director may appoint inspectors to examine and inspect all cattle, sheep, swine and goats; all carcasses and parts thereof; all meats and meat food products, and the sanitary conditions of all establishments in …

Bribing Officials; Accepting Bribe. (a) Any person, or any agent or employee of any person, who gives, pays, or offers, directly or indirectly, to any inspector or other officer or employee of the Commonwealth authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter or …

Control of Handling and Storage. The director may by regulations, prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine or goats, capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person engage…

Animal Products Not Intended for Human Consumption. Inspection shall not be provided under this chapter at any establishment for the slaughter of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, or the preparation of any carcasses or parts of products of such animals, which are not intended for u…

Maintenance and Inspection of Records. (a) The following classes of persons shall keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses that directly relate to the activities sought to be regulated by this chapter, and all such perso…

Registration of Business. No person shall engage in business, in or for export commerce, as a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in such commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any cattle, sheep, …

Animals Dying Otherwise Than by Slaughter. No person engaged in the business of buying, selling or transporting in export commerce, dead, dying, disabled or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, tran…

Withdrawal of Inspection Services. (a) The director may, indefinitely, or for such period as the director deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, refuse to provide, or withdraw, inspection services with respect to any establishment if the director determines, …

Detention of Adulterated Products; Removal of Official Markings. Whenever any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of cattle, sheep, swine or goats, or any product exempted from the definition of a meat food product, or any dead, dying, disabled cattle, sheep, sw…

Seizure and Condemnation. (a) Any carcass, part of a carcass, meat, or meat food product of cattle, sheep, swine or goats or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine or goat, that is being transported in export commerce, and that: (1) Is being or has been prepa…

Jurisdiction. The Commonwealth Trial Court is vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain violations of this chapter, and shall have jurisdiction in all other kinds of cases arising under this chapter. Source: 25 TTC § 72. Commission Comment: Sec…

Obstructing Enforcement of Chapter. (a) Any person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter shall be fined not more than $5,000, or impr…

Miscellaneous Violations. (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter for which no other criminal penalty is provided shall, upon conviction therefor, be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both such imprisonment…

Enforcement Powers. (a) The director has the power: (1) To gather and compile information concerning, and to investigate from time to time, the organization, business, conduct, practices, and management of any person engaged in export commerce, and the relation thereof to other p…

Continuity of Rules and Regulations. Any rules and regulations adopted by the Trust Territory Chief of Agriculture (or his successor) pursuant to the Trust Territory Export Meat Inspection Act in Title 25 of the Trust Territory Code [25 TTC § 51 et seq.] shall remain in full forc…

Applicability; Waiver. (a) This chapter applies to all units subject to this division, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section and 2 CMC § 6413 or as modified or waived by agreement of purchasers of units in a condominium in which all units are restricted to nonresid…

Public Offering Statement: General Provisions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a public offering statement must contain or fully and accurately disclose: (1) The name and principal address of the declarant and of the condominium; (2) A general descriptio…

Public Offering Statement: Time-Share Estates. (a) For purposes of this section, “time-share estate” means either: (1) An “interval estate,” meaning a combination of (A) An estate for years in a unit, during the term of which title to the unit rotates among the time-share owners …

Public Offering Statement: Conversion Condominium. (a) The public offering statement of a conversion condominium must contain, in addition to the information required by 2 CMC § 6402: (1) A statement by the declarant, based on a report prepared by an independent architect or engi…

Public Offering Statement: Condominium Securities. If an interest in a condominium is currently registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, a declarant satisfies all requirements relating to the preparation of a public offering statement in this d…

Purchaser’s Right to Cancel. (a) Unless delivery of a public offering statement is not required under 2 CMC § 6401(b), a declarant shall provide a purchaser of a unit with a copy of the public offering statement and all amendments thereto before conveyance of that unit, and not l…

Resales of Units. (a) In the event of a resale of a unit by a unit owner other than a declarant, the unit owner shall furnish to a purchaser before execution of any contract for sale of a unit, or otherwise before conveyance, a copy of the declaration (other than the plats and pl…

Escrow of Deposits: Conveyance of Uncompleted Units. (a) Any deposit made in connection with the purchase or reservation of a unit from a declaration shall be placed in escrow and held in this Commonwealth in an account designated solely for that purpose by a title insurance comp…