New Mexico Register / Volume XXIX, Issue 8 / April 24, 2018

PUBLIC RULE HEARING AND REGULAR BOARD MEETING

The New Mexico Animal Sheltering Board will hold a rule hearing on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 9:00 a.m., and following the rule hearing will convene a board meeting to adopt rules and take care of regular business. The rule hearing and board meeting will be held at the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, 2550 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in Hearing Room 2.

House Bill 219, passed by the New Mexico State Legislature in 2017, assimilated the Animal Sheltering Board into the New Mexico Board of Veterinary Medicine, effective July 1, 2018.

Pursuant to its authority in Section 77-1B-1 NMSA 1978, the Animal Sheltering Board is proposing to repeal the Animal Sheltering rules listed below.

16.24.1 NMAC – General Provisions;

16.24.2 NMAC – Licensure and Certification;

16.24.3 NMAC – Duties of Licensees and Certificate Holders;

16.24.4 NMAC – Complaints, Enforcement and Disciplinary Action;

16.24.5 NMAC – Fees and

16.24.6 NMAC – Formulary for Euthanasia Technicians.

To obtain and review copies of the current rules you may go to the Animal Sheltering Board’s website: http://www.rld.state.nm.us/boards/Animal-Sheltering_Services.aspx or contact Martha Gallegos with the Boards and Commissions Division at 505-476-4622. To obtain and review copies of the proposed rule changes you may go to the New Mexico Board of Veterinary Medicine’s website: www.nmbvm.org.

The Board is currently accepting public comments on the proposed amendments. Please submit written comments on the proposed changes to Martha Gallegos, via electronic mail at animal.sheltering@state.nm.us or by regular mail to P.O. Box 25101, Santa Fe, NM 87504. Persons wishing to present their written comments at the rule hearing will need to provide 6 copies for distribution to the Board members and staff.

If you are an individual with a disability who is in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing, please contact Martha Gallegos at 505-476-4622.