New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI,
Issue 11 / June 10, 2025
NOTICE OF RULEMAKING
The Department of
Finance and Administration’s (“Department”) Local Government Division (the Division)
is proposing to create the New Mexico Administrative Code (NMAC) rule 2.91.3
NMAC, Review and Selection for Animal Welfare Fund Program Projects as
directed by House Bill 113 of the 2025 Legislative Session.
Subsection E, Section
9-6-5, NMSA 1978, as amended, authorizes the Department to make and adopt such
reasonable administrative and procedural rules and regulations as may be
necessary to carry out the duties of the department and its divisions.
Notice
Date: June 10, 2025
Hearing
Date: July 11, 2025
Adoption
Date: Proposed as July 12, 2025
Technical
Citations: 2.91.3 NMAC
The
Department is proposing to create the rule as follows:
Section 7
Subsection
G - creates
definition
of “Underserved Communities”.
Section
8
Subsection
B - creates
list of documents required in a complete application.
Section 9
Subsection A - created Animal
Welfare Fund project requirements.
Section 10
Subsection B - creates
application review criteria.
Section 11
Subsection A - creates
reporting and compliance requirements.
These
proposed rule changes will be contained in 2.91.3 NMAC. The register and the proposed rule are
available on the Division website at: https://www.nmdfa.state.nm.us/. If you do not have internet access, a copy of
the proposed register and rule may be requested by contacting DFA Office of
General Counsel at dfalegal@dfa.nm.gov and (505) 827-4985.
The LGD proposes to implement this rule effective July 12, 2025.
A
public hearing to receive testimony on this proposed rule will be held on July
11, 2025, at 2 p.m. The hearing will be
held at the New Mexico Public Education Department, Marbry Hall Auditorium, 300
Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501.
If
you are a person with a disability and you require this information in an
alternative format or require a special accommodation to participate in the
public hearing, please contact our staff to discuss your accessibility needs at
least one week prior, or as soon as possible, by emailing the DFA Office of
General Counsel at:dfalegal@dfa.nm.gov
or calling 505-827-3985.
Interested
persons may address written comments to:
DFA
Office of General Counsel
ATTN: LGD 2.91.3 NMAC Public Comments
407
Galisteo St.
Bataan
Memorial Building, Room 180
Santa
Fe, NM 87501
Recorded
comments may be left at (505) 827-4985. Interested persons may also address comments
via electronic mail to: dfalegal@dfa.nm.gov. Written mail, electronic mail and recorded
comments must be received no later than 12:00 p.m. MT on June 10, 2025. Written and recorded comments will be given
the same consideration as oral testimony made at the public hearing. All written comments received will be posted
as they are received on the DFA website at https://www.nmdfa.state.nm.us/
along with the applicable register and
rule. The public posting will include
the name and any contact information provided by the commenter.