TITLE 21 AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING

CHAPTER 32 BRANDS, OWNERSHIP, AND TRANSPORTATION OF ANIMALS

PART 6 HORSE SHELTER RESCUE FUND

21.32.6.1 ISSUING AGENCY: New Mexico Livestock Board

[21.32.6.1 NMAC - N, 01/31/14]

21.32.6.2 SCOPE: This rule establishes procedures for the distribution by the New Mexico Livestock Board of monies from the horse shelter rescue fund.

[21.32.6.2 NMAC - N, 01/31/14]

21.32.6.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Sections 77-2-1, 77-2-7, 77-2-30 and 77-2-32, NMSA 1978. [21.32.6.3 NMAC - N, 01/31/14]

21.32.6.4 DURATION: Permanent.

[21.32.6.4 NMAC - N, 01/31/14]

21.32.6.5 EFFECTIVE DATE: 01-31-14 unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.

[21.32.6.5 NMAC - N, 01/31/14]

21.32.6.6 OBJECTIVE: To establish rules to administer the horse shelter rescue fund and to provide methods and procedures for the distribution by the board of monies in that fund to horse rescue and retirement facilities that are registered by the board pursuant to Section 77-2-30, NMSA 1978, as implemented by 21.30.5 NMAC.

[21.32.6.6 NMAC - N, 01/31/14]

21.32.6.7 DEFINITIONS: “Registered horse rescue or retirement facility” means such facility that has a current registration issued by the New Mexico livestock board to operate as a horse rescue or retirement facility.

[21.32.6.7 NMAC - N, 01/31/14; A, 07/15/14]

21.32.6.8 DISBURSEMENTS FROM FUND:

A. Subject to the availability of money in the horse shelter rescue fund, monies in the fund may be distributed to reimburse registered horse rescue or retirement facilities to defray the feeding and care expenses incurred by those facilities whenever they provide care and feed to animals that have been placed there in accordance with Chapter 77, Articles 2 through 18, NMSA 1978, after owner surrender, the estray process or court-ordered disposition.

B. Subject to the availability of money in the horse shelter rescue fund, monies in the fund may be distributed to registered horse rescue or retirement facilities, which make application to the board for a grant from the fund, in such amounts as the board determines, in its discretion, are reasonable and appropriate.

(1) The board shall establish a committee to review such grant applications.

(2) A final decision on all grant applications shall be voted on by the board.

C. In no event is the board obligated to distribute monies for the purposes described in Subsections A and B above or beyond such amount that the board determines, in its discretion, is available for expenditure from the horse shelter rescue fund.

[21.32.6.8 NMAC - N, 01/31/14; A, 07/15/14]

HISTORY OF 21.32.6 NMAC: [RESERVED]