A. The state ethics commission shall advise and seek to educate all persons required to perform duties under the Governmental Conduct Act of those duties. This includes advising all those persons at least annually of that act's ethical principles.
B. The state ethics commission shall seek first to ensure voluntary compliance with the provisions of the Governmental Conduct Act. A person who violates that act unintentionally or for good cause shall be given ten days' notice to correct the matter. Referrals for civil enforcement of that act shall be pursued only after efforts to secure voluntary compliance with that act have failed.
History: 1978 Comp., § 10-16-13.1, enacted by Laws 1993, ch. 46, § 35; 2019, ch. 86, § 24.
The 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, removed from the secretary of state, and provided the state ethics commission with, the duty of advising and seeking to educate all persons required to perform duties under the Governmental Conduct Act and the duty of seeking to ensure voluntary compliance with the provisions of the Governmental Conduct Act; and in Subsections A and B, after "The", deleted "secretary of", and after "state", added "ethics commission".
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 10 - Public Officers and Employees
Article 16 - Governmental Conduct
Section 10-16-1 - Short title.
Section 10-16-2 - Definitions.
Section 10-16-3 - Ethical principles of public service; certain official acts prohibited; penalty.
Section 10-16-3.1 - Prohibited political activities.
Section 10-16-4.1 - Honoraria prohibited.
Section 10-16-4.2 - Disclosure of outside employment.
Section 10-16-4.3 - Prohibited employment.
Section 10-16-6 - Confidential information.
Section 10-16-7 - Contracts involving public officers or employees.
Section 10-16-9 - Contracts involving legislators; representation before state agencies.
Section 10-16-11 - Codes of conduct.
Section 10-16-11.1 - State agency or local government agency authority.
Section 10-16-13 - Prohibited bidding.
Section 10-16-13.1 - Education and voluntary compliance.
Section 10-16-13.3 - Prohibited contributions; financial service contractors.
Section 10-16-14 - Enforcement procedures.
Section 10-16-16 - Recompiled.