Within five days after such suspension or within such reasonable time as the person suspended may request, the secretary of finance and administration shall conduct a hearing for the person suspended. At such hearing the person suspended may show cause why such suspension should not be continued. The state auditor, and the employees of his office or the auditors employed by the state auditor to conduct the audit upon which suspension was based, shall appear at the hearing and give testimony.
History: 1953 Comp., § 5-3-37.3, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 254, § 3; 1977, ch. 247, § 38; 1979, ch. 281, § 3.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 67 C.J.S. Officers and Public Employees § 111.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 10 - Public Officers and Employees
Article 5 - Suspension of Certain Officials
Section 10-5-3 - Hearing; testimony.
Section 10-5-4 - Oaths; subpoenas.
Section 10-5-6 - Continuance of suspension after hearing; discontinuance of salary.
Section 10-5-7 - Petition for reinstatement; order to show cause; result.