"Adjunct agencies" are those agencies, boards, commissions, offices or other instrumentalities of the executive branch, not assigned to the elected constitutional officers, which are excluded from any direct or administrative attachment to a department, which retain policymaking and administrative autonomy separate from any other instrumentality of state government.
History: 1953 Comp., § 4-29B-6, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 248, § 6.
Emergency clauses. — Laws 1977, ch. 248, § 14 contained an emergency clause and was approved April 7, 1977.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 81A C.J.S. States §§ 141, 142.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 9 - Executive Department
Article 1 - Executive Reorganization
Section 9-1-2 - Purpose of act.
Section 9-1-3 - Cabinet created; members; powers and duties.
Section 9-1-4 - Cabinet departments; structure.
Section 9-1-5 - Secretary; duties and general powers.
Section 9-1-6 - Adjunct agencies.
Section 9-1-7 - Administratively attached agency; relationships.
Section 9-1-8 - Creation of agencies; prohibition.
Section 9-1-10 - Reorganization plan; no abatement of actions.
Section 9-1-11 - Merger; executive order.
Section 9-1-12 - Preservation of powers of policy-making boards.
Section 9-1-13 - Temporary provision; certain licensing functions; executive order transfer.