A. The board may establish an "engineering and surveying scholarship program" that provides strategies to enhance recruitment and retention of New Mexico professional engineers and professional surveyors, increase career and educational opportunities and improve interaction with the engineering and surveying professions and institutions of higher education. The program may provide direct educational and training scholarships through qualified New Mexico educational institutions to candidates for the engineering and surveying professions willing to reside and practice in New Mexico in an amount not to exceed annually one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in the aggregate.
B. The board may request and utilize appropriations to establish, implement and maintain the scholarship program. Any appropriation shall be deposited in the engineering and surveying scholarship fund.
History: Laws 2019, ch. 220, § 1.
Effective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 220 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 14, 2019, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 61 - Professional and Occupational Licenses
Article 23 - Engineering and Surveying
Section 61-23-1 - Short title. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-2 - Declaration of policy. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-3 - Definitions. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-4 - Criminal offender's character evaluation. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-6 - Board members; qualifications. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-7 - Reimbursement of board members. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-8 - Removal of members of board. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-9 - Board; organization; meetings. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-10 - Duties and powers of the board. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-11 - Receipts and disbursement; fund created. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-12 - Records and reports. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-13.1 - Repealed.
Section 61-23-17 - Application and examination fees. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-17.1 - Repealed.
Section 61-23-18 - Engineering; examinations. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-21 - Practice of engineering. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-22 - Engineering; exemptions. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-24.1 - Engineering; professional development. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-26 - Engineering; public work. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-27.2 - Repealed.
Section 61-23-27.5 - Surveying; application and examination fees. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-27.6 - Surveying; examinations. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-27.8 - Surveying licenses and seals. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-27.10 - Surveying exemptions. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-27.12 - Surveying; professional development. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-27.13 - Surveying; public work. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-28.1 - Repealed.
Section 61-23-28.2 - Surveying; record of survey. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-29.1 - Repealed.
Section 61-23-31 - Licensure under prior laws. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-31.1 - Good samaritan. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-32 - Termination of agency life; delayed repeal. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Section 61-23-35 - Engineering and surveying scholarship program. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)