New Mexico Statutes
Article 24B - Landscape Architects
Section 61-24B-6 - Board created; members; qualifications; terms; vacancies; removal. (Repealed effective July 1, 2026.)

A. The "board of landscape architects" is created. The board is administratively attached to the regulation and licensing department. The board shall consist of five members, three of whom shall be landscape architects. The landscape architect members shall have been registered as landscape architects for at least five years. The two public members shall represent the public and shall not have been licensed as landscape architects or have any significant financial interest, direct or indirect, in the occupation regulated.
B. The members of the board shall be appointed by the governor for staggered terms of three years, and appointments shall be made in a manner that the terms of board members expire on June 30. The landscape architect members of the board shall be appointed from lists submitted to the governor by the New Mexico chapter of the American society of landscape architects. A vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the unexpired term and shall be filled by persons having similar qualifications to those of the member being replaced. Board members shall serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified.
C. The board shall meet within sixty days of the beginning of a fiscal year and elect from its membership a chairman and vice chairman. The board shall meet at other times as it deems necessary or advisable or as deemed necessary and advisable by the chairman or a majority of its members or the governor, but in no event less than twice a year. Reasonable notice of all meetings shall be given in the manner prescribed by the board. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting or hearing.
D. The governor may remove a member from the board for neglect of a duty required by law, for incompetence, for improper or unprofessional conduct as defined by board rule or for any reason that would justify the suspension or revocation of his registration to practice landscape architecture.
E. A board member shall not serve more than two consecutive full terms, and a member failing to attend, after proper notice, three consecutive meetings shall automatically be removed as a board member, unless excused for reasons set forth in board rules.
F. Members of the board shall be reimbursed as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act [10-8-1 to 10-8-8 NMSA 1978] and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.
History: Laws 1985, ch. 151, § 6; 1991, ch. 189, § 23; 2001, ch. 155, § 4; 2003, ch. 408, § 24.
Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-24B-17 NMSA 1978.
The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, added "The board shall be administratively attached to the regulation and licensing department." following the first sentence of Subsection A.
The 2001 amendment, effective June 15, 2001, in Subsection A, changed the qualifications required for the three landscape architects on the board, who were formerly required to be registered landscape architects with at least ten years of experience, and two of which had to be registered within six months of the effective date of the Landscape Architects Act; in Subsection B, deleted the first sentence that read "Upon enactment of the Landscape Architects Act, appointments shall be made by the governor.", inserted "by the governor" following "appointed"; and substituted "beginning of a fiscal year" for "effective date of the Landscape Architects Act" in Subsection C.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, in the second sentence in Subsection A, substituted "three shall be registered" for "four of whom shall be registered", "two landscape architects" for "four landscape architects", and "two shall represent" for "one of whom shall represent" and made related stylistic changes and, in Subsection B, deleted "in such manner that two members shall be appointed for one-year terms, two members shall be appointed for two-year terms and one member shall be appointed for a three-year term" at the end of the first sentence and deleted "Thereafter" at the beginning of the second sentence.

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