New Mexico Statutes
Article 24C - Interior Designers
Section 61-24C-4 - Interior design board created; members; terms; compensation. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)

A. There is created the "interior design board". The board shall be administratively attached to the regulation and licensing department. The board shall consist of five members appointed by the governor for staggered terms of three years, appointed in a manner that the term of one member shall expire on December 31, 1990; the terms of two members shall expire on December 31, 1991; and the terms of the last two members shall expire on December 31, 1992. Thereafter, members shall be appointed for terms of three years or less in a manner that the terms of not more than two members expire on December 31 of each year. A vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the unexpired term. A board member shall not serve consecutive terms.
B. All members of the board shall be residents of New Mexico. No more than two members shall be appointed from the same congressional district. Three members of the board shall be licensed interior designers and two members shall be chosen to represent the public and shall not have been licensed as interior designers or have a significant financial interest, direct or indirect, in the occupation regulated. For purposes of this section, the interior designer members of the initial board shall have offered interior design services for at least five years, shall have passed the national council for interior design qualification examination and shall have become registered by November 1, 1989.
C. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but no final action shall be taken unless at least three members vote in favor of a proposal.
History: Laws 1989, ch. 53, § 4; 2003, ch. 408, § 26; 2007, ch. 245, § 3.
Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-24C-17 NMSA 1978.
The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, requires that members of the board be residents of New Mexico, and that no more than two members shall be appointed from the same congressional district and increases the number of members who must be licensed interior designers to three and decreases the number of members who must represent the public to two.
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.

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