The commission shall appoint a professional engineer who shall have at least five years' actual experience in the design, construction, maintenance and operation of oil or gas pipeline facilities and who shall be designated "pipeline safety engineer." The commission shall retain such other personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Pipeline Safety Act [70-3-11 to 70-3-20 NMSA 1978], and the commission shall, subject to state laws and regulations covering classification and compensation of state employees, be empowered and authorized to fix the compensation to be paid the pipeline safety engineer, and the compensation of other personnel employed under the authority of this section shall be subject to the state Personnel Act [Chapter 10, Article 9 NMSA 1978].
History: 1953 Comp., § 65-4-24, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 71, § 10.
Appointment of engineer. — This section does not expressly designate the professional engineer head of pipeline department; it merely commands commission to appoint an engineer. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-28.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Section 70-3-2 - License; fees; disposition.
Section 70-3-4 - Pipelines; crossing of railroads and highways.
Section 70-3-5 - Eminent domain power.
Section 70-3-6 - [Private telegraph or telephone line along right-of-way of pipeline.]
Section 70-3-7 - [Use of public highways by pipeline; grant of right by county commissioners.]
Section 70-3-9 - Pipeline highway use forms.
Section 70-3-11 - Short title.
Section 70-3-12 - Definitions.
Section 70-3-13 - Powers and duties of commission.
Section 70-3-13.1 - Master meter outreach and education.
Section 70-3-14 - Adoption of regulations; notice and hearing.
Section 70-3-15 - Validity of regulation; judicial review.
Section 70-3-16 - Waiver of regulations.
Section 70-3-17 - Continuity of service.
Section 70-3-19 - Enforcement; penalties.
Section 70-3-20 - Pipeline safety engineer and staff.
Section 70-3-21 - Pipeline safety fund; created; assessment and collection of fees.