New Mexico Statutes
Article 2 - Air Pollution
Section 74-2-11.1 - Limitations on regulations.

The Air Quality Control Act does not:
A. authorize the environmental improvement board or the local board to make any regulation with respect to any condition or quality of the outdoor atmosphere if the condition or air quality level and its effect are confined entirely within the boundaries of the industrial or manufacturing property within which the air contaminants are or may be emitted and public access is restricted within such boundaries;
B. grant to the environmental improvement board or the local board any jurisdiction or authority affecting the relation between employers and employees with respect to or arising out of any condition of air quality; or
C. supersede or limit the applicability of any law relating to industrial health, safety or sanitation.
History: 1978 Comp., § 74-2-11.1, enacted by Laws 1979, ch. 393, § 7; 1992, ch. 20, § 13.
The 1992 amendment, effective March 5, 1992, substituted "environmental improvement board or the local board" for "board" near the beginning of Subsections A and B, and deleted "except that a source which uses a supplemental or intermittent control system for purposes of complying with a primary nonferrous smelter order may not temporarily reduce the pay of any employee by reason of the use of such supplemental or intermittent control system or other dispersion dependent control system" at the end of Subsection B.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Validity of state and local air pollution administrative rules, 74 A.L.R.4th 566.

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