New Mexico § 12-1-8 - Rules of construction governing compilation of statutes

§ 12-1-8. Rules of construction governing compilation of statutes

In carrying out the duties provided by law and contract, absent an expressed contrary

legislative intent, the executive director of the New Mexico compilation commission

and the advisory committee of the supreme court shall be governed by the following

rules: A. if two or more acts are enacted during the same session of the legislature amending

the same section of the NMSA, regardless of the effective dates of the acts, the act

last signed by the governor shall be compiled in the NMSA and, if the New Mexico compilation

commission, after consultation with the legislative council service, determines that

the provisions of one or more of the earlier signed acts can be reconciled with the

act that is to be compiled, those provisions shall be incorporated in the last-signed

act and compiled in the NMSA. The history following the amended section shall set forth the section, chapter and

year of all acts amending the section. A compiler's note shall be included in the annotations setting forth the nature

of the difference between the acts or sections, if any; and B. if two or more irreconcilable acts dealing with the same section of law are enacted

by the same session of the legislature, the last act signed by the governor shall

be presumed to be the law. The act last signed by the governor shall be compiled in the NMSA with an annotation

following the compiled section setting forth in full the text of any conflicting section

of any earlier signed act.