New Mexico § 51-1-33 - Employment service

§ 51-1-33. Employment service

A. State employment service. The New Mexico state employment service, created by Chapter 15, Special Session

Laws of 1934, together with its existing personnel and all of its records, files and

property, including office equipment and the unexpired balance of any appropriation,

is hereby transferred to the department, and any money available for such offices

is hereby transferred and made available to the department for the purpose of maintaining

the New Mexico state employment service. The department in the conduct of such service shall establish and maintain free public

employment offices in such manner and in such places as may be necessary for the proper

administration of this act and for the purposes of performing such duties as are within

the purview of the act of congress entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment

of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion

of such system and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat. 113, U.S.C.A. Title 29, Section 49 (c) ), as amended. It shall be the duty of the department to cooperate with any official or agency

of the United States having powers or duties under the provisions of the said act

of congress, as amended, and to do and perform all things necessary to secure to this

state the benefits of the said act of congress, as amended, in the promotion and maintenance

of a system of public employment offices. The provisions of the said act of congress, as amended, are hereby accepted by this

state, in accordance with Section 4 of said act, and this state will observe and comply

with the requirements thereof. The department is hereby designated and constituted the agency of this state for

the purposes of said act. The department may cooperate with or enter into agreements with the railroad retirement

board with respect to the establishment, maintenance, and use of free employment service

facilities. B. Financing. All money received by this state under the said act of congress as amended, shall

be paid into the unemployment compensation administration fund. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining free public employment offices,

the department is authorized to enter into agreements with the railroad retirement

board, or any other agency of the United States charged with the administration of

an unemployment compensation law, with any political subdivision of this state, or

with any private, nonprofit organization, and as a part of any such agreement the

department may accept money, services or quarters as contribution to the unemployment

compensation administration fund. Money hereby made available to the department [is] to be expended as provided by

this section and by said act of congress.