N.M. Stat. § 58-1-10
Authority to engage in leasing safe deposit facilities;
subsidiary company.
A. Subject to such regulations as the commissioner [director of the financial
institutions division of the commerce and industry department] may prescribe, a state
bank or safe deposit company may maintain and lease safe deposit boxes and may
accept property or documents for safekeeping if, except in the case of night
depositories, it issues a receipt therefor.
B. A state bank may own stock in safe deposit companies not exceeding in
aggregate cost fifteen percent of its capital and surplus, but at least ninety percent of
the stock in each such safe deposit company must be owned by banks.