N.M. Stat. § 61-23-11
Receipts and disbursement; fund created. (Repealed
effective July 1, 2030.)
A. The "professional engineers' and surveyors' fund" is created in the state treasury.
The executive director of the board shall receive and account for all money received
under the provisions of the Engineering and Surveying Practice Act and shall pay that
money to the state treasurer for deposit in the fund. Money in this fund shall be paid out
only by warrant of the secretary of finance and administration upon the state treasurer,
upon itemized vouchers approved by the chair and attested by the executive director of
the board. All money in the fund is appropriated for the use of the board. Earnings from
investment of the fund shall accrue to the credit of the fund.
B. The executive director of the board shall give a surety bond to the state in such
sum as the board may determine. The premium on the bond shall be regarded as a
proper and necessary expense of the board and shall be paid out of the fund.
C. The board may make expenditures of the fund for any purpose that in the opinion
of the board is reasonably necessary for the proper performance of its duties pursuant
to the Engineering and Surveying Practice Act, including the expenses of the board's
delegates to the conventions of, and for membership dues to, the national council of
examiners for engineering and surveying and any of its subdivisions or any other body
of similar purpose.