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NMSA 9-21-4. Department created
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The Indian affairs department is created in the executive branch.
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NMSA 9-21-5. Secretary of Indian affairs
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The secretary of Indian affairs is the department’s chief executive and administrative officer, is appointed by the governor with senate consent, and serves in the executive cabinet.
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NMSA 9-21-6. Secretary; duties and general powers
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The secretary must manage the department, enforce the laws charged to the department, and carry out listed supervisory, staffing, rulemaking, budgeting, and cooperation duties.
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NMSA 9-21-7. Department; additional powers and duties
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The department is the coordinating agency for tribal-government and state intergovernmental programs, and it must carry out specified investigative, coordination, and policy-support duties; it may also hold hearings, contract, and accept gifts.
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NMSA 9-21-8. Organizational units of the department; powers and duties
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Department units and specified officers have the powers and duties given by law, but the secretary supervises them and keeps final decision-making authority. The department may access nonconfidential records, data, and information from other state departments.
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NMSA 9-21-9. Division directors
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The secretary must appoint division directors with the governor’s approval, and those directors are exempt from the Personnel Act.
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NMSA 9-22-1. Short title
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Chapter 9, Article 22 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Veterans' Services Department Act.”
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NMSA 9-22-10. Bureaus; chiefs
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The secretary may create bureaus within each division, must appoint a chief for each bureau, and chiefs and subsidiary employees are covered by the Personnel Act unless another law says otherwise.
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NMSA 9-22-11. Administrative services division; duties
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The administrative services division must provide administrative and fiduciary services for the department, including records, clerical support, planning, assigned programs and grants, and fiduciary management for certain veterans.
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NMSA 9-22-12. Field services division; powers and duties
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The field services division must help veterans and their families with federal veterans' benefits claims and operate field offices across the state.
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NMSA 9-22-12.1. Health care coordination division
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The health care coordination division must develop and coordinate veterans programs and outreach, and advise and coordinate with the secretary on veterans’ and families’ health care issues.
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NMSA 9-22-13. State approving bureau
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The state approving bureau is created and must evaluate and approve certain educational and training programs under Title 38 rules.
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NMSA 9-22-14. State benefits division
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The state benefits division must oversee veterans' service organizations, coordinate veterans' programs and outreach, and determine eligibility for state-funded veterans' services and benefits.
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NMSA 9-22-14.1. Veterans' enterprise fund; purpose; administration
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Creates the veterans' enterprise fund in the state treasury and sets rules for how it is administered and how money in it is handled.
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NMSA 9-22-15. Repealed
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This section was repealed.
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NMSA 9-22-16. Power to act as a personal representative or conservator
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The department may serve as a personal representative or conservator in listed veterans’ estate matters, and no fee may be paid to it for doing so.
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NMSA 9-22-17. Court proceedings for appointment as personal
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The department may bring a court proceeding to seek appointment as a personal representative or conservator for certain veterans’ estates, without cost and tax.
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NMSA 9-22-18. Action as a personal representative or conservator; bond
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The department must post a $500,000 corporate surety bond with the secretary of state, and the bond must cover the department’s faithful performance as personal representative or conservator.
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NMSA 9-22-19. Bond premium cost proration
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When the department serves as personal representative or conservator for a veteran-beneficiary estate, the court must authorize a bond-premium charge to be paid from the estate.
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NMSA 9-22-2. Purpose
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This provision says the Veterans' Services Department Act is meant to create one department to administer certain laws and perform functions previously handled by the New Mexico veterans' service commission.
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