SENATE BILL 521

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2011

INTRODUCED BY

Kent L. Cravens

AN ACT

RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES; INCREASING THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE DIRECTOR OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES DIVISION OF THE REGULATION AND LICENSING DEPARTMENT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 60-13-7 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1977, Chapter 245, Section 169, as amended) is amended to read:

     "60-13-7. CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES DIVISION--DIRECTOR--APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATIONS.--The superintendent of regulation and licensing shall appoint the director of the division, who shall be a person who meets at least one of the following qualifications:

          A. is or has been an active practicing construction contractor for at least [five] ten years;

          B. is or has been an employee in an administrative position of a construction company for [at least five of] the past ten years;

          C. has been employed by the [construction industries] division for at least five years and is knowledgeable in the administration of the law governing the [construction industries] division; or

          D. is or has been actively engaged for [at least five of] the past ten years in an administrative position of an organization [which] that requires that person to have a broad knowledge of the construction industry."

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