New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 2 - STATE TRUST LANDS PART 24 CULTURAL PROPERTIES PROTECTION
Part 100 - RELATING TO OIL AND GAS LEASES
Section 19.2.100.57 - CALCULATING AND REMITTING OIL AND GAS ROYALTIES

(1) Each lessee whose average monthly state royalty payment for the twelve months ending with the latest March 31, was twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or less shall pay royalties on or before the twenty-fifth day of the second month following the month for which royalties are due. Unless the remitter elects to pay royalties by means of electronic funds transfer, payment shall be made by check payable to the commissioner of public lands. Payment shall be mailed or delivered to the taxation and revenue department along with any paper report. If the remitter elects to pay royalties by means of electronic funds transfer, payment shall be made in accordance with Option 1 or Option 2 in Paragraph (4) of Subsection A of 19.2.100.57 NMAC and shall conform with the special instructions on electronic transmission of state royalty payments for separate oil and gas royalty reporting in the ONGARD system.

(2) Unless an election is timely made to pay royalties pursuant to Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, each lessee whose average monthly state royalty payment for the twelve months ending with the latest March 31, was greater than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall pay royalties on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month for which the royalties are due. Payment shall be made in accordance with Paragraph (4) of this Subsection.

(3) In lieu of paying royalties within the time specified by Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, a lessee may submit to the lessor, in writing, an election to pay royalties within the time frames specified for state severance taxes. Royalties paid by any lessee making the election under this Paragraph shall be due on the twenty-fifth day of the second month following the month for which the royalties are due. However, on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month in which the election is made and on or before the twenty-fifth day of each month thereafter, the lessee shall also make an advance royalty payment. Beginning with royalties initially paid under this Paragraph and each month thereafter, the previous month's advance royalty payment shall be taken as a credit. The amount of the advance royalty payment shall be adjusted by July 25 of each year and shall equal the average monthly royalty paid during the twelve months ending with the latest March 31. Payment shall be made in accordance with Paragraph (4) of this Subsection.

(4) Lessees remitting royalties under the provisions of Paragraphs (2) and (3) of this Subsection shall make payments in accordance with one of the four options listed below. For payment to be considered timely, the state land office must have access to funds on the due date for royalty remittances. Payment shall be made in accordance with the instructions on special payment procedures. Such payment can only be utilized with the separate oil and gas royalty reporting in the new ONGARD system.

(5) Irrespective of whether a lessee pays royalties pursuant to Paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of this Subsection, all royalty information shall be reported on forms prescribed by the lessor and shall be submitted on or before the twenty-fifth day of the second month following the month for which royalties are due. The lessee shall indicate in the space provided if payment accompanies the report or if payment is made by separate check, fedwire or ACH transfer.