New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 22 - COURTS
Chapter 600 - ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS OFFICE
Part 9 - PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT HEARINGS
Section 22.600.9.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
As used in 22.600.5 NMAC:
A. "Administrative hearings office" is the agency established under Section 7-1B-1 NMSA 1978.
B. "Certificate of compliance" means a certified statement from HSD stating that a licensee is in compliance with a judgment and order for support or in compliance with a subpoena or warrant relating to paternity or child support proceedings.
C. "Chief hearing officer" is the appointed head of the administrative hearings office under the Administrative Hearings Office Act, Section 7-1B-3 NMSA 1978, or the chief hearing officer's designee during the absence of the chief hearing officer, or the acting, interim chief hearing officer pending appointment of that position.
D. "Hearing officer" is the attorney assigned by the chief hearing officer or designee of the chief hearing officer to serve as a neutral decision maker in any adjudicatory proceeding before the administrative hearings office. The person assigned as hearing officer must be licensed to practice law in New Mexico or eligible for temporary licensure to practice in New Mexico as determined by the New Mexico supreme court. The hearing officer may be a classified employee in the state personnel system with the administrative hearings office either as an attorney or administrative law judge, may be under contract with the administrative hearings office as a contract attorney, administrative law judge, or judge, or may be an attorney, administrative law judge, or judge serving in a voluntary capacity for the administrative hearings office.
E. "HSD" means the child support enforcement division of the New Mexico human services department.
F. "License" means an individual driver's license or a commercial driver's license.
G. "Licensee" means the person challenging the proposed suspension of their driving privileges for an alleged violation of the Parental Responsibility Act.
H. "MVD" is the motor vehicle division of the New Mexico taxation and revenue department.
I. "Notice of intent to suspend driver's license and right to a hearing" means a written statement that MVD intends to suspend or not renew a driver's license, the basis for the proposed suspension, and the process afforded a licensee by MVD or HSD.
