New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 22 - COURTS
Chapter 600 - ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS OFFICE
Part 9 - PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT HEARINGS
Section 22.600.9.8 - REQUEST FOR HEARING AND SUBMISSION OF REFERRAL TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS OFFICE FOR CONDUCT OF A HEARING

A. Requests for hearing from a licensee must be submitted to MVD within 30 days from the date notice of intent to suspend driver's license and right to a hearing was mailed. The request may be mailed to parental responsibility hearings, P.O. Box 630, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0630, or delivered in person to the legal services bureau, Joseph M. Montoya building, 1100 S. St. Francis Drive, Suite 1100, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Incomplete requests or requests received after this time will not be honored by MVD. Timeliness of the request shall be determined either by the date of actual delivery to MVD's headquarters in Santa Fe or, if mailed, by the postmark date of the envelope containing the request delivered through the U. S. postal service. The administrative hearings office, which is a separate and distinct agency from MVD, lacks authority under the statute to accept a request for hearing directly from a licensee. While the administrative hearings office will make reasonable efforts to forward any hearing requests incorrectly submitted to it rather than MVD, the administrative hearings officer will not be held liable for the licensee's initial error in filing the request with the wrong entity in terms of timeliness of the request for hearing.

B. Upon receipt of a timely, complete request for hearing, MVD shall promptly transmit, submit or file a referral for hearing to the administrative hearings office in a method and manner required by the administrative hearings office. At a minimum, any referral for hearing by MVD should include the notice of intent to suspend driver's license and right to a hearing, a copy of the controlling court order from HSD, licensee's request for hearing, the licensee's address of record with MVD if different than what was listed on the licensee's request for hearing, and any entry of appearance filed by an attorney on behalf of the licensee. Administrative hearings office staff may reject any hearing referral received from MVD that does not include the minimum requested information until MVD provides the required information.

C. After initial submission of a referral for hearing with the administrative hearings office, MVD shall have a continuing duty to forward any additional information received in the case to the administrative hearings office for inclusion in the case file, including but not limited to, any subsequent entry of appearance received from an attorney on behalf of a licensee, any supplemental evidence received, or any certificate of compliance issued in the case.

D. Upon receipt of a complete referral for hearing, the chief hearing officer or staff designated by the chief hearing officer will promptly assign the matter to a hearing officer to be heard.