"Professional services" means the services of architects, archeologists, engineers, surveyors, landscape architects, medical arts practitioners, scientists, management and systems analysts, certified public accountants, registered public accountants, lawyers, psychologists, planners, researchers, construction managers and other persons or businesses providing similar professional services, which may be designated as such by a determination issued by the state purchasing agent or a central purchasing office.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 65, § 49; 1989, ch. 69, § 5; 1997, ch. 171, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For professional and occupational licenses, see Chapter 61 NMSA 1978.
The 1997 amendment, effective June 20, 1997, substituted the language beginning "construction managers and" for "and persons or businesses providing similar services" at the end of the section.