A. The secretary of state shall:
(1) certify applicants whose applications comply with the requirements of the Confidential Substitute Address Act to participate in the confidential substitute address program;
(2) upon certification with respect to each participant:
(a) issue a confidential substitute address identification card;
(b) designate a confidential substitute address that shall be used in place of the participant's residential or delivery address by state and local government agencies;
(c) receive mail and deliveries sent to a participant's confidential substitute address and forward the mail and deliveries to the participant's delivery address at no charge to the participant;
(d) accept service of process, notice or demand that is required or permitted by law to be served on the participant and immediately forward the process, notice or demand to the participant's delivery address at no charge to the participant; and
(e) maintain records of the following that are received and forwarded by the secretary of state: 1) a participant's certified and registered mail; and 2) any process, notice or demand that is served on a participant; and
(3) administer the provisions of the Intimate Partner Violence Survivor Suffrage Act [1-6C-1 to 1-6C-9 NMSA 1978] to ensure that a participant who is eligible to vote in this state is able to be securely registered to vote and to automatically receive a ballot for each election.
B. Service made pursuant to the provisions of this section is perfected three days after it is accepted by the secretary of state.
History: Laws 2018, ch. 40, § 4; 2019, ch. 226, § 10.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, required the secretary of state to implement the provisions of the Intimate Partner Violence Survivor Suffrage Act; added Paragraph A(3).