"State agency" means any department, institution, board, bureau, commission, district or committee of government of the state of New Mexico and means every office or officer of any of the above.
History: 1953 Comp., § 11-4-1.1, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 253, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSEleventh amendment immunity. — The university of New Mexico board of regents, medical school, medical school's admissions committee and two officials of that committee fell within the state's definition of agency for purposes of eleventh amendment immunity from plaintiff's claims for failure to admit her to the medical school. Buchwald v. Univ. of N.M. Sch. of Med., 159 F.3d 487 (10th Cir. N.M. 1998).
New Mexico beef council. — The New Mexico beef council, created under Section 77-2A-3 NMSA 1978, is a commission or committee of government and falls within this definition of "state agency"; it, thus, is subject to the requirements of this article. 1987 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 87-44.
The public school insurance authority is a state agency for purposes of the state budget laws. 1990 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 90-23.