The state budget division is hereby authorized to engage in research and to make administrative and organizational surveys of the executive or administrative departments, boards, institutions, commissions or agencies of the state government to determine whether the activities thereof are essential to good government and are being carried on in an economical and efficient manner and without duplication, for the purpose of determining the feasibility of improving the administration of the state government. Reports concerning the results of such research and surveys, together with recommendations, shall be made to the governor and the legislature.
History: 1953 Comp., § 11-4-1.6, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 253, § 6.
ANNOTATIONSReduction of budgets not authorized. — This section, which authorizes the budget division to engage in research and to make surveys and provides that reports on the results of the research and surveys conducted by it, together with recommendations, shall be made to the governor and the legislature, gives no authority to reduce budgets. State ex rel. Lee v. Hartman, 1961-NMSC-171, 69 N.M. 419, 367 P.2d 918.