A. The commission shall collect an annual fee not in excess of ten dollars ($10.00) from each real estate licensee prior to the issuance of the next license.
B. The commission shall collect from each successful applicant for an original real estate license, in addition to the original license fee, a fee not in excess of ten dollars ($10.00).
C. The additional fees provided by this section shall be credited to the real estate recovery fund. The amount of the real estate recovery fund shall be maintained at one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000). If the real estate recovery fund falls below this amount, the commission shall have authority to adjust the annual amount of additional fees to be charged licensees or to draw on the real estate commission fund in order to maintain the fund level as required in this section. If on July 1 of any year, the balance in the fund exceeds four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), the amount over four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) shall be transferred to the real estate commission fund to be used for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of Chapter 61, Article 29 NMSA 1978.
History: Laws 1980, ch. 82, § 3; 1987, ch. 90, § 6; 1993, ch. 253, § 4; 2003, ch. 22, § 6; 2011, ch. 85, § 10.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2011 amendment, effective July 1 2011, lowered the minimum balance of the real estate recovery fund from two hundred fifty thousand dollars to one hundred fifty thousand dollars.
The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, deleted "On and after the effective date of the Real Estate Recovery Fund Act" from the beginning of Subsections A and B; and added the last sentence of Subsection C.
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, purported to amend this section but made no change.