As used in the Public Regulation Commission Act:
A. "commission" means the public regulation commission;
B. "commissioner" means a person appointed to the public regulation commission; and
C. "person" means an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, association, joint venture or similar legal entity.
History: Laws 1998, ch. 108, § 2; § 8-8-2, recompiled and amended as § 62-19-2 by Laws 2020, ch. 9, § 16.
ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — Laws 2020, ch. 9, § 16 recompiled and amended former 8-8-2 NMSA 1978 as part of Chapter 62, Article 19 NMSA 1978, effective January 1, 2023, contingent upon certification by the secretary of state that the constitution of New Mexico has been amended as proposed by a joint resolution of the first session of the fifty-fourth legislature (Laws 2019, SJC/SRC/SJR Nos. 1 and 4, CA #1) at the general election to be held on November 3, 2020. The section number was assigned by the compiler.
The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2023, removed "elected" from the definition of "commissioner" as used in the Public Regulation Commission Act; and in Subsection B, after "means a person", deleted "elected or".