A. Each person who engages in the transportation of oil or gas or who owns or operates oil or gas pipeline facilities shall:
(1) at all times after the effective date of any regulation, comply with the requirements of the regulation;
(2) comply with any plan of inspection and maintenance required to be filed with the commission by the person; and
(3) permit the commission access to or the copying of pertinent records, and make reports or provide information to the commission as may be reasonably required, and permit entry to or inspection of its gas or oil pipeline facilities by the commission.
B. Nothing in the Pipeline Safety Act [70-3-11 to 70-3-20 NMSA 1978] shall affect the common law or statutory tort liability of any person.
History: 1953 Comp., § 65-4-22, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 71, § 8.