A. Annual compensation of elective state officers shall be paid as follows:
| governor | $110,000 |
| secretary of state | 85,000 |
| state auditor | 85,000 |
| state treasurer | 85,000 |
| attorney general | 95,000 |
| commissioner of public lands | 90,000. |
B. Any person succeeding to the office of governor as provided in Article 5, Section 7 of the constitution of New Mexico shall receive the salary of the office. Every person serving as acting governor during the incapacity or absence of the governor from the state, other than the secretary of state, shall receive two hundred fifty dollars ($250) as compensation for each day's service as acting governor.
C. All compensation under this section shall be paid from the general fund, except that the amount paid to the commissioner of public lands shall be paid from the state lands maintenance fund.
History: 1953 Comp., § 4-5-1, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 260, § 1; 1975, ch. 305, § 1; 1977, ch. 346, § 2; 1980, ch. 133, § 1; 1981, ch. 286, § 1; 1986, ch. 49, § 1; 1989, ch. 237, § 1; 1998, ch. 108, § 21; 1999, ch. 255, § 1; 2002, ch. 95, § 1; 2020, ch. 9, § 14.
ANNOTATIONSContingent effective date. — Laws 2020, ch. 9, § 14 amended 8-1-1 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 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2023, removed the provision providing the annual compensation for a public regulation commissioner; and in Subsection A, deleted "public regulation commissioner . . . 90,000".