The occupational health and safety review commission shall receive staff support from the department of environment. All powers, duties and responsibilities of the occupational health and safety review commission under Sections 50-9-9, 50-9-17 and 50-9-24 NMSA 1978 are hereby explicitly exempted from the authority of the secretary under provisions of Subsection B of Section 6 [9-7A-6 NMSA 1978] of The [the] Department of Environment Act.
History: 1978 Comp., § 9-7-15, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 253, § 78; recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 9-7A-14; 1991, ch. 25, § 26.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
The 1991 amendment, effective March 29, 1991, deleted "health and" preceding "environment" in the catchline; in the first sentence, substituted "receive" for "review" and "department of environment" for "environmental improvement division of the health and environment department"; and rewrote the second sentence, which read "All powers, duties and responsibilities of the occupational health and safety review commission under 50-9-9, 50-9-17 and 59-9-24 NMSA 1978 are hereby explicitly exempted from the authority of the secretary of health and environment under provisions of Subsection B of Section 7 of the Health and Environment Department Act".