N.M. Code R. § 13.10.4.22 – Enforcement Procedures

A. Advertising file: Each insurer shall maintain at its home or principal office a complete file containing every printed, published or prepared advertisement of its individual policies and typical printed, published or prepared advertisements of its blanket, franchise and group policies hereafter disseminated in this or any other state, whether or not licensed in the other state, with a notation attached to each advertisement which shall indicate the manner and extent of distribution and the form number of any policy advertised. This file shall be subject to regular and periodical inspection by the department of insurance. All these advertisements shall be maintained in the file for a period of either five years or until the filing of the next regular report on examination of the insurer, whichever is the longer period of time.
B. Certificate of compliance: Each insurer required to file an annual statement which is now or which hereafter becomes subject to the provisions of this rule must file with the department of insurance, with its annual statement, a certificate of compliance executed by an authorized officer of the insurer wherein it is stated that, to the best of his or her knowledge, information and belief, the advertisements which were disseminated by the insurer during the preceding statement year complied or were made to comply in all respects with the provisions of this rule and the insurance laws of New Mexico as implemented and interpreted by this rule.
[7/1/97; Recompiled 11/30/01]