1. A. There is created a "New Mexico state board of psychologist examiners". The board shall be administratively attached to the regulation and licensing department. The board shall consist of eight members appointed by the governor who are residents of New Mexico and who shall serve for three-year staggered terms. The members shall be appointed as follows:

   1. (1) four members shall be professional members who are licensed under the Professional Psychologist Act as psychologists, of which two members shall be prescribing psychologists. The governor shall appoint the professional members from a list of names nominated by the New Mexico psychological association, the state psychologist association and the New Mexico school psychologist association;
   2. (2) one member shall be licensed under the Professional Psychologist Act as a psychologist or psychologist associate; and
   3. (3) three members shall be public members who are laypersons and have no significant financial interest, direct or indirect, in the practice of psychology.
2. B. A member shall hold office until the expiration of the member's appointed term or until a successor is duly appointed. When the term of a member ends, the governor shall appoint a successor for a term of three years. A vacancy occurring in the board membership other than by expiration of term shall be filled by the governor by appointment for the unexpired term of the member. The governor may remove a board member for misconduct, incompetency or neglect of duty.
3. C. All money received by the board shall be credited to the "psychology fund". Money in the psychology fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund and shall be used in accordance with the provisions of the Professional Psychologist Act. The members of the board may be reimbursed as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act [10-8-1 to 10-8-8 NMSA 1978], but shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.

History: 1978 Comp., § 61-9-5, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 41, § 5; 1993, ch. 251, § 1; 1996, ch. 51, § 6; 1996, ch. 54, § 3; 2003, ch. 408, § 9; 2024, ch. 26, § 2.

ANNOTATIONS

Repeals and reenactments. — Laws 1989, ch. 41, § 5 repealed former 61-9-5 NMSA 1978, as amended by Laws 1981, ch. 239, § 1, relating to state board of examiners, and enacted a new section, effective June 16, 1989.

Delayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-9-19 NMSA 1978.

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, amended the structure of the New Mexico state board of psychologist examiners; and in Subsection A, Paragraph A(1), after "Professional Psychologist Act as psychologists" added "of which two members shall be prescribing psychologists".

The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, substituted "The board shall be administratively attached to the regulation and licensing department. The board shall consist" for "consisting" following "psychologist examiners" near the beginning of Subsection A.

The 1996 amendment, effective May 15, 1996, rewrote Subsection C. This section was also amended by Laws 1996, ch. 51, § 6. The section was set out as amended by Laws 1996, ch. 54, § 3. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.

The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, in Subsection A, increased the number of members from seven to eight in the introductory language; added "as psychologists" to the end of the first sentence and added "the state psychologist association and the New Mexico school psychologist association" to the end, in Paragraph (1); and added present Paragraph (2), renumbering former Paragraph (2) as Paragraph (3) and making a related grammatical change, and in Subsection B, corrected a misspelling in the third sentence.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 63C Am. Jur. 2d Public Officers and Employees §§ 42, 43.

73 C.J.S. Public Administrative Law and Procedure § 9.