New Mexico Statutes 51-1-33. Employment service
A. State employment service. The New Mexico state employment service, created by Chapter 15, Special Session Laws of 1934 [50-8-1, 50-8-2 N.M. Stat. Ann.], together with its existing personnel and all of its records, files and property, including office equipment and the unexpired balance of any appropriation, is hereby transferred to the department, and any money available for such offices is hereby transferred and made available to the department for the purpose of maintaining the New Mexico state employment service.
Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 51-1-33
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The department in the conduct of such service shall establish and maintain free public employment offices in such manner and in such places as may be necessary for the proper administration of this act and for the purposes of performing such duties as are within the purview of the act of congress entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system and for other purposes,” approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat.
113, U.S.C.A. Title 29, Section 49 (c)), as amended. It shall be the duty of the department to cooperate with any official or agency of the United States having powers or duties under the provisions of the said act of congress, as amended, and to do and perform all things necessary to secure to this state the benefits of the said act of congress, as amended, in the promotion and maintenance of a system of public employment offices. The provisions of the said act of congress, as amended, are hereby accepted by this state, in accordance with Section 4 of said act, and this state will observe and comply with the requirements thereof. The department is hereby designated and constituted the agency of this state for the purposes of said act. The department may cooperate with or enter into agreements with the railroad retirement board with respect to the establishment, maintenance, and use of free employment service facilities.
B. Financing. All money received by this state under the said act of congress as amended, shall be paid into the unemployment compensation administration fund. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining free public employment offices, the department is authorized to enter into agreements with the railroad retirement board, or any other agency of the United States charged with the administration of an unemployment compensation law, with any political subdivision of this state, or with any private, nonprofit organization, and as a part of any such agreement the department may accept money, services or quarters as contribution to the unemployment compensation administration fund. Money hereby made available to the department [is] to be expended as provided by this section and by said act of congress.