New Mexico Statutes Chapter 21. State and Private Education Institutions § 21-21Q-4. Commission; duties

(1) the secretary or the secretary's designee;

(2) the dean of the university or the dean's designee; and

(3) three members appointed by the governor; provided that one member shall be a member of an acequia, one member shall be a current or past member of the land grant council and one member shall be a current or past member of the colonias infrastructure board and a resident of a colonia.

(1) make recommendations to the department on applicants for the program;

(2) advise the department on the adoption of rules to implement the provisions of the Community Governance Attorney Act;

(3) pursuant to the Procurement Code, solicit proposals for disbursement from the fund for legal services;

(4) enter into contracts for expenditure of the fund for the purpose of providing community governance attorney services for acequias, land grants-mercedes and low-income residents of colonias on issues regarding the governance of colonias. The contracts shall be entered into with the university or with nonprofit organizations whose mission is to provide a range of free legal services to low-income New Mexicans. No contract shall provide funding in excess of one-half of a full-time community governance attorney position, and each contract shall be executed only with service providers that have secured sufficient matching nonstate funding to provide a full-time position; and

(5) adopt such rules as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.