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Code · New Mexico · Chapter 9 — Executive Department · Article 3 — Corrections Department

9-3-7. Bureau [Bureaus]; chiefs.

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The secretary shall establish, within each division, such "bureaus" as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of the Corrections Department Act. He shall appoint a "chief" to be the administrative head of any such bureau. The chief and all subsidiary employees of the department shall be covered by the Personnel Act [Chapter 10, Article 9 NMSA 1978], unless otherwise provided by law.
There is created within the administrative services division of the department the "standards and inspection bureau".
History: 1978 Comp., § 9-3-7, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 8; 1979, ch. 202, § 4; 1980, ch. 150, § 6; 1981, ch. 73, § 6.
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