{"data":{"id":"us-nm/12-8a-5","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"12-8A-5","heading":"Effect on other laws.","body":"Nothing in the Governmental Dispute Prevention and Resolution Act and rules, agreements and procedures developed pursuant to that act:\nA. limits other dispute prevention or resolution procedures available to an agency;\nB. denies a person a right granted under federal or other state law, including a right to an administrative or judicial hearing;\nC. waives immunity from suit or affects a waiver of immunity from suit contained in any other law;\nD. waives immunity granted under the eleventh amendment to the constitution of the United States;\nE. authorizes or prohibits binding arbitration as a method of alternative dispute resolution when mutually agreed to in writing by the interested parties;\nF. authorizes or requires an agency to take any action that is inconsistent or contrary to any law or rule;\nG. authorizes or requires any meeting, otherwise required to be open to the public, to be closed;\nH. authorizes or requires any record, otherwise open to public inspection, to be sealed; or\nI. shall be interpreted to create an additional layer of administrative process or to discourage or impede the use of alternative dispute resolution.","path":["Chapter 12 - Miscellaneous Public Affairs Matters","ARTICLE 8A Governmental Dispute Prevention and Resolution"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18512/index.do","current_through":"2025-06-20","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"a913c3de05a567e0c5ced7dbf9948ee2887d7824dac00cfb18b004775621bbe0","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/12-8a-4","next":"us-nm/12-8a-6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}