{"data":{"id":"us-nm/24-14-29","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"24-14-29","heading":"Fees for copies and searches.","body":"A. The fee for each search of a vital record to produce a certified copy of a birth certificate shall be ten dollars ($10.00) and shall include one certified copy of the record, if available. A fee shall not be charged for a certified copy of a birth certificate of a homeless individual.\nB. The fee for the establishment of a delayed record or for the revision or amendment of a vital record, as a result of an adoption, a legitimation, a correction or other court-ordered change to a vital record, shall be ten dollars ($10.00). The fee shall include one certified copy of the delayed record.\nC. The fee for each search of a vital record to produce a copy of a report of spontaneous fetal death or a certificate of still birth shall be five dollars ($5.00) and shall include one certified copy of the record of fetal death, if available.\nD. The fee for each search of a vital record to produce a certified copy of a death certificate shall be five dollars ($5.00) and shall include one certified copy of the record, if available.\nE. Revenue from the fees imposed in this section shall be distributed as follows:\n(1) an amount equal to three-fifths of the revenue from the fee imposed by Subsection A of this section, an amount equal to one-half of the revenue from the fee imposed by Subsection B of this section and an amount equal to one-fifth of the revenue from the fee imposed by Subsection D of this section shall be distributed to the day-care fund; and\n(2) the remainder of the revenue from the fees imposed by Subsections A, B, C and D of this section shall be deposited in the state general fund.\nF. For the purposes of this section, \"homeless individual\" means an individual:\n(1) who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including an individual who:\n(a) lives in the housing of another person due to that individual's loss of housing, economic hardship or other reason related to that individual's lack of a fixed residence;\n(b) lives in a motel, hotel, trailer park or camping ground due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;\n(c) lives in an emergency or transitional shelter;\n(d) sleeps in a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings; or\n(e) lives in an automobile, a park, a public space, an abandoned building, substandard housing, a bus station, a train station or a similar setting; and\n(2) whose homelessness can be verified through an attestation, which shall not be required to be notarized, by one of the following:\n(a) a public or private governmental or nonprofit agency that provides services to homeless individuals;\n(b) a local education agency homeless liaison, school counselor or school nurse;\n(c) a social worker licensed in this state; or\n(d) the homeless individual.","path":["Chapter 24 - Health and Safety","ARTICLE 14 Vital Statistics"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18524/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"87f9450fb6637c2296d7983b6fb628a4983829de028348e886f75112c298f323","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/24-14-28","next":"us-nm/24-14-29.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}