New Mexico Register / Volume XXXIII, Issue 13 / July 12, 2022

This is an amendment to 16.8.1 NMAC amending Section 10 and adding Section 11, effective 07/12/2022.

16.8.1.10 LABOR PEACE AGREEMENT: Cannabis establishment licensees, excluding cannabis producer microbusiness and integrated cannabis microbusiness, are encouraged to maintain a labor peace agreement with a bona- fide labor organization that is actively engaged in representing or attempting to represent the applicant’s employees. For purposes of this section, a labor peace agreement between a cannabis establishment and a bona fide labor organization includes protecting the state’s interests by, at a minimum, prohibiting the labor organization from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, or boycotts against the cannabis establishment. An applicant, whether for an initial license or renewal of a license, must submit an attestation confirming whether or not the applicant has entered into a labor peace agreement with a bona fide labor organization that is actively engaged in representing or attempting to represent the applicant’s employees.

[16.8.12.10 NMAC – Rp, 16.8.1.10 NMAC, 07/12/2022]

[16.8.1.10] 16.8.1.11 SEVERABILITY: If any part or application of this rule is held to be invalid, the remainder or its application to other situations or persons shall not be affected. Any section of this rule legally severed shall not interfere with the remaining protections and duties provided by this rule.

[16.8.12.11 NMAC - N, 08/24/2021; Rn, 16.8.1.10, 07/12/2022]