TITLE 1 GENERAL
GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 5 PUBLIC PROPERTY PROCUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT
PART 9 PUBLIC
FACILITY NAMING
1.5.9.1 ISSUING
AGENCY: General Services Department (GSD) Facilities
Management Division.
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1.5.9.2 SCOPE: All executive
branch agencies with facilities under the control of the general services department.
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1.5.9.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Section 15-3B-1,
et. seq., NMSA 1978 as amended.
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1.5.9.4 DURATION: Permanent.
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1.5.9.5 EFFECTIVE
DATE:
October 30, 2018 unless a later date is cited at the end of a section or
paragraph.
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1.5.9.6 OBJECTIVE: The objective of
this rule is to establish a fair, uniform, clear and effective process to
develop a list of potential names for public facilities and for the removal of
names from public facilities.
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1.5.9.7 DEFINITIONS:
A. “Department” means the
general services department.
B. “Division” means the
facilities management division of the department.
C. “Public facility” means a
building or other real property under the control of the division.
D. “Secretary” means the
secretary of general services.
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1.5.9.8 LIST
DEVELOPMENT: The secretary shall follow the below prescribed
procedure for naming any public facility:
A. The secretary shall announce the department’s intent to
name a public facility on a publically available website.
B. The announcement shall identify the public facility to be
named, solicit proposed names from interested parties, allow at least 15 days
for the submission of names, and specify the submission method.
C. The
secretary shall review the submitted names in consultation with the leadership
of the agency or agencies that use the public facility and develop a list of
name(s) to transmit to the governor for consideration.
D. The
secretary shall submit this list to the governor no more than 15 days after the
expiration of the submission deadline in the announcement.
E. If no proposed names are submitted to the department
before the applicable deadline, the secretary may select a name and submit only
this name to the governor.
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1.5.9.9 FORMAL NAMING: The governor
may select a name from the list submitted by the secretary in accordance with
statute and issue a proclamation formally naming the public facility. The governor may choose not to name the public
facility or may choose to request another list of names.
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1.5.9.10 REMOVAL OF
NAME: A public facility shall not be named for a public officer or other
person who has been convicted of a felony.
The division shall remove the name from a public facility named for such
person immediately upon conviction, whether or not another name has been
offered or approved for substitution and renaming. The division shall remove the name within 10
days of the conviction and notify the occupying agencies of the removal.
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