purpose; appropriation.

Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 61-29-19.1

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.

A. The “real estate education and training fund” is created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of an initial transfer of the balance in the real estate recovery fund as provided in Subsection C of this section; legislative appropriations to the fund; fees charged by the commission for approval of real estate education sponsors, courses and instructors; gifts, grants, donations and bequests to the fund; and income from investment of the fund. Money in the fund shall not revert to any other fund at the end of a fiscal year.

B. The fund shall be administered by the commission, and money in the fund is subject to appropriation by the legislature to the commission to improve real estate education and to train real estate instructors. The commission shall promulgate rules specifying the manner in which the fund shall be administered.

C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 61-29-21 and 61-29-22 N.M. Stat. Ann., on July 1, 2005, the balance in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in the real estate recovery fund shall be transferred to the real estate education and training fund.