New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI,
Issue 19 / October 7, 2025
This is an amendment to 1.10.13 NMAC, Sections 8 and 9
effective 10/7/2025.
1.10.13.8 CANDIDATE
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE REGISTRATIONS:
A. A candidate
for a non-statewide office shall register the candidate’s campaign committee
with the secretary of state within 10 days of receiving contributions or
expending one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more for campaign expenditures or
filing a declaration of candidacy; whichever occurs earlier.
B. A candidate
for statewide office shall register the candidate’s campaign committee with the
secretary of state within 10 days of receiving contributions or expending three
thousand dollars ($3,000) or more or filing a declaration of candidacy;
whichever occurs earlier.
C. All
candidates shall complete a campaign committee registration online via the
registration process in the campaign finance information system (CFIS).
Following acceptance of the campaign committee registration form, the secretary
of state will create a user account for the candidate in CFIS and will issue
the candidate a unique CFIS user identification.
D. A candidate is responsible for
entering accurate and current contact information in CFIS, including mailing
address and email address. Failure to
provide accurate or current contact information does not limit the candidate’s
liability regarding fines and civil actions against the candidate or public
official related to campaign reporting.
E. Section 1-19-27 NMSA 1978 requires that all campaign
finance reports be filed electronically with the secretary of state’s
office. In order to
file electronically, the candidate must, at all times,
maintain a valid email address on file with the secretary of state.
F. A
candidate may serve as the candidate’s own treasurer. If the candidate does not serve as the
candidate’s own treasurer, then the candidate shall appoint a treasurer who
shall be jointly responsible as a reporting individual with the candidate for
the campaign committee.
G. If the
candidate does not serve as the candidate’s own treasurer, in the event of a
vacancy in the position of treasurer, the candidate shall appoint a successor
treasurer within 10 days of the vacancy by updating the information
electronically in CFIS.
H. The
candidate is deemed to have authorized and approved each report entry submitted
to CFIS.
I. A candidate may only have one
campaign committee at a time unless the candidate is seeking public financing
and must keep a previous campaign account open and separated.
J. A
candidate seeking re-election to the same office is not required to submit a
new campaign committee registration form if the candidate already has an open
campaign account.
K. A
candidate seeking election to a new office covered by the campaign reporting
act than what the candidate previously registered is required to submit a new
campaign committee registration form. If a new candidate campaign committee
registration form is submitted by a candidate with an open campaign committee
for a new office, the candidates shall expend all funds in accordance with the
Campaign Reporting Act or transfer any remaining funds from the old campaign
committee to the new campaign committee and file a final report to close the
old campaign committee [within ten days from the date] before the
registration form is accepted by the secretary of state unless the candidate is
seeking public financing and must keep a previous campaign account open and
separated.
[1.10.13.8
NMAC - N, 10/10/2017; A, 10/29/2019; A, 3/22/2022; A, 10/7/2025]
1.10.13.9 WITHDRAWING FROM CANDIDACY; DEATH OF A CANDIDATE:
A. If
a candidate files a statement of withdrawal, the candidate must file a final
report in CFIS no later than the next report deadline or continue to file CFIS
reports pursuant the schedule defined by Section 1-19-29 NMSA 1978.
B. If a candidate dies, any remaining campaign committee funds
do not become a part of the personal estate of the candidate. Upon receipt or
discovery of a death certificate or an obituary for a candidate, the secretary
of state shall change the committee's account status to “deceased” and permit
the account’s treasurer to report any outstanding transactions, expend all
remaining funds pursuant to Section 1-19-29.1 NMSA 1978, and close the account
in CFIS.
[1.10.13.9 NMAC - N, 10/10/2017; A, 10/7/2025]