New
Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI, Issue 14 / July 29, 2025
TITLE 16 Occupational
and Professional Licensing
CHAPTER 10 MEDICINE AND SURGERY PRACTITIONERS
PART 29 LICENSE EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL
16.10.29.1 ISSUING AGENCY: New Mexico Medical Board hereafter called the board, with the recommendations of the podiatry advisory committee, hereafter called the committee.
[16.10.29.1 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.1 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.2 SCOPE: The provisions in 16.10.29.2 NMAC apply to all parts of Chapter 10 and provide information for applicants, licensed podiatric physician, board members, council and members of the public.
[16.10.29.2 NMAC, - Rp. 16.21.7.2 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Podiatry Act, Section 61-8-10 NMSA and the Medical Practice Act, Sections 61-6-1 through 61-6-35 NMSA 1978.
[16.10.29.3 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.3 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.4 DURATION: Permanent.
[16.10.29.4 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.4 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.5 EFFECTIVE DATE: July 29, 2025 unless a later date is cited at the end of a section.
[16.10.29.5 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.5 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.6 OBJECTIVE: To establish procedures for license expiration and renewal.
[16.10.29.6 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.6 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.7 DEFINITIONS: [RESERVED]
[16.10.29.7.NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.7 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.8 LICENSE EXPIRATION: Podiatric licenses expire on January 1 of every second year.
[16.10.29.8 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.8 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.9 RENEWAL DEADLINE: All licensee shall renew their licenses on or before January 1 of every second year. A completed renewal application accompanied by the required fees, documentation of 32 hours of continuing education as defined in 16.10.8.13 NMAC, must be received electronically on or before January 1 of each renewal year. Fourteen hours of CE is required for the renewal years before January 2, 2105 on or after January 2, 2015 the CE requirement is 32 hours of CE, including 2 hours of pain management for each year of the renewal cycle. As a condition of renewal, all applicants shall furnish the board with evidence of completion of postgraduate study as required by board rule.
[16.10.29.9 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.9 NMAC -7/29/2025]
16.10.29.10 LICENSEE RESPONSIBILITY: The board assumes no responsibility for renewal applications not received by the licensee for any reason. It is the licensee’s responsibility to make timely request for the renewal form if one has not been received thirty days prior to license expiration.
[16.10.29.10 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.10 NMAC 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.11 LATE RENEWAL: Renewal applications that are not received electronically or hand-delivered to the board office by January 1 must be accompanied by the completed renewal application as defined in [16.21.7.9] 16.10.7.9 NMAC and late fees defined in Subsection F of 16.10.2.8 NMAC.
[16.10.29.11 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.11 7/29/2025]
16.10.29.12 SUMMARY SUSPENSION: A license that is not renewed by March 1 may be summarily suspended by the board.
[16.10.29.12 NMAC - Rp/E, 16.21.7.12 7/29/2025]
HISTORY of 16.21.7 NMAC:
Pre-NMAC History:
The material in this part was derived from that previously filed with the commission of public records - state records center and archives:
Rule VI, Renewal of License, filed 7/21/1980;
Rule VI, Renewal of License, filed 8/18/1989.
History of Repealed Material: Rule VI, Renewal of License (filed 8/18/1989), Repealed 10/15/2004.
16.21.7 NMAC, Podiatrists - License Expiration And Renewal (filed 9/15/2004), Repealed effective 7/29/2025.
Other History:
Rule VI, Renewal of License (filed 8/18/1989) was renumbered, reformatted and replaced by 16.21.7 NMAC, License Expiration and Renewal, effective 10/15/2004.
16.21.7 NMAC, Podiatrists - License Expiration And Renewal (filed 9/15/2004), Replaced by 16.10.29 NMAC, Podiatrists - License Expiration And Renewal effective 7/29/2025.