Section 8-7-2 - Membership.

NM Stat § 8-7-2 (2019) (N/A)
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The public regulation commission is composed of five members to be elected from districts established by law.

History: Laws 1997, ch. 262, § 2.

Equal protection challenge. — In the absence of any evidence regarding the relative population density of each of the five PRC districts or the maximum deviation among the districts, the court would not review the merits of a claim that Sections 8-7-6 to 8-7-10 NMSA 1978 violate the one person, one vote principle of the equal protection clause, because the PRC districts are not equally apportioned on the basis of population. Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Util. Auth. v. N.M. Pub. Regulation Comm'n, 2010-NMSC-013, 148 N.M. 21, 229 P.3d 494.