Current through 2024, ch. 69
Section 61-29-19.1 - Real estate education and training fund created; purpose; appropriationA. 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 NMSA 1978, 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.