§ 39-7-7 NMSA 1978

Contents of certification order

Known as the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act

The act spans §§ 39–39 (13 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Kysar v. Amoco Production Co. (2004)

Most recently applied in 367 F. Supp. 2d 1342 - Hartford Ins. Co. of the Midwest v. Cline (February 2005)

Laws 1997, ch. 8, § 7.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

A. A certification order must contain:

(1) the question of law to be answered;

(2) the facts relevant to the question, showing fully the nature of the controversy out of which the question arose;

(3) a statement acknowledging that the supreme court of this state, acting as the receiving court, may reformulate the question; and

(4) the names and addresses of counsel of record and parties appearing without counsel.

B. If the parties cannot agree upon a statement of facts, the certifying court shall determine the relevant facts and state them as part of its certification order.

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.