Nothing in the Unfair Practices Act shall apply to actions or transactions expressly permitted under laws administered by a regulatory body of New Mexico or the United States, but all actions or transactions forbidden by the regulatory body, and about which the regulatory body remains silent, are subject to the Unfair Practices Act.
§ 57-12-7 NMSA 1978
Exemptions
Known as the Unfair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 57–57 (28 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Coll v. First American Title Insurance (2011)
Most recently applied in In re Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. Mktg. & Sales Practices & Prods. Liab. Litig. (December 2017)
1953 Comp., § 49-15-6, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 268, § 6; 1999, ch. 171, § 2.
How often courts cite this section
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.
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.