Section 64-1-7 - State corporation commission [public regulation commission] may make rules and regulations. - New Mexico Statutes

64-1-7. State corporation commission [public regulation commission] may make rules and regulations.

The public safety requiring and the advantages of uniform regulation making it desirable in the interest of aeronautical progress, the state corporation commission [public regulation commission] is hereby authorized to make, from time to time, regulations concerning such common carriers, and air traffic rules applicable to the operation of all aircraft within this state: provided, however, that such regulations and air traffic rules shall conform to and coincide with the provisions of the Air Commerce Act of May 20th, 1926, and all amendments thereto passed by the congress of the United States and the air commerce regulations and the air traffic rules adopted by the secretary of commerce pursuant thereto, as nearly as may be and insofar as the same are applicable: which said regulations and air traffic rules, so to be made by the state corporation commission [public regulation commission], are hereby declared to be necessarily incident to the exercise of its jurisdiction over the common carriers mentioned in Section 6 [64-1-6 NMSA 1978] of this act.