New Mexico Statutes

N.M. Stat. § 6-24-3 (2026)

Purposes.

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The purposes of the New Mexico Lottery Act are to:

   A. establish and provide for the conduct of a fair and honest lottery for the
entertainment of the public; and

   B. provide the maximum amount of revenues, without imposing additional taxes or
using other state revenues, for the purpose of providing tuition assistance to resident
undergraduates at New Mexico post-secondary educational institutions.

History: Laws 1995, ch. 155, § 3; 2001, ch. 300, § 1.

                                     ANNOTATIONS

The 2001 amendment, effective June 15, 2001, in Subsection B, deleted former
Paragraph (1) listing funding critical capital outlay needs of public schools and deleted
the paragraph designation of former Paragraph (2).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2009–2009 · leading case: Stansell v. New Mexico Lottery, 211 P.3d 214 (N.M. Ct. App. 2009).

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Stansell v. New Mexico Lottery, 211 P.3d 214 (N.M. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 2× “See §§ 6-24-3, 6-24-5, 6-24-23. Plaintiffs filed a complaint with the district court, arguing that the “Lottery established a practice of prematurely pulling games from the market that still had substantial cash prizes available.”

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