NMSA 1978, Sections 10-15-1 to 4 (as amended through 2012, "Open Meetings Act") and NMSA 1978, Sections 17-1-14 and 17-1-26 that provide the New Mexico state game commission with the authority to establish rules that it may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of Chapter 17, Article 1 and all other acts pertaining to protected species.
N.M. Admin. Code § 19.30.3.3