Except as provided in Section 10 of the New Mexico Research Applications Act, the research applications center shall not enter into any contract involving services or property of a value in excess of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) with an employee of the state or one of its agencies, instrumentalities, institutions or political subdivisions or with a business in which the employee has a controlling interest unless the board makes a determination, in writing, that the employee:
NMS § 53-7B-9