The "cultural affairs department" is created in the executive branch. The department is a cabinet department and includes the following divisions:

A. the administrative services division;

B. the arts division;

C. the historic preservation division;

D. the library division;

E. the Hispanic cultural division;

F. the farm and ranch heritage museum division;

G. the natural history and science museum division;

H. the museum of space history division;

I. the museum resources division;

J. the veterans museum division; and

K. the following divisions that make up the museum of New Mexico:

(1) the palace of the governors state history museum division;

(2) the New Mexico museum of art division;

(3) the museum of Indian arts and culture division;

(4) the museum of international folk art division;

(5) the archaeology division; and

(6) the state historic sites and monuments division.

History: Laws 2004, ch. 25, § 4; 2007, ch. 269, § 2; 2009, ch. 33, § 9; 2013, ch. 67, § 1.

The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, renamed the archaeological services and the state monuments divisions; in Paragraph (5) of Subsection K, after "the", deleted "archaeological services" and added "archaeology"; and in Paragraph (6) of Subsection K, after "the state", deleted "monuments" and added "historic sites and monuments".

The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, added Subsection J.

The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, changed the name of the museum services division to the museum resources division and the name of the museum of fine art division to the New Mexico museum of art division and provided that all statutory references to the museum of fine art refer to the New Mexico museum of art division.