New Mexico Petroleum Marketers Ass'n v. New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board

OPINION

ALARID, Judge.

{1} This case requires us to consider the validity of regulations adopted by the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) addressing violence against convenience store workers. We hold that the EIB had authority pursuant to the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Act (NMOHSA) to adopt regulations to protect convenience store workers from violence in the workplace; that the Legislature’s delegation of the authority to promulgate these regulations to the EIB does not violate the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers; and that the regulatory…