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39-4C-2. Definitions.

As used in the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act [39-4C-1 NMSA 1978]:   

A.     "action" means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim;   

B.     "bank-offered spot rate" means the spot rate of exchange at which a bank will sell foreign money at a spot rate;   

C.     "conversion date" means the banking day next preceding the date on which money, in accordance with the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act, is:   

(1)     paid to a claimant in an action or distribution proceeding;   

(2)     paid to the official designated by law to enforce a judgment or award on behalf of a claimant; or   

(3)     used to recoup, set-off or counterclaim in different moneys in an action or distribution proceeding;   

D.     "distribution proceeding" means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for the distribution of a fund in which one or more foreign-money claims is asserted and includes an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, the liquidation or rehabilitation of a corporation or other entity and the distribution of an estate, trust or other fund;   

E.     "foreign money" means money other than money of the United States of America;   

F.     "foreign-money claim" means a claim upon an obligation to pay, or a claim for recovery of a loss, expressed in or measured by a foreign money;   

G.     "money" means a medium of exchange for the payment of obligations or a store of value authorized or adopted by a government or by intergovernmental agreement;   

H.     "money of the claim" means the money determined as proper pursuant to Section 5 [39-4C-5 NMSA 1978] of the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act;   

I.     "person" means an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, joint venture, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity;   

J.     "rate of exchange" means the rate at which money of one country may be converted into money of another country in a free financial market convenient to or reasonably usable by a person obligated to pay or to state a rate of conversion; if separate rates of exchange apply to different kinds of transactions, the term means the rate applicable to the particular transaction giving rise to the foreign-money claim;   

K.     "spot rate" means the rate of exchange at which foreign money is sold by a bank or other dealer in foreign exchange for immediate or next-day availability or for settlement by immediate payment in cash or equivalent, by charge to an account or by an agreed delayed settlement not exceeding two days; and   

L.     "state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.   

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Statutes > New-mexico > Chapter-39 > Article-4c > Section-39-4c-2

39-4C-2. Definitions.

As used in the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act [39-4C-1 NMSA 1978]:   

A.     "action" means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim;   

B.     "bank-offered spot rate" means the spot rate of exchange at which a bank will sell foreign money at a spot rate;   

C.     "conversion date" means the banking day next preceding the date on which money, in accordance with the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act, is:   

(1)     paid to a claimant in an action or distribution proceeding;   

(2)     paid to the official designated by law to enforce a judgment or award on behalf of a claimant; or   

(3)     used to recoup, set-off or counterclaim in different moneys in an action or distribution proceeding;   

D.     "distribution proceeding" means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for the distribution of a fund in which one or more foreign-money claims is asserted and includes an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, the liquidation or rehabilitation of a corporation or other entity and the distribution of an estate, trust or other fund;   

E.     "foreign money" means money other than money of the United States of America;   

F.     "foreign-money claim" means a claim upon an obligation to pay, or a claim for recovery of a loss, expressed in or measured by a foreign money;   

G.     "money" means a medium of exchange for the payment of obligations or a store of value authorized or adopted by a government or by intergovernmental agreement;   

H.     "money of the claim" means the money determined as proper pursuant to Section 5 [39-4C-5 NMSA 1978] of the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act;   

I.     "person" means an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, joint venture, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity;   

J.     "rate of exchange" means the rate at which money of one country may be converted into money of another country in a free financial market convenient to or reasonably usable by a person obligated to pay or to state a rate of conversion; if separate rates of exchange apply to different kinds of transactions, the term means the rate applicable to the particular transaction giving rise to the foreign-money claim;   

K.     "spot rate" means the rate of exchange at which foreign money is sold by a bank or other dealer in foreign exchange for immediate or next-day availability or for settlement by immediate payment in cash or equivalent, by charge to an account or by an agreed delayed settlement not exceeding two days; and   

L.     "state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.   


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Statutes > New-mexico > Chapter-39 > Article-4c > Section-39-4c-2

39-4C-2. Definitions.

As used in the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act [39-4C-1 NMSA 1978]:   

A.     "action" means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim;   

B.     "bank-offered spot rate" means the spot rate of exchange at which a bank will sell foreign money at a spot rate;   

C.     "conversion date" means the banking day next preceding the date on which money, in accordance with the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act, is:   

(1)     paid to a claimant in an action or distribution proceeding;   

(2)     paid to the official designated by law to enforce a judgment or award on behalf of a claimant; or   

(3)     used to recoup, set-off or counterclaim in different moneys in an action or distribution proceeding;   

D.     "distribution proceeding" means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for the distribution of a fund in which one or more foreign-money claims is asserted and includes an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, the liquidation or rehabilitation of a corporation or other entity and the distribution of an estate, trust or other fund;   

E.     "foreign money" means money other than money of the United States of America;   

F.     "foreign-money claim" means a claim upon an obligation to pay, or a claim for recovery of a loss, expressed in or measured by a foreign money;   

G.     "money" means a medium of exchange for the payment of obligations or a store of value authorized or adopted by a government or by intergovernmental agreement;   

H.     "money of the claim" means the money determined as proper pursuant to Section 5 [39-4C-5 NMSA 1978] of the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act;   

I.     "person" means an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, joint venture, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity;   

J.     "rate of exchange" means the rate at which money of one country may be converted into money of another country in a free financial market convenient to or reasonably usable by a person obligated to pay or to state a rate of conversion; if separate rates of exchange apply to different kinds of transactions, the term means the rate applicable to the particular transaction giving rise to the foreign-money claim;   

K.     "spot rate" means the rate of exchange at which foreign money is sold by a bank or other dealer in foreign exchange for immediate or next-day availability or for settlement by immediate payment in cash or equivalent, by charge to an account or by an agreed delayed settlement not exceeding two days; and   

L.     "state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.