The filing of 20.11.80 NMAC, Adjudicatory Procedures - Administrative Enforcement Hearings by Director, and the filing of an amendment to 20.11.80 NMAC with the state records center and archives shall not affect an action pending for violation of the act, a city or county ordinance, a board regulation or a permit and shall not affect a compliance order that has been filed pursuant to 20.11.80 NMAC. Prosecution for violation of a prior statute, ordinance, regulation, part or permit shall be governed and prosecuted under the statute, ordinance, regulation, part or permit wording in effect at the time the violation was committed.
N.M. Admin. Code § 20.11.80.9