Section 58-22-3 - Definitions.
58-22-3. Definitions.
As used in the Escrow Company Act [58-22-1 NMSA 1978]:
A. "director" means the director of the division;
B. "division" means the financial institutions division of the commerce and industry department [regulation and licensing department];
C. "escrow" means any transaction in which one person, for the purpose of effecting the sale, transfer, encumbrance or lease of real or personal property to another person or for the purpose of making payments under any encumbrance of such property, delivers any written instrument, money, evidence of title to real or personal property or other thing of value to a third person to be held by that third person until the happening of a specified event or the performance of a prescribed condition, when the instrument, money, evidence of title or thing of value is to be delivered by the third person to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, bailee or bailor or to any of his agents or employees, pursuant to the written escrow instructions;
D. "escrow company" means any person engaged in the business of receiving escrows for deposit or delivery for compensation who is required to be licensed under the Escrow Company Act;
E. "licensee" means a person holding a valid license as an escrow agent; and
F. "person" means an individual, cooperative, association, company, firm, partnership, corporation or other legal entity.