Definitions

As used in the Peace Officers', New Mexico Mounted Patrol Members' and Reserve Police Officers' Survivors Supplemental Benefits Act: A. "fund" means the peace officers', New Mexico mounted patrol members' and reserve police officers' survivors fund; B. "New Mexico mounted patrol" means units or troops officered and manned to assist with law enforcement pursuant to the provisions of Sections 29-6-1 and 29-6-4 NMSA 1978, Subsection A of Section 29-6-5 NMSA 1978 and Section 29-6-6 NMSA 1978; C. "peace officer" means any full-time salaried and commissioned or certified law enforcement officer of a police or sheriff's department or a conservation officer of the department of game and fish [department of wildlife] as used in Chapter 17 NMSA 1978 that is part of or administered by the state or any political subdivision of the state; D. "reserve police officer" means a volunteer or a temporary or part-time employee of a state or local law enforcement agency who is accepted by that agency as a reserve law enforcement officer after receiving a background check and training as needed by that agency and who is not a member of the New Mexico mounted patrol; and E. "secretary" means the secretary of public safety. History: Laws 1995, ch. 59, § 3; 1997, ch. 165, § 1; 2016, ch. 41, § 2.