0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; AUTHORIZING A
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0003| POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION GOVERNING BOARD TO ESTABLISH A
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0004| CAMPUS POLICE FORCE; PROVIDING FOR THE AUTHORITY OF THE CAMPUS POLICE
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0005| THUS ESTABLISHED.
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0006| 
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0007| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0008|      Section 1.  A new section of Chapter 29, Article 5 NMSA 1978 is
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0009| enacted to read: 
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0010|      "POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS--BOARDS AUTHORIZED TO
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0011| ESTABLISH CAMPUS POLICE FORCE--QUALIFICATIONS AND AUTHORITY OF CAMPUS
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0012| POLICE OFFICERS.-- 
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0013|           A.  As used in this section "post-secondary educational
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0014| institution" means a community college operating pursuant to Chapter
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0015| 21, Article 13 NMSA 1978, a technical and vocational institute
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0016| operating pursuant to Chapter 21, Article 16 NMSA 1978 and an area
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0017| vocational school operating pursuant to Chapter 21, Article 17 NMSA
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0018| 1978. 
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0019|           B.  The governing board of a post-secondary educational
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0020| institution may adopt and promulgate traffic regulations to apply to
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0021| areas within the exterior boundaries of the lands under control of the
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0022| board, including streets and highways.
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0023|           C.  The governing board of a post-secondary educational
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0024| institution may employ and assign duties to persons as campus police
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0025| officers for the community college.  
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0001|           D.  Persons employed as campus police officers by a post-
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0002| secondary educational institution governing board: 
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0003|                (1)  shall have the powers of peace officers within
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0004| the exterior boundaries of lands under the control of the board,
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0005| including streets and highways;
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0006|                (2)  shall at all times while on duty carry
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0007| commissions of office issued by the board;
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0008|                (3)  shall fulfill the requirements for certification
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0009| in Subsection A of Section 29-7-6 NMSA 1978 within one year of the
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0010| date of first employment;
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0011|                (4)  may enforce all applicable laws, ordinances and
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0012| campus traffic regulations within the territory in which they have
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0013| powers of peace officers; and 
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0014|                (5)  may make arrests for violations of laws,
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0015| ordinances and campus traffic regulations that they have authority to
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0016| enforce, but no arrest is valid unless the arresting campus police
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0017| officer is at the time of the arrest wearing: 
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0018|                     (a)  a distinctive badge issued to him by the
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0019| post-secondary educational institution governing board and bearing the
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0020| name of the post-secondary educational institution; and 
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0021|                     (b)  a distinctive uniform prescribed and
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0022| issued to him by the board."                                
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