0001|                                 HOUSE BILL 467
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          RICHARD T. KNOWLES
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0008|                FOR THE LEGISLATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE
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0009|     
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT; PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN APPOINTEES
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0012|     TO THE NEW MEXICO STATE POLICE MAY ATTEND A SHORTENED
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0013|     INSTRUCTION PERIOD PRIOR TO BEGINNING THEIR DUTIES; AMENDING A
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0014|     SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  Section 29-2-16 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1941,
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0018|     Chapter 147, Section 15, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "29-2-16.  STATE POLICE SCHOOL--COMPENSATION.--
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0020|               A.  Before entering upon his duties, every
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0021|     appointee to the New Mexico state police shall be required to
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0022|     attend for a period of at least ninety days a school of
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0023|     instruction approved by the <s>[New Mexico state police board]</s>
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0024|     <u>chief of the state police.  The chief may approve a shortened
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<u></u>0025| <u>    instruction period for appointees who possess a degree in
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<u></u>0001| <u>    police science or its equivalent from an accredited college or
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<u></u>0002| <u>    who have been certified by the New Mexico law enforcement
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<u></u>0003| <u>    academy.</u>  A uniform course of instruction shall be given all
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0004|     trainees governing the operation, maintenance and temporary
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0005|     roadside repair of motor vehicles; the laws of the state which
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0006|     the appointee may be called on to enforce; and other
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0007|     instruction as the [New Mexico state police board] <u>chief of
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<u></u>0008| <u>    the state police</u> may require.  Attendance at the school or
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0009|     other course of instruction as may be prescribed renders the
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0010|     person attending subject to the control of the New Mexico
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0011|     state police during attendance.
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0012|               B.  The <u>New Mexico state police</u> board may, within
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0013|     the budgetary means of the New Mexico state police, allow
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0014|     subsistence and compensation for trainees attending the school
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0015|     of instruction at the New Mexico state police headquarters or
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0016|     elsewhere.  The compensation allowed for each trainee,
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0017|     excluding room and board for a thirty-day period, shall be in
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0018|     the amount set by the legislature in the general
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0019|     <s>[appropriations]</s> <u>appropriation</u> act."
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0020|          Section 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0021|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1998.
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