29-2-16. State police school; compensation.
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A. Before entering upon the appointee's duties, every appointee to the New Mexico state police shall be required to attend a school of instruction approved by the secretary. A uniform course of instruction shall be given all trainees governing the operation, maintenance and temporary roadside repair of motor vehicles, the laws of the state that the appointee may be called on to enforce and other instruction as the secretary may require. Attendance at the school or other course of instruction as may be prescribed renders the person attending subject to the control of the New Mexico state police during attendance.
B. The secretary may, within the budgetary means of the New Mexico state police, allow subsistence and compensation for trainees attending the school of instruction at the New Mexico state police headquarters or elsewhere.
C. This section shall not apply to members of the former motor transportation division or the former special investigations division.
History: 1941 Comp., § 40-215, enacted by Laws 1941, ch. 147, § 15; 1953 Comp., § 39-2-15; Laws 1959, ch. 231, § 1; 1971, ch. 211, § 1; 1977, ch. 257, § 31; 1978, ch. 82, § 4; 1979, ch. 202, § 26; 1981, ch. 189, § 1; 2015, ch. 3, § 15.