The purpose of the Law Enforcement Protection Fund Act is to provide for the equitable distribution of money to state police, municipal police, university police, tribal police, county sheriff's and school district police departments for use in the maintenance and improvement of those departments in order to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of law enforcement services and to sustain at a reasonable level the payments available to the surviving eligible family members of a peace officer killed in the line of duty.
§ 29-13-2 NMSA 1978
Purpose of act
Known as the Law Enforcement Protection Fund Act
The act spans §§ 29–29 (10 sections).
Laws 1983, ch. 289, § 2; 1993, ch. 179, § 3; 1998, ch. 83, § 1; 2002, ch. 78, § 4; 2020, ch. 67, § 2.
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