Section 29-2-16 - State police school; compensation. - New Mexico Statutes

29-2-16. State police school; compensation.

A.     Before entering upon his duties, every appointee to the New Mexico state police shall be required to attend for a period of at least ninety days a school of instruction approved by the New Mexico state police board. 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 which the appointee may be called on to enforce and other instruction as the New Mexico state police board 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 board 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. The compensation allowed for each trainee, excluding room and board for a thirty-day period, shall be in the amount set by the legislature in the general appropriations act.