2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 23: State Health Institutions
Article 1: General Provisions, 23-1-1 through 23-1-13
Section 23-1-9: Retirement and pensions for employees.

23-1-9. [Retirement and pensions for employees.]

That whenever the superintendent, assistant superintendent or any other paid employee of the penitentiary of New Mexico (including as a part thereof the state penitentiary farm in Valencia county), the miners' hospital of New Mexico, at Raton, the New Mexico insane asylum, at Las Vegas, or the New Mexico reform school, at Springer, shall have completed fifteen years of service at any one of said institutions, whether said service shall have been continuous or not, and shall have reached or passed the age of sixty years, such person, if still in the service of said institution, shall have the right, upon his own request, to be retired from active service and to receive for the remainder of his natural life a monthly pension from such institution as he has served for the length of time aforesaid and which retires him in accordance with the terms and provisions of this act [23-1-9 to 23-1-11 NMSA 1978].