2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles
Article 7 - Traffic Laws; Signs, Signals and Markings; Accidents; Weight and Size; Traffic Safety
Section 66-7-505 - Advisory committee; creation; members; terms.

A. There is created a five-member advisory committee to the bureau. The chief is, ex officio, the chair and a voting member of the committee. The governor shall appoint three members, to terms coterminous with the governor's tenure, who shall have the following qualifications:

(1) one member who is representative of the law enforcement agencies of this state;

(2) one member who is representative of the school bus transportation function of the public education department; and

(3) one member who is representative of the New Mexico state police division of the department of public safety.

B. Appointees who are public officers or public employees shall be compensated for attendance at meetings according to the Per Diem and Mileage Act. Appointees who are not public officers or employees shall be compensated for attendance at meetings in commensurate amount.

History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-505, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 492; 1987, ch. 268, § 30; 2007, ch. 319, § 62; 2015, ch. 3, § 41.

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, provided the New Mexico state police division of the department of public safety with a position on the advisory committee to the traffic safety bureau of the state highway and transportation department, as part of the reorganization of the department of public safety; in Subsection A, Paragraph 3, after "representative of the", deleted "motor transportation" and added "New Mexico state police".

The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, changed "taxation and revenue department" to "department of public safety".

The 1987 amendment, effective July 1, 1987, in Subsection A substituted "chief" for "director" at the beginning of the second sentence and substituted "three members" for "four members" in the third sentence of the opening clause, deleted the former Paragraph (2) as set out in the main pamphlet, and renumbered the subsequent paragraphs, and in Paragraph (3) added at the end "of the taxation and revenue department" and made minor changes in language and punctuation throughout the section.