Provision for enhanced 911 services by local governing bodies; enhanced 911 system costs; payment of costs; joint powers agreements; aid outside jurisdictional boundaries
NMSA 1978, § 63-9D-4
in effect63-9D-4. Provision for enhanced 911 services by local governing bodies; enhanced 911 system costs; payment of costs; joint powers agreements; aid outside jurisdictional boundaries
A. A local governing body or a consortium of local governing bodies may incur costs for the purchase, lease, installation or maintenance of enhanced 911 equipment and training necessary for the establishment of an enhanced 911 system and may pay such costs through disbursements from the fund; provided that the local governing body has employed properly trained staff in its public safety answering point pursuant to the Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Act [29-7C-1 to 29-7C-9 NMSA 1978].
B. If the enhanced 911 system is to be provided for territory that is included in whole or in part in the jurisdiction of the local governing bodies of two or more public agencies that are the primary providers of emergency firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical or other emergency services, the agreement for the procurement of the enhanced 911 system shall be entered into by the fiscal agent designated by the local governing bodies. A local governing body may expressly exclude itself from the agreement. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent two or more local governing bodies from entering into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act [11-1-1 to 11-1-7 NMSA 1978] to establish a separate legal entity that can enter into an agreement as the enhanced 911 system customer.
C. A public agency in an enhanced 911 service area shall provide that, once an emergency unit is dispatched in response to a request for aid through the enhanced 911 system, the emergency unit shall render services to the requester without regard to whether the unit is operating outside its normal jurisdictional boundaries.
D. A local governing body in an enhanced 911 service area shall provide GIS addressing and digital mapping data to the public safety answering point that provides the enhanced 911 service to the local governing body.
Laws 1989, ch. 25, § 4; 1993, ch. 48, § 5; 2001, ch. 110, § 2; 2005, ch. 203, § 2.
Source: New Mexico Compilation Commission (nmonesource.com)URL: https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18566/index.do#!b/63-9D-4Fetched: 10/20/2026