Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any police officer is convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to a crime involving the unlawful use or threatened use of physical force or a crime involving the failure to intervene in the use of unlawful force, the board shall permanently revoke the police officer's certification. The board shall not, under any circumstance, reinstate the police officer's certification or grant new certification to the police officer unless the police officer is exonerated by a court or pardoned by the governor.
History: Laws 2020 (1st S.S.), ch. 7, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2020 (1st S.S.), ch. 7 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective September 20, 2020, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.