A. The department and the forestry division shall jointly establish the "inmate forestry work camp program" to provide inmate labor for natural resource work planned by the forestry division. The purpose of the program is to use minimum security male and female inmates to work on natural resource projects on public lands, fire suppression and emergency response activities as directed in an emergency declaration issued by the governor.
B. The program is not an inmate-release program pursuant to the provisions of Sections 33-2-43 through 33-2-47 NMSA 1978.
History: Laws 1998, ch. 57, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 1998, ch. 57 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const. art. IV, § 23, was effective May 20, 1998, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.