It is the purpose of the Fire Protection Fund Law to provide for distribution of funds from the fire protection fund referred to in Section 59A-6-5 NMSA 1978 to municipalities and to county fire districts, in proportion to their respective needs, for use in operation, maintenance and betterment of local fire departments, to the end that the hazard of loss by fire and fire insurance rates may be reduced and the public safety thereby promoted.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 127, § 973; 1989, ch. 312, § 2; 2012, ch. 20, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2012 amendment, effective May 16, 2012, incorporated the defined term "municipality" and after "Section 59A-6-5 NMSA 1978 to", deleted "incorporated cities, towns and villages" and added "municipalities".
Legislature intended to specifically delineate areas within which the distributed moneys of the fire protection fund could be used. 1964 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 64-30.