As used in the Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Act:

1. A. "board" means the law enforcement certification board;
2. B. "certified" means meeting the training standards established by statute and rule as determined by the board;
3. C. "council" means the New Mexico law enforcement standards and training council;
4. D. "director" means the director of the New Mexico law enforcement academy;
5. E. "dispatch" means the relay of information to public safety personnel by all forms of communication;
6. F. "high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation" means the instructions that a telecommunicator provides to a bystander of a cardiac emergency on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
7. G. "safety agency" means a unit of state or local government, a special purpose district or a private business that provides police, firefighting or emergency medical services; and

8. H. "telecommunicator" means an employee or volunteer of a safety agency who:

   1. (1) receives calls or dispatches the appropriate personnel or equipment in response to calls for police, fire or medical services; and
   2. (2) makes decisions affecting the life, health or welfare of the public or safety employees.

History: Laws 2003, ch. 320, § 4; 2022, ch. 56, § 14; 2025, ch. 47, § 1.

ANNOTATIONS

The 2025 amendment, effective June 20, 2025, defined the term "high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation" as used in the Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Act; added a new Subsection F and redesignated the succeeding subsections accordingly.

The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2023, defined "council" and revised the definition of "board"; in Subsection A, after "means the", deleted "New Mexico" and after "law enforcement", deleted "academy" and added "certification"; and added a new Subsection C and redesignated former Subsections C through F as Subsections D through G, respectively.