A. No document containing comments adverse to a hazardous duty officer shall be entered into the officer's personnel file unless the officer has read and signed the document. When an officer refuses to sign a document containing adverse comments, the document may be entered into an officer's personnel file if:
(1) the officer's refusal to sign is noted on the document by the chief administrator of the officer's employer; and
(2) the notation regarding the officer's refusal to sign the document is witnessed by a third party.
B. A hazardous duty officer may file a written response to any document containing adverse comments entered into the officer's personnel file, and the response shall be filed with the officer's employer within thirty days after the document was entered into the officer's personnel file. A hazardous duty officer's written response shall be attached to the document.
History: Laws 2010, ch. 62, § 6.
Effective dates. — Laws 2010, ch. 62, § 10 made the Hazardous Duty Officers' Employer-Employee Relations Act effective July 1, 2010.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 10 - Public Officers and Employees
Article 7F - Hazardous Duty Officers' Employer-Employee Relations
Section 10-7F-1 - Short title.
Section 10-7F-2 - Definitions.
Section 10-7F-3 - Investigations of hazardous duty officers; requirements; limitation.
Section 10-7F-4 - Polygraph examinations.
Section 10-7F-5 - Right to produce evidence.
Section 10-7F-6 - Personnel files.
Section 10-7F-7 - Constitutional rights; notification.
Section 10-7F-8 - Forced disclosure of financial information.