New Mexico Statutes
Article 10A - Emergency Medical Services Fund
Section 24-10A-6 - Distribution of fund.

On or before August 31, the local emergency medical services funding program distribution shall be made to each municipality and county as determined by the department. No more than one percent of the amount appropriated to the local emergency medical services funding program shall be distributed from the fund to the benefit of a single local recipient in any fiscal year pursuant to the local emergency medical services funding program, with the exception of a regionalized emergency medical service agency, to ensure that appropriate emergency medical service is available statewide.
History: 1978 Comp., § 24-10A-6, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 178, § 6; 1979, ch. 141, § 2; 1987, ch. 246, § 6; 1994, ch. 61, § 6; 2001, ch. 258, § 6; 2001, ch. 273, § 6; 2017, ch. 87, § 27.
The 2017 amendment, effective June, 16, 2017, removed the limitation on funding to a regionalized emergency medical services agency; and after "local emergency medical services funding program", added "with the exception of a regionalized emergency medical service agency".
The 2001 amendment, effective July 1, 2001, deleted "incorporated" preceding "municipality" in the first sentence; substituted "No more than one percent of the amount appropriated to the local emergency medical services funding program shall" for "No more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) shall"; and inserted "to ensure that appropriate emergency medical service is available statewide" at the end of the subsection.
Laws 2001, ch. 258, § 6 and Laws 2001, ch. 273, § 6 enacted identical amendments to this section. The section was set out as amended by Laws 2001, ch. 273, § 6. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.
The 1994 amendment, effective July 1, 1994, deleted "emergency medical services" preceding "fund" in the catchline and rewrote the section.

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