Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10-7-4 NMSA 1978 and in addition to all other benefits provided commissioned officers, the department shall provide life insurance coverage in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each state police officer to be paid to his designated beneficiary. The coverage shall include double indemnity provisions for death incurred in line of duty. The coverage shall be provided by a group term insurance policy, the premium for which shall be paid out of state funds appropriated to the department of public safety.
History: 1953 Comp., § 39-2-29, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 297, § 1; 1989, ch. 204, § 25.
Cross references. — For educational funds for children of police killed in active duty, see 28-14-1 NMSA 1978.
The 1989 amendment, effective July 1, 1989, substituted all of the present language of the first sentence preceding "shall" for "Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5-4-12 NMSA 1953 and in addition to all other benefits provided state police officers, the New Mexico state police", and substituted "department of public safety" for "state police" in the last sentence.
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