Section 24-10B-12 - Academy; duties.

NM Stat § 24-10B-12 (2019) (N/A)
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The academy is designated as the lead emergency medical services training agency. Its duties include:

A. administering formal emergency medical services training conducted in New Mexico, other than training provided by other approved emergency medical services training programs;

B. furthering the knowledge of emergency medical services education;

C. securing a physician as its medical director to advise it in medical matters and to serve as liaison to the state emergency medical services medical director and the medical community as a whole;

D. supporting, promoting and conducting scholarly research regarding emergency medical services; and

E. reporting and publishing emergency medical services information.

History: Laws 1993, ch. 161, § 7; 2003, ch. 243, § 10.

The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, inserted "emergency medical services" preceding "training" in the introductory sentence; substituted "formal emergency medical services" for "all basic life support" in Subsection A; and added Subsections D and E.