The provisions of Sections 29-2-6 through 29-2-8 NMSA 1978 may be waived by the secretary with regard to plainclothes or special investigators and other employees not regularly uniformed.
History: 1941 Comp., § 40-225, enacted by Laws 1941, ch. 147, § 25; 1953 Comp., § 39-2-25; Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 39; 1979, ch. 202, § 32; 2015, ch. 3, § 20.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, provided for the reorganization of the department of public safety by providing authority to the secretary of the department of public safety to waive certain qualification requirement for officers; after "waived by the", deleted "unanimous vote of all members of the New Mexico state police board" and added "secretary", and after "plainclothes", deleted "men".