Section 21-21F-3 - Definitions.
21-21F-3. Definitions.
As used in the Fire Fighter and Peace Officer Survivors Scholarship Act [21-21F-1 NMSA 1978]:
A. "board" ["commission"] means the board of educational finance [commission on higher education];
B. "eligible institution" means any state institution of higher education in New Mexico;
C. "fire fighter" means any member of a fire department that is part of or administered by the state or any political subdivision of the state;
D. "peace officer" means any member of a police or sheriff's department that is part of or administered by the state or any political subdivision of the state and officers in the department of corrections; and
E. "survivor" means the spouse of the fire fighter or peace officer killed in the line of duty and any adopted or natural children twenty-one years of age or under at the time of his death.