N.M. Stat. § 59A-53-7
Distribution of fire protection fund.
A. Based on periodic allotments approved by the marshal, the state treasurer shall
distribute from the money in the fire protection fund, to each municipality and county fire
district, the amount that the marshal or the secretary of homeland security and
emergency management has certified to the state treasurer. Payment shall be made to
the treasurer of any municipality and to the county treasurer of the county in which any
county fire district is located for credit to the county fire district.
B. The state treasurer is authorized to redirect a distribution to the New Mexico
finance authority in the amount that the marshal or the secretary of homeland security
and emergency management, as the case may be, has certified to the state treasurer
pursuant to an ordinance or a resolution passed by the municipality or county and a
written agreement of the municipality or county in which any county fire district is
located and the New Mexico finance authority.
C. In addition to the distributions made pursuant to Subsections A and B of this
section, upon certification by the marshal that the balance of the firefighters' survivors
fund is less than one million dollars ($1,000,000), the state treasurer shall distribute an
amount from the fire protection fund to the firefighters' survivors fund so that the balance
of the firefighters' survivors fund equals one million dollars ($1,000,000).