N.M. Stat. § 66-3-1019
Fund created; disposition.
A. The "trail safety fund" is created in the state treasury. The fund is a nonreverting
fund and consists of revenues from off-highway motor vehicle registration and user
fees, grants and donations. No more than thirty percent of the fund may be used for
administrative overhead, and at least fifty percent shall be devoted to law enforcement
and education. Income from investment of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The
fund shall be administered by the department, and money in the fund is appropriated to
the department to carry out the purposes of the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act.
Expenditures from the fund shall be by warrant of the secretary of finance and
administration upon vouchers signed by the director of the department of game and fish
[department of wildlife] or the director's authorized representative.
B. The department shall make annual distributions from the fund for the following
purposes:
(1)
administrative;
(2)
law enforcement;
(3)
education and training;
(4)
information system development and management;
(5)
resource monitoring and protection and trail building, maintenance and
restoration; and
(6)
implementation of other provisions of the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Act.