N.M. Stat. § 29-4-1
[Police board may establish trust funds; purpose.]
Authority is hereby granted to the board of supervisors of the New Mexico state
police [secretary of public safety] to create and establish in behalf and for the benefit of
eligible members of the New Mexico state police a pension trust fund providing
termination benefits and retirement benefits and a supplementary trust fund providing
benefits to such members and their dependents in the event of disability or death as
limited hereinafter or in the trust agreements.