§ 40-17-2. Definitions

As used in the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act: A. “ court ” means the district court in the county in which the respondent resides; B. “ extreme risk firearm protection order ” means either a temporary extreme risk firearm protection order or a one-year extreme risk firearm protection order granted pursuant to the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act; C. “ firearm ” means any weapon that is designed to expel a projectile by an explosion or the frame or receiver of any such weapon; D. “ law enforcement agency ” means the police department of any city or town, the sheriff's office of any county, the New Mexico state police and a district attorney's office in the state and the office of the attorney general; E. “ law enforcement officer ” means a public official or public officer vested by law with the power to maintain order, to make arrests for crime or to detain persons suspected of committing a crime, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes and includes an attorney employed by a district attorney or the attorney general; F. “ one-year extreme risk firearm protection order ” means an extreme risk firearm protection order granted for up to one year following a hearing pursuant to the provisions of Section 7 of the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act; G. “ petitioner ” means a law enforcement officer who files an extreme risk firearm protection order petition; H. “ reporting party ” means a person who requests that a law enforcement officer file a petition for an extreme risk firearm protection order and includes a spouse, former spouse, parent, present or former stepparent, present or former parent-in-law, grandparent, grandparent-in-law, co-parent of a child, child, person with whom a respondent has or had a continuing personal relationship, employer or public or private school administrator; I. “ respondent ” means the person identified in or subject to an extreme risk firearm protection order petition; and J. “ temporary extreme risk firearm protection order ” means an extreme risk firearm protection order issued prior to a hearing pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 of the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act.