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.