New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 10 - PUBLIC SAFETY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chapter 20 - CIVIL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND DISASTER RELIEF
Part 2 - HAZARDOUS MATERIALS EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN AND PROCEDURES MANUAL
Section 10.20.2.12 - FUNCTIONS OF STATE AGENCIES

Universal Citation: 10 NM Admin Code 10.20.2.12

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

The state agencies named below shall be responsible for the emergency response functions assigned them by the Emergency Management Act or the emergency management task force. Procedures for performing these functions are detailed in the Procedures Manual of the New Mexico Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Program. State agencies and their functions are:

A. New Mexico state police:

(1) central coordination;

(2) on-scene coordination;

(3) notifying emergency response personnel;

(4) warning approaching motorists;

(5) communications;

(6) law enforcement;

(7) traffic control;

(8) crowd control;

(9) public information;

(10) transportation of emergency response personnel;

(11) vehicular accident assessment;

(12) recordkeeping.

B. Civil emergency preparedness division:

(1) warning nearby residents;

(2) evacuation;

(3) social services.

C. Environmental improvement division, radiation protection bureau and ground water quality and hazardous waste bureau:

(1) public health;

(2) environmental monitoring;

(3) hazardous and radioactive material accident assessment;

(4) protective response;

(5) exposure control;

(6) decontamination;

(7) supervision of cleanup.

D. Emergency medical services bureau:

(1) rescue;

(2) emergency medical services;

(3) evacuation of bedridden persons.

E. State fire marshal:

(1) fire;

(2) rescue;

(3) flammable accident assessment;

(4) protective response;

(5) exposure control.

F. Highway department:

(1) providing sanitation services;

(2) public works;

(3) transportation of emergency response personnel;

(4) road closure;

(5) designation of alternate routes.

G. Radio communications bureau: assisting all responsible state agencies with communication functions:

H. Any other state agencies called upon by the central coordinator.

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