N.M. Admin. Code § 18.20.6.8

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 24, December 23, 2024

Section 18.20.6.8 - COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY DWI PREVENTION PROGRAM

Any community may apply for funding of a DWI Prevention Project provided that:

A. The community establish a task force of community representatives that will prepare a comprehensive community DWI prevention plan that addresses the issues outlined in paragraph 3 of this section. This task force must adequately represent the following disciplines

(1) law enforcement;

(2) community traffic safety groups;

(3) local health department office;

(4) courts;

(5) prosecution;

(6) schools;

(7) media;

(8) emergency medical services; and

(9) other interested parties.

B. The task force identify the DWI prevention activity that is on-going locally in the following areas:

(1) education programs in the schools and at the workplace;

(2) public information activities aimed at the driving public;

(3) DWI enforcement activities including; number of DWI arrests, number of police officers involved in DWI enforcement, status of use of sobriety check-points at peak hours, number of citations for open-container violations, average blood alcohol concentration of offenders, amount of enforcement of under age drinking laws and serving intoxicated person laws;

(4) court activities including case reporting, service of bench warrants, sentence compliance by offenders, probation follow-up and alternative sentencing options, and prosecution activities of the applicable legal office; and

(5) other activities aimed at reducing DWI such as designated driver programs, subsidized taxi service, alcohol server training, Project Graduation, etc.

C. The task force identify the activities it intends to implement in each of the above mentioned areas in an application to be submitted to the Traffic Safety Bureau. The activities to be implemented must be determined by using a process established by the Traffic Safety Bureau. The process will be made available to the communities by Traffic Safety Bureau prior to submission deadlines established by this rule. A community may choose not to address one or more of the above issues only if it can document that the issue (s) is already being adequately addressed by other resources or activities.

N.M. Admin. Code § 18.20.6.8

Recompiled 11/16/01