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
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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 [40-17-7 NMSA 1978] 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 [40-17- 6 NMSA 1978] of the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act.