New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 13 - PUBLIC RECORDS
Part 11 - ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS, RESEARCH IN THE NEW MEXICO ARCHIVES
Section 1.13.11.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. "Archives" means the permanent records of the state of New Mexico, which may include the government and private records of the Spanish, Mexican, territorial and statehood periods. It also refers to the state archives of the commission of public records.
B. "Archivist" means a professionally trained staff member of the archives and historical services division of the NMSRCA responsible for the appraisal, arrangement, description, preservation and use of archival material.
C. "Documents" means any recorded information regardless of media, including books, correspondence, reports, maps, manuscripts, may include paper, microforms, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, drawings and electronic files.
D. "Public records" means all books, papers, maps, photographs or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by any agency in pursuance of law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved, or appropriate for preservation, by the agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations or other activities of the government, or because of the informational and historical value of data contained therein. (Section 14-3-2 NMSA 1978). For the purpose of this rule, public records do not include the current records of state government.
E. "Records" means information preserved by any technique in any medium now known, or later developed, that can be recognized by ordinary human sensory capabilities either directly or with the aid of technology (1.13.70 NMAC).
F. "Records center" means the New Mexico state records center and archives. It is the principal central records repository for the non-current records of agencies, former governments of the state, and materials obtained from other sources.
G. "Researcher" means a person who requests access to original documents or copies of original documents in the archives.
