New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 10 - MEDICINE AND SURGERY PRACTITIONERS
Part 7 - LICENSE EXPIRATION, RENEWAL AND REINSTATEMENT
Section 16.10.7.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Inactive" means a license placed in a non-working status at the request of a physician not currently practicing in New Mexico.

B. "Lapsed" means a license that has not been renewed by September 30 of the expiration year and has been suspended for non-renewal. A license that has lapsed is not valid for practice in New Mexico.

C. "Retired" means a license that has been withdrawn from active or inactive status at the physician's request. A retired license cannot be used to practice medicine in New Mexico and a retired license may not subsequently be reinstated.

D. "Nationwide criminal history record" means information concerning a person's arrests, indictments, or other formal criminal charges and any dispositions arising there from, including convictions, dismissals, acquittals, sentencing and correctional supervision, collected by criminal justice agencies and stored in the computerized databases of the federal bureau of investigation, the national law enforcement telecommunications systems, the department of public safety or the repositories of criminal history information in other states.

E. "Nationwide criminal history screening" means a criminal history background investigation of a licensee applying for licensure renewal through the use of fingerprints reviewed by the department of public safety and submitted to the federal bureau of investigation, resulting in the generation of a nationwide criminal history record for that applicant.

F. "Statewide criminal history record" means information concerning a person's arrests, indictments, or other formal criminal charges and any dispositions arising there from, including convictions, dismissals, acquittals, sentencing and correctional supervision, collected by criminal justice agencies and stored in the computerized database of the department of public safety or the repositories of criminal history information in municipal jurisdictions.

G. "Statewide criminal history screening" means a criminal history background investigation of a licensee applying for licensure renewal through the use of fingerprints submitted to the department of public safety and resulting in the generation of a statewide criminal history record for that licensee.

H. "Suspended for non-renewal" means a license that has not been renewed by September 30 of the expiration year, and has at the discretion of the board, been lapsed.

I. "Voluntarily lapsed" means a license that is not renewed at the request of the physician.