New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 25 - VETERINARY MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS
Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 16.25.1.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Aseptic surgery" means procedures performed under conditions free of pathogenic micro-organisms.

B. "Board" means the New Mexico board of veterinary medicine.

C. "Bovine AI/PD examiner" means the individual the board has designated to prepare and administer the bovine AI and bovine PD examinations and who recommends to the board those individuals who qualify for bovine AI and bovine PD permits.

D. "Bovine artificial insemination (AI) technician" means an individual who has met the requirements for and has been granted by the New Mexico board of veterinary medicine a permit to perform artificial insemination on cattle.

E. "Bovine pregnancy diagnosis (PD) technician" means an individual who has met the requirements for and has been granted by the New Mexico board of veterinary medicine a permit to perform pregnancy diagnosis on cattle.

F. "Clean surgery" means the performance of a surgical operation for the treatment of a condition and under circumstances which, consistent with the standards of good veterinary medicine, do not warrant the use of aseptic surgical procedures.

G. "Disinfection" means the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms.

H. "Facility" means a building, kennel, mobile practice unit vehicle, animal shelter, pet shop, animal supply store, fixed facility, fixed mobile facility, mobile facility, and vaccination clinic where "the practice of veterinary medicine" including aseptic surgery regularly occurs as defined in NMSA 1978, Section 61-14-2.B (1), (2), and (3), to include regularly scheduled vaccination clinics or any other veterinary services.

I. "Graduate of a non-AVMA accredited school" or "foreign veterinary graduate" means a person who has graduated from a school of veterinary medicine which is not accredited by the American veterinary medical association (AVMA).

J. "Graduate veterinarian" means a person who has a degree of doctor of veterinary medicine or its equivalent.

K. "Infectious waste" means those solid wastes contaminated with organisms which may cause human disease and may reasonably be suspected of harboring human pathogenic organisms or may pose a threat or potential hazard to human health. In terms of veterinary medicine, this includes but is not limited to the following: animal tissue, bedding and other wastes from animals known or suspected to be infected with a pathogen which also causes human disease, provided that prevailing evidence indicates that such tissue, bedding or other waste may act as a vehicle of transmission to humans.

L. "Practice of veterinary medicine" means the diagnosis and treatment of animal diseases by traditional methods which include but are not limited to prescribing drugs and medication, administering techniques and procedures including surgical procedures, and other methods which include but are not limited to chiropractic, physical therapy, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, therapeutic massage, dentistry, and embryo transfer.

M. "Sharps" means any discarded article that may cause punctures or cuts. Such wastes may include but are not limited to needles, scalpel blades, glass slides, glassware, suture needles, and trocars.

N. "Small animal mobile facility" means a trailer or mobile unit established to function as a veterinary site which concentrates in providing veterinary services to common domestic household pets.

O. "Sterilization" means the complete destruction of microorganisms by heat, bactericidal chemical compound, radiation or desiccation.