New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 43 - HOISTING OPERATORS
Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 16.43.1.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. Act means the Hoisting Operators Safety Act (Sections 60-15-1 to -15 NMSA 1978).

B. CID means the construction industries division.

C. Construction means the act or process of constructing or being constructed.

D. Council means the hoisting operators licensure examining council.

E. Demolition means the act or process of wrecking, razing or destroying.

F. Department (or "RLD") means the New Mexico regulation and licensing department.

G. Direct supervision means the training supervisor being in direct visual sight to their trainee for at least the first one hundred (100) hours of supervised time, and thereafter being in close proximity and on the same jobsite with the trainee, with the supervisor being directly responsible for the trainee.

H. Excavationmeans the act of digging, hollowing out or removing materials.

I. HSD means the New Mexico human services department.

J. In-house training course means a course in hoisting equipment operations approved by the council and offered by an employer, person or organization that results in a trainee receiving an in-house hoisting operation card pursuant to (Section 60-15-7 NMSA 1978).

K. OSHA means the United States department of labor occupational safety and health administration.

L. Stipulated agreement means a binding agreement between the department and a person, licensee or entity engaged in activity governed by the act to resolve violations or alleged violations of the act.

M. Superintendent means the superintendent of the NM regulation and licensing department.

N. ULAmeans the New Mexico Uniform Licensing Act (Sections 61-1-1 to -33 NMSA 1978).