New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 30 - ANIMALS AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 5 - HORSE RESCUE OR RETIREMENT FACILITIES
Section 21.30.5.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Agent" means the executive director, deputy director, veterinarian, livestock inspectors or employee of the board.

B. "American association of equine practitioners" or AAEP, is an internationally recognized authority on equine care composed of equine veterinarians.

C. "Board" means the New Mexico livestock board.

D. "Facility" means a horse rescue or retirement facility, including a private preserve or private reserve, that advertises or solicits for horses and provides lifelong care or finds new owners for horses that are unwanted or have been neglected or abused or captured wild horses that cannot be returned to their range.

E. "Person" means an individual, partnership, association or operation.

F. "Wild horses" means feral horses. Feral horses are horses existing in an untamed state having returned to a wild state from domestication.