New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 30 - FAMILY AND CHILDREN HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Part 14 - MANDATORY CONCUSSION RECOGNITION, RESPONSE AND PREVENTIONEDUCATION
Section 7.30.14.8 - REQUIREMENTS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. All teams, clubs or other entities providing youth athletic activity must provide brain injury educational materials to each coach and administrator of the youth sports organization on an annual basis.
B. All teams, clubs or other similar entities providing one or more youth athletic activities must provide the brain injury educational materials to each youth participant on an annual basis. The training, which is through the use of the brain injury educational materials, can be completed online or via printed copy of the online training.
C. Each team coach must collect all signature forms or certificates of completion from youth athletes and parents or guardians upon completion of the brain injury education and submit them to the league president before practice sessions can begin. Each league president must maintain files for each year, documenting that the training is complete for coaches, youth athletes, and parents or guardians.
D. A youth athlete who is suspected by a coach, a league official, or a youth athlete of sustaining a brain injury in a youth athletic activity shall immediately be removed from the youth athletic activity and shall remain out of play until a licensed health care professional provides the youth athlete a written clearance to return to the youth athletic activity. When a youth athlete suffers a suspected brain injury, the athletic activity team, club, or other similar entity the youth sports organization must:
E. A coach shall not allow a youth athlete to participate in a youth athletic activity on the same day that the youth athlete:
F. A coach may allow a youth athlete, who has been prohibited from participation in a youth athletic activity, to participate in a youth athletic activity no sooner than 240 hours or 10 days from the time at which the youth athlete received a brain injury and may only do so after the youth athlete meets the following two criteria: