New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 37 - CLEAN INDOOR AIR
Part 2 - CERTIFICATION OF CIGAR BARS
Section 7.37.2.7 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Unless otherwise defined below, terms used in these rules have the same meanings as set forth in the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act, NMSA 1978, Section 24-16-1 et seq.:
A. "Applicant" means an establishment or agent of an establishment that has applied for a certificate from the department and whose application has not yet been granted or denied; "applicant" includes an applicant for the renewal of a certificate.
B. "Application" means an establishment's application to the department for a certificate, and includes any supporting materials; "application" includes both an application for initial certification and an application for renewal certification.
C. "Application review period" means the time period allotted under these rules for the department to determine whether to grant or deny an application.
D. "Bar" means an establishment that is devoted to the selling or serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by patrons on the premises, in which the serving of food in the establishment is only incidental to the consumption of those beverages.
E. "Certificate" means a document issued by the department certifying that an establishment's application to the department for cigar bar status under the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act, NMSA 1978, Section 24-16-1 et seq., has been approved by the department.
F. "Certificated establishment" means an establishment that has applied for and been granted a certificate from the department, whose certificate has not expired or become otherwise invalid under these rules.
G. "Cigar" means a roll of tobacco that is wrapped in a substance containing tobacco, and that is intended for smoking, and does not include cigarettes.
H. "Cigar bar" means an establishment that:
I. "Cigarette" means:
J. "Department" means the New Mexico department of health.
K. "Establishment" means a business enterprise that encompasses a single, contiguous physical location.
L. "Secretary" means the secretary of the New Mexico department of health.
M. "Smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying or holding any lighted or heated tobacco product, including all types of cigarettes, cigars and pipes and any other lighted or heated tobacco product.