New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 5 - VACCINATIONS AND IMMUNIZATIONS
Part 2 - IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENT
Section 7.5.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Age appropriately immunized" means satisfactory evidence has been provided documenting that the person has completed all required immunizations which someone his or her age is eligible to receive according to the public health division school/daycare entry immunization requirements, which are within the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) recommendations.

B. "Child" or "Children" are persons who are of the age birth through 18 years.

C. "Department" means the New Mexico department of health.

D. "In the process of being age appropriately immunized" means a child has received all required immunizations he or she is eligible to receive according to the public health division school/daycare entry immunization requirements, but has not completed one or more vaccine series because a sufficient time interval has not elapsed for the subsequent dose or doses of vaccine to be administered according to the recommended intervals between doses published by the ACIP.

E. "Licensed physician" means physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine in New Mexico, another state or territory.

F. "Public health authority" means an agency or authority of the United States, a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, or a person or entity acting under a grant of authority from or contract with such public agency, including the employees or agents of such public agency or its contractors or persons or entities to whom it has granted authority, that is responsible for public health matters as part of its official mandate. The public health authority is authorized by law to collect or receive protected health information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; or, at the direction of a public health authority, to an official of a foreign government agency that is acting in collaboration with a public health authority.

G. "Public health division" means the public health division of the department.

H. "Public health division regional health officer" means the physician medical director assigned to a public health region in New Mexico as defined by the public health division of the department.

I. "Public health division school/daycare entry immunization requirements" means the immunizations required for entry into all schools and facilities (public, private, home, parochial, elementary, childcare, pre-school, and secondary schools) in New Mexico as set forth by the secretary of the department.

J. "Required immunizations" means those immunizations against diseases deemed to be dangerous to the public health by the public health division, and set forth in its immunization requirements, which are within recommendations of the ACIP.

K. "Satisfactory evidence of commencement of immunization" means satisfactory evidence of a person having begun the process of immunizations, such as a certificate or record signed by a duly licensed physician or other recognized licensed public or private health facility stating that the person has received at least the first in the series of required immunizations and is proceeding with the immunizations according to the prescribed schedule.

L. "Satisfactory evidence of immunization" means a statement, certificate, or record signed by a duly licensed physician or other recognized licensed public or private health facility stating that the required immunizations have been given to the person or record of receipt of immunization in the New Mexico Statewide Immunization Information System (NMSIIS) registry.