New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 5 - VACCINATIONS AND IMMUNIZATIONS
Part 3 - EXEMPTION FROM SCHOOL, CHILDCARE, AND PRE-SCHOOL IMMUNIZATION
Section 7.5.3.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "ACIP" means advisory committee on immunization practice.

B. "Administrative authority" means the superintendent, principal, or the designee of such person.

C. "Certified nurse practitioner" means a registered nurse licensed by the New Mexico board of nursing for advanced practice as a certified nurse practitioner.

D. "Denial" means a denial of a request for exemption from immunizations.

E. "Department" means the department of health.

F. "Licensed physician" means a physician licensed by the New Mexico board of medicine to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine.

G. "NMSIIS" means the New Mexico Statewide Immunization Information System; a secured, confidential, population-based, computerized registry for recording vaccination information established pursuant to Sections 24-5-7 through 24-5-15 NMSA 1978.

H. "Physician assistant" means a health care practitioner licensed by the New Mexico board of medicine to practice as a physician assistant and to provide services to patients with the supervision of or in collaboration with a licensed physician.

I. "Public health division" means a division of the department of health within which the immunization program is located.

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 licensed physician or other recognized public or private health provider 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 licensed physician or other recognized licensed health provider stating that the required immunizations have been given to the person or record of receipt of immunization in the NMSIIS registry.

M. "Secretary" means the secretary for the department of health.