New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 7 - WASTEWATER AND WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES › Part 7 - ABSENCE AND LEAVE › Section 1.7.7.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Child" or
				"Children" means a person or persons 18 years of age or younger who is enrolled
				in School, and who is or are the biological child(ren), legally adopted
				child(ren), foster child(ren), stepchild(ren), or legal ward(s) of an
				employee.
B. "Covered active duty
				or call to covered active duty status" means duty during the deployment of a
				regular member or reservist to a foreign country.
C. "Covered servicemember" means a current
				member of the Armed Forces (including a member of the National Guard or
				Reserves) who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, is
				otherwise in outpatient status, or is otherwise on the temporary disability
				retired list for a serious injury or illness; or a covered veteran (member of
				the Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or Reserves, who was
				discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable at any time
				during the five-year period prior to the first date the employee takes FMLA
				leave to care for the covered veteran) who is undergoing medical treatment,
				recuperation, or therapy for a serious injury or illness.
D. "Extra-curricular activities" means events
				or appointments not falling within the normal school curriculum, including but
				not limited to sporting events, orientations, ceremonies, field trips,
				registrations.
E. "Fall semester"
				means August through December.
F.
				"Family member" means an individual who is the spouse or domestic partner of or
				is by blood, marriage or legal adoption a parent, grandparent,
				great-grandparent, child, foster child, grandchild, great-grandchild, brother,
				sister, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle, or is living in the household of an of an
				employee.
G. "Health care provider"
				means a physician, dentist, podiatrist, clinical psychologist, or optometrist
				who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery in the state in which the
				individual practices. In cases limited to treatment consisting of manual
				manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation, medical certification may
				be provided by a chiropractor. Others capable of providing health care services
				include podiatrists, dentists, clinical psychologists, optometrists, nurse
				practitioners, nurse-midwives, clinical social workers and physician assistants
				authorized to practice in the state; Christian Science practitioners listed
				with the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts; any health
				care provider from whom an employer or the employer's group health plan's
				benefits manager will accept certification for the existence of a serious
				health condition to substantiate a claim for benefits, including a foreign
				physician.
H. "Medical emergency"
				means a medical condition of an employee or a family member of such employee
				that is likely to require an employee's absence from duty for a prolonged
				period of time and to result in a substantial loss of income to the employee
				because of the unavailability of paid leave.
I. "School" means a single attendance center
				in which instruction is offered by one or more teachers and is discernible as a
				building or group of buildings generally recognized as either a licensed child
				care center, preschool, elementary, middle, junior high, or high school, or any
				combination of those, including charter schools, state institutions, and
				private schools, but not including home schools.
J. "Serious health condition" means an
				illness or injury that involves an overnight stay in a health care facility and
				any subsequent treatment in connection with such stay; or, continuing treatment
				by a health care provider including any one or more of the following:
(1) a period of incapacity of more than three
				consecutive, full calendar days and subsequent treatment by a health care
				provider in-person two or more times within 30 days of the first day of
				incapacity;
(2) treatment by a
				health care provider in-person on at least one occasion which results in a
				regimen of continuing treatment;
(3) pregnancy and prenatal care;
(4) chronic condition which requires visits
				at least twice a year for treatment by a health care provider over an extended
				period of time and may cause episodic rather than a continuing period of
				incapacity;
(5) permanent or
				long-term conditions; and
(6)
				conditions requiring multiple treatments by a health care provider including
				recovery time.