New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 4 - DISEASE CONTROL (EPIDEMIOLOGY) › Part 2 - ANIMAL CONTROL REQUIREMENTS › Section 7.4.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A. "Animal" means
				any vertebrate member of the animal kingdom excluding man.
B. "Animal destroyed" means the
				administration of an agent which shall cause the death of an animal. Such
				method shall not destroy brain tissue necessary for laboratory examination for
				rabies.
C. "Bite" means the
				puncture or tear of the skin inflicted by the teeth of an animal.
D. "Confined" means restriction of an animal
				at all times by an owner or keeper to an escape proof building or other
				enclosure away from other animals and the public.
E. "Department" means the department of
				health of the state of New Mexico.
F. "District health officer" means the person
				designated by the director of the public health division to be responsible for
				district health operations in a district organized by the public health
				division.
G. "Division" means the
				office of epidemiology of the department of health of the state of New
				Mexico.
H. "Exposure to rabies"
				means the exposure resulting from a bite by an animal susceptible to rabies or
				from contact of the saliva of such animal with any break or abrasion of the
				skin.
I. "Field health office"
				means the health office(s) located in each county and administered by the
				public health division of the department of health.
J. "Impounding facilities" means any animal
				control center, pound, animal shelter, kennel, veterinary hospital, lot premise
				or building maintained or contracted by a municipality or county for the care
				and custody of animals.
K.
				"Isolation" means the confinement of an animal in an escape proof run or cage
				so that there is no possibility of direct contact with other animals or
				humans.
L. "Laboratory" means the
				scientific laboratory division (SLD) of the New Mexico department of health,
				700 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87106.
M. "Livestock" means all domestic animals of
				the following genera: equine, bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine.
N. "Owner" means a person who owns, harbors,
				keeps, or knowingly permits an animal to be harbored or kept, or permits an
				animal to remain on his premises.
O. "Person" means any individual, household,
				firm, partnership, corporation, society, association and every officer, agent
				or employee thereof.
P. "Premises"
				means any parcel of land and structure(s) thereon.
Q. "Quarantine" means the strict containment
				of all animals specified in the order of the district health officer upon the
				private premises of the owner, or under restraint by leash, or within a closed
				cage or paddock and shall include other measures ordered by the district health
				officer to control the spread of rabies.
R. "Running at large" means to be free of
				physical restraint beyond the premises of the owner or keeper.
S. "Stray animal" means any animal running at
				large.
T. "Vaccination against
				rabies" means the injection of an approved rabies vaccine by or under the
				supervision of a licensed veterinarian.
U. "Veterinarian" means a person with a
				doctor of veterinary medicine degree licensed to practice veterinary medicine
				in the state of New Mexico.
V.
				"Vicious animal" means any animal which at any time without provocation shall
				bite, attack or injure any person who was peacefully conducting himself where
				he lawfully may be.