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

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
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.