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40-4C-3. Definitions.

As used in the Mandatory Medical Support Act [ 40-4C-1 NMSA 1978]:   

A.     "court" means any district court ordering child support of an obligor;   

B.     "dental insurance coverage" means those coverages generally associated with a dental plan of benefits, not including medicaid coverage authorized by Title 19 of the Social Security Act and administered by the department;   

C.     "department" means the human services department;   

D.     "employer" means an individual, organization, agency, business or corporation hiring an obligor for pay;   

E.     "health insurance coverage" means those coverages generally associated with a medical plan of benefits, not including medicaid coverage authorized by Title 19 of the Social Security Act and administered by the department;   

F.     "insurer" means an employment-related or other group health care insurance plan, a health maintenance organization, a nonprofit health care plan or other type of health care insurance plan under which medical or dental services are provided, regardless of service delivery mechanism;   

G.     "minor child" means a child younger than eighteen years of age who has not been emancipated;   

H.     "national medical support notice" means a court-ordered notice to an employer that an employee's child must be covered by the employment-related group health care insurance plan;   

I.     "obligee" means a person to whom a duty of support is owed or a person, including the department, who has commenced a proceeding for enforcement of an alleged duty of support or for registration of a support order, regardless of whether the person to whom a duty of support is owed is a recipient of public assistance; and   

J.     "obligor" means a person owing a duty of support or against whom a proceeding for the enforcement of a duty of support or for registration of a support order is commenced.