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2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 28 - Human Rights
Article 8 - Identifying Devices and Cards for Disabled Persons
Section 28-8-4 - Duty of medical practitioners.
Universal Citation: NM Stat § 28-8-4 (2018)
28-8-4. Duty of medical practitioners.
A. A medical practitioner, in discharging his duty to a disabled person whom he has undertaken to examine or treat, shall make a reasonable search for an identifying device or an identification card of the type described in Subsection B of Section 2 [28-8-2 NMSA 1978] of this act and examine them for emergency information.
B. A claim for relief against a medical practitioner does not arise from his making a reasonable search of a disabled person to locate an identifying device or identification card, even though the person is not wearing an identifying device or carrying an identification card.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-31-4, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 265, § 4.
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