2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 1 - Public Health
Section 24-1-9 - Capacity to consent to examination and treatment for a sexually transmitted infection.
Any person regardless of age has the capacity to consent to an examination and treatment by a licensed health care provider for any sexually transmitted infection.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-34-9, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 359, § 9; 1993, ch. 341, § 3; 2017, ch. 87, § 9.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2017 amendment, effective June, 16, 2017, made technical changes; in the catchline, deleted "disease" and added "infection", after "by a licensed", deleted "physician" and added "health care provider", and after "transmitted", deleted "disease" and added "infection".
The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, substituted "a sexually transmitted" for "venereal" in the catchline and "sexually transmitted" for "venereal" near the end of the section.
Law reviews. — For article, "Treating Children Under the New Mexico Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code," see 10 N.M.L. Rev. 279 (1980).
