2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 22 - Safe Haven for Infants
Section 24-22-2 - Definitions.

As used in the Safe Haven for Infants Act:

A. "fire station" means a fire station that is certified by the fire marshal division of the public regulation commission;

B. "hospital" means an acute care general hospital or health care clinic licensed by the state;

C. "Indian child" means an Indian child as defined by the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978;

D. "infant" means a child no more than ninety days old, as determined within a reasonable degree of medical certainty;

E. "law enforcement agency" means a law enforcement agency of the state or a political subdivision of the state;

F. "safe haven site" means a hospital, law enforcement agency or fire station that has staff on-site at the time an infant is left at such a site; and

G. "staff" means an employee, contractor, agent or volunteer performing services as required and on behalf of the safe haven site.

History: Laws 2001, ch. 31, § 2; 2001, ch. 132, § 2; 2005, ch. 26, § 3; 2013, ch. 20, § 2.

Cross references. — For the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, see 25 U.S.C. § 1901, et seq.

The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, defined additional terms, including the term "safe haven site"; added Subsection A; designated former Subsections A through C as new Subsections B through D; added Subsections E and F; designated former Subsection D as new Subsection G; and in Subsection G, after "on behalf of the", deleted "hospital" and added "safe haven site".

The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, changed the definition of Indian child to mean an Indian child as defined in the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.