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Section 24-1-1 - Short title. - Chapter 24, Article 1 NMSA 1978 may be cited as...
Section 24-1-2 - Definitions. - As used in the Public Health Act: A. "condition of...
Section 24-1-3 - Powers and authority of department. - The department has authority to: A. receive such grants, subsidies,...
Section 24-1-4 - Creation of health regions; appointment of health officers; powers and duties of health officers. - A. The director shall establish health regions and may modify...
Section 24-1-4.1 - Certified nurse-midwives; prescriptive, distributing and administering authority. - A. Certified nurse-midwives who have fulfilled requirements for prescriptive authority...
Section 24-1-5 - Licensure of health facilities; hearings; appeals. - A. A health facility shall not be operated without a...
Section 24-1-5.1 - Repealed. - Repeals. — Laws 1990, ch. 105, § 4 repealed 24-1-5.1...
Section 24-1-5.2 - Health facilities; intermediate sanctions; civil penalty. - A. Upon a determination that a health facility is not...
Section 24-1-5.3 - Repealed. - Repeals. — Laws 1995, ch. 88, § 2 repealed 24-1-5.3...
Section 24-1-5.4 - Plan of growth; requirements; reporting. - No later than January 1, 1999 the human services department...
Section 24-1-5.5 - Repealed. - Repeals. — Laws 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 1, § 2...
Section 24-1-5.6 - Northern New Mexico substance abuse treatment pilot project. - A. The department of health shall establish the northern New...
Section 24-1-5.7 - Methadone clinics; regulation by the human services department. - A. The federal government requires the state to approve the...
Section 24-1-5.8 - Legislative findings; licensing requirements for certain hospitals. - A. The legislature finds that: (1) acute care general hospitals...
Section 24-1-5.9 - Reporting requirements. - A. A hospital, a long-term care facility or a primary...
Section 24-1-5.10 - Federal participation required; exception. - A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section,...
Section 24-1-6 - Tests required for newborn infants. - A. The department shall adopt screening tests for the detection...
Section 24-1-6.1 - Newborn hearing testing required; department of health. - By July 1, 2001, the department of health shall adopt...
Section 24-1-7 - Sexually transmitted infections; reports of cases. - A. The department shall make available a list of sexually...
Section 24-1-8 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 12-34-8, enacted by Laws 1973, ch....
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...
Section 24-1-9.1 - Sexually transmitted infections; testing of persons convicted of certain criminal offenses. - A. A test designed to identify any sexually transmitted infection...
Section 24-1-9.2 - Sexually transmitted infections; testing of persons formally charged for allegedly committing certain criminal offenses. - A. A test designed to identify any sexually transmitted infection...
Section 24-1-9.3 - Sexually transmitted infections; mandatory counseling. - No positive test result for a sexually transmitted infection shall...
Section 24-1-9.4 - Sexually transmitted infections; confidentiality. - A. Except as provided in Section 24-1-9.2 NMSA 1978, no...
Section 24-1-9.5 - Repealed. - History: 1978 Comp., § 24-1-9.5, enacted by Laws 1996, ch....
Section 24-1-9.6 - Sexually transmitted infections; disclosure. - A. A victim of a criminal offense or an alleged...
Section 24-1-9.7 - Penalty. - A person who, in violation of Section 24-1-9.4 NMSA 1978,...
Section 24-1-10 - Pregnancy; serological test for syphilis. - A. Every physician examining a pregnant woman for conditions relating...
Section 24-1-11 - Reporting of blood tests. - In reporting every birth and stillbirth, physicians and others required...
Section 24-1-12 - Health certificates; filing. - A. Any person who operates or is employed in a...
Section 24-1-13 - Pregnancy; capacity to consent to examination and diagnosis. - Any person, regardless of age, has the capacity to consent...
Section 24-1-13.1 - Pregnancy; prenatal, delivery and postnatal treatment to a female minor; capacity to consent. - A health care provider shall have the authority, within the...
Section 24-1-13.2 - Shaken baby syndrome prevention. - The department of health shall adopt rules, no later than...
Section 24-1-14 - [Sterilization;] special qualifications prohibited. - No hospital which permits any operation that results in sterilization...
Section 24-1-15 - Isolation; quarantine; protocol. - A. If the secretary or a representative of the department...
Section 24-1-15.1 - Protocol for management of active tuberculosis. - A. When a physician or other person knows that a...
Section 24-1-15.2 - Conditions of public health importance; reporting. - A. The secretary shall establish by rule a list of...
Section 24-1-15.3 - Conditions of public health importance; testing; screening. - A. The department shall establish testing and screening procedures and...
Section 24-1-15.4 - Individually identifiable health information; conditions of public health importance; confidentiality; use; disclosure. - A. Any use of individually identifiable health information pursuant to...
Section 24-1-16 - Inspection definitions. - As used in Sections 16 through 19 [24-1-16 to 24-1-19...
Section 24-1-17 - Inspectorial search by consent. - A. Within the scope of his authority with respect to...
Section 24-1-18 - Inspection searches. - A. Upon sufficient showing that consent to an inspectorial search...
Section 24-1-19 - Emergency inspectorial searches. - A. Whenever it reasonably appears to an inspection officer that...
Section 24-1-20 - Records confidential. - A. The files and records of the department giving identifying...
Section 24-1-21 - Penalties. - Any person violating any of the provisions of the Public...
Section 24-1-22 - Scientific laboratory division; testing methods; certification. - A. The scientific laboratory division of the department of health...
Section 24-1-23 - Disclosure by medicare health care providers; limitation on charges to recipient of services. - A. As used in this section: (1) "health care provider"...
Section 24-1-24 - Repealed. - History: Laws 1997, ch. 242, § 7 and Laws 1997,...
Section 24-1-25 - Holly Gonzales experimental treatment fund created. - A. The "Holly Gonzales experimental treatment fund" is created in...
Section 24-1-26 - Repealed. - History: Laws 2003, ch. 59, § 1; repealed by Laws...
Section 24-1-27 - Purpose. - The purpose of creating a single interagency behavioral health purchasing...
Section 24-1-28 - Behavioral health planning council created; powers and duties; membership. - There is created the "behavioral health planning council". A. The...
Section 24-1-29 - Commission created; members; duties. - A. There is created the "governor's HIV and AIDS policy...
Section 24-1-30 - Hand washing facilities; requirement. - Portable hand washing facilities shall be provided with at least...
Section 24-1-31 - Save our children's sight fund created. - The "save our children's sight fund" is created in the...
Section 24-1-32 - Notice of the need for further vision evaluation and availability of funds. - The department of health shall promulgate rules for award of...
Section 24-1-33 - Communication regarding reconstructive breast surgery. - A. A health care provider that provides mastectomy or lumpectomy...
Section 24-1-34 - Primary stroke centers; comprehensive stroke centers; acute stroke capable centers; department certification; rulemaking. - A. In accordance with department rules, the department shall certify...
Section 24-1-35 - Assisted living facilities contracts; limit on charges after resident death. - A. The contract for each resident of an assisted living...
Section 24-1-36 - Statewide community-based adult fall risk awareness and prevention program. - A. By January 1, 2015, the department of health shall...
Section 24-1-37 - Lay caregiver; aftercare; designation. - A. A hospital shall provide each patient or the patient's...
Section 24-1-38 - Hospitals; requirement to offer influenza and pneumococcal immunizations. - Each year between October 1 and March 1 and in...
Section 24-1-39 - Mammograms; health facilities; breast density disclosure. - A. A health facility that performs a mammogram examination shall...
Section 24-1-40 - Department of health; New Mexico board of dental health care; annual report; biennial report. - The department of health shall collaborate with the New Mexico...
Section 24-1-41 - Health facilities; certified nurse practitioners; certified nurse-midwives; privileges; parity with physicians. - A. Unless required by federal law, a health facility shall...
Section 24-1-42 - Eligibility for state or local health benefits. - A. A state or local health benefit shall be provided...
Section 24-1-43 - Reporting; medical aid in dying. - A. A health care provider who prescribes medical aid in...