Section 29-15-2 - Definitions. - New Mexico Statutes

29-15-2. Definitions.

As used in the Missing Persons Information and Reporting Act: 

A.     "child" means an individual under the age of eighteen years who is not emancipated; 

B.     "clearinghouse" means the missing persons information clearinghouse;  

C.     "custodian" means a parent, guardian or other person who exercises legal physical control, care or custody of a child; 

D.     "endangered person" means a missing person who:  

(1)     is in imminent danger of causing harm to the person's self; 

(2)     is in imminent danger of causing harm to another; 

(3)     is in imminent danger of being harmed by another or who has been harmed by another; or 

(4)     has Alzheimer's disease or another degenerative brain disorder; 

E.     "immediate family member" means the spouse or nearest relative of a person; 

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

G.     "lead station" means an AM radio station that has been designated as the "state primary station" by the federal communications commission for the emergency alert system; 

H.     "missing person" means a person whose whereabouts are unknown to the person's custodian or immediate family member and the circumstances of whose absence indicate that: 

(1)     the person did not leave the care and control of the custodian or immediate family member voluntarily and the taking of the person was not authorized by law; or 

(2)     the person voluntarily left the care and control of the custodian without the custodian's consent and without intent to return; 

I.     "missing person report" means information that is: 

(1)     given to a law enforcement agency on a form used for sending information to the national crime information center; and 

(2)     about a person whose whereabouts are unknown to the reporter and who is alleged in the form submitted by the reporter to be missing; 

J.     "person" means an individual, regardless of age; 

K.     "possible match" means the similarities between unidentified human remains and a missing person that would lead one to believe they are the same person; 

L.     "reporter" means the person who reports a missing person;  

M.     "state agency" means an agency of the state, a political subdivision of the state or a public post-secondary educational institution; and 

N.     "state registrar" means the employee so designated by the public health division of the department of health pursuant to the Vital Statistics Act [24-14-1 NMSA 1978].