N.M. Admin. Code § 1.7.7.7

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 21, November 5, 2024

Section 1.7.7.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Child" or "Children" means a person or persons 18 years of age or younger who is enrolled in School, and who is or are the biological child(ren), legally adopted child(ren), foster child(ren), stepchild(ren), or legal ward(s) of an employee.

B. "Covered active duty or call to covered active duty status" means duty during the deployment of a regular member or reservist to a foreign country.

C. "Covered servicemember" means a current member of the Armed Forces (including a member of the National Guard or Reserves) who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, is otherwise in outpatient status, or is otherwise on the temporary disability retired list for a serious injury or illness; or a covered veteran (member of the Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or Reserves, who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable at any time during the five-year period prior to the first date the employee takes FMLA leave to care for the covered veteran) who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy for a serious injury or illness.

D. "Extra-curricular activities" means events or appointments not falling within the normal school curriculum, including but not limited to sporting events, orientations, ceremonies, field trips, registrations.

E. "Fall semester" means August through December.

F. "Family member" means an individual who is the spouse or domestic partner of or is by blood, marriage or legal adoption a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, child, foster child, grandchild, great-grandchild, brother, sister, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle, or is living in the household of an of an employee.

G. "Health care provider" means a physician, dentist, podiatrist, clinical psychologist, or optometrist who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery in the state in which the individual practices. In cases limited to treatment consisting of manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation, medical certification may be provided by a chiropractor. Others capable of providing health care services include podiatrists, dentists, clinical psychologists, optometrists, nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, clinical social workers and physician assistants authorized to practice in the state; Christian Science practitioners listed with the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts; any health care provider from whom an employer or the employer's group health plan's benefits manager will accept certification for the existence of a serious health condition to substantiate a claim for benefits, including a foreign physician.

H. "Medical emergency" means a medical condition of an employee or a family member of such employee that is likely to require an employee's absence from duty for a prolonged period of time and to result in a substantial loss of income to the employee because of the unavailability of paid leave.

I. "School" means a single attendance center in which instruction is offered by one or more teachers and is discernible as a building or group of buildings generally recognized as either a licensed child care center, preschool, elementary, middle, junior high, or high school, or any combination of those, including charter schools, state institutions, and private schools, but not including home schools.

J. "Serious health condition" means an illness or injury that involves an overnight stay in a health care facility and any subsequent treatment in connection with such stay; or, continuing treatment by a health care provider including any one or more of the following:

(1) a period of incapacity of more than three consecutive, full calendar days and subsequent treatment by a health care provider in-person two or more times within 30 days of the first day of incapacity;

(2) treatment by a health care provider in-person on at least one occasion which results in a regimen of continuing treatment;

(3) pregnancy and prenatal care;

(4) chronic condition which requires visits at least twice a year for treatment by a health care provider over an extended period of time and may cause episodic rather than a continuing period of incapacity;

(5) permanent or long-term conditions; and

(6) conditions requiring multiple treatments by a health care provider including recovery time.

K. "Serious illness or injury" means an injury or illness that was incurred by the covered servicemember in the line of duty on active duty in the Armed Forces, or existed before the beginning of the servicemember's active duty and was aggravated by service in the line of duty in the Armed Forces, and that may render the covered servicemember medically unfit to perform the duties of the servicemember's office grade, rank or rating. In the case of a veteran who was a covered servicemember, "serious illness or injury" means the same as above but the injury or illness manifested itself before or after the member become a veteran.

L. "Son" or "Daughter" means a biological, adopted, or foster child, a step child, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis, who is either under age 18, or age 18 or older and "incapable of self-care" because of a mental or physical disability at the time that FMLA leave is to commence.

M. "Spring semester" means January through May.

N. "Spouse" is defined in the Family and Medical Leave Act regulations.

N.M. Admin. Code § 1.7.7.7

1.7.7.7 NMAC - Rp, 1 NMAC 7.7.7, 07/07/01, Amended by New Mexico Register, Volume XXX, Issue 24, December 31, 2019, eff. 1/1/2020