N.M. Admin. Code § 20.8.2.7

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 17, September 10, 2024

Section 20.8.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

As used in this part [now 20.8.2 NMAC]:

A. "abatement" means the control or elimination of mosquitoes by elimination of their breeding sources or by poisoning, spraying, or the use of biological and environmental controls, or any other method approved by the department;

B. "collection of water" includes any collection of water contained in ditches, borrow pits, pools, crop fields, ponds, streams, excavations, holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, troughs, sewage oxidation ponds and lagoons, barrels, urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubes, buckets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels, receptacles of any kind, or other containers or devices which may hold water;

C. "department" means the New Mexico environment department;

D. "mosquito" means any arthropod belonging to the class insects, order diptera, family culicidae, subfamily culicinae;

E. "mosquito larvae" means the immature aquatic stages of mosquitoes occurring between the egg and pupal stages;

F. "mosquito pupae" means the aquatic stages between the larval and adult stages of mosquitoes; and

G. "person" means any individual, partnership, firm, public or private corporation, trust, estate, company, society, political subdivision or agency, or any other legal entity or their legal representatives, agents or assigns.

N.M. Admin. Code § 20.8.2.7

9/22/72; 11/30/95; Recompiled 11/27/01