As used in the Senior Citizens Reduced Tuition Act:
A. "department" means the higher education department;
B. "eligible institution" means any New Mexico post-secondary degree-granting educational institution;
C. "reduced tuition" means that tuition charged senior citizens at the rate of five dollars ($5.00) per credit hour, up to ten hours per semester; and
D. "senior citizen" means a person age sixty-five or older.
History: Laws 1984, ch. 96, § 3; 2019, ch. 124, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For establishment of state educational institutions, see N.M. Const., art. XII, § 11.
The 2019 amendment, effective June 14, 2019, replaced "board" with "department" as a defined term, and revised the definition of "reduced tuition", as used in the Senior Citizens Reduced Tuition Act; in Subsection A, deleted "'board'" and added "'department'", and after "means the", deleted "board of educational finance" and added "higher education department"; and in Subsection C, after "up to", deleted "six" and added "ten".