As used in the Environmental Improvement Act:
A. "board" means the environmental improvement board;
B. "department" or "environmental improvement department" means the department of environment;
C. "on-site liquid waste system" means a liquid waste system, or part thereof, serving a dwelling, establishment or group, and using a liquid waste treatment unit designed to receive liquid waste followed by either a soil treatment or other type of disposal system. "On-site liquid waste system" includes holding tanks and privies but does not include systems or facilities designed to receive or treat mine or mill tailings or wastes;
D. "person" means the state or any agency, institution or political subdivision thereof, any public or private corporation, individual, partnership, association or other entity and includes any officer or governing or managing body of any political subdivision or public or private corporation;
E. "residential on-site liquid waste system" means an on-site liquid waste system serving up to four dwelling units; and
F. "secretary" means the secretary of environment.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-19-3, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 277, § 3; recompiled as 1953 Comp., § 12-12-3 by Laws 1972, ch. 51, § 9; 1973, ch. 340, § 2; 1977, ch. 253, § 34; 1982, ch. 73, § 21; 1991, ch. 25, § 29; 1997, ch. 139, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1997 amendment, effective June 20, 1997, rewrote this section to such an extent that a detailed comparison would be impracticable.
The 1991 amendment, effective March 29, 1991, substituted "department of environment" for "environmental improvement division of the health and environment department" in Subsection A; deleted former Subsection B which read "'director' means the director of the environmental improvement division"; and designated former Subsections C and D as present Subsections B and C.
Law reviews. — For annual survey of New Mexico law relating to administrative law, see 13 N.M.L. Rev. 235 (1983).