N.M. Stat. § 24-16-3
Definitions.
As used in the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act:
A. "bar" means an establishment that is devoted to the selling or serving of alcoholic
beverages for consumption by patrons on the premises and in which the serving of food
is only incidental to the consumption of those beverages, including taverns, nightclubs,
cocktail lounges and cabarets;
B. "cigar bar" means an establishment that:
(1)
is a bar as defined in Subsection A of this section; and
(2)
is engaged in the business of selling cigars for consumption by patrons
on the premises and generates ten percent or more of its total annual gross revenue or
at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in annual sales from the sale of cigars, not
including any sales from vending machines. A cigar bar that fails to generate at least
ten percent of its total annual sales from the sale of cigars in the calendar year after
December 31, 2006, not including sales from vending machines, shall not be defined as
a cigar bar and shall not thereafter be known as such regardless of sales figures. A
cigar bar shall agree to provide adequate information to demonstrate to the state's
satisfaction compliance with this definition;
C. "department" means the department of health;
D. "designated outdoor smoking area" means an area where smoking may be
permitted, designated by an employer or manager, outside an indoor workplace or
indoor public place; provided that the following conditions are maintained:
(1)
smoking shall not be permitted near any building entrance, including a
door, window or ventilation system of any facility where smoking is prohibited under the
provisions of the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act, so as to prevent secondhand
smoke from entering the indoor workplace or indoor public place; and
(2)
employees or members of the general public are not required to walk
through the smoking area to gain entrance to the indoor workplace or indoor public
place;
E. "e-cigarette" means a product containing or delivering nicotine or another
substance intended for human consumption that can be used by a person in any
manner for the purpose of inhaling vapor or aerosol from the product, including a
device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar,
e-pipe, e-hookah or vape pen or under another product name or descriptor;
F. "employer" means an individual, a partnership, a corporation or the state or a
political subdivision of the state that employs the services of one or more individuals;
G. "enclosed" means an interior space predominantly or totally bounded on all sides
and above by physical barriers, regardless of whether such barriers consist of or include
uncovered openings, screened or otherwise partially covered openings or open or
closed windows;
H. "indoor public place" means the enclosed area within a governmental or
nongovernmental place to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted
regardless of whether work or public business, meetings or hearings occur at any given
time;
I. "indoor workplace" means an enclosed place where one or more persons
engage in work, including lobbies, reception areas, offices, conference and meeting
rooms, employee cafeterias and lunchrooms, break rooms and employee lounges,
classrooms, auditoriums, hallways, stairways, waiting areas, elevators and restrooms
and includes all indoor workplaces and enclosed parts regardless of whether work
occurs at any given time;
J. "private club" means an organization, whether incorporated or not, that is the
owner, lessee or occupant of a building or portion thereof used exclusively for the
organization's purposes at all times, that is operated solely for recreational, fraternal,
social, patriotic, political, benevolent or athletic purposes, but not for pecuniary gain,
and that only sells alcoholic beverages incidental to its operation. The organization
shall have bylaws or a constitution to govern its activities and shall have been granted
an exemption as a club under the provisions of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended;
K. "retail tobacco store" means a retail store, used primarily for the sale of tobacco
products, including e-cigarettes, and accessories and in which the sale of other
products is merely incidental, including smoke shops, cigar shops or hookah lounges,
and does not include establishments that offer for sale alcoholic beverages for
consumption by patrons on the premises;
L. "secondhand smoke" means:
(1)
smoke emitted from inhaling from, exhaling from, burning, carrying or
holding:
(a) a lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, hookah or pipe; or
(b) any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for
inhalation, including cannabis, whether natural or synthetic; or
(2)
the aerosol or vapor emitted from inhaling or exhaling or any other use of
an e-cigarette;
M. "smokefree area" means a building or other enclosed space where smoking is
prohibited;
N. "smoking" means:
(1)
inhaling from, exhaling from, burning, carrying or holding:
(a) a lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, hookah or pipe; or
(b) any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for
inhalation, including cannabis, whether natural or synthetic; or
(2)
any use of an e-cigarette that creates an aerosol or vapor;
O. "smoking-permitted area" means a building or other enclosed space where
smoking may be permitted; provided that secondhand smoke does not infiltrate any
area where smoking is prohibited pursuant to the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act;
and
P. "standalone building" means a building whose heating, air conditioning and
ventilation system services only that building.