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Section 41-9-7 – Protection of patient.

Nothing contained in the Review Organization Immunity Act shall be construed to relieve any person of any liability which the person has incurred or may incur to a patient as a result of furnishing health care services to such patient. History: Laws 1979, ch. 169, § 7. ANNOTATIONS Severability. — Laws 1979, ch. 169, § […]

Section 41-10-1 – Short title.

This act [41-10-1 to 41-10-3 and 41-10-4 NMSA 1978] may be cited as the “Food Donors Liability Act”. History: Laws 1981, ch. 100, § 1. ANNOTATIONS Compiler’s notes. — “This act” refers to Laws 1981, ch. 100, §§ 1 through 3. Laws 1993, ch. 133, § 1 enacted a new section of the Food Donors […]

Section 41-10-2 – Definitions.

As used in the Food Donors Liability Act: A. “canned food” means any food commercially processed and prepared for human consumption; B. “gleaner” means any person who harvests for free distribution any part or all of an agricultural crop that has been donated by the owner; C. “nonprofit organization” means any organization which was organized […]

Section 41-10-3 – Food donors liability protection; purpose; donors or distributors of canned or perishable food; limit on liability for injury.

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who donates food in good faith, including the good-faith donor of any perishable or canned food, apparently fit for human consumption, to a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization or municipality for free distribution or a gleaner of any perishable food, apparently fit for human consumption, […]

Section 41-10-5 – Donated game meat products.

A. Wild game meat products may be donated by hunters, taken to a commercial meat processor for preparation and delivery to charitable, religious or other nonprofit organizations and served for human consumption at no charge if transported, stored and processed according to procedures established by the department of environment. B. For purposes of this section, […]

Section 41-9-5 – Confidentiality of records of review organization.

A. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, all data and information acquired by a review organization in the exercise of its duties and functions shall be held in confidence and shall not be disclosed to anyone except to the extent necessary to carry out one or more of the purposes of the […]

Section 41-9-6 – Penalty for violation.

Any disclosure other than that authorized by the Review Organization Immunity Act of data and information acquired by a review organization or of what transpired at a review organization meeting is guilty of a petty misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment for not to exceed six months or by a fine of not more […]