New Mexico Statutes Chapter 14. Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths § 14-4A-3. Definitions

A. “agency” means every department, agency, board, commission, committee or institution of the executive branch of state government;

B. “commission” means the small business regulatory advisory commission;

C. “proposed rule” means a proposal by an agency for a new rule or for a change in, addition to or repeal of an existing rule;

D. “rule” means any rule, regulation, order, standard or statement of policy, including amendments to or repeals of any of those, issued or promulgated by an agency and purporting to affect one or more agencies besides the agency issuing the rule or to affect persons not members or employees of the issuing agency. An order or decision or other document issued or promulgated in connection with the disposition of any case or agency decision upon a particular matter as applied to a specific set of facts shall not be deemed a rule nor shall it constitute specific adoption of a rule by the agency. “Rule” does not include rules relating to the management, confinement, discipline or release of inmates of any penal or charitable institution, the New Mexico boys' school, the girls' welfare home or a public hospital; or rules made relating to the management of any particular educational institution, whether elementary or otherwise; or rules made relating to admissions, discipline, supervision, expulsion or graduation of students from an educational institution; and

E. “small business” means a business entity, including its affiliates, that is independently owned and operated and employs fifty or fewer full-time employees.