New Mexico Statutes Chapter 21. State and Private Education Institutions § 21-19A-3. Definitions

A. “advisory committee” means the apprenticeship and training advisory committee to the division;

B. “apprentice” means a person at least sixteen years of age who is approved by the council and is covered by a written agreement with an employer or with an association of employers or employees acting as agent for an employer, which written agreement provides for reasonably continuous employment of the person for not less than two thousand hours in the given trade in which that person is apprenticed in an approved schedule of work experience and for at least one hundred forty-four hours per year of related and supplemental instruction;

C. “apprenticeship committee” means the sponsoring committee of each apprenticeable craft that is responsible for that particular apprenticeship program;

D. “apprenticeship-related instruction” means skills taught off the job that are required by the particular apprenticeable craft and that the apprentice needs to complete the apprenticeship as required by the state apprenticeship agency and the office of apprenticeship;

E. “department” means the workforce solutions department;

F. “division” means the labor relations division of the department;

G. “office of apprenticeship” means the office of apprenticeship of the employment and training administration of the United States department of labor;

H. “related instruction” means organized, off-the-job instruction in theoretical or technical subjects required for the completion of an apprenticeship for a particular apprenticeable trade;

I. “state apprenticeship agency” means the state apprenticeship agency within the department; and

J. “supplementary instruction” means new or upgrading skill training for those already employed as journeymen craftsmen.