New Mexico Statutes Chapter 22. Public Schools § 22-15C-2. Definitions

A. “additional student” means a student in the certified forty-day membership of the current year for a school district or state institution above the number certified in the forty-day membership of the prior year for the school district or state institution;

B. “bureau” means the instructional material bureau of the department;

C. “bureau of Indian education” means the bureau of Indian education of the United States department of the interior;

D. “fund” means the school library material fund;

E. “governmentally controlled school” means a bureau of Indian education school that is governmentally owned and controlled, is located in New Mexico, provides instruction for first through twelfth grades and is not sectarian or denominational;

F. “library material processing” means cataloging of school library material, including in electronic format, according to nationally accepted standards, and the application of bar code labels and call-number classification labels to the material;

G. “membership” means the total enrollment of qualified students on the fortieth day of the school year entitled to the free use of school library material pursuant to the School Library Material Act;

H. “qualified student” means a public school or governmentally controlled school student who:

I. “school library material” means books and other educational media, including online reference and periodical databases, that are made available in a school library to students for circulation and use in the library; and

J. “school district” includes state-chartered charter schools.