New Mexico Statutes Chapter 67. Highways § 67-16-3. Definitions

A. “keep America beautiful program” means a comprehensive program to end littering, improve recycling and beautify American communities;

B. “committee” means the New Mexico clean and beautiful advisory committee;

C. “department” means the tourism department;

D. “litter” means weeds, graffiti and all waste material, including disposable packages or containers, but not including the waste of the primary processes of mining, logging, sawmilling or farming;

E. “New Mexico clean and beautiful program” means the statewide keep America beautiful program established by the department to carry out the purposes of the Litter Control and Beautification Act;

F. “person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, firm, receiver, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, fiduciary or representative or group of individuals or entities of any kind;

G. “public place” means an area that is used or held out for use by the public, whether owned or operated by public or private interests;

H. “recycling” means the collection, separation or processing and return to the economic mainstream of raw materials or products that would otherwise become solid waste; and

I. “tourism region” means one of the following: