As used in the Missing Persons Information and Reporting Act:

A. “Brittany alert” means a notification relating to an endangered person: (1)     who is a missing person; and

(2)     about whom there is a clear indication that the person has a developmental disability as defined in Subsection A of Section 28-16A-6 N.M. Stat. Ann. and that the person’s health or safety is at risk;

B. “child” means a person under the age of eighteen years who is not emancipated; C. “clearinghouse” means the missing persons information clearinghouse;

D. “custodian” means a parent, guardian or other person who exercises legal physical control, care or custody of a child or of an adult with a developmental disability; or a person who performs one or more activities of daily living for an adult;

E. “endangered person” means a missing person who:

(1)     is in imminent danger of causing harm to the person’s self; (2)     is in imminent danger of causing harm to another;

(3)     is in imminent danger of being harmed by another or who has been harmed by another;

(4)     has been a victim of a crime as provided in the Crimes Against Household Members Act N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-3-10 to 30-3-18 or in Section 30-3A-3 or 30-3A-3.1 N.M. Stat. Ann., or their equivalents in any other jurisdiction;

(5)     is or was protected by an order of protection pursuant to the Family Violence Protection Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 40, Article 13];

(6)     has Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or another degenerative brain disorder or a brain injury; or

(7)     has a developmental disability as defined in Subsection A of Section 28- 16A-6 NMSA 1978 and that person’s health or safety is at risk;

F. “immediate family member” means the spouse, nearest relative or close friend of a person;

G. “law enforcement agency” means a law enforcement agency of the state, a state agency or a political subdivision of the state;

H. “lead station” means an AM radio station that has been designated as the “state primary station” by the federal communications commission for the emergency alert system;

I. “missing person” means a person whose whereabouts are unknown to the person’s custodian or immediate family member and the circumstances of whose absence indicate that:

(1)     the person did not leave the care and control of the custodian or

immediate family member voluntarily and the taking of the person was not authorized by law; or

(2)     the person voluntarily left the care and control of the custodian without the custodian’s consent and without intent to return;

J. “missing person report” means information that is:

(1)     given to a law enforcement agency on a form used for sending information to the national crime information center; and

(2)     about a person whose whereabouts are unknown to the reporter and who is alleged in the form submitted by the reporter to be missing;

K. “person” means an individual, regardless of age;

L. “possible match” means the similarities between unidentified human remains and a missing person that would lead one to believe they are the same person;

M. “reporter” means the person who reports a missing person;

N. “silver alert” means a notification relating to an endangered person: (1)     who is a missing person; and

(2)     who is fifty years or older; or

(3)     about whom there is a clear indication that the individual suffers from Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, regardless of age;

O. “state agency” means an agency of the state, a political subdivision of the state or a public post-secondary educational institution; and

P. “state registrar” means the employee so designated by the public health division of the department of health pursuant to the Vital Statistics Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 24, Article 14].