Section 60-1A-14 - Testing specimens. (Repealed effective July 1, 2012.)
60-1A-14. Testing specimens. (Repealed effective July 1, 2012.)
A. The commission shall adopt rules applying to the handling and testing of urine and other specimens identified by the commission to be taken from racehorses.
B. Each specimen taken from a racehorse shall be divided into two or more samples, and:
(1) one sample shall be tested by the commission or its designated laboratory in order to detect the presence of unauthorized drugs, chemicals, stimulants, depressants or other foreign substances not naturally occurring in a horse; and
(2) the second sample shall be forwarded by the commission to the scientific laboratory division of the department of health.
C. After an inconclusive or positive test result on the sample tested by the commission or its designated laboratory and upon a written request from the president, executive director or manager of the New Mexico horsemen's association on forms designated by the commission, the scientific laboratory division shall transmit the corresponding second sample to the New Mexico horsemen's association.
D. The scientific laboratory division shall keep all samples in a controlled environment for a period of at least three months.
E. The commission shall contract with an independent laboratory to maintain a quality assurance program.