2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 52: Workers' Compensation
Article 3: Occupational Disease Disablement, 52-3-1 through 52-3-60
Section 52-3-3: Definitions; employee and lessee in mines.

52-3-3. Definitions; employee and lessee in mines.

The term "employee" or "worker" as used in the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law [52-3-1 NMSA 1978] means:

A. every person in the service of the state and of a county, municipality or school district, including the regular members of lawfully constituted police and fire departments of municipalities;

B. every person in the service of any employer subject to the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law [52-3-1 NMSA 1978] including aliens and minors legally or illegally permitted to work for hire, but not including a person whose employment is casual and is not in the usual course of the trade, business or occupation of the employer and not including ranching or agricultural workers and domestic servants of employers exempt under Section 52-3-2 NMSA 1978 unless the employer shall so elect; and

C. lessees of mining property and their employees who are engaged in the performance of work that is a part of the business conducted by the lessor and over whose work the lessor retains supervision or control are within the meaning of this section employees of such lessor.