2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 20 - Military Affairs
Article 4 - National Guard
Section 20-4-5 - Workmen's compensation.
Whenever a member of the national guard is on state-ordered duty or while on other state duty reasonably requested by competent military authority or while traveling directly to or from said duty, he is a workman under the Workmen's Compensation Act and the department of military affairs is his employer. The average weekly wage of a member of the national guard shall be computed as seven times the daily pay and allowances and the value of rations and quarters supplied him while on state duty.
History: 1978 Comp., § 20-4-5, enacted by Laws 1987, ch. 318, § 22.
ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — Laws 1987, ch. 235, § 1 amended 52-1-1 NMSA 1978, formerly the short title of the Workmen's Compensation Act, to read: "Chapter 52, Article 1 NMSA 1978 shall be known and may be cited as the 'Workers' Compensation Act'".
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 53 Am. Jur. 2d Military, and Civil Defense § 169 et seq.
Workmen's compensation: person in military or naval service, 150 A.L.R. 1456.
6 C.J.S. Armed Services § 293.
