New Mexico § 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 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 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.