The solicitation by any person of another person to employ, or procure or bring about the employment of, any attorney-at-law for the purpose of presenting, collecting, enforcing or prosecuting such a claim for damages, if followed by the employment of said attorney for such purposes, shall, in any prosecution for violation of this act [ 36-2-29, 36-2-31 to 36-2-38 NMSA 1978] or in any injunction action instituted pursuant to this act, be prima facie evidence that such person so soliciting was an agent, employee or acting on behalf of said attorney at law.
§ 36-2-33 NMSA 1978
[Solicitation prosecutions; prima facie evidence of agency.]
1941 Comp., § 18-131, enacted by Laws 1949, ch. 81, § 4; 1953 Comp., § 18-1-31.
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