Chapter 52, Article 1 NMSA 1978 shall be known and may be cited as the "Workers' Compensation Act".
§ 52-1-1 NMSA 1978
Short title
Known as the Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 52-1-1 to 52-1-9.1 (88 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case McDaniel v. Loya (2015)
Most recently applied in Manzanares v. Roosevelt Cnty. Adult Det. Ctr. (August 2018)
Laws 1929, ch. 113, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 156-101; 1941 Comp., § 57-901; 1953 Comp., § 59-10-1; Laws 1959, ch. 67, § 1; 1986, ch. 22, § 1; 1987, ch. 235, § 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.