For purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act, where any employer procures any work to be done wholly or in part for him by a contractor where the work so procured to be done is casual employment as to such employer, then such contractor shall become the employer.
§ 52-1-23 NMSA 1978
Contractor becoming employer in casual employment
Known as the Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 52–52 (88 sections).
1953 Comp., § 59-10-12.16, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 295, § 16; 1989, ch. 263, § 17.
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