For serious permanent disfigurement about the face or head, the workers' compensation judge may allow, in addition to other compensation benefits that may be allowed under the Workers' Compensation Act, an additional sum for compensation on account of the serious permanent disfigurement as he deems just but not to exceed a maximum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500).
§ 52-1-44 NMSA 1978
Compensation benefits; facial disfigurement
Known as the Workers' Compensation Act
The act spans §§ 52–52 (88 sections).
1953 Comp., § 59-10-18.5, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 67, § 23; 1967, ch. 151, § 4; 1986, ch. 22, § 14; 1989, ch. 263, § 26.
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.