Contractor becoming employer in casual employment

NMSA 1978, § 52-1-23 — under Article 1.

NMSA 1978, § 52-1-23

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. History: 1953 Comp., § 59-10-12.16, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 295, § 16; 1989, ch. 263, § 17.