For the purpose of enforcing the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law, there are hereby conferred upon the director the following powers and duties, so that when any employer subject to the provisions of the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law fails to comply with Section 52-3-9 NMSA 1978 relating to the filing of an undertaking in the nature of insurance or security for the payment of benefits under the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law, the director is hereby empowered to institute in his own name an action in the district court of Santa Fe county or the county wherein the employer resides or has his principal office or place of business to enjoin the employer from continuing his business operations until he has complied with the provisions of Section 52-3-9 NMSA 1978, and upon a showing of the facts above recited, the court shall grant the injunction. In any such action, the attorney general or district attorney for the judicial district wherein the action is brought shall represent the director.
History: 1941 Comp., § 57-1141, enacted by Laws 1945, ch. 135, § 41; 1953 Comp., § 59-11-42; Laws 1986, ch. 22, § 73.
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