New Mexico Statutes 12-11-13. Definitions
As used in the Legislative Disaster Succession Act N.M. Stat. Ann. § 12-11-11 to 12-11-18:
Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 12-11-13
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
A. “attack” means any hostile action by an enemy of the United States which is intended to and physically damages citizens or property in the United States;
B. “disaster” means the damage or injury, caused by enemy attack, to persons or property in this state of such magnitude that a state of martial law is declared to exist in this state, and a disaster emergency is declared by the chief executive officer of the United States and the chief executive officer of this state;
C. “unavailable” means unable because of death, disability or presumption of death raised by absence from usual place of domicile for unknown causes, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a member of the legislature. The appearance of the member at a session will automatically disqualify a disaster successor, and remove the unavailability of the member;
D. “disaster successor” means a person possessing the qualifications required of a member, designated pursuant to the Legislative Disaster Succession Act, to act for a member who is unavailable during the period of disaster emergency.