New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 11 - LABOR AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION
Chapter 5 - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
Part 4 - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY - AGRICULTURE
Section 11.5.4.7 - DEFINITIONS

(1) "Agricultural employer" means any person who owns or operates an agricultural establishment or on whose premises or in whose interest an agricultural establishment is operated and any person who is responsible for the management and condition of an agricultural establishment or who acts directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to any employee.

(2) "Agricultural establishment" means a business operation that uses paid employees in the production of food, fiber, or other materials such as seed, seedlings, plants, or parts of plants.

(3) "Hand-labor operations" means agricultural activities or operations performed by hand or with hand tools, including but not limited to the hand harvest of vegetables, nuts, and fruit, hand weeding of crops and hand planting of seedlings, but not including such activities as logging operations, the care or feeding of livestock, or hand-labor operations in permanent structures such as canning facilities or packing houses.

(4) "Handwashing facility" means a facility providing a basin, container, or outlet with an adequate supply of potable water, soap and single-use towels.

(5) "Potable water" means:

(6) "Toilet facility" means a fixed or portable facility designed for defecation and urination, including a biological or chemical toilet, which is supplied with toilet paper adequate to employee needs.