RELATING TO WAGES; PROVIDING THAT EMPLOYERS OF WORKERS ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE ARE EXEMPT FROM THE OVERTIME PROVISIONS OF THE MINIMUM WAGE ACT; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE MINIMUM WAGE ACT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 50-4-24 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1975, Chapter 275, Section 1) is amended to read:

"50-4-24. EMPLOYERS EXEMPT FROM OVERTIME PROVISIONS FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES.--

A. Any employer of workers engaged in the ginning of cotton for market, in any place of employment located within a county where cotton is grown in commercial quantities, and each employee is employed for a period of not more than fourteen weeks in the aggregate in any calendar year, is exempt from the overtime provisions of Subsection C of Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978.

B. An employer of workers engaged in agriculture is exempt from the overtime provisions set forth in Subsection C of Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978. As used in this subsection, "agriculture" has the meaning used in Section 203 of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act."

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