Section 50-4-24 - Employers exempt from overtime provisions for certain employees.
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.