New Mexico Statutes Chapter 12. Miscellaneous Public Affairs Matters § 12-11-13. Definitions

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.