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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in the Crime Victims Reparation Act:
A. “child” means an unmarried person who is under the age of majority and includes a stepchild and an adopted child;
B. “collateral source” includes benefits for economic loss otherwise reparable under the Crime Victims Reparation Act which the victim or claimant has received or which are readily available to him from:
(1) the offender;
(2) social security, medicare and medicaid;
(3) workers' compensation;
(4) proceeds of a contract of insurance payable to the victim;
(5) a contract providing prepaid hospital and other health care services or benefits for disability, except for the benefits of any life insurance policy;
(6) applicable indigent funds; or
(7) cash donations;
C. “commission” means the crime victims reparation commission;
D. “dependents” means those relatives of the deceased or disabled victim who are more than fifty percent dependent upon the victim's income at the time of his death or disability and includes the child of a victim born after his death or disability;
E. “family relationship group” means any person related to another person within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity;
F. “injury” means actual bodily harm or disfigurement and includes pregnancy and extreme mental distress. For the purposes of this subsection, “extreme mental distress” means a substantial personal disorder of emotional processes, thought or cognition that impairs judgment, behavior or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life;
G. “permanent total disability” means loss of both legs or arms, loss of one leg and one arm, total loss of eyesight, paralysis or other physical condition permanently incapacitating the worker from performing any work at any gainful occupation;
H. “relative” means a person's spouse, parent, grandparent, stepfather, stepmother, child, grandchild, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister or spouse's parents; and
I. “victim” means:
(1) a person in New Mexico who is injured or killed by any act or omission of any other person that is a crime enumerated in Section 31-22-8 NMSA 1978;
(2) a resident of New Mexico who is injured or killed by such a crime occurring in a state other than New Mexico if that state does not have an eligible crime victims compensation program; or
(3) a resident of New Mexico who is injured or killed by an act of international terrorism, as provided in 18 U.S.C. Section 2331.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New Mexico Statutes Chapter 31. Criminal Procedure § 31-22-3. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nm/chapter-31-criminal-procedure/nm-st-sect-31-22-3/
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