The commissioner [director of the labor and industrial division] shall collect, systematize and present in annual reports to the governor statistical details relating to his office and especially as bearing upon the commercial, social and sanitary conditions of the employees, the means of escape from dangers incident to their employment; the protection of life and health in factory or other places of employment; the labor of women and children and the hours of labor exacted from them and in general all matters which tend to affect the prosperity of the mechanical, manufacturing and productive industries of this state and of the persons employed therein.

History: Laws 1931, ch. 9, § 10; 1941 Comp., § 57-110; 1953 Comp., § 59-1-10.

Repeals. — Section 50-1-9 NMSA 1978 provided for the delayed repeal of the labor and industrial commission, effective July 1, 2014. Laws 2007, ch. 200, § 24 repealed 50-1-9 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 2007.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and it is not part of the law.

Compiler's notes. — Laws 1987, ch. 342, § 33 provided that all references in law to the "labor commissioner" shall be construed as references to the "director of the labor and industrial division of the department of labor".

Laws 2007, ch. 200 repealed the labor department. Section 9-26-15 NMSA 1978 provides that all statutory references to the "labor department or any divisions of the labor department shall be deemed to be references to the workforce solutions department".