Section 52-3-5 - AcceptanceA. All employers of employees, subject to the provisions of the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law, shall be conclusively presumed to have accepted the provisions of the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law.B. Election on the part of the employer or of an employer of private domestic servants or of an employer of ranching or agricultural laborers or of a person for whom the services of a qualified real estate salesperson are performed exempt from the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law under the provisions of Section 52-3-2 NMSA 1978 and partners or self-employed persons to be subject to the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law may be made by filing in the office of the superintendent of insurance a written statement to the effect that he accepts the provisions of the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law or an insurance or security undertaking as required by Section 52-3-9 NMSA 1978.C. Every employee shall be conclusively presumed to have accepted the provisions of the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law if his employer is subject to its provisions and has complied with its requirements, including insurance.D. Such compliance with the provisions of the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law, including the provisions for insurance, shall be construed to be a surrender by the employer and the employee of their rights to any other method, form or amount of compensation or determination thereof or to any cause of action, action at law, suit in equity or statutory or common law right or remedy or proceeding whatever for or on account of such disablement or death of such employee resulting therefrom than as provided in the New Mexico Occupational Disease Disablement Law and shall bind the employee himself and, for compensation for his death, shall bind his personal representative, his surviving spouse and next of kin, as well as the employer and those conducting his business during bankruptcy or insolvency.1941 Comp., § 57-1105, enacted by Laws 1945, ch. 135, § 5; 1953 Comp., § 59-11-5; Laws 1971, ch. 261, § 7; 1972, ch. 65, § 4; 1973, ch. 239, § 2; 1975, ch. 317, § 3; 1980, ch. 88, § 1; 1987, ch. 260, § 3; 1989, ch. 263, § 50; 1990 (2nd S.S.), ch. 2, § 34.