N.M. Stat. § 30-50-3
Definitions.
As used in the Fraudulent Telemarketing Act:
A. "telemarketing" means:
(1)
being employed by or associating with any company, organization, sole
proprietorship or economic venture that uses the telephone on a regular basis as a
primary instrument to obtain money from the people to whom information is transmitted
by telephone communication; or
(2)
representing oneself to a person from whom money is requested as being
associated with any company, organization, sole proprietorship or economic venture
that can be reasonably understood as using the telephone on a regular basis as a
primary instrument to obtain money from the people to whom information is transmitted
by telephone communication; and
B. "telephone communication" means any communication by words, fax, computer
modem, video or other type of transmission that is carried in whole or in part through the
local, long distance or cellular telephone network.