Section 30-18-3 - Unlawful brandingUnlawful branding consists of either:
A. branding, marking or causing to be branded or marked any animal, which is the property of another, with any brand not the brand of the owner of the animal;B. defacing or obliterating any brand or mark upon any animal which is the property of another; orC. using any brand unless said brand shall have been duly recorded in the office of the cattle sanitary board of New Mexico [New Mexico livestock board] or the sheep sanitary board of New Mexico [New Mexico livestock board], whichever is applicable, and the person holds a certificate from the cattle sanitary board [New Mexico livestock board] or the sheep sanitary board [New Mexico livestock board] certifying to the fact of such record.Whoever commits unlawful branding is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
1953 Comp., § 40A-18-3, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 18-3.