N.M. Stat. § 4-40-10

Current through 2024, ch. 69

Section 4-40-10 - Newspapers; abstraction, mutilation or destruction; penalty

Any person who shall willfully abstract, destroy, mutilate or deface any number or volume of such newspapers purchased in pursuance of Sections4-40-7 and 4-40-8 NMSA 1978, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], or imprisonment [imprisoned] in the county jail not more than six months, or [punished] both by such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

NMS § 4-40-10

Laws 1889, ch. 49, § 4; C.L. 1897, § 771; Code 1915, § 1244; C.S. 1929, § 33-4310; 1941 Comp., § 15-3711; 1953 Comp., § 15-39-11.