2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 30: Criminal Offenses
Article 12: Abuse of Privacy, 30-12-1 through 30-12-14
Section 30-12-13: Defacing tombs.
30-12-13. Defacing tombs.
Defacing tombs consists of either:
A. intentionally defacing, breaking, destroying or removing any tomb, monument or gravestone erected to any deceased person or any memento, memorial or marker upon any place of burial of any human being or any ornamental plant, tree or shrub appertaining to the place of burial of any human being; or
B. intentionally marking, defacing, injuring, destroying or removing any fence, post, rail or wall of any cemetery or graveyard or erected within any cemetery or graveyard or any marker, memorial or funerary object upon any place of burial of any human being.
Whoever commits defacing a tomb is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for a definite term less than one year or both.
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