2009 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses.
Article 8 - Nuisances
Section 30-8-12 - Conduct offensive to public well-being.

30-8-12. Conduct offensive to public well-being.

Conduct offensive to public well-being consists of any person:   

A.     who is the owner or tenant in possession of any premises located within any incorporated municipality, permitting any privy or cesspool upon the premises owned or occupied by him, to become a menace to public health or constitutes [to constitute] a condition offensive to the public;   

B.     erecting a carbon black plant closer than five miles from the limits of any incorporated municipality;   

C.     erecting any slaughterhouse or place for the slaughter of animals within one mile from the limits of any incorporated municipality, without the written consent of the governing body of such municipality;   

D.     spitting upon or in any public building, store, church, house, school or other building in which persons frequently congregate, or upon or in any public carrier, public sidewalk or roadway; or   

E.     conducting or participating in any physical or mental endurance contest for a period longer than twenty-four hours or conducting or participating in any such endurance contest within any period of one hundred sixty-eight hours [sic]; provided this subsection shall not apply to any athletic contest of schools, colleges or universities of the state.   

Whoever commits conduct offensive to public well-being is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.   

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