2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 4: Counties
Article 40: County Clerk, 4-40-1 through 4-40-10
Section 4-40-10: Newspapers; abstraction, mutilation or destruction; penalty.
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 Sections 4-40-7 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.
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