2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 13 - Burial of Indigents
Section 24-13-7 - Failure to notify; funeral director's liability. (1999)

If any funeral director or other person authorized by law to conduct the business of a funeral director receives or contracts to receive any money or thing of value from relatives or friends of a deceased alleged indigent or unclaimed decedent whose burial or cremation expenses are paid or to be paid by the board of county commissioners and fails to notify the board of county commissioners of that fact, the funeral director or other person authorized by law to conduct the business of a funeral director shall be liable to the county in an amount double the amount paid or to be paid by the board of county commissioners of that county.