2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 4 - Counties
Section 40 County Clerk
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.
History: 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.
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