2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 10 - Public Officers and Employees
Article 1 - Qualifications
Section 10-1-8 - Failure to employ residents; penalties.]
Any person, firm, corporation or association having charge of or control over the employment of persons mentioned in Section 1 of this act, who shall willfully refuse to comply with the provisions of said Section 1, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $300 or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
History: Laws 1933, ch. 68, § 4; 1941 Comp., § 10-108; 1953 Comp., § 5-1-8.
Compiler's notes. — "Section 1 of this act," referred to near the beginning of the first sentence, means Laws 1933, ch. 68, § 1, which appeared as 10-1-5 NMSA 1978, but was repealed by Laws 1979, ch. 54, § 1.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 67 C.J.S. Officers and Public Employees § 26; 81A C.J.S. States § 83.
