2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 56 - Commercial Instruments and Transactions
Article 8 - Money, Interest and Usury
Section 56-8-14 - Criminal penalty.
Any person, corporation or association who shall violate the provisions of this act [56-8-9, 56-8-12 through 56-8-14 NMSA 1978] shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before the district court or a justice of the peace shall be fined the sum of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars.
History: 1953 Comp., § 50-6-19, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 209, § 5.
Saving clauses. — Laws 1957, ch. 209, § 6 provided that none of the provisions of the New Mexico Small Loan Act of 1955, Laws 1955, ch. 128, is amended or repealed by this act.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Interest and Usury §§ 307, 357 to 360.
Construction and application of Consumer Credit Protection Act provisions (18 USCS §§ 891-894) prohibiting extortionate credit transactions, 106 A.L.R. Fed. 33.
91 C.J.S. Usury § 160.
