2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 35 - Magistrate and Municipal Courts
Article 5 - Magistrate Court; Criminal Actions
Section 35-5-4 - Criminal actions; disposition of final order and fine receipt.

A. Upon disposition of any criminal action in the magistrate court, the magistrate shall complete the final order on criminal complaint and deliver the original to the defendant. Whenever fines or costs are received by a magistrate in any criminal action, he shall complete the criminal fine receipt, require the defendant's acknowledgment of receipt of the form on all copies and deliver the original to the defendant. The magistrate shall file and retain the second copies of the final order and fine receipt.

B. If any person refuses to accept the original fine receipt, the magistrate shall note the circumstances of the refusal on the form.

History: 1953 Comp., § 36-7-8, enacted by Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 88; 1991, ch. 82, § 6.

Repeals. — Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 171, repealed former 36-7-8, 1953 Comp., relating to time of notice, effective January 1, 1969.

The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, in the third sentence in Subsection A, inserted "and retained" and deleted "with his standardized monthly report, and the third copies shall be retained by the magistrate" and, in Subsection B, deleted "and mail the original to the administrative office of the courts for filing with other records of the case" at the end.