2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 35 - Magistrate and Municipal Courts
Article 4 - Magistrate Court; Civil Actions
Section 35-4-1 - Civil actions; receipts for money.
Every magistrate shall, on a form prescribed by the administrative office of the courts:
A. immediately give a written itemized receipt to any person paying money to the court in connection with any civil action; and
B. require a written itemized receipt from the payee before making any disbursement authorized by law.
History: 1953 Comp., § 36-4-7, enacted by Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 61; 1991, ch. 82, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSRepeals. — Laws 1968, ch. 62, § 171, repeals former 36-4-7, 1953 Comp., relating to civil penalty for failure to execute or make return of process, effective January 1, 1969.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, redesignated former Paragraphs (1) and (2) as Subsections A and B; substituted "immediately" for "forthwith" at the beginning of Subsection A; deleted former Subsection B which read "Any magistrate who violates this section is guilty of a petty misdemeanor and shall be removed from office"; and made a related stylistic change.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 51 C.J.S. Justices of the Peace §§ 43, 60.
