Code · New Mexico · Chapter 4 — Counties · Article 40 — County Clerk

4-40-10. [Newspapers; abstraction, mutilation or destruction;

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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.