Section 17-4-18 – [Offering game or fish for sale; storage; keeping in hotel or eating place; invoice to remain attached.]
If such game or game fish is held, exposed or offered for sale or sold by the consignee or kept in any storage, hotel, restaurant, cafe or boardinghouse, such invoice shall be kept attached thereto as aforesaid until the same shall have been prepared for consumption. History: Laws 1912, ch. 85, § 69; Code 1915, […]
Section 17-4-2 – Eminent domain power; abandonment or relinquishment of property acquired.
Any property or rights-of-way required for use by the state game commission may be acquired as for a public purpose and as a matter of public necessity under the power of eminent domain, by and with the written approval of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the property or rights-of-way sought […]
Section 17-4-3 – [Exchange, sale, lease, sublease and assignment of lands by commission; proceeds.]
The state game commission, except as herein limited, is authorized to exchange, sell, lease, sublease or assign any interest in any lands and leases heretofore or hereafter acquired including but not limited to the sale or lease of timber, oil, gas, minerals or any other severable product of or interest in real estate, when, in […]
Section 17-4-5 – [Fish hatcheries established by United States; exemption from state laws.]
In case the United States shall establish one or more fish hatching and fish cultural stations in the state of New Mexico, the United States commissioner of fisheries and his duly authorized agents are hereby accorded the right to conduct fish hatching and fish culture and all operations connected therewith, in any manner and at […]
Section 17-4-6 – Hunting and fishing on private property; posting; penalty.
A. Whenever the owner or lessee desires to protect or propagate game birds, animals or fish within the owner’s or lessee’s enclosure or pasture, the owner or lessee shall publish notices in English and Spanish warning all persons not to hunt or fish within the enclosure or pasture. The notices shall be posted in at […]
Section 17-4-7 – Liability of landowner permitting persons to hunt, fish or use lands for recreation; duty of care; exceptions.
A. Any owner, lessee or person in control of lands who, without charge or other consideration, other than a consideration paid to the landowner by the state, the federal government or any other governmental agency, grants permission to any person or group to use the owner’s, lessee’s or land controller’s lands for the purpose of […]
Section 17-4-8 – [Parks or waters for propagation of game or fish; license required.]
No person shall have or maintain any park, enclosure, lake or body of water for the purpose of keeping or propagating therein any game or game fish for sale, nor shall any living game or game fish from such park, enclosure, lake or body of water be sold or offered for sale, unless the owner, […]
Section 17-3-47 – Permit.
The director of the department of game and fish may grant a permit to any person to carry out acts which are prohibited by the Airborne Hunting Act [17-3-43 to 17-3-47 NMSA 1978]. Permits shall be granted only to protect or aid in the administration or protection of land, water, wildlife, livestock, domesticated animals, human […]
Section 17-3-48 – Purchase or use of license, certificate or permit, or hunting or fishing while under suspension or revocation; penalty.
Any person who purchases a hunting or fishing license, or hunts or fishes during the period in which his hunting or fishing license, permit or certificate has been revoked or suspended in accordance with Section 17-2-10 or 17-3-34 NMSA 1978 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided by Section 17-2-10 NMSA […]
Section 17-3-49 – Computer-assisted remote hunting prohibited; penalties.
A. A person shall not: (1) engage in computer-assisted remote hunting; (2) provide or operate facilities for the purpose of computer-assisted remote hunting; (3) create, maintain, provide, advertise or sell computer software or an internet web site for the purpose of computer-assisted remote hunting; or (4) entice, possess or confine an animal or bird for […]