As used in this act: A. “minor” means any unmarried person who has not reached his eighteenth birthday; B. “nudity” means the showing of the male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state; C. “sexual conduct” […]
A. It is unlawful for any person offering for sale, selling or distributing books, magazines or other printed material to require, as a condition for any such sale or delivery, that the purchaser or receiver of the delivery purchase or accept the delivery of any other book, magazine or other printed matter which contains sexually […]
It is unlawful for a person to knowingly sell, deliver, distribute, display for sale or provide to a minor, or knowingly to possess with intent to sell, deliver, distribute, display for sale or provide to a minor: A. any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film or similar visual representation or image of a person […]
A. It is unlawful for any person, offering for sale in a retail establishment open to the general public any book, magazine or other printed material the cover of which depicts nudity, sado-masochistic [sadomasochistic] abuse, sexual conduct or sexual excitement and which is harmful to minors, to knowingly exhibit that book, magazine or material in […]
It is unlawful for any person knowingly to exhibit to a minor or knowingly to provide to a minor an admission ticket or pass or knowingly to admit a minor to premises whereon there is exhibited a motion picture, show or other presentation which, in whole or in part, depicts nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic […]
A. It is unlawful for the owner or operator of an outdoor motion picture theater to show or exhibit any motion picture which in whole or in part depicts unclothed sexual conduct in an outdoor theater unless the exhibitor can prove that the outdoor screen on which the picture is to be shown cannot be […]
A. Child solicitation by electronic communication device consists of a person knowingly and intentionally soliciting a child under sixteen years of age, by means of an electronic communication device, to engage in sexual intercourse, sexual contact or in a sexual or obscene performance, or to engage in any other sexual conduct when the perpetrator is […]
A. Criminal sexual communication with a child consists of a person knowingly and intentionally communicating directly with a specific child under sixteen years of age by sending the child obscene images of the person’s intimate parts by means of an electronic communication device when the perpetrator is at least four years older than the child. […]
A. No prosecution based under this act shall be commenced unless the district attorney of the county in which the offense occurs shall have previously determined that the matter or performance is harmful to minors and the defendant shall have received actual or constructive notice of such determination. Persons shall be presumed to have constructive […]
No person shall be guilty of violating the provisions of this act: A. where such person had reasonable cause to believe that the minor involved had reached his eighteenth birthday, and such minor exhibited to such person a draft card, driver’s license, birth certificate or other official or apparently official document purporting to establish that […]
A. It is unlawful for any minor to falsely represent to any person mentioned in Section 2 or Section 3 [30-37-2 or 30-37-3 NMSA 1978] of this act, or to his agent, that such minor has reached his eighteenth birthday, with the intent to procure any material set forth in Section 2 of this act, […]
A. A person violating Section 30-37-2, 30-37-2.1, 30-37-3 or 30-37-3.1 NMSA 1978 is guilty of a misdemeanor. B. Any person violating the provisions of Section 30-37-6 NMSA 1978 shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor. History: 1953 Comp., § 40-50-7, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 257, § 7; 1983, ch. 152, § 3; 1985, ch. […]
In order to provide for the uniform application of this act to all minors within this state, it is intended that the sole and only regulation of the sale, distribution or provision of any matter described in Section 2 [30-37-2 NMSA 1978], or admission to, or exhibition of, any performance described in Section 3 [30-37-3 […]
The legislature finds that children do not have the judgment necessary to protect themselves from harm and that the legislature has the inherent power to control commercial conduct within this state for the protection of minors in a manner that reaches beyond the scope of its authority to protect adults. The legislature also finds that […]
