Should any member or employee of the corrections division [corrections department], officer or other employee of the penitentiary, become interested in any manner in any contract for providing provisions, clothing or other necessaries for the use of said penitentiary, or become in any way interested in any contract for buildings or the construction of any buildings of any kind connected with said penitentiary or for furnishing materials for any such building, such member, officer or employee so interested, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be removed from office, or employment and shall forfeit any interest he may have in such contract, and shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) nor less than five hundred dollars ($500).
History: Laws 1889, ch. 76, § 20; C.L. 1897, § 3509; Code 1915, § 5035; C.S. 1929, § 130-118; 1941 Comp., § 45-116; 1953 Comp., § 42-1-16; Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 65.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
See compiler's notes to 33-2-1 NMSA 1978.
Employees being interested in contracts or furnishing supplies prohibited. — Members of boards of state institutions, their employees and officials, or employees of the state or of any institution or agency thereof are prohibited from becoming interested in any contract for expenditure of public money or for furnishing supplies to institutions of which they are board members or employees, and are liable to penalty imposed by appropriation acts. 1932 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 32-373.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 33 - Correctional Institutions
Article 2 - State Correctional Facilities
Section 33-2-1 - Adoption of rules.
Section 33-2-3 - [Previous matters unimpaired.]
Section 33-2-4 - [Transfer of title to new corporation.]
Section 33-2-5 - Disposition of unneeded property.
Section 33-2-6 - Improvements in penitentiary; labor by convicts.
Section 33-2-7 - Penitentiary; conflict of interest[; penalties].
Section 33-2-8 - [Accepting compensation from contractor; aiding escape of prisoner; penalties.]
Section 33-2-9 - Corrections department; contracts; gifts; penalties.
Section 33-2-10 - Penitentiary; rules and regulations.
Section 33-2-11 - Corrections department powers; complaints.
Section 33-2-12.1 - Corrections; family visits.
Section 33-2-14 - Penitentiary; fire.
Section 33-2-15 - Penitentiary; duties.
Section 33-2-17 - Id.; accounts; paying over funds.
Section 33-2-18 - Id.; collection and disbursement of funds.
Section 33-2-19 - What convicts to be confined.
Section 33-2-20 to 33-2-25 - Repealed.
Section 33-2-26 - Payment of prisoners for services.
Section 33-2-29 - Penitentiary; disease.
Section 33-2-30 - [Enforcing commands to prisoners; when wounding or killing justified.]
Section 33-2-31 - [Suppressing disorder; escape and arrest; when wounding or killing justified.]
Section 33-2-32 - Penitentiary; record of misconduct.
Section 33-2-34 - Eligibility for earned meritorious deductions.
Section 33-2-36 - Forfeiture of earned meritorious deductions.
Section 33-2-37 - Restoration of forfeited meritorious deductions.
Section 33-2-38 - Computation of term.
Section 33-2-39 - [Separate sentences construed as cumulative.]
Section 33-2-43 - Penitentiary inmate-release program; establishment.
Section 33-2-44 - Inmate-release program; standards for participation.
Section 33-2-45 - Inmate-release program; visitation privileges.
Section 33-2-46 - Inmate-release program; escape.
Section 33-2-47 - Inmate-release program; conditions of employment.
Section 33-2-49 - Applicability [of Laws 1988, Chapter 78].
Section 33-2-51 - Discharge; opioid use disorder; opioid overdose education; naloxone.