New Mexico Statutes
Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 17-2-10.2 - Game and fish penalty assessment; payment.

A. Unless a warning notice is given to an alleged violator, at the time the alleged violator is charged with a penalty assessment misdemeanor, the conservation officer shall offer the alleged violator the option of accepting a penalty assessment. The signature of the alleged violator on the penalty assessment notice constitutes an acknowledgment of guilt of the offense stated in the notice. The acknowledgment shall be included in accrual of points toward revocation of licenses as provided for in Section 17-3-34 NMSA 1978 or in regulations adopted to implement that section.
B. Payment of any penalty assessment, including cost of the appropriate license, shall be mailed to the state game commission within thirty days from the date of charge. Payment of penalty assessments are timely if postmarked within thirty days from the date of the charge. The commission may issue a receipt when a penalty assessment is paid by currency, but checks tendered by the violator upon which payment is received are sufficient receipt.
C. No record of any penalty assessment payment is admissible as evidence in court in any civil action.
History: Laws 1995, ch. 177, ยง 2.

Structure New Mexico Statutes

New Mexico Statutes

Chapter 17 - Game and Fish and Outdoor Recreation

Article 2 - Hunting and Fishing Regulations

Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 17-2-1 - Commission powers.

Section 17-2-2 - Game to be protected.

Section 17-2-2.1 - Artificial wildlife.

Section 17-2-3 - Protected wildlife species and game fish defined.

Section 17-2-4 - Repealed.

Section 17-2-4.1 - Jaguar to be protected.

Section 17-2-4.2 - Amphibians and reptiles; protected; permits; unlawful taking; misdemeanor; penalties.

Section 17-2-5 - Adoption of regulations; effective date.

Section 17-2-6 - Game and fish management areas; closed lakes or streams; notice.

Section 17-2-7 - Unlawful hunting or fishing.

Section 17-2-7.1 - Interference prohibited; criminal penalties; civil penalties; revocation of license, certificate or permit.

Section 17-2-7.2 - Landowner taking; conditions; department responsibilities.

Section 17-2-8 - Unlawful taking of big game and waste of game.

Section 17-2-9 - Jurisdiction of magistrate court.

Section 17-2-10 - Violation of game and fish laws or rules; penalties.

Section 17-2-10.1 - Game and fish penalty assessment misdemeanors; definition; schedule of assessments.

Section 17-2-10.2 - Game and fish penalty assessment; payment.

Section 17-2-10.3 - Game and fish penalty assessment; license revocation.

Section 17-2-10.4 - Game and fish penalty assessment revenue; disposition.

Section 17-2-11 - [Witness testifying for state; evidence not to be used against him.]

Section 17-2-12 - Refuges; firearms on; prohibited; exceptions.

Section 17-2-13 - Songbirds; trapping, killing or injuring prohibited.

Section 17-2-14 - Hawks, vultures and owls; taking, possessing, trapping, destroying, maiming or selling prohibited; exception by permit; penalty.

Section 17-2-15 - [Horned toads; killing, selling or shipping from state unlawful.]

Section 17-2-16 - Repealed.

Section 17-2-17 - [Storage of game or fish.]

Section 17-2-18 - [Menu as evidence of possession of game or fish.]

Section 17-2-19 - Enforcement of game laws; powers of conservation officers.

Section 17-2-20 - [Seizure of devices used for violating law; nuisance; destruction; firearms excepted.]

Section 17-2-20.1 - Seizure and forfeiture; property subject.

Section 17-2-20.2 - Repealed.

Section 17-2-20.3 - Penalties.

Section 17-2-21 - [Sale or disposition of game or fish after seizure; invoice furnished purchaser or donee; disposition of proceeds of sale.]

Section 17-2-22 - Sale of evidence in cases of appeal.

Section 17-2-23 - [Reports of seizures and sales.]

Section 17-2-24 - [Officer's right to use animal or vehicle transporting seized game or fish; public conveyances excepted.]

Section 17-2-25 - [Game or fish in possession of passenger; carrier exempt from liability; seizure.]

Section 17-2-26 - Civil liability.

Section 17-2-27 - [District attorneys to prosecute and defend actions under fish and game laws.]

Section 17-2-28 - [Indians hunting off reservations; hunting on reservations; application of laws.]

Section 17-2-29 - [Hunting and boating while intoxicated or under the influence of narcotic drugs prohibited.]

Section 17-2-30 - [Person convicted of hunting or boating while intoxicated or under influence of narcotic drugs; revocation and withholding of hunting and fishing license privileges.]

Section 17-2-31 - Use of artificial light while hunting prohibited.

Section 17-2-32 - Diseased rabbits; hunting and trapping.