Where game or fish while being transported is seized under this chapter, the officer making such seizure shall have authority upon payment of reasonable compensation therefor, to also take possession of and use any animals and vehicles used in such transportation for the purpose of conveying the game or fish seized to a convenient railroad station or place of safekeeping or sale, and also for conveying any person arrested for the unlawful possession of such game or fish to a place of hearing or trial, and no liability shall attach to such officer by reason thereof, but this section shall not apply to any animal or vehicle while being used as a public conveyance for passengers or mails, or any railroad car.
History: Laws 1912, ch. 85, § 25; Code 1915, § 2448; C.S. 1929, § 57-234; 1941 Comp., § 43-228; 1953 Comp., § 53-2-26.
Compiler's notes. — The compilers of the 1915 Code substituted the words "this chapter" for the words "this act." For disposition of Chapter 47, 1915 Code, in NMSA 1978, see note to 17-2-11 NMSA 1978.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 17 - Game and Fish and Outdoor Recreation
Article 2 - Hunting and Fishing Regulations
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 17-2-4.1 - Jaguar to be protected.
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 17-2-7.2 - 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 17-2-10.2 - 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 17-2-15 - [Horned toads; killing, selling or shipping from state unlawful.]
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 17-2-20.1 - Seizure and forfeiture; property subject.
Section 17-2-20.3 - Penalties.
Section 17-2-22 - Sale of evidence in cases of appeal.
Section 17-2-23 - [Reports of seizures and sales.]
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 17-2-31 - Use of artificial light while hunting prohibited.