It is a misdemeanor:
A. to certify or sign any false or fraudulent statement relative to the residence of any applicant for a hunting or fishing license or permit;
B. for any nonresident of New Mexico, for the purpose of securing a New Mexico hunting or fishing license, to make or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statements or representations to any person issuing hunting and fishing licenses in this state;
C. to use a hunting or fishing license issued to or in the name of any other person or in the name of any fictitious person;
D. to hunt game or fish in New Mexico without a license lawfully procured;
E. for any license vendor or any licensee to alter or predate or postdate any license, certificate or permit; or
F. for any nonresident to possess a resident hunting, fishing or trapping license issued in the nonresident's name pursuant to a telephone, electronic or hard copy application.
History: Laws 1923, ch. 129, § 2; C.S. 1929, § 57-219; 1941 Comp., § 43-303; Laws 1945, ch. 99, § 3; 1953 Comp., § 53-3-3; Laws 1963, ch. 213, § 3; 1979, ch. 340, § 7; 2005, ch. 326, § 2.
Cross references. — For penalties for acts described in this section, see 17-2-10 NMSA 1978.
The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, added Subsection F to provide that it is a misdemeanor for a nonresident to possess a resident license issued in the nonresident's name pursuant to a telephone, electronic or hard copy application.
Magistrate has jurisdiction of violations of this section. 1953 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 53-5860.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 17 - Game and Fish and Outdoor Recreation
Article 3 - Licenses and Permits
Section 17-3-1 - Current license required.
Section 17-3-2 - Classes of licenses.
Section 17-3-5 - Application for hunting or fishing licenses; contents; filing.
Section 17-3-6 - False statements; using license issued to another; hunting without license lawfully procured; altering licenses.
Section 17-3-8 - Loss of application blanks by license collector; accounting.
Section 17-3-9 - Application blanks lost by license collector to be void.
Section 17-3-10 - Presumption of loss [sale]
Section 17-3-11 - Possession of license declared void is unlawful.
Section 17-3-12 - Accounting for licenses.
Section 17-3-13 - License fees.
Section 17-3-13.1 - Disabled veteran; license fee exemption; lifetime license.
Section 17-3-13.3 - Big game depredation damage stamp required; disposition of receipts.
Section 17-3-13.4 - Big game depredation damage fund; creation; expenditure.
Section 17-3-13.6 - Disabled military members and veterans; fishing license fee exemption.
Section 17-3-14.1 - Landowner permits for elk.
Section 17-3-14.2 - Landowner permits; management of certain big game species.
Section 17-3-15 - Additional deer license.
Section 17-3-16 - Funds; special drawings for licenses.
Section 17-3-16.1 - Bighorn sheep enhancement permits; issuance; use.
Section 17-3-16.2 - Elk enhancement permit; issuance; use.
Section 17-3-16.3 - Lieutenant governor's deer enhancement permits; issuance; use.
Section 17-3-16.4 - Gould's turkey enhancement permits; issuance; use.
Section 17-3-16.5 - Hunting and fishing authorizations; governor's special events.
Section 17-3-16.6 - Enhancement authorization packages; habitat enhancement.
Section 17-3-17 - Fishing without license; exceptions.
Section 17-3-19 - Special license; minors fishing on scout property.
Section 17-3-20 - Fee disposition.
Section 17-3-21 - [Season and bag limits applicable to minors holding special license.]
Section 17-3-22 - [Administration of 17-3-19 to 17-3-22.]
Section 17-3-24 - [Supervision of fishing at boys' school.]
Section 17-3-26 - Taking minnows and nongame fish to sell as bait; license required; exception.
Section 17-3-27 - Bait license; bond; fee; issuance.
Section 17-3-30 - [Sending game animals, birds and fish to officers of other states.]
Section 17-3-31 - [Permit to capture or destroy protected game damaging crops or property; beavers.]
Section 17-3-32 - Importing game animals; permits.