If any funeral director or other person authorized by law to conduct the business of a funeral director receives or contracts to receive any money or thing of value from relatives or friends of a deceased alleged indigent or unclaimed decedent whose burial or cremation expenses are paid or to be paid by the board of county commissioners and fails to notify the board of county commissioners of that fact, the funeral director or other person authorized by law to conduct the business of a funeral director shall be liable to the county in an amount double the amount paid or to be paid by the board of county commissioners of that county.
History: Laws 1939, ch. 224, § 7; 1941 Comp., § 73-211; 1953 Comp., § 13-2-11; Laws 1999, ch. 241, § 10.
The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, added the catchline and made stylistic changes throughout.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 13 - Burial of Indigents
Section 24-13-1 - Burial or cremation of unclaimed decedents and of indigents.
Section 24-13-2 - Persons deemed indigent.
Section 24-13-3 - Expenses for burial or cremation.
Section 24-13-4 - Burial after investigation; cost of opening and closing grave.
Section 24-13-5 - Payment of burial or cremation expenses; commissioners' liability.
Section 24-13-6 - Money from relatives; duty of funeral director.
Section 24-13-7 - Failure to notify; funeral director's liability.
Section 24-13-8 - [District attorneys to enforce burial act.]