A municipality may within one mile of its boundary direct the location, regulate and prohibit any offensive and unwholesome business or establishment.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-17-11, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
Cross references. — For public nuisance generally, see 30-8-1 NMSA 1978.
For erection of carbon black plant near municipality, see 30-8-12 NMSA 1978.
For permitting privy or cesspool within municipality to become menace to public health, see 30-8-12 NMSA 1978.
For erection of slaughterhouses near municipality without consent of governing body, see 30-8-12 NMSA 1978.
Law reviews. — For survey, "Torts: Sovereign and Governmental Immunity in New Mexico," see 6 N.M.L. Rev. 249 (1976).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 56 Am. Jur. 2d Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions §§ 447 to 451.
Slaughterhouse as nuisance, 27 A.L.R. 329.
Slaughterhouse, power to prescribe manner or conditions of serving public, 46 A.L.R. 1486.
Animal rendering or bone boiling plant or business as nuisance, 17 A.L.R.2d 1269.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 18 - Powers of Municipalities
Section 3-18-1 - General powers; body politic and corporate powers.
Section 3-18-2 - Prohibition on municipal taxing power.
Section 3-18-4 - Buildings; construct, purchase, rehabilitate, care for.
Section 3-18-6 - Building construction and restrictions; establishing fire zones.
Section 3-18-10 - Power of eminent domain; purposes; proceedings.
Section 3-18-11 - Fire prevention and protection; insurance for volunteer firemen.
Section 3-18-12 - Food and merchandise; regulation and inspection.
Section 3-18-13 - Industrial nuisances and nauseous locations; regulation and prohibition.
Section 3-18-15 - Works of art; other works; acquisition and maintenance.
Section 3-18-16 - Markets and market places.
Section 3-18-17 - Nuisances and offenses; regulation or prohibition.
Section 3-18-19 - Park and recreation construction authorized.
Section 3-18-20 - Police ordinances; county jails.
Section 3-18-21 - Railroads; street railroads; crossings.
Section 3-18-23 - Steam boiler inspection.
Section 3-18-24 - Licensing and regulating secondhand and junk stores.
Section 3-18-25 - Water systems; sewers; assessments.
Section 3-18-26 - Toll bridges.
Section 3-18-27 - Trees and shrubs.
Section 3-18-28 - Municipal employees' retirement system.
Section 3-18-29 - [Foreign-trade zones.]
Section 3-18-30 - Parking citations; certain municipalities; administrative cost assessment.
Section 3-18-31 - Sale of gasoline; authority of the municipality.
Section 3-18-32 - Limitation of county and municipal restrictions on solar collectors.