Unlawful removal of effects consists of any person removing or causing to be removed any baggage or effects from any hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boarding house while there is a lien existing thereon for the proper charges due for fare or board furnished from such hotel, motel, trailer park, inn, rented dwelling or boarding house, and where the owner or person in possession of such baggage or effects is given actual notice of the fact of such lien, or where a notice of such lien has been conspicuously posted upon the premises adjacent to such baggage or effects, giving notice of the fact of such lien and the amount thereof.
Whoever commits unlawful removal of effects is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-16-17, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 16-17.
Cross references. — For landlord's lien, see 48-3-5 NMSA 1978.
For enforcement of liens, see 48-3-13, 48-3-14 NMSA 1978.
For lien in favor of owners or operators of hotels, rooming houses, apartment houses, rental dwellings, auto courts, trailer courts or campgrounds, priority and enforcement of same and penalty for removal of property affected thereby, see 48-3-16 to 48-3-18 NMSA 1978.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses
Section 30-16-4 - Aggravated burglary.
Section 30-16-5 - Possession of burglary tools.
Section 30-16-7 - Unlawful dealing in federal food coupons or WIC checks.
Section 30-16-8 - Embezzlement.
Section 30-16-11 - Receiving stolen property; penalties.
Section 30-16-12 - Falsely representing oneself as incapacitated.
Section 30-16-13 - Cheating machine or device.
Section 30-16-14 - Failing to label secondhand watches.
Section 30-16-15 - Coercing the purchase of insurance from particular broker.
Section 30-16-16 - Falsely obtaining services or accommodations; probable cause; immunity; penalty.
Section 30-16-17 - Unlawful removal of effects.
Section 30-16-18 - Improper sale, disposal, removal or concealing of encumbered property.
Section 30-16-19 - [Shoplifting;] definitions.
Section 30-16-20 - Shoplifting.
Section 30-16-21 - Civil liability of adult shoplifter; penalty.
Section 30-16-22 - Presumptions created.
Section 30-16-23 - Reasonable detention.
Section 30-16-24.1 - Theft of identity; obtaining identity by electronic fraud.
Section 30-16-25 - Credit cards; definitions.
Section 30-16-26 - Theft of a credit card by taking or retaining possession of card taken.
Section 30-16-27 - Possession of a credit card stolen, lost, mislaid or delivered by mistake.
Section 30-16-28 - Fraudulent transfer or receipt of a credit card.
Section 30-16-29 - Fraudulent taking, receiving or transferring credit cards.
Section 30-16-30 - Dealing in credit cards of another.
Section 30-16-31 - Forgery of a credit card.
Section 30-16-32 - Fraudulent signing of credit cards or sales slips or agreements.
Section 30-16-33 - Fraudulent use of a credit card.
Section 30-16-34 - Fraudulent acts by merchants or their employees.
Section 30-16-35 - Possession of incomplete credit cards or machinery, plates or other contrivance.
Section 30-16-36 - Receipt of property obtained in violation of act.
Section 30-16-37 - Obtaining fraudulently acquired transportation ticket at a discount.
Section 30-16-38 - Applicability of other laws.
Section 30-16-46 - Legislative finding.