Any person who shall take down, remove, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument or notice of location upon any mining claim without the consent of the owner or owners thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars [($100)] or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 25, § 5; C.L. 1897, § 2302; Code 1915, § 3451; C.S. 1929, § 88-107; 1941 Comp., § 67-207; 1953 Comp., § 63-2-7.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 53A Am. Jur. 2d Mines and Minerals § 377 et seq.
58 C.J.S. Mines and Minerals § 47.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 3 - Mining Locations and Operations
Section 69-3-1 - Mining claim location and posting notice.
Section 69-3-7 - Discovery of natural gas or hydrocarbons.
Section 69-3-8 - [Exceptions.]
Section 69-3-10 - [Boundary posts.]
Section 69-3-12 - Amended and additional location notices.
Section 69-3-12.1 - Annual labor and annual filings.
Section 69-3-13 - [Alteration, removal or destruction of location marks or notice; penalty.]
Section 69-3-14 - [Defacing or changing location notice; penalty; correction of errors.]
Section 69-3-15 to 69-3-17 - Repealed.
Section 69-3-18 - [Abandonment of mining claims; methods; encumbered claims.]
Section 69-3-19 to 69-3-21 - Repealed.
Section 69-3-22 - [Size of placer mining claims.]
Section 69-3-23 - [Regulations by private landowners as to mining locations; recording; amending.]
Section 69-3-24 - [No trespassing notices.]
Section 69-3-25 - [Penalty for trespass; exceptions.]
Section 69-3-26 - [Trespass against person rightfully in possession.]
Section 69-3-27 - [Trespass by livestock; liability of owner.]
Section 69-3-28 - [Termination of lease; thirty days' notice.]
Section 69-3-29 - [Terminating lease without notice; liability in damages; forfeiture of lease.]
Section 69-3-30 - [Stockholders; right of entry and examination of mines.]
Section 69-3-31 - [Denial to stockholders of right of entry; penalty.]