New Mexico Statutes
Article 3 - Mining Locations and Operations
Section 69-3-27 - [Trespass by livestock; liability of owner.]

The owner of any livestock in this state shall not be liable to the owner or his agent or [of] any mining or mineral claim or millsite for damages done by way of trespass upon the same by said livestock other than for actual damage done to buildings, tents, mining supplies or other personal property situated thereon: provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed as abridging or curtailing any of the existing rights of any such owner whenever any such mining or mineral claim or millsite may be used by the owners thereof, his tenant or lessee, as a livestock ranch.
History: Laws 1889, ch. 105, § 1; C.L. 1897, § 2327; Code 1915, § 3515; C.S. 1929, § 88-702; 1941 Comp., § 67-221; 1953 Comp., § 63-2-21.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Liability for personal injury or death caused by trespassing or intruding livestock, 49 A.L.R.4th 710.

Structure New Mexico Statutes

New Mexico Statutes

Chapter 69 - Mines

Article 3 - Mining Locations and Operations

Section 69-3-1 - Mining claim location and posting notice.

Section 69-3-2 - Repealed.

Section 69-3-4 - Repealed.

Section 69-3-5 - Penalty.

Section 69-3-6 - Penetration of water stratum by mine discovery or drill hole; plugging; reports; exceptions.

Section 69-3-7 - Discovery of natural gas or hydrocarbons.

Section 69-3-8 - [Exceptions.]

Section 69-3-9 - Penalty.

Section 69-3-10 - [Boundary posts.]

Section 69-3-11 - Relocation.

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Section 69-3-15 to 69-3-17 - Repealed.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Section 69-3-19 to 69-3-21 - Repealed.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.]

Section 69-3-32 - ["Stockholders" defined.]