Any person who fails or refuses to make any report required by this act [69-3-6 to 69-3-9 NMSA 1978] or who knowingly makes a false report of any information required by this act is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
History: 1953 Comp., § 63-2-3.6, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 108, § 4.
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 § 241.
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Section 69-3-15 to 69-3-17 - Repealed.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Section 69-3-19 to 69-3-21 - Repealed.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.]