Section 20-12-63 - Perjury.

NM Stat § 20-12-63 (2019) (N/A)
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Any person subject to Chapter 20 NMSA 1978 who in a judicial proceeding or in a course of justice willfully and corruptly:

A. upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, gives any false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry; or

B. in any declaration, certificate, verification or statement under penalty or perjury as permitted under Section 1746 of Title 28, United States Code, subscribes any false statement material to the issue or matter of inquiry;

is guilty of perjury and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-63, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 62.

Effective dates. — Laws 1989, ch. 337 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 16, 1989.