Section 31-18-18 - Habitual offenders; duty of public officers to report.

NM Stat § 31-18-18 (2019) (N/A)
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Whenever it becomes known to any warden or prison official or any prison, probation, parole or police officer or other peace officer that any person charged with or convicted of a noncapital felony is or may be a habitual offender, it is his duty to promptly report the facts to the district attorney of the proper district, who shall then file an information.

History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-29-31, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 216, § 7.