Section 57-18-24 - Offenses and penalties.

NM Stat § 57-18-24 (2019) (N/A)
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Any person who requests a weighmaster to weigh any property, produce, commodity or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests a false or incorrect weight certificate, or who issues a weight certificate simulating the weight certificate prescribed in the Weighmaster Act, and who is not a weighmaster, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction for the first offense, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). Upon a second or subsequent conviction, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or by both the fine and imprisonment.

History: 1953 Comp., § 76-4-24, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 236, § 24.