Section 69-3-31 - [Denial to stockholders of right of entry; penalty.]

NM Stat § 69-3-31 (2019) (N/A)
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Every corporation or company or officer or agent of such corporation or company who shall refuse to allow upon demand, any person owning stock in such corporation or company, to enter such mines, as in the preceding section [69-3-30 NMSA 1978] provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the corporation or company shall forfeit and pay to the party injured a penalty of one hundred dollars [($100)] for every such refusal, and all damages resulting therefrom.

History: Laws 1882, ch. 33, § 2; C.L. 1884, § 1573; C.L. 1897, § 2307; Code 1915, § 3473; C.S. 1929, § 88-211; 1941 Comp., § 67-225; 1953 Comp., § 63-2-25.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 53A Am. Jur. 2d Mines and Minerals §§ 235, 236.

58 C.J.S. Mines and Minerals § 241.