A. If a pasture, building, corral, yard or enclosure where livestock have been or may be pastured or confined is infected with or has become dangerous on account of a disease or poisonous weed or plant, the board may post danger or quarantine notices in not less than two conspicuous places in or upon such pasture, building, corral, yard or enclosure sufficient to warn all owners and others in charge of livestock of the danger or quarantine. When the danger has passed or the quarantine is lifted, the board shall require the posted notices to be removed.

B. Except as authorized by the director, a person who removes a posted notice of danger or quarantine is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA [1978].

History: Laws 1917, ch. 30, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 4-915; 1941 Comp., § 49-305; 1953 Comp., § 47-3-5; Laws 1993, ch. 248, § 20; 1999, ch. 282, § 22.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

The 1999 amendment, effective July 1, 1999, designated the formerly undesignated paragraph as Subsection A; in Subsection A, substituted "a disease" for "any infectious disease" and inserted "danger or quarantine" preceding "notices" in the first sentence, added the last sentence, and made several stylistic changes throughout the subsection; added Subsection B.

The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted "If a" for "That whenever it shall become known to the Sheep Sanitary Board or the Cattle Sanitary board of this state or any inspector thereof that any enclosed" at the beginning of the section; substituted "the board may" for "it shall be the duty of such Boards, by their inspectors and of such inspectors, to at once" near the middle; and made a minor stylistic change.