Any duly authorized inspector or peace officer of any county in said state shall be authorized to stop any motor or other vehicle transporting livestock or the carcasses thereof in their respective counties, and demand from the person or persons operating said motor or other vehicle to show the certificate provided for and issued under the terms of Section 1 [77-9-41 NMSA 1978] of this act; and should any person or persons transporting said livestock or the carcasses thereof be unable to exhibit to such inspector or peace officer said certificate, said inspector or officer is authorized and empowered to arrest, without warrant, any person or persons operating said motor or other vehicle and take possession of same and the livestock or carcasses therein, and shall retain such possession until the person or persons operating such motor or other vehicle can produce satisfactory evidence that he or they, or the person or persons, firm or corporation for whom the same is being transported, is the lawful owner thereof, or until such livestock or carcasses are disposed of as hereinafter provided.

History: Laws 1929, ch. 87, § 5; C.S. 1929, § 4-2105; 1941 Comp., § 49-943; 1953 Comp., § 47-9-42.

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

Cross references. — For search of vehicles suspected to be transporting stolen livestock, see 77-9-51 NMSA 1978.

Importation permit not preclusive to inspection by board. — A permit to import animals permits the importation into the state and the designation by the importer of the place within the state to which the cattle or animals are to be shipped. This does not preclude the New Mexico cattle sanitary board (New Mexico livestock board) or the sheep sanitary board (New Mexico livestock board), or authorized representatives, from performing such inspection duties as they deem necessary in the public interest. 1953 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 53-5716.