GENERAL PROVISIONS

  1. Law
  2. New Mexico Statutes
  3. Game and Fish and Outdoor Recreation
  4. Hunting and Fishing Regulations
  5. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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Section
17-2-1

Commission powers.

Section
17-2-2

Game to be protected.

Section
17-2-2.1

Artificial wildlife.

Section
17-2-3

Protected wildlife species and game fish defined.

Section
17-2-4

Repealed.

Section
17-2-4.1

Jaguar to be protected.

Section
17-2-4.2

Amphibians and reptiles; protected; permits; unlawful taking; misdemeanor; penalties.

Section
17-2-5

Adoption of regulations; effective date.

Section
17-2-6

Game and fish management areas; closed lakes or streams; notice.

Section
17-2-7

Unlawful hunting or fishing.

Section
17-2-7.1

Interference prohibited; criminal penalties; civil penalties; revocation of license, certificate or permit.

Section
17-2-7.2

Landowner taking; conditions; department responsibilities.

Section
17-2-8

Unlawful taking of big game and waste of game.

Section
17-2-9

Jurisdiction of magistrate court.

Section
17-2-10

Violation of game and fish laws or rules; penalties.

Section
17-2-10.1

Game and fish penalty assessment misdemeanors; definition; schedule of assessments.

Section
17-2-10.2

Game and fish penalty assessment; payment.

Section
17-2-10.3

Game and fish penalty assessment; license revocation.

Section
17-2-10.4

Game and fish penalty assessment revenue; disposition.

Section
17-2-11

[Witness testifying for state; evidence not to be used against him.]

Section
17-2-12

Refuges; firearms on; prohibited; exceptions.

Section
17-2-13

Songbirds; trapping, killing or injuring prohibited.

Section
17-2-14

Hawks, vultures and owls; taking, possessing, trapping, destroying, maiming or selling prohibited; exception by permit; penalty.

Section
17-2-15

[Horned toads; killing, selling or shipping from state unlawful.]

Section
17-2-16

Repealed.

Section
17-2-17

[Storage of game or fish.]

Section
17-2-18

[Menu as evidence of possession of game or fish.]

Section
17-2-19

Enforcement of game laws; powers of conservation officers.

Section
17-2-20

[Seizure of devices used for violating law; nuisance; destruction; firearms excepted.]

Section
17-2-20.1

Seizure and forfeiture; property subject.

Section
17-2-20.2

Repealed.

Section
17-2-20.3

Penalties.

Section
17-2-21

[Sale or disposition of game or fish after seizure; invoice furnished purchaser or donee; disposition of proceeds of sale.]

Section
17-2-22

Sale of evidence in cases of appeal.

Section
17-2-23

[Reports of seizures and sales.]

Section
17-2-24

[Officer's right to use animal or vehicle transporting seized game or fish; public conveyances excepted.]

Section
17-2-25

[Game or fish in possession of passenger; carrier exempt from liability; seizure.]

Section
17-2-26

Civil liability.

Section
17-2-27

[District attorneys to prosecute and defend actions under fish and game laws.]

Section
17-2-28

[Indians hunting off reservations; hunting on reservations; application of laws.]

Section
17-2-29

[Hunting and boating while intoxicated or under the influence of narcotic drugs prohibited.]

Section
17-2-30

[Person convicted of hunting or boating while intoxicated or under influence of narcotic drugs; revocation and withholding of hunting and fishing license privileges.]

Section
17-2-31

Use of artificial light while hunting prohibited.

Section
17-2-32

Diseased rabbits; hunting and trapping.