Any person:
A. who fails to yield a telephone party line or impedes its use, and any person who falsely asserts an emergency as basis for a request of another to yield a telephone party line, as provided in the preceding section [30-35-1 NMSA 1978], is liable to the person aggrieved by his act for triple the amount of damages proximately caused by his act;
B. who violates any provision of this act [30-35-1, 30-35-2 NMSA 1978] is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) nor less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
History: 1953 Comp., § 40-37-7, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 320, § 2.