Should any member or employee of the corrections division [corrections department], officer or other employee of the penitentiary, become interested in any manner in any contract for providing provisions, clothing or other necessaries for the use of said penitentiary, or become in any way interested in any contract for buildings or the construction of any buildings of any kind connected with said penitentiary or for furnishing materials for any such building, such member, officer or employee so interested, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be removed from office, or employment and shall forfeit any interest he may have in such contract, and shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) nor less than five hundred dollars ($500).
History: Laws 1889, ch. 76, § 20; C.L. 1897, § 3509; Code 1915, § 5035; C.S. 1929, § 130-118; 1941 Comp., § 45-116; 1953 Comp., § 42-1-16; Laws 1977, ch. 257, § 65.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
See compiler's notes to 33-2-1 NMSA 1978.
Employees being interested in contracts or furnishing supplies prohibited. — Members of boards of state institutions, their employees and officials, or employees of the state or of any institution or agency thereof are prohibited from becoming interested in any contract for expenditure of public money or for furnishing supplies to institutions of which they are board members or employees, and are liable to penalty imposed by appropriation acts. 1932 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 32-373.