SENATE BILL 398

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015

INTRODUCED BY

Pete Campos

AN ACT

RELATING TO LIVESTOCK; AMENDING A SECTION IN THE LIVESTOCK CODE THAT PROVIDES FOR RUNNING AT LARGE OF LIVESTOCK.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 77-14-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1909, Chapter 146, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:

     "77-14-6. ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE--ORDER PROHIBITING--PUBLICATION.--Upon receipt of [such] a petition pursuant to Section 77-14-5 NMSA 1978, the board of county commissioners [shall] may make an order prohibiting the running at large of livestock within the limits of the platted townsite and platted addition or within the limits of the conservancy or irrigation districts or within the limits of the military reservation or enclave, as the case may be, and [shall] may cause the order to be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county where the petition has been filed."

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