SENATE BILL 410

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2017

INTRODUCED BY

Mimi Stewart

AN ACT

RELATING TO ELECTIONS; PROHIBITING THE CARRYING OF A FIREARM WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET OF A POLLING PLACE DURING AN ELECTION; PROVIDING A PENALTY.

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

     SECTION 1. A new section of Chapter 1, Article 20 NMSA 1978 is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] UNLAWFUL CARRYING OF A FIREARM AT A POLLING PLACE.--

          A. Unlawful carrying of a firearm at a polling place consists of carrying a loaded or unloaded firearm within two hundred feet of a polling place during any election.

          B. A person who commits unlawful carrying of a firearm at a polling place is guilty of a petty misdemeanor and shall be sentenced pursuant to Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978.

          C. For the purposes of this section, "firearm" means a weapon that will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosion; the frame or receiver of any such weapon; or any firearm muffler or firearm silencer."

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