{"data":{"id":"us-nm/30-35-2","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"30-35-2","heading":"Penalty.","body":"Any person:\nA. 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;\nB. 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).","path":["Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses","ARTICLE 35 Public Utilities"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18530/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"13bf91c0a2b125925c9c4871873a2f5c3916c4848212231203f07d6ac4d1218c","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/30-35-1","next":"us-nm/30-36-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}