{"data":{"id":"us-nm/4-40-10","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"4-40-10","heading":"[Newspapers; abstraction, mutilation or destruction; penalty.]","body":"Any person who shall willfully abstract, destroy, mutilate or deface any number or volume of such newspapers purchased in pursuance of Sections 4-40-7 and 4-40-8 NMSA 1978, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], or imprisonment [imprisoned] in the county jail not more than six months, or [punished] both by such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.","path":["Chapter 4 - Counties","ARTICLE 40 County Clerk"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18505/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"4732d7fd7b57157346ef58f148ab8986490e8015b2d1e22c8bc130f4a80fb765","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/4-40-9","next":"us-nm/4-41-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}