{"data":{"id":"us-nm/57-18-24","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"57-18-24","heading":"Offenses and penalties.","body":"Any person who requests a weighmaster to weigh any property, produce, commodity or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests a false or incorrect weight certificate, or who issues a weight certificate simulating the weight certificate prescribed in the Weighmaster Act, and who is not a weighmaster, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction for the first offense, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). Upon a second or subsequent conviction, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or by both the fine and imprisonment.","path":["Chapter 57 - Trade Practices and Regulations","ARTICLE 18 Weighmasters"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18560/index.do","current_through":"2025-06-20","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:20Z","sha256":"d053388e1c4a48de5e6b840df5480030dcf289d21c3eb785b1dde2d81ade55f5","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/57-18-23","next":"us-nm/57-18-25"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}