{"data":{"id":"us-nm/68-5-4","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"68-5-4","heading":"Civil liability.","body":"A. A private landowner or a private landowner's agent, contractor or legally authorized designee who is a certified prescribed burn manager and who conducts a prescribed burn is liable for any damages to property or for personal injury caused by the prescribed burn, including the reignition of a previously contained prescribed burn, if that person was negligent in starting, controlling or extinguishing the prescribed burn.\nB. A private landowner or a private landowner's agent, contractor or legally authorized designee who is not a certified prescribed burn manager and who conducts a prescribed burn is liable for double damages to property or for personal injury caused by the prescribed burn, including the reignition of a previously contained prescribed burn, if that private landowner or that private landowner's agent, contractor or legally authorized designee was negligent in starting, controlling or extinguishing the prescribed burn.","path":["Chapter 68 - Timber","ARTICLE 5 Prescribed Burning"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18571/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:20Z","sha256":"9e7d8b216a5e1cf9caef2c10340af7ea60d607815db2b381bb796bcbadd2498d","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/68-5-3","next":"us-nm/68-5-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}