Chapter 17 - Game and Fish and Outdoor Recreation.
- Article 1 - State Game Commission, 17-1-1 through 17-1-29.
- Section 17-1-1 - Declaration of policy.
- Section 17-1-10 - Issuance of reserve conservation officer commissions; revocation.
- Section 17-1-11 - Conservation officers; official duties; insurance.
- Section 17-1-12 - Repealed.
- Section 17-1-13 - Seal of director.
- Section 17-1-14 - General powers and duties of state game commission; game protection fund.
- Section 17-1-15 - Disbursement of money; limitation on expenditures.
- Section 17-1-16 - Short title.
- Section 17-1-17 - Purpose of act.
- Section 17-1-18 - Bonding authority.
- Section 17-1-19 - Bonds; form; terms.
- Section 17-1-2 - State game commission; appointment; term.
- Section 17-1-20 - Sale of bonds.
- Section 17-1-21 - Proceeds from sale of bonds.
- Section 17-1-22 - Security; retirement of bonds.
- Section 17-1-22.1 - Game and fish capital outlay fund; created; transfer of money; state board of finance approval.
- Section 17-1-23 - Construction.
- Section 17-1-24 - Tax exemptions.
- Section 17-1-25 - Refunding.
- Section 17-1-26 - Commission's power to establish rules and regulations; predatory animals; eradication.
- Section 17-1-27 - Hearings on rules and regulations; petition; publication of notice of hearing.
- Section 17-1-28 - Assent to act of congress concerning wildlife restoration projects.
- Section 17-1-29 - Distribution of moneys received from United States government.
- Section 17-1-3 - Members to serve without compensation; per diem and mileage.
- Section 17-1-4 - Organization; annual and called meetings; secretary.
- Section 17-1-5 - Employment and discharge of director and other employees; department of game and fish created.
- Section 17-1-5.1 - Conservation services division; duties.
- Section 17-1-6 - Transfer of duties and obligations.
- Section 17-1-7 - Position of reserve conservation officer created.
- Section 17-1-8 - Qualifications of reserve conservation officers.
- Section 17-1-9 - Powers and duties of reserve conservation officers.
- Article 2 - Hunting and Fishing Regulations, 17-2-1 through 17-2-46.
- Section 17-2-1 - Commission powers.
- Section 17-2-10 - Violation of game and fish laws or regulations; penalties.
- Section 17-2-10.1 - Game and fish penalty assessment misdemeanors; definition; schedule of assessments.
- Section 17-2-10.2 - Game and fish penalty assessment; payment.
- Section 17-2-10.3 - Game and fish penalty assessment; license revocation.
- Section 17-2-10.4 - Game and fish penalty assessment revenue; disposition.
- Section 17-2-11 - Witness testifying for state; evidence not to be used against him.
- Section 17-2-12 - Refuges; firearms on; prohibited; exceptions.
- Section 17-2-13 - Songbirds; trapping, killing or injuring prohibited.
- Section 17-2-14 - Hawks, vultures and owls; taking, possessing, trapping, destroying, maiming or selling prohibited; exception by permit; penalty.
- Section 17-2-15 - Horned toads; killing, selling or shipping from state unlawful.
- Section 17-2-16 - Repealed.
- Section 17-2-17 - Storage of game or fish.
- Section 17-2-18 - Menu as evidence of possession of game or fish.
- Section 17-2-19 - Enforcement of game laws; powers of conservation officers.
- Section 17-2-2 - Game to be protected.
- Section 17-2-2.1 - Artificial wildlife.
- Section 17-2-20 - Seizure of devices used for violating law; nuisance; destruction; firearms excepted.
- Section 17-2-20.1 - Seizure and forfeiture; property subject.
- Section 17-2-20.2 - Repealed.
- Section 17-2-20.3 - Penalties.
- Section 17-2-21 - Sale or disposition of game or fish after seizure; invoice furnished purchaser or donee; disposition of proceeds of sale.
- Section 17-2-22 - Sale of evidence in cases of appeal.
- Section 17-2-23 - Reports of seizures and sales.
- Section 17-2-24 - Officer's right to use animal or vehicle transporting seized game or fish; public conveyances excepted.
- Section 17-2-25 - Game or fish in possession of passenger; carrier exempt from liability; seizure.
- Section 17-2-26 - Civil liability.
- Section 17-2-27 - District attorneys to prosecute and defend actions under fish and game laws.
- Section 17-2-28 - Indians hunting off reservations; hunting on reservations; application of laws.
- Section 17-2-29 - Hunting and boating while intoxicated or under the influence of narcotic drugs prohibited.
- Section 17-2-3 - Protected wildlife species and game fish defined.
- Section 17-2-30 - Person convicted of hunting or boating while intoxicated or under influence of narcotic drugs; revocation and withholding of hunting and fishing license privileges.
- Section 17-2-31 - Use of artificial light while hunting prohibited.
- Section 17-2-32 - Diseased rabbits; hunting and trapping.
- Section 17-2-33 - Use of firearms by minors.
- Section 17-2-34 - Hunter training program; instructor certification; certificate of competency.
- Section 17-2-35 - Exemption.
- Section 17-2-36 - Short title.
- Section 17-2-37 - Short title.
- Section 17-2-38 - Definitions.
- Section 17-2-39 - Findings and declarations.
- Section 17-2-4 - Repealed.
- Section 17-2-4.1 - Jaguar to be protected.
- Section 17-2-4.2 - Amphibians and reptiles; protected; permits; unlawful taking; misdemeanor; penalties.
- Section 17-2-40 - Biennial review; investigations; recommendations of the director; procedures.
- Section 17-2-40.1 - Recovery plans; procedures.
- Section 17-2-41 - Endangered species.
- Section 17-2-42 - Management programs.
- Section 17-2-43 - Commission; power to regulate.
- Section 17-2-43.1 - Judicial review; administrative actions.
- Section 17-2-44 - Director; land or aquatic habitat interest acquisition.
- Section 17-2-45 - Penalty.
- Section 17-2-46 - Enforcement; powers of conservation officers.
- Section 17-2-5 - Adoption of regulations; effective date.
- Section 17-2-6 - Game and fish management areas; closed lakes or streams; notice.
- Section 17-2-7 - Unlawful hunting or fishing.
- Section 17-2-7.1 - Interference prohibited; criminal penalties; civil penalties; revocation of license, certificate or permit.
- Section 17-2-7.2 - Landowner taking; conditions; department responsibilities.
- Section 17-2-8 - Waste of game.
- Section 17-2-9 - Jurisdiction of magistrate court.
- Article 2A - Statewide System for Hunting Activities, 17-2A-1 through 17-2A-3.
- Article 3 - Licenses and Permits, 17-3-1 through 17-3-49.
- Section 17-3-1 - Current license required.
- Section 17-3-10 - Presumption of loss [sale]
- Section 17-3-11 - Possession of license declared void is unlawful.
- Section 17-3-12 - Accounting for licenses.
- Section 17-3-13 - License fees.
- Section 17-3-13.1 - Disabled veteran; license fee exemption; lifetime license.
- Section 17-3-13.2 - Repealed.
- Section 17-3-13.3 - Big game depredation damage stamp required; disposition of receipts.
- Section 17-3-13.4 - Big game depredation damage fund; creation; expenditure.
- Section 17-3-13.5 - Elk licenses reserved.
- Section 17-3-13.6 - Disabled military members and veterans; fishing license fee exemption.
- Section 17-3-14 - Director authorized to issue license when agreement to hunt antelope on deeded or leased property is made.
- Section 17-3-14.1 - Landowner permits for elk.
- Section 17-3-14.2 - Landowner permits; management of certain big game species.
- Section 17-3-15 - Additional deer license.
- Section 17-3-16 - Funds; special drawings for licenses.
- Section 17-3-16.1 - Bighorn sheep enhancement permits; issuance; use.
- Section 17-3-16.2 - Elk enhancement permit; issuance; use.
- Section 17-3-16.3 - Lieutenant governor's deer enhancement permits; issuance; use.
- Section 17-3-16.4 - Gould's turkey enhancement permits; issuance; use.
- Section 17-3-16.5 - Hunting and fishing authorizations; governor's special events.
- Section 17-3-16.6 - Enhancement authorization packages; habitat enhancement.
- Section 17-3-17 - Fishing without license; exceptions.
- Section 17-3-18 - Director authorized to issue fishing permit without license to certain handicapped persons.
- Section 17-3-19 - Special license; minors fishing on scout property.
- Section 17-3-2 - Classes of licenses.
- Section 17-3-20 - Fee disposition.
- Section 17-3-21 - Season and bag limits applicable to minors holding special license.
- Section 17-3-22 - Administration of 17-3-19 to 17-3-22.
- Section 17-3-23 - Fishing on lands of New Mexico boys' school near Springer authorized for resident children without a license.
- Section 17-3-24 - [Supervision of fishing at boys' school.]
- Section 17-3-25 - Patients at Carrie Tingley crippled children's hospital; fishing on hospital lands by patients; supervision.
- Section 17-3-26 - Taking minnows and nongame fish to sell as bait; license required; exception.
- Section 17-3-27 - Bait license; bond; fee; issuance.
- Section 17-3-28 - Exceptions from 17-3-26, 17-3-27; taking bait for own use; persons under 15; unlawful to place nongame fish in certain waters.
- Section 17-3-29 - Permit to take game, birds or fish as specimens or for scientific or propagating purposes; eligibility; issuance; contents; nonassignable; sale for food purposes prohibited.
- Section 17-3-3 - Repealed.
- Section 17-3-30 - Sending game animals, birds and fish to officers of other states.
- Section 17-3-31 - Permit to capture or destroy protected game damaging crops or property; beavers.
- Section 17-3-32 - Importing game animals; permits.
- Section 17-3-32.1 - Exceptions from certain permits.
- Section 17-3-33 - Presumption from possession of game or fish without license; showing license to officer.
- Section 17-3-34 - Revocation of license, certificate or permit for violation of law; notice and hearing; judicial review.
- Section 17-3-35 - Short title.
- Section 17-3-36 - Regulated shooting preserves; fees.
- Section 17-3-37 - Definition.
- Section 17-3-38 - Tags.
- Section 17-3-39 - Special nonresident licenses.
- Section 17-3-4 - Residence.
- Section 17-3-40 - Regular licenses.
- Section 17-3-41 - Commercial operation of.
- Section 17-3-42 - Revocation of permits.
- Section 17-3-43 - Short title.
- Section 17-3-44 - Definitions.
- Section 17-3-45 - Shooting from aircraft; causing injury by aircraft; penalty.
- Section 17-3-46 - Applicability.
- Section 17-3-47 - Permit.
- Section 17-3-48 - Purchase or use of license, certificate or permit, or hunting or fishing while under suspension or revocation; penalty.
- Section 17-3-49 - Computer-assisted remote hunting prohibited; penalties.
- Section 17-3-5 - Application for hunting or fishing licenses; contents; filing.
- Section 17-3-6 - False statements; using license issued to another; hunting without license lawfully procured; altering licenses.
- Section 17-3-7 - Blank forms; license issued only on application; false statement voids license; records; reports; accounting for fees collected; refund of fees; transfer of hunting license.
- Section 17-3-8 - Loss of application blanks by license collector; accounting.
- Section 17-3-9 - Application blanks lost by license collector to be void.
- Article 4 - Propagation of Fish and Game, 17-4-1 through 17-4-35.
- Section 17-4-1 - Power of state game commission to acquire land.
- Section 17-4-10 - Transportation of game or fish taken from unlicensed parks or waters prohibited.
- Section 17-4-11 - Licensing of private lakes and parks; "proprietor" defined.
- Section 17-4-12 - Application for license; contents; maximum area; fencing.
- Section 17-4-13 - Form of license.
- Section 17-4-14 - Reduction in flow of water detrimental to fish in stream prohibited.
- Section 17-4-15 - Game and fish in licensed private parks or lakes property of licensee; hunting or fishing in any licensed park or lake without consent prohibited; reduction of game or fish in privat
- Section 17-4-16 - Invoice to be delivered to purchaser; form; duplicate mailed to director.
- Section 17-4-17 - Invoice to be attached during shipment.
- Section 17-4-18 - Offering game or fish for sale; storage; keeping in hotel or eating place; invoice to remain attached.
- Section 17-4-19 - Copy of invoice to be furnished purchaser upon resale.
- Section 17-4-2 - Eminent domain power; abandonment or relinquishment of property acquired.
- Section 17-4-20 - Misstatements render invoice void; violation of law; possession of game or fish without invoice unlawful.
- Section 17-4-21 - Proprietors of licensed private parks and lakes to furnish reports to director.
- Section 17-4-22 - Channels connecting private lakes under one license; use of screens.
- Section 17-4-23 - Lease or grant of private park or lake; lessee or grantee deemed proprietor.
- Section 17-4-24 - Series of lakes may be included in one license.
- Section 17-4-25 - Diverse proprietorship; joint or separate licenses.
- Section 17-4-26 - Notices against trespassing to be posted.
- Section 17-4-27 - Transfer of license required upon transfer of interest.
- Section 17-4-28 - Parks, lakes and preserves; license; fees.
- Section 17-4-29 - Floating logs in fish stream; restocking; penalty.
- Section 17-4-3 - Exchange, sale, lease, sublease and assignment of lands by commission; proceeds.
- Section 17-4-30 - Federal aid.
- Section 17-4-31 - Federal funds; disbursement.
- Section 17-4-32 - Destruction of boundary markers [; penalty]
- Section 17-4-33 - Gaining access into nature program; policy; additional powers of state game commission.
- Section 17-4-34 - Habitat management stamp; fund; expenditure for habitat management; exception.
- Section 17-4-35 - Aquatic invasive species control.
- Section 17-4-4 - Sale of former state bird farm; mineral rights reserved.
- Section 17-4-5 - Fish hatcheries established by United States; exemption from state laws.
- Section 17-4-6 - Hunting and fishing on private property; posting; penalty.
- Section 17-4-7 - Liability of landowner permitting persons to hunt, fish or use lands for recreation; duty of care; exceptions.
- Section 17-4-8 - Parks or waters for propagation of game or fish; license required.
- Section 17-4-9 - Unlicensed parks or lakes deemed public nuisance; abatement; liberation of game or fish; each day separate offense.
- Article 5 - Trappers and Fur Dealers, 17-5-1 through 17-5-9.
- Section 17-5-1 - Declaration of policy.
- Section 17-5-2 - Fur-bearing and nongame animals defined; property of state.
- Section 17-5-3 - Seasons; special permits to take animals doing damage.
- Section 17-5-4 - State game commission to administer act; rules and regulations.
- Section 17-5-5 - Trapper's licenses.
- Section 17-5-6 - Fur dealer licenses.
- Section 17-5-7 - Disposition of license fees.
- Section 17-5-8 - Officers authorized to enforce act.
- Section 17-5-9 - Penalty; revocation of license; sale of pelts.
- Article 6 - Habitat Protection, 17-6-1 through 17-6-11.
- Section 17-6-1 - Short title.
- Section 17-6-10 - Commissioner of public lands exempt.
- Section 17-6-11 - Violations; penalty.
- Section 17-6-2 - Definitions.
- Section 17-6-3 - Restrictions on motor vehicle use; recommendations; rules and regulations.
- Section 17-6-4 - Notices of restrictions; posting; publication.
- Section 17-6-5 - Prohibition against vehicle travel.
- Section 17-6-6 - Exceptions.
- Section 17-6-7 - Expenditure of funds; functions.
- Section 17-6-8 - Limitation of liability on landowners.
- Section 17-6-9 - Enforcement.
- Article 7 - Shooting Range Fund, 17-7-1 through 17-7-3.
- Article 8 - Sport Shooting Range, 17-8-1 through 17-8-6.