New Mexico
Anti-Cruelty Statutes

NEW MEXICO STATUTES 1978
CHAPTER 30. Criminal Offenses
ARTICLE 18. Animals

30-18-1 Cruelty to animals.

Cruelty to animals consists of:

A. torturing, tormenting, depriving of necessary sustenance, cruelly beating, mutilating, cruelly killing or overdriving any animal;
B. unnecessarily failing to provide any animal with proper food or drink; or
C. cruelly driving or working any animal when such animal is unfit for labor.

Whoever commits cruelty to animals is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

back to animal rights page