44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS; EXPANDING THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME OF ESCAPE FROM AN INMATE-RELEASE PROGRAM; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 33-2-46 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1969, Chapter 166, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:

"33-2-46. INMATE-RELEASE PROGRAM--ESCAPE.--Any prisoner whose limits of confinement have been extended or who has been granted a visitation privilege under the inmate-release program who willfully fails to return to the designated place of confinement within the time prescribed with the intent not to return or who without authorization willfully fails to report to or willfully departs from the approved inmate-release program location is guilty of an escape.

Whoever is convicted of an escape under the provisions of this section is guilty of a third degree felony and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978."

Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2000.