RELATING TO FOOD; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978 TO PROVIDE FOR DONATION OF WILD GAME PRODUCTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

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

Section 1. Section 41-10-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1997, Chapter 78, Section 1) is amended to read:

"41-10-5. DONATED GAME MEAT PRODUCTS.--

A. Wild game meat products may be donated by hunters, taken to a commercial meat processor for preparation and delivery to charitable, religious or other nonprofit organizations and served for human consumption at no charge.

B. For purposes of this section, "wild game"

means deer, elk, antelope, caribou, ibex, oryx and Barbary sheep."