SENATE BILL 337

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Timothy Z. Jennings

AN ACT

RELATING TO GAME AND FISH; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978 TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF A GAME OR GAME FISH PARK FROM THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED ACRES TO TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES.

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

     Section 1. Section 17-4-12 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1912, Chapter 85, Section 63, as amended) is amended to read:

     "17-4-12. LICENSE--APPLICATION--CONTENTS--LIMITS.--Any person having already established or desiring to establish or maintain a park or lake for the purpose of keeping or propagating and selling the game or game fish [therein] in the park or lake, or to be placed therein, shall apply in writing to the [Warden] director of the department of game and fish, stating the name, location, extent and proprietorship of the [same] park or lake and the kind and, as near as may be, the number of game or game fish kept or desired to be kept therein and the term for which the license is desired and [inclosing] enclosing the fee [therefor, and] for the license. If upon examination by the [Warden] director it [shall appear] appears that the application is in good faith and in other respects proper and reasonable, [he] the director shall grant to [such] the applicant a license therefor; provided that the maximum area that may be included within any park shall not exceed [three thousand two hundred] twenty thousand acres and that every park shall be enclosed by a game-proof fence, which shall conform to specifications required by the state game commission."

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