SENATE BILL 622

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Jane M. Garcia

AN ACT

RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; PROHIBITING THE DELIVERY OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS.

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

     Section 1. A new section of Chapter 60, Article 7A NMSA 1978 is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] DELIVERY ON TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY--PENALTY.--

          A. No person, if that person knows or has reason to know that the person is violating this section, shall deliver alcoholic beverages to another person on the date of that other person's twenty-first birthday before:

                (1) 7:00 a.m. if the other person's twenty-first birthday falls on a day other than Sunday; or

                (2) 12:00 noon if the other person's twenty-first birthday falls on a Sunday.

          B. A person who violates Subsection A of this section is guilty of a fourth degree felony and shall be sentenced in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978.

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