0001|                            HOUSE BILL 318
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          DELORES C. WRIGHT
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO ANIMALS; PROHIBITING CERTAIN ACTIONS IN CONNECTION
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0012|     WITH ANIMAL FIGHTING; PROVIDING PENALTIES.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  A new section of Chapter 30, Article 18 NMSA
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0016|     1978 is enacted to read:
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0017|          "[<u>NEW MATERIAL</u>]  BIRD FIGHTING--PROHIBITED CONDUCT--
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0018|     PENALTY.--
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0019|               A.  A person who causes, sponsors, promotes,
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0020|     arranges or holds a fight between birds for the purpose of
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0021|     pecuniary gain or entertainment is guilty of bird fighting.  A
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0022|     person who participates in a fight between birds is guilty of
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0023|     bird fighting.  As used in this section, "participates in a
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0024|     fight between birds" means:
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0025|                    (1)  being present at a fight between birds,
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0001|     knowing that it is held for the purpose of pecuniary gain or
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0002|     entertainment, without attempting to interfere with or stop the
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0003|     contest; or
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0004|                    (2)  owning, controlling or equipping one of
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0005|     the participating birds with knowledge that the contest is held
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0006|     for the purpose of pecuniary gain or entertainment.
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0007|               B.  Whoever commits bird fighting is guilty of a
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0008|     fourth degree felony."
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0009|          Section 2.  Section 30-18-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1963,
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0010|     Chapter 303, Section 18-1) is amended to read:
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0011|          "30-18-1.  CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.--Cruelty to animals
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0012|     consists of:
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0013|               A.  torturing, tormenting, depriving of necessary
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0014|     sustenance, cruelly beating, mutilating, cruelly killing or
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0015|     overdriving any animal;
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0016|               <u>B.  intentionally causing one animal to fight with
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<u></u>0017| <u>    another animal;</u>
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0018|               <s>[B.]</s> <u>C.</u>  unnecessarily failing to provide any
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0019|     animal with proper food or drink; or
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0020|               <s>[C.]</s> <u>D.</u>  cruelly driving or working any animal
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0021|     when <s>[such]</s> <u>the</u> animal is unfit for labor.
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0022|          Whoever commits cruelty to animals is guilty of a
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0023|     <s>[petty]</s> misdemeanor."
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