0001|                            SENATE BILL 78
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           WILLIAM H. PAYNE
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CORRECTIONS; EXPANDING THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME
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0012|     OF ESCAPE FROM AN INMATE-RELEASE PROGRAM; AMENDING A SECTION
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0013|     OF THE NMSA 1978.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 33-2-46 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1969,
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0017|     Chapter 166, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "33-2-46.  INMATE-RELEASE PROGRAM--ESCAPE.--~[Any]~
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0019|               |A.  A| prisoner whose limits of confinement have
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0020|     been extended or who has been granted a visitation privilege
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0021|     under the inmate-release program, who willfully fails to
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0022|     return to the designated place of confinement within the time
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0023|     prescribed, with the intent not to return, is guilty of an
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0024|     escape.
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0025|               |B.  A prisoner who, without authorization,
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0001|     willfully fails to report to an approved inmate-release
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0002|     program is guilty of an escape.  A prisoner who, without
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0003|     authorization, willfully departs from an approved inmate-
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0004|     release program is guilty of an escape.|
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0005|               |C.|  Whoever is convicted of an escape under the
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0006|     provisions of this section is guilty of a third degree felony
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0007|     and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section
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0008|     31-18-15 NMSA 1978."
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0009|          Section 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0010|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1998.
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