44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999
RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT; PROVIDING PUBLIC NOTICE REGARDING SEX OFFENDERS; REPEALING AND ENACTING SECTIONS OF THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. A new section of the Sex Offender Registration Act is enacted to read:
"[NEW MATERIAL] PUBLIC NOTICE REGARDING SEX OFFENDERS.--No later than the eighth day after receiving registration information from a sex offender, a county sheriff shall publish notice in English and Spanish in the newspaper of greatest general circulation in that county regarding:
A. the legal name of the sex offender;
B. the sex offender's current address; and
C. the sex offense for which he was convicted."
Section 2. REPEAL.--Section 29-11A-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1995, Chapter 106, Section 6) is repealed.