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HOUSE BILL 153
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TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
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2023
INTRODUCED BY
Candy Spence Ezzell and Alan T. Martinez and Cathrynn N. Brown
and Jimmy Mason
AN ACT
RELATING TO CRIME; PROVIDING THAT EACH ANIMAL STOLEN BY A
PERSON CONSTITUTES A SEPARATE OFFENSE OF LIVESTOCK LARCENY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 30-16-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1963,
Chapter 303, Section 16-1, as amended) is amended to read:
"30-16-1. LARCENY.--
A. Larceny consists of the stealing of anything of
value that belongs to another.
B. Whoever commits larceny when the value of the
property stolen is two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or less is
guilty of a petty misdemeanor.
C. Whoever commits larceny when the value of the
property stolen is over two hundred fifty dollars ($250) but
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not more than five hundred dollars ($500) is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
D. Whoever commits larceny when the value of the
property stolen is over five hundred dollars ($500) but not
more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) is guilty
of a fourth degree felony.
E. Whoever commits larceny when the value of the
property stolen is over two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500) but not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is
guilty of a third degree felony.
F. Whoever commits larceny when the value of the
property stolen is over twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) is
guilty of a second degree felony.
G. Whoever commits larceny when the property of
value stolen is livestock is guilty of a third degree felony
regardless of its value; provided that the theft of multiple
livestock shall constitute a separate offense for each
individual animal stolen .
H. Whoever commits larceny when the property of
value stolen is a firearm is guilty of a fourth degree felony
when its value is less than two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500)."
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