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§ 30-19-3 NMSA 1978

Commercial gambling

1953 Comp., § 40A-19-3, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 19-3.

Commercial gambling consists of either:

A. participating in the earnings of or operating a gambling place;

B. receiving, recording or forwarding bets or offers to bet;

C. possessing facilities with the intent to receive, record or forward bets or offers to bet;

D. for gain, becoming a custodian of anything of value, bet or offered to be bet;

E. conducting a lottery where both the consideration and the prize are money, or whoever with intent to conduct a lottery, possesses facilities to do so; or

F. setting up for use, for the purpose of gambling, or collecting the proceeds of, any gambling device.

Whoever commits commercial gambling is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.