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§ 30-50-4 NMSA 1978

Fraudulent telemarketing; penalties

Known as the Fraudulent Telemarketing Act

The act spans §§ 30–30 (4 sections).

Laws 1995, ch. 37, § 4; 2006, ch. 29, § 26.

A person who knowingly and willfully engages in telemarketing to or from a telephone located in New Mexico with the intent to embezzle or to obtain money, property or any thing of value by fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises in the course of a telephone communication, when the:

A. money, property or thing has a value of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or less, is guilty of a petty misdemeanor;

B. money, property or thing has a value of more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) but not more than five hundred dollars ($500), is guilty of a misdemeanor;

C. money, property or thing has a value of more than five hundred dollars ($500) but not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), is guilty of a fourth degree felony;

D. money, property or thing has a value of more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) but not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), is guilty of a third degree felony; or

E. money, property or thing has a value of more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), is guilty of a second 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.