Whenever it becomes known to any warden or prison official or any prison, probation, parole or police officer or other peace officer that any person charged with or convicted of a noncapital felony is or may be a habitual offender, it is his duty to promptly report the facts to the district attorney of the proper district, who shall then file an information.
§ 31-18-18 NMSA 1978
Habitual offenders; duty of public officers to report
Known as the Criminal Sentencing Act
The act spans §§ 31–31 (23 sections).
1953 Comp., § 40A-29-31, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 216, § 7.
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