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§ 36-2-19 NMSA 1978

[Conviction of crime; certifying copy of record to supreme court; disbarment.]

Laws 1909, ch. 53, § 35; Code 1915, § 363; C.S. 1929, § 9-137; 1941 Comp., § 18-118; 1953 Comp., § 18-1-18.

In the case of the conviction of an attorney of a felony or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, the clerk of the court in which such conviction is had must within thirty days thereafter, transmit to the supreme court a certified copy of the record of conviction, and the supreme court upon receipt of such record, after judgment of such conviction, is filed, must enter an order disbarring such attorney.

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.