NMSA 57-5-8. [Secret rebates or arrangements unlawful; penalty.]

57-5-8. [Secret rebates or arrangements unlawful; penalty.] It shall be unlawful for any producer and/or distributor or any other person, either directly or indirectly, to give any secret refund, rebate or reward of any kind to any competitive exhibitor, or for any competitive exhibitor to receive, either directly or indirectly, any secret refund, rebate or reward of any character from any producer, distributor or any other person, or for any producer, distributor or any other person to sell, lease, license or supply any motion picture or pictures, or permit same to be done to any competitive exhibitor by or through any secret or undisclosed manner, method, contract, combination or arrangement of any kind, or for any competitive exhibitor to so receive or acquire same in such a manner, or to exhibit any such motion picture or pictures so received or acquired. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each offense and by imprisonment at hard labor of not less than one year or more than one year for each offense. Each and every picture furnished, received or exhibited in violation of any of the provisions of this act [57-5-1 to 57-5-22 NMSA 1978] shall be deemed a separate offense. History: Laws 1933, ch. 177, § 8; 1941 Comp., § 51-2708; 1953 Comp., § 49-5-8.