NMSA 72-1-7. [Interfering with traveler's use of water; penalty.]

72-1-7. [Interfering with traveler's use of water; penalty.] Hereafter, if any person or persons, shall embarrass, hinder and molest any person or persons at the time they may wish to take the water for their animals, and shall claim or demand of the traveler any compensation for the use of the water, such person or persons on conviction thereof, before the court of a justice of the peace [magistrate] or district judge, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars [($25.00)], nor more than fifty dollars [($50.00)], and shall be liable to pay all the damages caused thereby to the person so hindered. History: Laws 1876, ch. 41, § 2; C.L. 1884, § 50; C.L. 1897, § 53; Code 1915, § 5813; C.S. 1929, § 151-1002; 1941 Comp., § 77-105; 1953 Comp., § 75-1-5.