Chapter 77, Articles 2 through 18 NMSA 1978 may be cited as "The Livestock
Code". The Livestock Code shall be liberally construed to carry out its purposes, which
are to promote greater economy, service and efficiency in the administration of the laws
relating to the livestock industry of New Mexico, to control disease, to prevent the theft
or illegal movement of livestock and to oversee the New Mexico meat inspection
program.
History: 1953 Comp., § 47-23-1, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 213, § 1; 1993, ch. 248, §
1; 1999, ch. 282, § 1.
ANNOTATIONS
Repeals. — Laws 2005, ch. 208, § 27 repealed 77-2-28 NMSA 1978, which would have
repealed the Livestock Code, effective July 1, 2006.
The 1999 amendment, effective July 1, 1999, inserted "Articles 2 through 18" near the
beginning of the section.
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted "Chapter 77 NMSA 1978"
for "This act"; substituted "The Livestock Code" for "The Livestock Board Act" in two
places; and added the language beginning "to control disease" at the end of this
section.
Because Livestock and Property Tax Codes have different broad purposes does
not mean that they do not concern the same subject matter. Jicarilla Apache Nation v.
Rio Arriba County Assessor, 2004-NMCA-055, 135 N.M. 630, 92 P.3d 642, rev'd on
other grounds, Jicarilla Apache Nation v. Rodarte, 2004-NMSC-035, 136 N.M. 630, 103
P.3d 554.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 4 Am. Jur. 2d Animals § 49 et seq.
3 C.J.S. Agriculture §§ 16, 50, 69, 73.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
12
cases (
3 in the last 5 years), 1970–2022 · leading case:
Derringer v. State, 68 P.3d 961 (N.M. Ct. App. 2003).
Derringer v. State, 68 P.3d 961 (N.M. Ct. App. 2003).
· cites it 2× “Wortman was engaged in activities that would fall outside of their mandated duties pursuant to the Livestock Code, 1978 NMSA, §§ 77-2-1 to -29 (1967, as amended through 2001).”
Wild Horse Observers Ass'n, Inc. v. N.M. Livestock Bd, 2016 NMCA 1 (N.M. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 4× “The Association claims that Defendant New Mexico Livestock Board (the Board) has unlawfully treated a group of undomesticated, unowned, free-roaming horses near Placitas, New Mexico (the Placitas horses) as “livestock” and “estray” rather than as “wild horses” under the…”
State v. Torres, 521 P.3d 77 (N.M. 2022).
· cites it 5× “We reach this conclusion, in part, by construing Section 30-16-1(G) in light of New Mexico’s Livestock Code, NMSA 1978, §§ 77-2-1 to 77-18-6 (1869, as amended through 2017), and other laws addressing livestock.”
Jicarilla Apache Nation v. Rio Arriba Cnty. Assessor, 2004 NMCA 055 (N.M. Ct. App. 2003).
· cites it 2× “The Livestock Code serves “to promote greater economy, service and efficiency in the administration of the laws relating to the livestock industry in New Mexico, to control disease, to prevent the theft or illegal movement of livestock and to oversee the New Mexico meat…”
Natonabah v. Bd. of Ed. of Gallup-McKinley Cty. Sch. D., 355 F. Supp. 716 (D.N.M. 1973).
· cites it 2× “As for liability allegedly imposed upon the state defendant by virtue of the pertinent part of the School Code, N.M.Stat.Ann. §§ 77-2-1 to 10 (Repl. 1968), the plaintiffs have failed to establish that the state defendant should be liable for the acts of discrimination by the…”
Wickersham v. New Mexico State Bd. of Educ., 464 P.2d 918 (N.M. Ct. App. 1970).
“If the State Board affirmed a Local Board’s decision, and the proceedings at the Local Board level were unfair to the teacher, the State Board’s decision would be lacking in rationality and therefore arbitrary or unreasonable.”
State v. Parson, 2005 NMCA 083 (N.M. Ct. App. 2005).
· cites it 2× “The Livestock Code {12} Defendant turns to the Livestock Code, NMSA §§ 77-2-1 to -18-4 (1869, as amended through 2004), which states that, “[a]s used in The Livestock Code .”
Wild Horse Observers Ass'n v. New Mexico Livestock Bd., 2016 NMCA 001 (N.M. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 4× “The Association claims that Defendant New Mexico Livestock Board (the Board) has unlawfully treated a group ofundomesticated, unowned, free-roaming horses near Placitas, New Mexico (the Placitas horses) as “livestock” and “estray” rather than as “wild horses” under the Livestock…”
State v. Torres (N.M. 2022).
· cites it 5× “We reach this conclusion, in part, by construing Section 4 30-16-1(G) in light of New Mexico’s Livestock Code, NMSA 1978, §§ 77-2-1 to 5 77-18-6 (1869, as amended through 2017), and other laws addressing livestock.”
State ex rel. Apodaca v. New Mexico State Bd. of Educ., 484 P.2d 1268 (N.M. 1971).
“XII, § 6, supra, expressly provides: “The state board of education shall determine public school policy and vocational educational policy and shall have control, management and direction of all public schools, pursuant to authority and powers provided by law.” The board’s powers…”
Wild Horse Observers Ass’n v. N.M. Livestock Bd. (N.M. Ct. App. 2022).
· cites it 2× “(WHOA) under the New Mexico Declaratory Judgment Act, NMSA 1978, §§ 44-6-1 to -15 (1975), and the Livestock Code, NMSA 1978, §§ 77-2-1 to -18-6 (1869, as amended through 2015).”
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Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.