In order to prevent hunting and boating accidents and to promote the public safety, it shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, while clearly intoxicated as a result of drinking alcoholic liquors or under the influence of any narcotic drug, to hunt, kill or attempt to take in any manner any game or nongame mammal or bird, or to carry firearms of any kind or bow and arrows in any hunting area; or to go or to be upon the waters of any lake in a boat or on a raft.
History: 1941 Comp., § 43-240; Laws 1953, ch. 98, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 53-2-32.
Cross references. — For prohibited operation of motorboats, vessels, etc., see 66-12-11 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Criminal liability for injury or death caused by operation of pleasure boat, 8 A.L.R.4th 886.
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