A municipality may within one mile of its boundary direct the location, regulate and prohibit any offensive and unwholesome business or establishment.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-17-11, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
Cross references. — For public nuisance generally, see 30-8-1 NMSA 1978.
For erection of carbon black plant near municipality, see 30-8-12 NMSA 1978.
For permitting privy or cesspool within municipality to become menace to public health, see 30-8-12 NMSA 1978.
For erection of slaughterhouses near municipality without consent of governing body, see 30-8-12 NMSA 1978.
Law reviews. — For survey, "Torts: Sovereign and Governmental Immunity in New Mexico," see 6 N.M.L. Rev. 249 (1976).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 56 Am. Jur. 2d Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions §§ 447 to 451.
Slaughterhouse as nuisance, 27 A.L.R. 329.
Slaughterhouse, power to prescribe manner or conditions of serving public, 46 A.L.R. 1486.
Animal rendering or bone boiling plant or business as nuisance, 17 A.L.R.2d 1269.
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