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Section 30-20B-3 - Prohibited acts.

NM Stat § 30-20B-3 (2019) (N/A)
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A person shall not, with knowledge of the existence of a funeral or funeral site:

A. engage in any loud singing, playing of music, chanting, whistling, yelling or noisemaking with or without noise amplification, including bullhorns, auto horns and microphones within five hundred feet of any ingress or egress of that funeral site, when the volume of such singing, music, chanting, whistling, yelling or noisemaking is audible at and disturbing to the peace and good order of a funeral at that funeral site;

B. direct abusive epithets or make any threatening gesture that the person knows or reasonably should know is likely to provoke a violent reaction by another person;

C. display within five hundred feet of any ingress or egress of that funeral site any visual images that convey fighting words or actual threats against another person;

D. knowingly obstruct, hinder, impede or block another person's access to or egress from that funeral site or a facility containing that funeral site, except that the owner or occupant of property may take lawful actions to exclude others from that property;

E. knowingly obstruct, hinder, impede or block the progress of a vehicle participating in a procession to or from a funeral site; or

F. knowingly engage in targeted residential picketing at the home or domicile of any surviving member of the deceased person's family or household on the date of the funeral.

History: Laws 2007, ch. 254, § 3.

Emergency clause. — Laws 2007, ch. 254, § 7 contained an emergency clause and was approved on April 2, 2007.

Severability. — Laws 2007, ch. 254, § 6 provided for the severability of the Demonstrations at Funerals and Memorial Services Act if any part or application thereof is held invalid.

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Section 30-20B-3 - Prohibited acts.