A. Subject to the payment by the Indian tribe, band or pueblo or the United States of the fees established for the jail, the sheriff of each county, his deputy, jailer, jail administrator or independent contractor is required to receive any person committed to his custody in conformity with a regular process issued by or under the authority of any Indian tribe, band or pueblo in New Mexico and is further required to retain custody until such person is placed at liberty according to the laws of the United States or of the Indian tribe, band or pueblo.
B. No sheriff, jail administrator or independent contractor shall be required to receive any such committed person if to do so would exceed the capacity of the facility. The sheriff, jail administrator or independent contractor may also return any prisoner received by him under this section to the committing authority if the capacity of the facility is exceeded.
History: 1953 Comp., § 42-2-21, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 104, § 1; 1983, ch. 181, § 18; 1984, ch. 22, § 16.
Cross references. — For the definition of jail administrator, see 4-44-19 NMSA 1978.
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