Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously affix, attach to or connect with any natural or artificial gas or liquefied petroleum pipeline in the state of New Mexico any article or thing whereby leakage or loss of gas from said line shall or may be affected [effected], and any person who shall wilfully or maliciously by any means disturb a natural or artificial gas or liquefied petroleum pipeline or cause leakage or loss of gas from any such gas pipeline shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100.00 or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. History: 1941 Comp., § 69-313, enacted by Laws 1951, ch. 134, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 65-4-14. Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
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