N.M. Code R. § 7.4.2.17 – Animal Control Officers

A. Every municipality and each county shall designate a part-time or full-time animal control officer who shall be deputized to enforce animal control laws, orders, ordinances and regulations.
B. The animal control officer shall prevent and control the spread of rabies within the municipality or county including but not limed to the capture and confinement or disposition of rabies suspect animals, the enforcement of quarantine orders, the destruction or confinement of animals exposed to rabies and the enforcement of pet skunk regulations.
C. Animal control officers should be provided with proper training to apprehend, handle and care for animals.
D. In carrying out the provisions of these regulations every deputized animal control officer is authorized to pursue a straying animal or a vicious dog or a dog molesting livestock or any animal with symptoms of rabies onto private premises unless permission to make such pursuit is explicitly refused by the occupant.
[8/27/79; 10/31/96; 7.4.2.17 NMAC - Rn, 7 NMAC 4.2.17, 5/30/2003]
HISTORY OF 7.4.2 NMAC:
Pre-NMAC History: The material in this part was derived from that previously filed with the Commission of Public Records - State Records Center and Archives.
HED-79-2 (HSD), Regulations Governing Animal Control, 8/27/79.
History of Repealed Material: [RESERVED]
Other History: HED-79-2 (HSD), Regulations Governing Animal Control, filed 8/27/79 was renumbered and reformatted into first version of the New Mexico Administrative Code as 7 NMAC 4.2, Animal Control Requirements, effective 10/31/96.
7 NMAC 4.2, Animal Control Requirements, filed 10/31/96 was renumbered, reformatted, and amended into the second version of the New Mexico Administrative Code as 7.4.2 NMAC, Animal Control Requirements, effective 5/30/2003.