A. It is unlawful for an owner or operator of a public water system subject to the Environmental Improvement Act and applicable rules or an owner's or operator's agent to:

1. (1) knowingly make a false statement, representation, certification or omission of fact material to the protection of public health as related to a public water system in an application, record, report, plan or other document filed with or submitted to the department, or required by rule to be maintained by an owner or operator of a public water system;
2. (2) knowingly falsify, tamper with or render inaccurate any device, method or record to be relied upon by the department to monitor or track information related to a public water system;
3. (3) knowingly falsify or conceal a fact material to the protection of public health as related to a public water system; or

4. (4) make or use a document with the knowledge that the document contains false statements or representations material to the protection of public health as related to a public water system.

   B. A person who violates or knowingly causes or allows another person to violate Subsection A of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978.

History: Laws 2018, ch. 24, § 1.

ANNOTATIONS

Effective dates. — Laws 2018, ch. 24 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective May 16, 2018, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.