§ 11-05-020. Generally—Abuse of privacy.

(a)

Interference with communications. Interference with communications consists of knowingly:

(1)

Tampering, displacing, removing, injuring or destroying any radio station, television tower, antenna or cable, telegraph or telephone line, wire, cable, pole or conduit belonging to another, or the material or property appurtenant thereto;

(2)

Cutting, breaking, tapping, or making any connection with any television, telegraph or telephone line, wire, cable or instrument belonging to another;

(3)

Reading, hearing, interrupting, taking or copying any message, communication or report intended for another by telegraph or telephone without his consent;

(4)

Preventing, obstructing or delaying the sending, transmitting, conveying or delivering in this city of any message, communication or report by or through telegraph or telephone; or

(5)

Using any apparatus to do or cause to be done any of the acts hereinbefore mentioned or to aid, agree with, comply or conspire with any person to do, or permit or cause to be done any of the acts hereinbefore mentioned.

(b)

Disturbing the remains of a dead person. Disturbing the remains of a dead person consists of knowingly:

(1)

Disturbing or removing the remains, or any part thereof, of any person permanently interred in any church, churchyard, mausoleum, columbarium, or cemetery, other than pursuant to an order of the district court; or

(2)

Disturbing or removing any dead body, except with the authorization of a medical director, funeral director, medical investigator or law enforcement agency, or the authorized representative of any of the foregoing.

(c)

Defacing tombs. Defacing tombs consists of either:

(1)

Intentionally defacing, breaking, destroying or removing any tomb, monument or gravestone erected to any deceased person or any memento, memorial or any ornamental plant, tree or shrub appertaining to the place of burial of any human being; or

(2)

Intentionally marking, defacing, injuring, destroying or removing any fence, post, rail or wall of any cemetery, graveyard, columbarium, or mausoleum erected within any cemetery, graveyard or mausoleum.

(d)

It shall be unlawful for any person to commit any offense defined in this section.

(Code 1960, § 6-2-1; Ord. No. 552, 1-11-77; Ord. No. 981, § 1, 8-26-96)

State law reference

Similar provisions, N.M.S.A. § 30-19-5.