Section 34-7-5 - Failure to hold court or keep clerk's office at county seat; penalty. - New Mexico Statutes

34-7-5. [Failure to hold court or keep clerk's office at county seat; penalty.]

For every neglect on the part of any probate judge, or clerk of any probate court of the state, in the discharge of their duties as prescribed in the previous section [34-7-4 NMSA 1978], the one so failing, upon conviction thereof in the district court, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars [($5,000)].