Opinion No. 14-1294
August 10, 1914
TO: Dr. W. E. Kaser, New Mexico Board of Health, East Las Vegas, New Mexico.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Board of health may make regulations regarding inspection of meat.
OPINION
{*153} I am in receipt of your letter of the 7th inst. in which you inquire whether there is any statute of New Mexico governing the transportation or inspection of meat.
I am unable to find anything relating to the transportation of meat, but I believe that your board, under the provisions of Section 4, Chapter 103, Laws of 1903, may make regulations as to the inspection of meat. That section reads as follows:
"Sec. 4. The said board of health shall also make such regulations as they may deem necessary for the public health and safety respecting any articles of personal property, or real estate, which may be capable of containing, conveying, or communicating any infection or contagion, or of creating any sickness. This section shall extend to and include all such articles of personal property as may be brought into or conveyed from any part of the territory to any other part of the territory, and to all such articles as may be brought into the territory from without the territory."