Opinion No. 31-322
December 5, 1931
TO: Honorable Arthur Seligman, Governor of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
{*121} We have received your letter of November the 30th, with reference to Beauty Shop owners and operators whose licenses have become delinquent and who have refused to comply with the law of this state in this connection.
Under the law, license certificates must be renewed annually on or before the first day of December, and, unless same is renewed during the month of November, such certificate shall expire on the 31st day of December in that year.
It is further provided that any person who shall practice any of the occupations named in the Act wherein a certificate is required and without same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than $ 25.00 and not more than $ 100.00, or shall be imprisoned for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both. Each and every day of violations shall be considered and construed as a separate offense.
It is suggested, therefore, that the Board of Hairdressers and Beauty Culturists present these matters to the various District Attorneys of the districts in which the alleged violations of the law have occurred.
By Frank H. Patton,
Asst. Attorney General