This text of New Mexico § 30-9A-2 (Definitions) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Mexico primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
As used in the Animal Sexual Abuse Act: A. "animal" means any wild or domestic fauna, including livestock, alive or dead, in any setting, that is not a human being; B. "coerce" means the use of threat, physical force or violence against another person to commit an act of bestiality; C. "manipulate" means the use of persuasion, extortion, retaliation, deceit or other acts not involving force or coercion to cause another person to commit an act of bestiality; D. "orifice" means the mouth, vulva or anus; E. "sexual contact with an animal" means:
(1)the intentional insertion of the genitals or mouth of an animal into an orifice of a human's body;
(2)the intentional insertion of the genitals or mouth of a human into an orifice of an animal's body;
(3)the intentional insertion of an object in
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As used in the Animal Sexual Abuse Act: A. "animal" means any wild or domestic fauna, including livestock, alive or dead, in any setting, that is not a human being; B. "coerce" means the use of threat, physical force or violence against another person to commit an act of bestiality; C. "manipulate" means the use of persuasion, extortion, retaliation, deceit or other acts not involving force or coercion to cause another person to commit an act of bestiality; D. "orifice" means the mouth, vulva or anus; E. "sexual contact with an animal" means: (1) the intentional insertion of the genitals or mouth of an animal into an orifice of a human's body; (2) the intentional insertion of the genitals or mouth of a human into an orifice of an animal's body; (3) the intentional insertion of an object into the genitals or anus of an animal; and (4) contact, handling or stimulation of the genitals or anus of an animal by a human. "Sexual contact with an animal" does not include accepted veterinary medical practices; accepted animal husbandry, care and grooming practices in the caretaking of animals; accepted practices related to the insemination of animals for the purpose of procreation; or accepted practices related to conformation judging; and F. "solicit" means to entice, induce, encourage or attempt to persuade another person to commit an act of bestiality.