UJI 13-1502 NMRA

UJI 13-1502. Violation of ordinance.

Last amended: 2025Year: 2025Length: 131 wordsOfficial source
There [was an] [were] ordinance[s] in force in the city of __________________, at the time of the occurrence in question, which provided as follows: (Quote or paraphrase the applicable part of the ordinance in question. If more than one ordinance is in question, list each ordinance separately.) If you find from the evidence that defendant violated [any of these] [this] ordinance[s], then you are instructed that such conduct constituted negligence as a matter of law, [unless you further find that such violation was excusable or justified.] [To legally justify or excuse a violation of the ordinance, the violator must sustain the burden of showing that the violator did that which might reasonably be expected of a person of ordinary prudence, acting under similar circumstances, who desired to comply with the law.]
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