N.M. Stat. § 72-1-7
[Interfering with traveler's use of water; penalty.]
Hereafter, if any person or persons, shall embarrass, hinder and molest any person
or persons at the time they may wish to take the water for their animals, and shall claim
or demand of the traveler any compensation for the use of the water, such person or
persons on conviction thereof, before the court of a justice of the peace [magistrate] or
district judge, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars [($25.00)], nor
more than fifty dollars [($50.00)], and shall be liable to pay all the damages caused
thereby to the person so hindered.