New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 21 - AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING
Chapter 32 - BRANDS, OWNERSHIP, AND TRANSPORTATION OF ANIMALS
Part 4 - IMPORT REQUIREMENTS (TRANSPORTATION OF LIVESTOCK INTO NEW MEXICO)
Section 21.32.4.12 - IMPORT REQUIREMENTS FOR SHEEPAND GOATS

A. All sheep and goats entering the state of New Mexico must be accompanied by a permit previously procured by letter, telegraph, telephone or verbally requested from the office of the New Mexico livestock board in Albuquerque or from an officer of the board specifically authorized to issue entrance permits.

B. Sheep and goats entering the state of New Mexico must be accompanied by an official health certificate issued by a state inspector of the state of origin, an inspector of the United States department of agriculture or by a recognized and accredited veterinarian attesting the animals in the shipment are apparently free from symptoms of infectious or contagious disease. Additionally, all health certificates for sheep shall contain a statement by the certifying official that the sheep are free of scabies, contagious ovine ecthyma (sore mouth) and foot rot. The health certificate shall also certify that the sheep have not been exposed to blue tongue within 30 days of movement and all breeding rams shall be certified as individually examined and free of gross lesions of ram epididymitis.

C. Shippers and owners of sheep or goats imported into the state of New Mexico must notify the livestock inspector at destination upon arrival in order that the shipment can be inspected for health as required by law.