Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles.
- Article 1 - General Provisions, 66-1-1 through 66-1-5.
- Section 66-1-1 - Short title.
- Section 66-1-2 - Severability.
- Section 66-1-3 - Savings clauses.
- Section 66-1-4 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.1 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.10 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.11 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.12 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.13 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.14 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.15 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.16 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.17 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.18 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.19 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.2 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.20 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.21 - Additional definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.3 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.4 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.5 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.6 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.7 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.8 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-4.9 - Definitions.
- Section 66-1-5 - Measurements.
- Article 2 - Motor Vehicle Division of Taxation and Revenue Department, 66-2-1 through 66-2-17.
- Section 66-2-1, 66-2-2 - Repealed.
- Section 66-2-10 - Division may summon witnesses and take testimony.
- Section 66-2-11 - Giving of notice.
- Section 66-2-12 - Police authority of division.
- Section 66-2-13 - Legal services rendered director.
- Section 66-2-14 - Appointment of agents; termination.
- Section 66-2-14.1 - Fee agent designation; termination.
- Section 66-2-15 - Agents or department employees to remit money received; bonds for agents or department employees.
- Section 66-2-16 - Administrative fees; collection; remittance; payment; optional fees; appropriation.
- Section 66-2-17 - Administrative hearing; procedure; appeals from secretary's decision and order; exhaustion of administrative remedies.
- Section 66-2-3 - Powers and duties of department.
- Section 66-2-3.1 - Repealed.
- Section 66-2-4 - Repealed.
- Section 66-2-5 - Director to prescribe forms.
- Section 66-2-6 - Authority to administer oaths.
- Section 66-2-7 - Records of the department.
- Section 66-2-7.1 - Motor vehicle-related records; confidential.
- Section 66-2-7.2 - Royalties; commercial users of motor vehicle-related databases; distribution to motor vehicle suspense fund.
- Section 66-2-8 - Authority to grant or refuse applications.
- Section 66-2-9 - Seizure of documents and plates.
- Article 3 - Registration Laws; Security Interests; Anti-Theft Provisions; Bicycles; Equipment; Unsafe Vehicles; Off-Highway Motor Vehicles; Other Vehicles, 66-3-1 through 66-3-1103.
- Section 66-3-1 - Vehicles subject to registration; exceptions.
- Section 66-3-1.1 - Motor carriers required to register with the department.
- Section 66-3-1.2 - Registration; declared gross weight.
- Section 66-3-1.3 - Unregistered foreign commercial motor carrier vehicle operations.
- Section 66-3-10 - Division to issue certificate of title and evidence of registration; release of lien; odometer statement.
- Section 66-3-10.1 - Salvage vehicles; nonrepairable vehicles; certificate of title; transfer of ownership.
- Section 66-3-1001 - Short title.
- Section 66-3-1001.1 - Definitions.
- Section 66-3-1002 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-1003 - Off-highway motor vehicles; registration.
- Section 66-3-1004 - Registration certificate and nonresident permit fees; renewal; distribution of fees.
- Section 66-3-1004.1 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-1005 - Exemptions.
- Section 66-3-1006 - Grounds for refusing registration or certificate of title.
- Section 66-3-1007 - Evidentiary value of certificate of title.
- Section 66-3-1008 - Validating stickers to be furnished by division.
- Section 66-3-1009 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-101 - Transfer by owner; recordation of mileage of vehicle; use of the plate and registration number on another vehicle.
- Section 66-3-1010 - Licensing.
- Section 66-3-1010.1 - Off-highway motor vehicle safety training organization; approval and certification.
- Section 66-3-1010.2 - Off-highway motor vehicle safety permit; requirements; issuance.
- Section 66-3-1010.3 - Operation and equipment; safety requirements.
- Section 66-3-1010.4 - Safety helmet; civil liability.
- Section 66-3-1010.5 - Requirements of dealers to distribute safety information.
- Section 66-3-1011 - Operation on streets or highways; prohibited areas.
- Section 66-3-1012 - Driving of off-highway motor vehicles adjacent to highway.
- Section 66-3-1013 - Liability; local registration prohibited.
- Section 66-3-1014 - Accidents and accident reports.
- Section 66-3-1015 - Enforcement.
- Section 66-3-1016 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-1017 - Off-highway motor vehicle advisory board created; members; compensation.
- Section 66-3-1018 - Department; powers and duties.
- Section 66-3-1019 - Fund created; disposition.
- Section 66-3-102 - Endorsement of assignment and warranty of title.
- Section 66-3-1020 - Penalties.
- Section 66-3-1021 - Legislative oversight.
- Section 66-3-103 - New owner to secure transfer of registration and new certificate of title; time period; penalty.
- Section 66-3-104 - Use of plate and registration number on another vehicle; transfer of registration.
- Section 66-3-105 - Transfer by operation of law.
- Section 66-3-106 - Owner after transfer not liable for negligent operation.
- Section 66-3-107 - Duties of seller or transferor; additional duties of dealers; application for registration; penalty; mileage of vehicle.
- Section 66-3-108 - Transfer to dealers.
- Section 66-3-109 - Dealer's guarantee of title.
- Section 66-3-11 - Director may authorize issuance of nonnegotiable certificates of title.
- Section 66-3-110 - When division to reregister vehicle and issue new certificate.
- Section 66-3-1101 - Mopeds; standards; operator requirements; application of Motor Vehicle Code.
- Section 66-3-1102 - Electric personal assistive mobility devices; standards; operator requirements; applicability; penalties.
- Section 66-3-1103 - Neighborhood electric cars.
- Section 66-3-111 - Assignment by person holding lien.
- Section 66-3-112 - Release by lienholder to owner.
- Section 66-3-113 - Failure to deliver certificate; penalty.
- Section 66-3-114 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-115 - Notification forms; copies; resale of salvaged vehicle or motor vehicle.
- Section 66-3-116 - Title cancellation.
- Section 66-3-117 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-118 - Manufacturer's certificate of origin; transfer of vehicle not previously registered.
- Section 66-3-119 - Vehicle or motor vehicle to be dismantled.
- Section 66-3-12 - Evidential value of certificate.
- Section 66-3-120 - Transportation of certain vehicles; proof of ownership.
- Section 66-3-121 - Disposal of abandoned vehicle or motor vehicle.
- Section 66-3-122 - Registration effective after death of owner.
- Section 66-3-123 - Requirements of purchaser; forms; distribution.
- Section 66-3-124 - Department to provide forms.
- Section 66-3-125 - Restrictions upon licensees.
- Section 66-3-126 - Casual sales; place of sale; advertising; penalty.
- Section 66-3-127 - Warning of violation; removal of vehicle.
- Section 66-3-13 - Evidence of registration to be signed and exhibited on demand.
- Section 66-3-14 - Registration plates or validating stickers to be furnished by department; reflective material.
- Section 66-3-14.1 - County name stickers.
- Section 66-3-15 - Special registration plates; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-15.1 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-16 - Distinctive registration plates; persons with significant mobility limitation; parking placard.
- Section 66-3-16.1 - Prohibited acts; penalties.
- Section 66-3-17 - Registration plate; replacement of plate.
- Section 66-3-18 - Display of registration plates and temporary registration permits; displays prohibited and allowed.
- Section 66-3-19 - Renewal of registration; staggered period for vehicles; exception for manufactured homes and freight trailers; late registration.
- Section 66-3-2 - Registration; trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers and freight trailers.
- Section 66-3-2.1 - Proportional registration of fleets; application; fee; formula; payment.
- Section 66-3-2.10 - Proportional registration not exclusive.
- Section 66-3-2.11 - Allocation registration; one-way rental fleet vehicles; allocation of vehicles; fee; identification.
- Section 66-3-2.2 - Registration and identification of proportionally registered vehicles; fee; effect of registration.
- Section 66-3-2.3 - Proportional registration; jurisdictions.
- Section 66-3-2.4 - Registration of additional motor vehicles.
- Section 66-3-2.5 - Withdrawal of fleet motor vehicles; notification; surrender of documents.
- Section 66-3-2.6 - Preservation of proportional registration records; audit.
- Section 66-3-2.7 - New fleet; estimated mileage.
- Section 66-3-2.8 - Fleet registration; denial.
- Section 66-3-2.9 - Relationship to other state laws.
- Section 66-3-20 - Renewal of registration; vehicles registered by declared gross weight.
- Section 66-3-20.1 - Providing for extended registration periods for certain motor vehicles; credit for unexpired portion of fee.
- Section 66-3-201 - Filing security interests.
- Section 66-3-202 - Filing effective to give notice.
- Section 66-3-203 - Report of stored, unclaimed and unidentified motor vehicles.
- Section 66-3-204 - Property tax liens on manufactured homes; filing; effect.
- Section 66-3-21 - Vehicle exceeding declared gross weight.
- Section 66-3-22 - Re-registration; change in declared gross weight.
- Section 66-3-23 - Notice of change of address or name.
- Section 66-3-24 - Lost or damaged certificates, registration evidence or plates.
- Section 66-3-25 - Division may assign new identifying number.
- Section 66-3-26 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-27 - Horseless carriage registration.
- Section 66-3-28 - State government registration plates; issuance approved.
- Section 66-3-29 - Intrastate livestock haulers.
- Section 66-3-3 - Registration card; special plate or sticker; declared gross weight.
- Section 66-3-3.1 - Tax identification permit.
- Section 66-3-30 - School bus registration; renewal.
- Section 66-3-301 - Registration by nonresidents.
- Section 66-3-302 - Caravan fee.
- Section 66-3-303 - Registration by military personnel.
- Section 66-3-4 - Application for registration and certificate of title; nonrepairable vehicle certificate.
- Section 66-3-401 - Operation of vehicles under dealer plates.
- Section 66-3-401.1 - Use of vehicles with dealer plates by coaches and athletic directors.
- Section 66-3-402 - Application for dealer plates.
- Section 66-3-403 - Expiration of dealer plates.
- Section 66-3-404 - Dealer plates not transferable.
- Section 66-3-405 - Special plates for members of congress.
- Section 66-3-406 - Special registration plates for private vehicles.
- Section 66-3-407 - Special plates for private vehicles used in public service.
- Section 66-3-407.1 - Special registration plates.
- Section 66-3-408 - Special registration plates for recreational vehicles.
- Section 66-3-409 - Special registration plates; medal of honor recipients.
- Section 66-3-410 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-411 - Special registration plates; prisoners of war and surviving spouses; submission of proof; penalty.
- Section 66-3-412 - Special registration plates; one hundred percent disabled veterans; submission of proof; penalty.
- Section 66-3-412.1 - Special motorcycle registration plates for armed forces veterans.
- Section 66-3-413 - Special registration plates.
- Section 66-3-414 - Special registration plates for purple heart veterans.
- Section 66-3-415 - Special registration plates for Pearl Harbor survivors.
- Section 66-3-416 - Special collegiate registration plate; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-417 - Radio station licensees; special registration plates; fee.
- Section 66-3-418 - Purpose.
- Section 66-3-419 - Special registration plates for armed forces veterans.
- Section 66-3-420 - Special children's artwork registration plate; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-420.1 - Motorcycle registration plates to benefit the children's trust fund; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-421 - Special registration plates; New Mexico rangers and New Mexico mounted patrol; submission of proof; penalty.
- Section 66-3-422 - Special registration plates for firefighters and volunteer firefighters.
- Section 66-3-423 - Year-of-manufacture license plates; procedures; fees.
- Section 66-3-424 - Standardized special registration plates with logos.
- Section 66-3-424.1 - Special registration plates for retired New Mexico letter carriers.
- Section 66-3-424.10 - Special registration plates for armed forces retirees.
- Section 66-3-424.11 - Special registration plates for active duty uniform service members.
- Section 66-3-424.12 - Special registration plates for search and rescue members.
- Section 66-3-424.13 - Standardized special registration plate for retired New Mexico state police officers.
- Section 66-3-424.14 - Special registration plates; New Mexico high school rodeo association.
- Section 66-3-424.15 - Special organ donation awareness registration plate; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-424.16 - Special registration plates for emergency medical technicians.
- Section 66-3-424.17 - Special patriot registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.18 - Special registration plates for adoption awareness.
- Section 66-3-424.19 - Cumbres and Toltec scenic railroad special registration plate; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-424.2 - Standardized special registration plate for retired New Mexico state police officers.
- Section 66-3-424.20 - Special registration plates for women armed forces veterans.
- Section 66-3-424.21 - Special motorcycle registration plates for women armed forces veterans.
- Section 66-3-424.22 - Special breast cancer awareness registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.23 - Special city of Las Cruces registration plate; procedures; fee; appropriation.
- Section 66-3-424.24 - Registration plates; gold star families; submission of proof; penalty.
- Section 66-3-424.25 - Special commemorative scouting registration plate; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-424.26 - Special Santa Fe four hundredth anniversary registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.27 - Special bass fishing registration plates; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-424.28 - Standardized special registration plate for retired New Mexico law enforcement officers.
- Section 66-3-424.29 - Special New Mexico state 4-H registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.3 - Special pet care registration plates.
- Section 66-3-424.30 - Special farm and ranch community registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.4 - Standardized special registration plate for retired members of the New Mexico national guard.
- Section 66-3-424.5 - Special registration plates for New Mexico members of the fraternal order of police.
- Section 66-3-424.6 - Special wildlife artwork registration plates; procedures; fee.
- Section 66-3-424.7 - Registration plates for members of the civil air patrol, New Mexico wing.
- Section 66-3-424.8 - Special route 66 commemorative registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.9 - Standardized special registration plate for retired firefighters.
- Section 66-3-5 - Application for specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicles.
- Section 66-3-501 - Report of stolen and recovered vehicles or motor vehicles.
- Section 66-3-502 - Reports by owners of stolen and recovered vehicles or motor vehicles.
- Section 66-3-503 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-504 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-3-505 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-3-506 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-3-507 - Altered vehicle identification numbers; contraband.
- Section 66-3-508 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-3-6 - Temporary registration permits, demonstration permits and transport permits.
- Section 66-3-601 to 66-3-603 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-604 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-3-7 - Grounds for refusing, suspending or revoking registration or certificate of title.
- Section 66-3-7.1 - Registration if vehicle emission inspection test required; requiring a certificate; registration in Class A counties.
- Section 66-3-701 - Bicycles; effect of regulations.
- Section 66-3-702 - Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles.
- Section 66-3-703 - Riding on bicycles.
- Section 66-3-704 - Clinging to vehicles.
- Section 66-3-705 - Riding on roadways and bicycle paths.
- Section 66-3-706 - Carrying articles.
- Section 66-3-707 - Lamps and other equipment on bicycles.
- Section 66-3-8 - Examination of registration records and index of stolen and recovered vehicles.
- Section 66-3-801 - Equipment; prohibited acts.
- Section 66-3-802 - When lighted lamps are required.
- Section 66-3-803 - Visibility distance and mounted height of lamps.
- Section 66-3-804 - Headlamps on motor vehicles.
- Section 66-3-805 - Tail lamps.
- Section 66-3-806 - New motor vehicles to be equipped with reflectors.
- Section 66-3-807 - Stop lamps and turn signals required on designated vehicles.
- Section 66-3-808 - Application of succeeding sections.
- Section 66-3-809 - Additional equipment required on certain vehicles.
- Section 66-3-810 - Color of clearance lamps, side-marker lamps and reflectors.
- Section 66-3-811 - Lamps and reflectors; truck tractors and road tractors.
- Section 66-3-812 - Lamps and reflectors; large semitrailers, full trailers and house trailers.
- Section 66-3-813 - Lamps and reflectors, small semitrailers, house trailers and trailers.
- Section 66-3-814 - Lamps and reflectors, pole trailers.
- Section 66-3-815 - Lamps and reflectors, combinations in driveaway-towaway operations.
- Section 66-3-816 - Mounting of reflectors, clearance lamps and side-marker lamps.
- Section 66-3-817 - Clearance lamps to indicate extreme width, height and length.
- Section 66-3-818 - Side-marker lamps combined with clearance lamps.
- Section 66-3-819 - Combining tail and stop lamps.
- Section 66-3-820 - Lighting devices to be electric.
- Section 66-3-821 - Requirements for headlamps and auxiliary road-lighting lamps.
- Section 66-3-822 - Requirements for clearance, side-marker and other lamps.
- Section 66-3-823 - Obstructed lights not required.
- Section 66-3-824 - Lamp or flag on projecting load.
- Section 66-3-825 - Lamps on parked vehicles.
- Section 66-3-826 - Lamps on other vehicles and equipment.
- Section 66-3-827 - Spot lamps and auxiliary lamps.
- Section 66-3-828 - Signal lamps and signal devices.
- Section 66-3-829 - Additional lighting equipment.
- Section 66-3-830 - Multiple-beam road-lighting equipment.
- Section 66-3-831 - Use of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment.
- Section 66-3-832 - Single-beam road-lighting equipment.
- Section 66-3-833 - Alternate road-lighting equipment.
- Section 66-3-834 - Number of driving lamps required or permitted.
- Section 66-3-835 - Special restrictions on lamps.
- Section 66-3-836 - Standards for lights on snow-removal equipment.
- Section 66-3-837 - Selling or using lamps or equipment.
- Section 66-3-838 - Authority of director with reference to safety and lighting devices.
- Section 66-3-839 - Revocation of certificate of approval on safety and lighting devices.
- Section 66-3-840 - Brakes.
- Section 66-3-841 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-842 - Motorcycle maneuverability.
- Section 66-3-843 - Horns and warning devices.
- Section 66-3-844 - Mufflers; prevention of noise; emission control devices.
- Section 66-3-845 - Mirrors.
- Section 66-3-846 - Windshields must be unobstructed and equipped with wipers; windows must be transparent; exception.
- Section 66-3-846.1 - Sun screening material on windshields and windows; requirements; violation; penalty.
- Section 66-3-847 - Restrictions as to tire equipment.
- Section 66-3-848 - Safety glazing materials in motor vehicles.
- Section 66-3-849 - Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices.
- Section 66-3-850 - Buses; additional emergency equipment.
- Section 66-3-851 - Meaning of term "motor vehicle" as used in Sections 66-3-852 through 66-3-857 NMSA 1978; unattended vehicles.
- Section 66-3-852 - Stopped vehicles not to interfere with other traffic.
- Section 66-3-853 - Emergency signals; disabled vehicle.
- Section 66-3-854 - Emergency signals; stopped or parked vehicles.
- Section 66-3-855 - Emergency signals; flame producing.
- Section 66-3-856 - Emergency signals; dangerous cargoes.
- Section 66-3-857 - Red flags; stopped vehicles.
- Section 66-3-858 to 66-3-872 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-873 - Formulation of rules and regulations governing transportation of compressed gases and corrosive liquids.
- Section 66-3-874 - Safety belts required.
- Section 66-3-875 - Safety belts; type and manner of installation.
- Section 66-3-876 to 66-3-886 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-887 - Slow-moving vehicle identification.
- Section 66-3-9 - Registration indexes.
- Section 66-3-901 - Vehicles without required equipment or in unsafe condition.
- Article 4 - Licensing of Dealers and Wreckers, 66-4-1 through 66-4-9.
- Section 66-4-1 - Dealers, wreckers, wholesalers and distributors of vehicles and title service companies must be licensed; presumption of conducting business.
- Section 66-4-1.1 - Auto recycler license; presumption of conducting business.
- Section 66-4-2 - Department to issue license.
- Section 66-4-2.1 - Recreational vehicle dealers; licensure; special events.
- Section 66-4-2.2 - Off-site sales.
- Section 66-4-3 - Refusal to issue license; cancellation or suspension of license or use of temporary permits; hearing; appeal.
- Section 66-4-4 - Criminal offender's character evaluation.
- Section 66-4-5 - Records of purchases, of sales and of vehicles dismantled.
- Section 66-4-6 - Place of business.
- Section 66-4-7 - Dealers, wholesalers, distributors and auto recyclers; title service companies; dealers of motorcycles only; bond.
- Section 66-4-8 - Repealed.
- Section 66-4-9 - Penalty for destroying or dismantling in violation of the act.
- Article 5 - Licensing of Operators and Chauffeurs; Financial Responsibility; Uninsured Motorists' Insurance; Identification Cards, 66-5-1 through 66-5-504.
- Section 66-5-1 - Repealed.
- Section 66-5-1.1 - Definitions.
- Section 66-5-1.2 - Definition; tribe.
- Section 66-5-10 - Application for license; information; transfer to license.
- Section 66-5-11 - Application of minors.
- Section 66-5-12 - Release from liability.
- Section 66-5-13 - Cancellation of license upon death of person signing minor's application.
- Section 66-5-14 - Examination of applicants.
- Section 66-5-15 - Licenses issued to applicants.
- Section 66-5-15.1 - Notification by licensee.
- Section 66-5-16 - License to be carried and exhibited on demand.
- Section 66-5-17 - Use of license for identification.
- Section 66-5-18 - Altered, forged or fictitious license; penalty.
- Section 66-5-19 - Restricted licenses.
- Section 66-5-2 - Drivers must be licensed.
- Section 66-5-2.1 - Consent to registration with the selective service system; applicability.
- Section 66-5-20 - Replacement licenses.
- Section 66-5-21 - Expiration of license; four-year issuance period; eight-year issuance period.
- Section 66-5-21.1 - Effect of military service on driver's license.
- Section 66-5-22 - Notice of change of address or name.
- Section 66-5-23 - Records to be kept by the division.
- Section 66-5-24 - Authority of division to cancel license.
- Section 66-5-25 - Suspending privileges of nonresidents; reporting convictions; failures to appear; failures to pay.
- Section 66-5-26 - Suspending resident's license; conviction failure to appear, failure to pay in another state or tribal jurisdiction.
- Section 66-5-27 - Recognition of convictions for motor vehicle offenses committed on military installations; suspension or revocation.
- Section 66-5-27.1 - Recognition of convictions for motor vehicle offenses committed on tribal land; intergovernmental agreements; information sharing with tribal courts.
- Section 66-5-28 - Repealed.
- Section 66-5-29 - Mandatory revocation of license by division.
- Section 66-5-3 - Repealed.
- Section 66-5-30 - Authority of division to suspend or revoke license.
- Section 66-5-31 - Division may require reexamination.
- Section 66-5-32 - Period of suspension or revocation.
- Section 66-5-33 - Repealed.
- Section 66-5-33.1 - Reinstatement of driver's license or registration; ignition interlock; fee.
- Section 66-5-34 - No operation under foreign license during suspension or revocation in this state.
- Section 66-5-35 - Limited driving privilege upon suspension or revocation.
- Section 66-5-36 - Right of appeal to court.
- Section 66-5-37 - Unlawful use of license.
- Section 66-5-4 - Persons exempt from licensure.
- Section 66-5-5 - Persons not to be licensed.
- Section 66-5-6 - Health standards advisory board.
- Section 66-5-7 - Driver's license; classification; examinations.
- Section 66-5-8 - Provisional licenses; instruction permits; driver education students; temporary licenses.
- Section 66-5-9 - Application for license, temporary license, provisional license or instruction permit.
- Article 6 - Fees, 66-6-1 through 66-6-36.
- Section 66-6-1 - Motorcycles; registration fees.
- Section 66-6-10 - Registration fees for manufactured homes and travel trailers; division to notify county assessor of manufactured home registration.
- Section 66-6-11 - Computation of weight.
- Section 66-6-12 - Fees for school buses.
- Section 66-6-13 - Reduced fees for portion of year; fee incentive for registration by alternative means; temporary permits; drive-out permit; fee.
- Section 66-6-14 - Vehicles of United States and other states.
- Section 66-6-15 - Vehicles of the state, county or municipality.
- Section 66-6-16 - Exemption for armed forces amputees and those who have lost use of limbs.
- Section 66-6-17 - Dealer plate fees.
- Section 66-6-18 - License fee for dealers, wholesalers, distributors, auto recyclers and title service companies.
- Section 66-6-19 - Vehicle transaction fees.
- Section 66-6-2 - Passenger vehicles; registration fees.
- Section 66-6-20 - Repealed.
- Section 66-6-21 - Repealed.
- Section 66-6-22 - When fees returnable; refunds.
- Section 66-6-22.1 - Motor vehicle suspense fund created; receipts; disbursements.
- Section 66-6-22.2 - Adjustments of disbursements from the motor vehicle suspense fund.
- Section 66-6-23 - Disposition of fees.
- Section 66-6-23.1 - Formulaic distribution.
- Section 66-6-24 - Repealed.
- Section 66-6-25 - Registration by county or municipality prohibited.
- Section 66-6-25.1 - Repealed.
- Section 66-6-26 - Registered vehicle exempt from property tax; exception.
- Section 66-6-27 to 66-6-29 - Repealed.
- Section 66-6-3 - Trailers; registration fees.
- Section 66-6-30 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-6-31 to 66-6-33 - Repealed.
- Section 66-6-34 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-6-35 - Repealed.
- Section 66-6-36 - Payment in foreign currency.
- Section 66-6-4 - Registration fees; trucks, truck tractors, road tractors and buses.
- Section 66-6-5 - Bus registration fees.
- Section 66-6-6 - Additional fees.
- Section 66-6-6.1 - Additional registration fee.
- Section 66-6-6.2 - Registration fee; litter control and beautification fund.
- Section 66-6-6.3 - Save our children's sight fund option.
- Section 66-6-7 - Exemptions.
- Section 66-6-8 - Bus registration; agricultural labor fees.
- Section 66-6-9 - Fee for fertilizer trailers.
- Article 7 - Traffic Laws; Signs, Signals and Markings; Accidents; Weight and Size; Traffic Safety, 66-7-1 through 66-7-513.
- Section 66-7-1 - Repealed.
- Section 66-7-10 - No interference with rights of owners of real property with reference thereto.
- Section 66-7-101 - State transportation commission to adopt sign manual.
- Section 66-7-102 - State transportation commission to sign all state highways.
- Section 66-7-102.1 - State transportation commission; speed limit signs.
- Section 66-7-103 - Local traffic-control devices.
- Section 66-7-103.1 - Advance signal warning required.
- Section 66-7-104 - Obedience to any required traffic-control devices.
- Section 66-7-105 - Traffic-control signal legend.
- Section 66-7-106 - Pedestrian-control signals.
- Section 66-7-107 - Flashing signals.
- Section 66-7-108 - Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings.
- Section 66-7-109 - Interference with official traffic-control devices or railroad signs or signals.
- Section 66-7-11 - New Mexico state police power to close certain highways in emergencies.
- Section 66-7-2 - Reference to vehicles upon the highways; exceptions.
- Section 66-7-201 - Accidents involving death or personal injuries.
- Section 66-7-202 - Accidents involving damage to vehicle.
- Section 66-7-203 - Duty to give information and render aid.
- Section 66-7-204 - Duty upon striking unattended vehicle.
- Section 66-7-205 - Duty upon striking fixtures or other property upon a highway.
- Section 66-7-206 - Immediate notice of accidents.
- Section 66-7-207 - Written reports of accidents.
- Section 66-7-207.1 - Motor vehicle accidents involving a school bus; investigation by a law enforcement officer certified as an accident reconstructionist.
- Section 66-7-208 - When driver unable to report.
- Section 66-7-209 - Accident report form.
- Section 66-7-210 - Repealed.
- Section 66-7-211 - District medical investigators to report.
- Section 66-7-212 - Garages, dealers and wreckers of vehicles to report.
- Section 66-7-213 - Accident reports confidential; exceptions.
- Section 66-7-214 - Agency to tabulate and analyze accident reports.
- Section 66-7-215 - Any incorporated city may require accident reports.
- Section 66-7-3 - Required obedience to traffic laws.
- Section 66-7-301 - Speed regulation.
- Section 66-7-302 - Repealed.
- Section 66-7-302.1 - Speed limit; conviction; use limited.
- Section 66-7-302.2 - Certain speeding convictions to be disregarded in the development or application of a point system.
- Section 66-7-303 - Establishment of speed zones.
- Section 66-7-303.1 - Construction zones; traffic control devices; penalty.
- Section 66-7-304 - County roads; authority to regulate speed limits.
- Section 66-7-305 - Minimum speed regulation.
- Section 66-7-306 - Special speed limitations.
- Section 66-7-307 - Charging violations; rule in civil actions.
- Section 66-7-308 - Drive on right side of roadway; exceptions.
- Section 66-7-309 - Passing vehicles proceeding in opposite direction [directions].
- Section 66-7-310 - Overtaking a vehicle on the left.
- Section 66-7-311 - When overtaking on the right is permitted.
- Section 66-7-312 - Limitations on overtaking on the left.
- Section 66-7-313 - Further limitations on driving to left of center of roadway.
- Section 66-7-314 - Movement of hazardous vehicle; escort may be required.
- Section 66-7-315 - No-passing zones.
- Section 66-7-316 - One-way roadways and rotary traffic islands.
- Section 66-7-317 - Driving on roadways laned for traffic.
- Section 66-7-318 - Following too closely.
- Section 66-7-319 - Driving on divided highways.
- Section 66-7-320 - Restricted access.
- Section 66-7-321 - Restrictions on use of controlled-access roadway.
- Section 66-7-322 - Required position and method of turning at intersections.
- Section 66-7-323 - Turning on curve or crest or [of] grade prohibited.
- Section 66-7-324 - Starting parked vehicle.
- Section 66-7-325 - Turning movements and required signals.
- Section 66-7-326 - Signals by hand and arm or signal device.
- Section 66-7-327 - Method of giving hand and arm signals.
- Section 66-7-328 - Vehicle approaching or entering intersection.
- Section 66-7-329 - Vehicles turning left at intersection.
- Section 66-7-330 - Vehicles entering stop or yield intersection.
- Section 66-7-331 - Vehicle entering highway from private road or driveway.
- Section 66-7-332 - Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles.
- Section 66-7-332.1 - Approach of oncoming vehicle; yield right of way.
- Section 66-7-333 - Pedestrians subject to traffic regulations.
- Section 66-7-334 - Pedestrians' right of way in crosswalks.
- Section 66-7-335 - Crossing at other than crosswalks.
- Section 66-7-336 - School crossings.
- Section 66-7-337 - Drivers to exercise due care.
- Section 66-7-338 - Pedestrians to use right half of crosswalk.
- Section 66-7-339 - Pedestrians on roadways.
- Section 66-7-340 - Pedestrians soliciting rides or business.
- Section 66-7-341 - Railroad-highway grade crossing violations; all drivers.
- Section 66-7-342 - All vehicles must stop at certain railroad grade crossings.
- Section 66-7-343 - Railroad-highway grade crossing violations; certain vehicles required to always stop; exceptions.
- Section 66-7-344 - Moving heavy equipment at railroad grade crossings.
- Section 66-7-345 - Authority to designate through highways and stop and yield intersections.
- Section 66-7-346 - Stop before emerging from alley or private driveway.
- Section 66-7-347 - Overtaking and passing school bus.
- Section 66-7-348 - Special lighting equipment on school buses.
- Section 66-7-349 - Stopping, standing or parking outside of business or residence districts.
- Section 66-7-350 - Officers authorized to remove illegally stopped vehicles.
- Section 66-7-351 - Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.
- Section 66-7-352 - Additional parking regulations.
- Section 66-7-352.1 - Short title.
- Section 66-7-352.2 - Legislative intent.
- Section 66-7-352.3 - Repealed.
- Section 66-7-352.4 - Parking lots; standards.
- Section 66-7-352.5 - Unauthorized use; penalties.
- Section 66-7-352.6 - Enforcement.
- Section 66-7-353 - Unattended motor vehicle.
- Section 66-7-354 - Limitation on backing.
- Section 66-7-355 - Riding on motorcycles.
- Section 66-7-356 - Mandatory use of protective helmets.
- Section 66-7-357 - Obstruction to driver's view or driving mechanism.
- Section 66-7-358 - Restriction on use of television in motor vehicles.
- Section 66-7-359 - Driving on mountain highways.
- Section 66-7-360 - Coasting prohibited.
- Section 66-7-361 - Following fire apparatus and driving through safety zone prohibited.
- Section 66-7-362 - Crossing fire hose.
- Section 66-7-363 - Animals on highway.
- Section 66-7-364 - Putting injurious material or trash on highway prohibited.
- Section 66-7-365 - Recompiled.
- Section 66-7-366 - Occupied moving house trailer.
- Section 66-7-367 - Improper opening of doors.
- Section 66-7-368 - Purpose [of child restraint device provisions].
- Section 66-7-369 - Child passenger restraint; enforcement.
- Section 66-7-370 - Short title.
- Section 66-7-371 - Repealed.
- Section 66-7-372 - Safety belt use required; exception.
- Section 66-7-373 - Enforcement programs.
- Section 66-7-4 - Obedience to police officers.
- Section 66-7-401 - Scope and effect of article [part].
- Section 66-7-402 - Width of vehicles.
- Section 66-7-403 - Projecting loads on passenger vehicles.
- Section 66-7-404 - Height and length of vehicles and loads.
- Section 66-7-405 - Minimum vehicle size.
- Section 66-7-406 - Special load limits.
- Section 66-7-407 - Loads on vehicles.
- Section 66-7-408 - Trailers and towed vehicles.
- Section 66-7-409 - Load limits on single axles, wheels and tires.
- Section 66-7-410 - Gross weight of vehicles and loads.
- Section 66-7-411 - Authorized representative may weigh vehicles and require removal of excess loads; graduated penalties.
- Section 66-7-412 - Special farm permits.
- Section 66-7-413 - Permits for excessive size and weight; special notification required on movement of manufactured homes.
- Section 66-7-413.1 - Farm carriers; excessive size; limitation.
- Section 66-7-413.2 - Engineering investigations for vehicles in excess of one hundred seventy thousand pounds.
- Section 66-7-413.3 - Repealed.
- Section 66-7-413.4 - Permits for excessive weight.
- Section 66-7-413.5 - Exemption; vehicles used to transport seed cotton modules; limitations.
- Section 66-7-413.6 - Multiple trip special permit allowance; vehicles used to transport oilfield equipment; limitations.
- Section 66-7-413.7 - Multiple trip special permit allowance; fee; vehicles used to transport agricultural products; limitations.
- Section 66-7-414 - Exemptions; implements of husbandry.
- Section 66-7-415 - When the state transportation commission or local authorities may restrict right to use streets.
- Section 66-7-416 - Liability for damage; unlawful use of highways; penalties.
- Section 66-7-5 - Public officers and employees to obey act; exceptions.
- Section 66-7-501 - Short title.
- Section 66-7-502 - Legislative intent.
- Section 66-7-503 - Definitions.
- Section 66-7-504 - Bureau; creation; administrative head.
- Section 66-7-505 - Advisory committee; creation; members; terms.
- Section 66-7-506 - Bureau; functions; powers; duties.
- Section 66-7-506.1 - DWI prevention and education program; organ donation.
- Section 66-7-507 - Approval of accident-investigation programs; privacy of victims.
- Section 66-7-508 - Confidentiality of records.
- Section 66-7-509 - Annual reports.
- Section 66-7-510 - Bureau; information request.
- Section 66-7-511 - Acceptance of gifts; function of advisory committee.
- Section 66-7-512 - Traffic safety education and enforcement fund created.
- Section 66-7-513 - Safe routes to school program.
- Section 66-7-6 - Authorized emergency vehicles.
- Section 66-7-7 - Traffic laws apply to persons riding animals or driving animal-drawn vehicles.
- Section 66-7-8 - Provisions uniform throughout state.
- Section 66-7-9 - Powers of local authorities.
- Article 8 - Crimes, Penalties and Procedure, 66-8-1 through 66-8-141.
- Section 66-8-1 - Fraudulent applications.
- Section 66-8-1.1 - Fraud in obtaining documents issued by the division; penalty.
- Section 66-8-10 - Duplicate or replacement registration plate; citation; failure to comply.
- Section 66-8-101 - Homicide by vehicle; great bodily harm by vehicle.
- Section 66-8-101.1 - Injury to pregnant woman by vehicle.
- Section 66-8-102 - Driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs; aggravated driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs; penalties.
- Section 66-8-102.1 - Guilty pleas; limitations.
- Section 66-8-102.2 - Municipal and county ordinances; unlawful alcohol concentration level for driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
- Section 66-8-102.3 - Imposing a fee; interlock device fund created.
- Section 66-8-102.4 - Uniform police reports and procedures for DWI arrests.
- Section 66-8-103 - Blood-alcohol tests directed by police, judicial or probation officer; persons qualified to perform tests; relief from civil and criminal liability.
- Section 66-8-104 - Blood-alcohol tests; police, judicial or probation officer unauthorized to make arrest or direct test except in performance of official duties authorized by law.
- Section 66-8-105 - Implied Consent Act; short title.
- Section 66-8-106 - Repealed.
- Section 66-8-107 - Implied consent to submit to chemical test.
- Section 66-8-108 - Consent of person incapable of refusal not withdrawn.
- Section 66-8-109 - Administration of chemical test; payment of costs; additional tests.
- Section 66-8-110 - Use of tests in criminal actions or civil actions; levels of intoxication; mandatory charging.
- Section 66-8-111 - Refusal to submit to chemical tests; testing; grounds for revocation of license or privilege to drive.
- Section 66-8-111.1 - Law enforcement officer agent for department; written notice of revocation and right to hearing.
- Section 66-8-112 - Revocation of license or privilege to drive; notice; effective date; hearing; hearing costs; review.
- Section 66-8-113 - Reckless driving.
- Section 66-8-114 - Careless driving.
- Section 66-8-115 - Racing on highways; exception.
- Section 66-8-116 - Penalty assessment misdemeanors; definition; schedule of assessments.
- Section 66-8-116.1 - Penalty assessment misdemeanors; oversize load.
- Section 66-8-116.2 - Penalty assessment misdemeanors; Motor Carrier Act.
- Section 66-8-116.3 - Penalty assessment misdemeanors; additional fees.
- Section 66-8-117 - Penalty assessment misdemeanors; option; effect.
- Section 66-8-118 - Repealed.
- Section 66-8-119 - Penalty assessment revenue; disposition.
- Section 66-8-120 - Parties to a crime.
- Section 66-8-121 - Offenses by persons owning or controlling vehicles.
- Section 66-8-122 - Immediate appearance before magistrate.
- Section 66-8-123 - Conduct of arresting officer; notices by citation.
- Section 66-8-124 - Arresting officer to be in uniform.
- Section 66-8-125 - Arrest without warrant.
- Section 66-8-126 - Failure to obey notice to appear.
- Section 66-8-127 - Procedure not exclusive.
- Section 66-8-128 - Uniform traffic citation.
- Section 66-8-129 - Repealed.
- Section 66-8-130 - All traffic citations to conform; municipalities may pass ordinance to establish similar program.
- Section 66-8-131 - Uniform traffic citation is complaint.
- Section 66-8-132 - Records of citations issued.
- Section 66-8-133 - Disposition of citations.
- Section 66-8-134 - Illegal cancellation; audit of citation records.
- Section 66-8-135 - Record of traffic cases.
- Section 66-8-136 - Repealed.
- Section 66-8-137 - Compensation of judges and officers; defenses to prosecution.
- Section 66-8-137.1 - Nonresident Violator Compact; form.
- Section 66-8-137.2 - Nonresident Violator Compact; definitions.
- Section 66-8-137.3 - Compact administrator; compensation.
- Section 66-8-137.4 - Bilateral agreements; noncompact jurisdictions; authority.
- Section 66-8-138 - Consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages in open containers in a motor vehicle prohibited; exceptions.
- Section 66-8-139 - Penalties.
- Section 66-8-140 - Repealed.
- Section 66-8-141 - Dishonored checks; civil penalty.
- Section 66-8-2 - Improper use of evidences of registration.
- Section 66-8-3 - False evidences of title and registration.
- Section 66-8-3.1 - Motor vehicle brokering; exceptions.
- Section 66-8-4 - Authority of division to suspend or revoke a registration.
- Section 66-8-5 - Suspending or revoking certificate or special plates of a manufacturer, dealer or auto recycler.
- Section 66-8-6 - Owner to return evidences of registration upon cancellation, suspension or revocation.
- Section 66-8-7 - Penalty for misdemeanor.
- Section 66-8-8 - Sunday actions.
- Section 66-8-9 - Penalty for felony.
- Article 9 - Snowmobiles, 66-9-1 through 66-9-13.
- Section 66-9-1 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-10 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-11 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-12 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-13 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-2 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-3 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-4 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-5 to 66-9-7 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-8 - Repealed.
- Section 66-9-9 - Repealed.
- Article 10 - Driver Education Schools, 66-10-1 through 66-10-12.
- Section 66-10-1 - Short title.
- Section 66-10-10 - Motorcycle training fund created; purpose.
- Section 66-10-11 - Driving safety training considered by the court.
- Section 66-10-12 - Exempt providers.
- Section 66-10-2 - Driver education schools; driver education instructors; license required.
- Section 66-10-3 - Qualifications of driver education schools; fees.
- Section 66-10-4 - Qualifications of driver education instructors.
- Section 66-10-5 - Issuance of licenses to driver education schools and to driver education instructors.
- Section 66-10-6 - Powers of bureau.
- Section 66-10-7 - Disposition of fees.
- Section 66-10-8 - Application.
- Section 66-10-9 - Motorcycle driver education programs.
- Article 11 - Vehicles of Historic and Special Significance, 66-11-1 through 66-11-5.
- Article 12 - Boating, 66-12-1 through 66-12-24.
- Section 66-12-1 - Short title.
- Section 66-12-10 - Muffling devices.
- Section 66-12-11 - Prohibited operation.
- Section 66-12-12 - Collisions; assistance and reports.
- Section 66-12-13 - Transmittal of information.
- Section 66-12-14 - Water skis and surfboards.
- Section 66-12-15 - Regattas; races; marine parades; tournaments or exhibitions.
- Section 66-12-16 - Local regulations; restrictions; special rules and regulations.
- Section 66-12-17 - Owner's civil liability.
- Section 66-12-18 - Power to regulate.
- Section 66-12-18.1 - Safe boating rules.
- Section 66-12-19 - Filing of regulations.
- Section 66-12-2 - Purpose of act.
- Section 66-12-20 - Disposition of fees.
- Section 66-12-21 - Disposition of fines.
- Section 66-12-22 - Enforcement.
- Section 66-12-23 - Penalties.
- Section 66-12-24 - Repealed.
- Section 66-12-3 - Definitions.
- Section 66-12-4 - Operation of unnumbered motorboats prohibited.
- Section 66-12-5 - Identification number.
- Section 66-12-5.1 - Fees.
- Section 66-12-5.2 - Owner's certificate of title; fees; duplicates.
- Section 66-12-5.3 - Prohibited acts.
- Section 66-12-6 - Dealer and manufacturer numbers; fee; certificates of origin; records.
- Section 66-12-6.1 - Excise tax on issuance of certificates of title; appropriation.
- Section 66-12-6.2 - Security interest in boats; filing; perfection.
- Section 66-12-6.3 - Security interest in boats; filing effective to give notice.
- Section 66-12-6.4 - Forms; investigations.
- Section 66-12-6.5 - Prohibited display of dealer or manufacturer numbers.
- Section 66-12-6.6 - Dealer license.
- Section 66-12-6.7 - Dealer license denial, suspension and revocation.
- Section 66-12-6.8 - Dealer bonds; required insurance.
- Section 66-12-7 - Equipment.
- Section 66-12-7.1 - Personal flotation devices required.
- Section 66-12-8 - Exemptions from numbering provisions of the Boat Act.
- Section 66-12-9 - Boat liveries.
- Article 13 - Boating While Intoxicated, 66-13-1 through 66-13-13.
- Section 66-13-1 - Short title.
- Section 66-13-10 - Administration of chemical test; payment of costs; additional tests.
- Section 66-13-11 - Use of tests in criminal or civil actions; levels of intoxication; mandatory charging.
- Section 66-13-12 - Motorboats; influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs; fee upon conviction.
- Section 66-13-13 - Educational program.
- Section 66-13-2 - Definitions.
- Section 66-13-3 - Operating a motorboat while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
- Section 66-13-4 - Guilty pleas; limitations.
- Section 66-13-5 - Municipal and county ordinances; unlawful alcohol concentration level for boating while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
- Section 66-13-6 - Blood-alcohol tests; persons qualified to perform tests; relief from civil and criminal liability.
- Section 66-13-7 - Blood-alcohol test; law enforcement, judicial or probation officer unauthorized to make arrest or direct test except in performance of official duties authorized by law.
- Section 66-13-8 - Implied consent to submit to chemical test.
- Section 66-13-9 - Consent of person incapable of refusal not withdrawn.