2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 66: Motor Vehicles
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 66-3-4: Application for registration and certificate of title; nonrepairable vehicle certificate.

66-3-409. Special registration plates; medal of honor recipients.

A. The division shall issue distinctive pale blue, white and gold registration plates to any person who has been awarded the medal of honor and who so requests and submits proof satisfactory to the division that he has been awarded that medal. The plates shall each bear the inscription "Medal of Honor Recipient". No fee, including the regular registration fee applicable to the passenger motor vehicle, if any, shall be collected for the issuance of a special registration plate pursuant to this section.

B. No person shall falsely represent himself to be a medal of honor recipient in order to be eligible to be issued special registration plates pursuant to this section when he is in fact not such a recipient. Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.