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2018 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
- 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 66-3-1.4 - Motorcycle endorsement not required for autocycle operation.
- Section 66-3-2 - Registration; trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers and freight trailers.
- Section 66-3-2.1 - Full reciprocity registration; application; fee; formula; payment.
- Section 66-3-2.2 - Registration and identification of vehicles registered under the international registration plan; fee; effect of registration.
- Section 66-3-2.3 - Full reciprocity 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 international registration plan records; audit.
- Section 66-3-2.7 - New registrant; estimated mileage.
- Section 66-3-2.8 - Fleet registration; denial.
- Section 66-3-2.9 - Relationship to other state laws.
- Section 66-3-2.10 - Registration under the international registration plan not exclusive.
- Section 66-3-2.11 - Allocation registration; one-way rental fleet vehicles; allocation of vehicles; fee; identification.
- Section 66-3-3 - Registration card; special plate or sticker; declared gross weight.
- Section 66-3-3.1 - Tax identification permit.
- Section 66-3-4 - Application for registration and certificate of title; nonrepairable vehicle certificate.
- Section 66-3-5 - Application for specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicles.
- Section 66-3-6 - Temporary registration permits, demonstration permits and transport permits.
- 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 66-3-8 - Examination of registration records and index of stolen and recovered vehicles.
- Section 66-3-9 - Registration indexes.
- 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 66-3-11 - Director may authorize issuance of nonnegotiable certificates of title.
- Section 66-3-12 - Evidential value of certificate.
- 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 66-3-20 - 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 66-3-21 - 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 66-3-30 - School bus registration; renewal.
- Section 66-3-101 - Transfer by owner; recordation of mileage of vehicle; use of the plate and registration number on another vehicle.
- Section 66-3-101.1 - Terminal rental adjustment clauses; vehicle leases that are not sales nor create security interests.
- Section 66-3-102 - Endorsement of assignment and warranty of title.
- 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 66-3-110 - When division to reregister vehicle and issue new certificate.
- 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 66-3-119 - Vehicle to be dismantled. (Effective January 1, 2019.)
- 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 66-3-123 - Requirements of purchaser; forms; distribution. (Effective January 1, 2019.)
- Section 66-3-124 - Department to provide forms.
- Section 66-3-124 - Department to provide forms. (Effective January 1, 2019.)
- Section 66-3-125 - Restrictions upon licensees.
- Section 66-3-125 - Restrictions upon licensees. (Effective January 1, 2019.)
- Section 66-3-126 - Casual sales; place of sale; advertising; penalty.
- Section 66-3-127 - Warning of violation; removal of vehicle.
- 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 66-3-301 - Registration by nonresidents.
- Section 66-3-302 - Caravan fee.
- Section 66-3-303 - Registration by military personnel.
- 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; fifty percent or more 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; national guard members.
- Section 66-3-414 - Special registration plates for purple heart veterans.
- Section 66-3-415 - Special registration plates; 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; 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; 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 66-3-424.2 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-424.3 - Special pet care registration plates.
- Section 66-3-424.4 - Standardized special registration plates; retired members of the New Mexico national guard.
- Section 66-3-424.5 - Special registration plates; 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; 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 plates; retired firefighters.
- 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 plates; 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; 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 66-3-424.20 - 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 plates; retired New Mexico law enforcement officers.
- Section 66-3-424.29 - Special New Mexico state 4-H registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.30 - Special farm and ranch community registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.31 - Special blood donor recognition registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.32 - Special New Mexico Amigos registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.33 - Special autism awareness registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.34 - Special New Mexico junior college registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.35 - Honoring fallen officers special registration plate.
- Section 66-3-424.36 - Off-highway motor vehicle paved road use vehicle plate.
- 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 66-3-601 to 66-3-603 - Repealed.
- Section 66-3-604 - Recompiled.
- 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 66-3-801 - 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 66-3-888 - Airbag violations.
- Section 66-3-901 - Vehicles without required equipment or in unsafe condition.
- 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 66-3-1003.1 - Recompiled.
- 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 66-3-1010 - 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 66-3-1020 - Penalties.
- Section 66-3-1021 - Legislative oversight.
- 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.
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