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 66-3-856 - Emergency signals; dangerous cargoes.
No driver shall use or permit the use of any flame-producing emergency signal for protecting any motor vehicle transporting explosives, any cargo tank motor vehicle used for the transportation of any flammable liquid or flammable compressed gas, whether loaded or empty; or any motor vehicle using compressed gas as a motor fuel. In lieu thereof, red electric lanterns or red emergency reflectors shall be used, the placement of which shall be in the same manner as prescribed in Section 66-3-853B and C NMSA 1978.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-856, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 162.
Cross references. — For the definition of "motor vehicle" applicable to this section, see 66-3-851 NMSA 1978.
For the penalty assessment for violation of this section, see 66-8-116 NMSA 1978.
