2019 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
Part 1 - REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND REGISTRATION PLATES GENERALLY
Section 66-3-16.1 - Prohibited acts; penalties.
A. Any person who provides false information in order to acquire, or who assists an unqualified person to acquire, a special registration plate or parking placard as provided in Section 66-3-16 NMSA 1978 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978.
B. Any person, other than the person to whom a special registration plate or a parking placard was issued, who in the absence of the holder of the plate or placard, parks in a designated accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation while displaying the plate or placard, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978.
C. A special registration plate or parking placard displayed on a vehicle parked in a designated accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation in the absence of the holder of that plate or placard is subject to immediate seizure by a law enforcement official and if seized shall be delivered to the division within seventy-two hours. Failure to surrender the parking placard on demand of a law enforcement officer is a petty misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100).
History: 1978 Comp., § 66-3-16.1, enacted by Laws 1995, ch. 129, § 2; 1999, ch. 297, § 8; 2007, ch. 319, § 19.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, changed "disabled parking space" to "accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation".
The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, substituted the section heading for "Providing false information; penalty", designated the previously undesignated paragraph as Subsection A, and in that subsection substituted "to acquire, a special registration plate or parking placard" for "in acquiring, a special registration plate or special placard", and added Subsections B and C.
