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 66-3-2.2 - Registration and identification of vehicles registered under the international registration plan; fee; effect of registration.
A. The division shall register the vehicles so described and identified in an application and may issue a registration plate or a distinctive sticker or other suitable identification device for each vehicle described in the application upon payment of the appropriate fees for the application. The registration card shall bear upon its face information required by the division to identify it as a qualified registered vehicle under the international registration plan and other information required by law and regulation and shall be carried in the vehicle at all times.
B. Vehicles so registered and identified shall be deemed to be fully registered in this state for any type of movement or operation, provided that all other state requirements have been met.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-34-14.2, enacted by Laws 1972, ch. 7, § 34; 1977, ch. 250, § 112; 1988, ch. 24, § 3; 1978 Comp., § 65-1-14, recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 66-3-2.2 by Laws 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 10, § 10; 2015, ch. 9, § 5.
ANNOTATIONSRecompilations. — Laws 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 10, § 10, recompiled former 65-1-14 NMSA 1978, relating to registration and identification of proportionally registered vehicles, as 66-3-2.2 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 1998.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, provided for registration and identification for vehicles registered under the international registration plan; in the catchline, after "identification of", deleted "proportionally registered", and after "vehicles", added "registered under the international registration plan"; in Subsection A, after "identified", added "in an application", after "qualified", deleted "proportionally", and after "vehicle", added "under the international registration plan"; and in Subsection B, deleted "Fleet" preceding "Vehicles".
