2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles
Article 12 - Boating
Section 66-12-10 - Muffling devices.
The exhaust of every internal combustion engine used on any motorboat shall be effectively muffled by equipment so constructed and used as to muffle the noise of the exhaust in a reasonable manner. This may include but is not limited to such devices as mufflers, exhaust restricters and water-injected exhaust headers. The use of cut-outs or non-muffled headers is prohibited except for motorboats competing in a regatta or boat race approved as provided in Section 66-2-15 NMSA 1978 and for such motorboats while on trial runs during a period not to exceed forty-eight hours immediately preceding the regatta or race and for such motorboats while competing in official trials for speed records during a period not to exceed forty-eight hours immediately following the regatta or race.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-35-9, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 338, § 9; 1991, ch. 240, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, added the second sentence and, in the third sentence, inserted "or non-muffled headers" and substituted "Section 66-2-15 NMSA 1978" for "Section 14 of the Boat Act".
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 12 Am. Jur. 2d Boats and Boating § 12.
Public regulation requiring mufflers or similar noise preventing devices on motor vehicles, aircrafts or boats, 49 A.L.R.2d 1202.
