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2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles
Article 7 - Traffic Laws; Signs, Signals and Markings; Accidents; Weight and Size; Traffic Safety
Part 4 - TRAFFIC LAWS GENERALLY
Section 66-7-361 - Following fire apparatus and driving through safety zone prohibited.
Universal Citation: NM Stat § 66-7-361 (2020)
A. The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than five hundred feet, or drive into or park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
B. No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a safety zone.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-361, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 465.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the definition of "safety zone", see 66-1-4.16 NMSA 1978.
For authorized emergency vehicles, see 66-7-6 NMSA 1978.
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