2021 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 9 - EQUIPMENT
Section 66-3-810 - Color of clearance lamps, side-marker lamps and reflectors.
Every bus or truck eighty inches or more in overall width shall be equipped as follows:
A. on the front: two headlamps; two amber clearance lamps, one at each side;
B. on the rear: one red tail lamp; one red or amber stop lamp; two red clearance lamps, one at each side; two red reflectors, one at each side;
C. all lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except the stop light or other signal device, which may be red, amber or yellow, and except that the light illuminating the license plate shall be white and the light emitted by a back-up lamp shall be white or amber; and
D. on each side: one amber side-marker lamp, located at or near the front; one red side-marker lamp, located at or near the rear; one amber reflector, located at or near the front; one red reflector, located at or near the rear.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-810, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 116.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the definition of "bus", see 66-1-4.2 NMSA 1978.
For the definition of "truck", see 66-1-4.17 NMSA 1978.
For reflector mounting requirements, see 66-3-816 NMSA 1978.
