2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles
Article 7 - Traffic Laws; Signs, Signals and Markings; Accidents; Weight and Size; Traffic Safety
Part 1 - APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC LAWS
Section 66-7-7 - Traffic laws apply to persons riding animals or driving animal-drawn vehicles.
Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by Article 7 of Chapter 66 NMSA 1978, except those provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 66 NMSA 1978 which by their very nature can have no application, and except where otherwise specifically provided in Aticle [Article] 7 of Chapter 66 NMSA 1978.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-7, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 377.
ANNOTATIONSProvision has no application to horses being driven across highway. Knox v. Trujillo, 1963-NMSC-132, 72 N.M. 345, 383 P.2d 823.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Liability for damage to motor vehicle or injury to person riding therein from collision with runaway horse, or horse left unattended or untied in street, 49 A.L.R.4th 653.
60 C.J.S. Motor Vehicles § 43.
