2021 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 66-7-321 - Restrictions on use of controlled-access roadway.

A. The state transportation commission, by resolution or order entered in its minutes, and local authorities, by ordinance, may regulate or prohibit the use of any controlled-access roadway within their respective jurisdictions by any class or kind of traffic that is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic.

B. The state transportation commission or the local authority adopting any such prohibition shall erect and maintain official traffic-control devices on the controlled-access roadway on which the prohibitions are applicable, and, when in place, no person shall disobey the restrictions stated on the devices.

History: 1941 Comp., § 68-2420, enacted by Laws 1953, ch. 139, § 75; 1953 Comp., § 64-18-20; Laws 1969, ch. 169, § 7; recompiled as 1953 Comp., § 64-7-321, by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 425; 2003, ch. 142, § 19.

Cross references. — For the penalty assessment for violation, see 66-8-116 NMSA 1978.

The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, substituted "transportation commission" for "highway commission".

Commission has power to prohibit ridden or herded animals on controlled-access highways by a duly passed resolution. 1960 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 60-226.

Commission may also prevent passing across or through right-of-way. — The commission has the power, by duly passed resolution, to prohibit animals from passing across, along, over or through the right-of-way of a public controlled access highway within the state. 1960 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 60-226.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Motorist's liability for collision at intersection of ordinary and arterial highways as affected by absence, displacement or malfunctioning of stop sign or other traffic signal, 74 A.L.R.2d 242.