A. Any vehicle or combination registered at a declared gross weight may be re-registered at a higher weight upon payment of the difference between the paid registration fee and the new registration fee. The amount shall be prorated on a quarterly basis, with any fraction of a quarter-year to be considered a full quarter. In no event shall the amount be less than five dollars ($5.00).
B. When a vehicle or combination has been altered, or from which equipment has been removed to meet legal requirements, and thus will not operate at the current declared gross weight, the registrant may apply for a lowering of the declared gross weight. Upon approval, the registrant shall be refunded a sum equal to the difference between the fee paid for the current registration period and the revised registration fee for the same period, multiplied by the fraction of the whole period remaining, calculated on the basis of the number of complete quarter-years remaining after the date of the application for changed registration.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-22, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 42.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Part 1 - REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND REGISTRATION PLATES GENERALLY
Section 66-3-1 - Vehicles subject to registration; exceptions.
Section 66-3-1.1 - Motor carriers required to register with the department.
Section 66-3-1.2 - Registration; declared gross weight.
Section 66-3-1.3 - Unregistered foreign commercial motor carrier vehicle operations.
Section 66-3-1.4 - Motorcycle endorsement not required for autocycle operation.
Section 66-3-2 - Registration; trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers and freight trailers.
Section 66-3-2.1 - Full reciprocity registration; application; fee; formula; payment.
Section 66-3-2.3 - Full reciprocity registration; jurisdictions.
Section 66-3-2.4 - Registration of additional motor vehicles.
Section 66-3-2.5 - Withdrawal of fleet motor vehicles; notification; surrender of documents.
Section 66-3-2.6 - Preservation of international registration plan records; audit.
Section 66-3-2.7 - New registrant; estimated mileage.
Section 66-3-2.8 - Fleet registration; denial.
Section 66-3-2.9 - Relationship to other state laws.
Section 66-3-2.10 - Registration under the international registration plan not exclusive.
Section 66-3-3 - Registration card; special plate or sticker; declared gross weight.
Section 66-3-3.1 - Tax identification permit.
Section 66-3-5 - Application for specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicles.
Section 66-3-6 - Temporary registration permits, demonstration permits and transport permits.
Section 66-3-7 - Grounds for refusing, suspending or revoking registration or certificate of title.
Section 66-3-8 - Examination of registration records and index of stolen and recovered vehicles.
Section 66-3-9 - Registration indexes.
Section 66-3-11 - Director may authorize issuance of nonnegotiable certificates of title.
Section 66-3-12 - Evidential value of certificate.
Section 66-3-13 - Evidence of registration to be signed and exhibited on demand.
Section 66-3-14.1 - County name stickers.
Section 66-3-15 - Special registration plates; procedures; fee.
Section 66-3-16.1 - Prohibited acts; penalties.
Section 66-3-17 - Registration plate; replacement of plate.
Section 66-3-20 - Renewal of registration; vehicles registered by declared gross weight.
Section 66-3-21 - Vehicle exceeding declared gross weight.
Section 66-3-22 - Re-registration; change in declared gross weight.
Section 66-3-23 - Notice of change of address or name.
Section 66-3-24 - Lost or damaged certificates, registration evidence or plates.
Section 66-3-25 - Division may assign new identifying number.
Section 66-3-27 - Horseless carriage registration.
Section 66-3-28 - State government registration plates; issuance approved.