A. The division shall register the vehicles so described and identified in an application and may issue a registration plate or a distinctive sticker or other suitable identification device for each vehicle described in the application upon payment of the appropriate fees for the application. The registration card shall bear upon its face information required by the division to identify it as a qualified registered vehicle under the international registration plan and other information required by law and regulation and shall be carried in the vehicle at all times.
B. Vehicles so registered and identified shall be deemed to be fully registered in this state for any type of movement or operation, provided that all other state requirements have been met.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-34-14.2, enacted by Laws 1972, ch. 7, § 34; 1977, ch. 250, § 112; 1988, ch. 24, § 3; 1978 Comp., § 65-1-14, recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 66-3-2.2 by Laws 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 10, § 10; 2015, ch. 9, § 5.
Recompilations. — Laws 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 10, § 10, recompiled former 65-1-14 NMSA 1978, relating to registration and identification of proportionally registered vehicles, as 66-3-2.2 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 1998.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, provided for registration and identification for vehicles registered under the international registration plan; in the catchline, after "identification of", deleted "proportionally registered", and after "vehicles", added "registered under the international registration plan"; in Subsection A, after "identified", added "in an application", after "qualified", deleted "proportionally", and after "vehicle", added "under the international registration plan"; and in Subsection B, deleted "Fleet" preceding "Vehicles".
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.