The department shall implement a system for identifying motor carriers subject to the weight distance tax and special fuel user permit requirements, including an identifying number for each motor carrier covered by the system. Annually, the department shall issue one or more original tax identification permits sufficient for the number of vehicles specified by each motor carrier who applies for a tax identification permit; provided that the motor carrier continues to be subject to and in compliance with the weight distance tax and special fuel user permit requirements. The tax identification permit shall contain the department's identifying number for the motor carrier and other information that the department deems necessary. A tax identification permit shall be issued within fourteen days of the date on the form of payment for the permit, including cashier's checks and money orders, submitted with the application for the permit.
History: 1978 Comp., § 65-1-12.1, enacted by Laws 1992, ch. 106, § 7; recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 66-3-3.1 by Laws 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 10, § 10; 2003 (1st S.S.), ch. 3, § 10; 2007, ch. 209, § 5.
Recompilations. — Laws 1998 (1st S.S.), ch. 10, § 10, recompiled former 65-1-12.1 NMSA 1978, relating to tax identification cards, as 66-3-3.1 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 1998.
The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, changed "card" to "permit" and required a tax identification permit to be issued within fourteen days after the date on the form of payment for the permit.
The 2003 (1st S.S.) amendment, effective July 1, 2004, substituted "one or more original" for "a" and "cards sufficient for the number of vehicles specified by" for "card in one or more copies to," deleted "the card shall be renewed automatically each year so long as" following "provided that," and inserted "and in compliance with" in the second sentence, and substituted "other information that" for "such other information as" in the last sentence.
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.