The department, upon receiving application for original registration of a vehicle or a certificate of title, except a title issued on a manufactured home, shall first check the engine or other standard identification number provided by the manufacturer of the vehicle shown in the application against its own records, the records of the national crime information center and other records as appropriate.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-8, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 28; 1995, ch. 135, § 9; 2004, ch. 59, § 6.
The 2004 amendment, effective March 4, 2004, added "except a title issued on a manufactured home" after "certificate of title".
The 1995 amendment, effective June 16, 1995, substituted "department" for "division" at the beginning, substituted the language beginning "its own records" at the end for references to two indexes required by the Motor Vehicle Code, and made a minor stylistic change.
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.