A. Any person whose license or registration is suspended under any provision of the Mandatory Financial Responsibility Act or whose policy of insurance or bond, when required under the Mandatory Financial Responsibility Act, is canceled or terminated shall immediately return his license or registration to the division. If any person fails to return to the division the license or registration as provided in this section, the division shall forthwith notify the person by certified mail that within ten days after receipt of such notice he shall return to the division by mail his license or registration or shall be subject to the full penalty prescribed by law.
B. Any person willfully failing to return the license or registration as required in Subsection A of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned not to exceed six months or both.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-5-244, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 320; 1978 Comp., § 66-5-244, recompiled as § 66-5-230 by Laws 1983, ch. 318, § 29; 1985, ch. 47, § 2.
Recompilations. — Laws 1983, ch. 318, § 21, recompiles former 66-5-230 NMSA 1978, relating to the definition of "motor vehicle liability policy," as 66-5-221 NMSA 1978, effective January 1, 1984. Section 66-5-221 NMSA 1978 was subsequently repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 34, § 19, effective July 1, 1998.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 60 C.J.S. Motor Vehicles § 164.23.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Part 3 - FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Section 66-5-201 - Short title.
Section 66-5-203 - Director to administer act.
Section 66-5-204 - Administrative and court review.
Section 66-5-205.2 - Repealed.
Section 66-5-205.3 - Motor vehicle insurance policy; procedures.
Section 66-5-207 - Exempt motor vehicles.
Section 66-5-207.1 - Self-insurers.
Section 66-5-208 - Evidence of financial responsibility; amounts and conditions.
Section 66-5-209 - Meaning of "judgment".
Section 66-5-210 - Settlement agreements for payment of damages.
Section 66-5-211 - When courts to report nonpayment of judgments.
Section 66-5-213 - Exception when consent granted by judgment creditor.
Section 66-5-214 - Discharge in bankruptcy.
Section 66-5-215 - Payments sufficient to satisfy requirements.
Section 66-5-216 - Installment payment of judgments; default.
Section 66-5-217 - Action if breach of agreement.
Section 66-5-218 - Alternate methods of giving evidence.
Section 66-5-220 - Default by nonresident insurer.
Section 66-5-222 - Driver exclusion endorsement form.
Section 66-5-224 - Act not to affect other policies.
Section 66-5-225 - Bond as evidence.
Section 66-5-226 - Cash deposit as evidence.
Section 66-5-227 - Application of cash deposit.
Section 66-5-228 - Substitution of evidence.
Section 66-5-229 - Duration of evidence; when filing of evidence may be waived.
Section 66-5-230 - Surrender of license and registration.
Section 66-5-231 - Forged evidence.
Section 66-5-232 - Sampling; letter to owner.
Section 66-5-233 - Affirmation form.
Section 66-5-234 - Registration; application and renewal.
Section 66-5-235 - False affirmation; violation.
Section 66-5-236 - Suspension for nonpayment of judgment or for false affirmation.
Section 66-5-237 - Past application of act.
Section 66-5-238 - Act not to prevent other process.
Section 66-5-239 - No civil liability.
Section 66-5-240 - Recompiled.
Section 66-5-242 - Recompiled.
Section 66-5-244 - Recompiled.
Section 66-5-245 - Recompiled.
Section 66-5-247 - Recompiled.