A. Except as provided otherwise in Subsection C of this section, every dealer, except a dealer in motorcycles only, shall pay each license year fifty dollars ($50.00) for each dealer plate issued pursuant to Section 66-3-402 NMSA 1978 to the dealer for that license year.
B. Except as provided otherwise in Subsection C of this section, every dealer in motorcycles only shall pay each license year ten dollars ($10.00) for each dealer plate issued pursuant to Section 66-3-402 NMSA 1978 to the dealer for that license year.
C. In the event a dealer plate is lost, mutilated or becomes illegible, a dealer, including a dealer in motorcycles only, shall obtain a replacement plate pursuant to the provisions of Section 66-3-24 NMSA 1978. The fee for a replacement dealer plate shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) for a dealer or ten dollars ($10.00) for a dealer in motorcycles only.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-6-17, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 352; 1981, ch. 361, § 23; 1990, ch. 120, § 32; 1998, ch. 48, § 15; 2005, ch. 324, § 18; 2007, ch. 319, § 54.
The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, eliminated references to auto recycler and special dealer plates.
The 2005 amendment, effective January 1, 2006, changed "wrecker of vehicles" to "auto recycler".
The 1998 amendment, effective July 1, 1998, in the section heading, inserted "dealer", deleted "manufacturers, dealers and wreckers of vehicles"; in Subsection A, deleted "manufacturer" in two places, in Subsections A and B, substituted "the first" for "each", inserted "dealer" and "pursuant to Section 66-3-402 NMSA 1978"; in Subsection B, deleted "and shall pay five dollars ($5.00) for each additional plate so issued for the license year" and rewrote Subsection C.
The 1990 amendment, effective July 1, 1990, in Subsection A, added "except as provided otherwise in Subsection C of this section" at the beginning, inserted "each license year" following "shall pay", and substituted "in that license year" for "provided, however, that each such additional plate issued after June 30 of the licensing year shall be issued upon payment of five dollars ($5.00)" at the end; rewrote Subsection B which read "Every dealer in motorcycles only shall pay ten dollars ($10.00) for the first special plate issued to him and shall pay five dollars ($5.00) for each additional plate so issued; deleted "Notwithstanding all other provisions of law" at the beginning of Subsection C; and made minor stylistic changes.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Section 66-6-1 - Motorcycles; registration fees.
Section 66-6-2 - Passenger vehicles; registration fees.
Section 66-6-3 - Trailers; registration fees.
Section 66-6-4 - Registration fees; trucks, truck tractors, road tractors and buses.
Section 66-6-5 - Bus registration fees.
Section 66-6-6 - Additional fees.
Section 66-6-6.1 - Additional registration fee.
Section 66-6-6.2 - Registration fee; litter control and beautification fund.
Section 66-6-6.3 - Save our children's sight fund option.
Section 66-6-8 - Bus registration; agricultural labor fees.
Section 66-6-9 - Fee for fertilizer trailers.
Section 66-6-11 - Computation of weight.
Section 66-6-12 - Fees for school buses.
Section 66-6-14 - Vehicles of United States and other states.
Section 66-6-15 - Vehicles of the state, county or municipality.
Section 66-6-16 - Exemption for armed forces amputees and those who have lost use of limbs.
Section 66-6-17 - Dealer plate fees.
Section 66-6-19 - Vehicle transaction fees.
Section 66-6-22 - When fees returnable; refunds.
Section 66-6-22.1 - Motor vehicle suspense fund created; receipts; disbursements.
Section 66-6-22.2 - Adjustments of disbursements from the motor vehicle suspense fund.
Section 66-6-23 - Disposition of fees.
Section 66-6-23.1 - Formulaic distribution.
Section 66-6-25 - Registration by county or municipality prohibited.
Section 66-6-26 - Registered vehicle exempt from property tax; exception.
Section 66-6-27 to 66-6-29 - Repealed.