For registration of vehicles subject to the registration fees imposed by Sections 66-6-2 and 66-6-4 NMSA 1978, there is imposed an additional fee of two dollars ($2.00) for each twelve-month period for which a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight under twenty-six thousand pounds is registered. Amounts collected pursuant to this section are appropriated to the department and may be expended in fiscal year 2010 and subsequent fiscal years for the purposes of enforcing the provisions of the Mandatory Financial Responsibility Act [66-5-201 to 66-5-239 NMSA 1978] and for creating and maintaining a multilanguage noncommercial driver's license testing program. After those purposes are met, the balance of the registration fees collected pursuant to this section shall be used by the department to defray the costs of operating the motor vehicle division and for the purposes set forth in the provisions of Subsection F of Section 66-6-13 NMSA 1978. At the end of a fiscal year, unexpended and unencumbered balances of the amounts collected pursuant to this section shall not revert to the general fund.
History: 1978 Comp., § 66-6-6.1, enacted by Laws 2001, ch. 282, § 1; 2009, ch. 156, § 5.
The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, added the second, third and fourth sentences.
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.