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New Mexico Statutes Chapter 66. Motor Vehicles § 66-1-4.12. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

As used in the Motor Vehicle Code:

A. “natural gas vehicle” means a vehicle operated by an engine that primarily uses natural gas;

B. “neighborhood electric car” means a four-wheeled electric motor vehicle that has a maximum speed of more than twenty miles per hour but less than twenty-five miles per hour and complies with the federal requirements specified in 49 CFR 571.500;

C. “nonrepairable vehicle” means a vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration that:

(1) has no resale value except as a source of parts or scrap metal or that the owner irreversibly designates as a source of parts or scrap metal or for destruction;

(2) has been substantially stripped as a result of theft or is missing all of the bolts on sheet metal body panels, all of the doors and hatches, substantially all of the interior components and substantially all of the grill and light assemblies and has little or no resale value other than its worth as a source of a vehicle identification number that could be used illegally; or

(3) is a substantially burned vehicle that has burned to the extent that there are no more usable or repairable body or interior components, tires and wheels or drive train components or that the owner irreversibly designates for destruction or as having little or no resale value other than its worth as a source of scrap metal or as a source of a vehicle identification number that could be used illegally;

D. “nonrepairable vehicle certificate” means a vehicle ownership document conspicuously labeled “NONREPAIRABLE” issued to the owner of the nonrepairable vehicle;

E. “nonresident” or “non-domiciled” means every person who is not a resident of this state;

F. “nonresident commercial driver's instruction permit” or “non-domiciled commercial driver's instruction permit” means a commercial driver's instruction permit issued by another state to a person domiciled in that state or by a foreign country to a person domiciled in that country;

G. “nonresident commercial driver's license” or “non-domiciled commercial driver's license” means a commercial driver's license issued by another state to a person domiciled in that state or by a foreign country to a person domiciled in that country; and

H. “nonresident's operating privilege” means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident by the laws of this state pertaining to the operation by the nonresident of a motor vehicle, or the use of a motor vehicle owned by the nonresident, in this state.

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Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New Mexico Statutes Chapter 66. Motor Vehicles § 66-1-4.12. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nm/chapter-66-motor-vehicles/nm-st-sect-66-1-4-12/

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