2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles › Article 1 - General Provisions › Section 66-1-4.12 - Definitions.

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.
History:
1978 Comp., § 66-1-4.12, enacted by Laws 1990, ch. 120, § 13; 2005, ch. 324, § 3; 2007, ch. 319, § 7; 2016, ch. 70, § 1; 2022, ch. 24, § 1.
ANNOTATIONS
The 2022 amendment,
effective January 1, 2023, defined "non-domiciled", "nonresident commercial driver's instruction permit", "non-domiciled commercial driver's instruction permit" and "non-domiciled commercial driver's license"; in Subsection E, after "'nonresident'", added "or 'non-domiciled'"; added a new Subsection F and redesignated former Subsections F and G as Subsections G and H, respectively; and in Subsection G, after "'nonresident commercial driver's license'", added "or 'non-domiciled commercial driver's license'".
The 2016 amendment,
effective May 18, 2016, defined "natural gas vehicle" as used in the Motor Vehicle Code; added a new Subsection A and redesignated the succeeding subsections accordingly.
The 2007 amendment,
effective June 15, 2007, added Subsection A and relettered Subsections A to E as Subsections B to F.
The 2005 amendment,
effective January 1, 2006, added Subsections A(1) through (3) to define "nonrepairable vehicle" and added Subsection B to define "nonrepairable vehicle certificate".