A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is a penalty assessment misdemeanor for a person to drive or move or for the owner to cause or permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle or combination of vehicles that is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person or […]
A. Every vehicle upon a highway within this state at any time from a half-hour after sunset to a half-hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of five hundred feet ahead shall display lighted lamps […]
A. Whenever requirement is hereinafter declared as to the distance from which certain lamps and devices shall render objects visible or within which such lamps or devices shall be visible, said provisions shall apply during the times stated in Section 66-3-802 NMSA 1978 in respect to a vehicle without load when upon a straight, level, […]
A. Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle shall be equipped with at least two headlamps with at least one on each side of the front of the motor vehicle, which headlamps comply with the requirements and limitations set forth in Sections 66-3-801 through 66-3-887 NMSA 1978. B. Every motorcycle shall be equipped with at […]
A. Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer and any other vehicle that is being drawn at the end of a train of vehicles shall be equipped with at least one tail lamp mounted on the rear that, when lighted as required in Section 66-3-802 NMSA 1978, emits a red light plainly visible from a […]
A. Every new motor vehicle hereafter sold and operated upon a highway, other than a truck tractor, shall carry on the rear, either as a part of the tail lamps or separately, two red reflectors, except that every motorcycle shall carry at least one reflector, meeting the requirements of this section, and except that vehicles […]
A. From and after January 1, 1954, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell any new motor vehicle, including any motorcycle, in this state or for any person to drive such vehicle on the highways unless it is equipped with at least one stop lamp meeting the requirements of Section 66-3-828 NMSA 1978. […]
Sections 66-3-809, 66-3-810, 66-3-816, 66-3-822 and 66-3-823 NMSA 1978 shall apply in lieu of Sections 66-3-804 through 66-3-806 NMSA 1978 as to passenger buses, trucks, truck tractors, road tractors, and such trailers, semitrailers and pole trailers provided for therein, when operated upon any highway, and said vehicles shall be equipped as required. All lamp equipment […]
Every bus or truck less than eighty inches in overall width shall be equipped as follows: A. on the front: two headlamps; and B. on the rear: one red tail lamp; one red or amber stop lamp; two red reflectors, one at each side. History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-809, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, […]
Every bus or truck eighty inches or more in overall width shall be equipped as follows: A. on the front: two headlamps; two amber clearance lamps, one at each side; B. on the rear: one red tail lamp; one red or amber stop lamp; two red clearance lamps, one at each side; two red reflectors, […]
Every truck tractor and road tractor shall be equipped as follows: A. on the front: two headlamps; two amber clearance lamps, one at each side; and B. on the rear: one red tail lamp; one red or amber stop lamp. History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-811, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 117. ANNOTATIONS Cross […]
A. Every semitrailer, full trailer or house trailer eighty inches or more in overall width shall be equipped as follows: (1) on the front: two amber clearance lamps, one at each side; (2) on the rear: one red tail lamp; one red or amber stop lamp; two red clearance lamps, one at each side; two […]
Every semitrailer, house trailer or trailer less than eighty inches in overall width shall be equipped as follows: on the rear: one red tail lamp; two red reflectors, one at each side; one red or amber stop lamp, if the semitrailer, house trailer or trailer obscures the stop lamp on the towing vehicle. History: 1953 […]
Every pole trailer shall be equipped as follows: A. on the rear: one red tail lamp, two red reflectors, one at each side; placed to indicate extreme width of the pole trailer; and B. on each side, on the rearmost support for the load: one combination marker lamp showing amber to the front and red […]
Combinations of motor vehicles, as enumerated in Section 66-3-808 NMSA 1978, engaged in driveway-towaway [driveaway-towaway] operations shall be equipped as follows: A. on the towing vehicle: (1) on the front, two head lamps and two amber clearance lamps, one at each side; (2) on each side and near the front, one amber side-marker lamp; (3) […]
A. Reflectors required by Sections 66-3-809 and 66-3-810 NMSA 1978 shall be mounted upon the motor vehicle at a height of not less than twenty-four inches nor more than sixty inches above the ground on which the motor vehicle stands, except that reflectors shall be mounted as high as practicable on motor vehicles which are […]
Clearance lamps shall, so far as is practicable, be mounted as to indicate the extreme width, height and length of the motor vehicle; except that clearance lamps on truck tractors shall be so located as to indicate the extreme width of the truck-tractor cab. History: 1941 Comp., § 68-2517, enacted by Laws 1953, ch. 139, […]
Side-marker lamps may be combined with clearance lamps and may use the same light source. History: 1941 Comp., § 68-2518, enacted by Laws 1953, ch. 139, § 131.2; 1953 Comp., § 64-20-18; recompiled as 1953 Comp., § 64-3-818, by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 124.
Except as required by Section 66-3-817 NMSA 1978 tail lamps may be incorporated in the same housing with stop lamps so long as the requirements for each are fulfilled. History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-819, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 125.
Lighting devices shall be electric, except that red liquid burning lanterns may be used on the end of load in the nature of poles, pipes and ladders projecting to the rear of the vehicle. History: 1941 Comp., § 68-2520, enacted by Laws 1953, ch. 139, § 131.4; 1953 Comp., § 64-20-20; recompiled as 1953 Comp., […]
