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SENATE BILL 128
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Katy M. Duhigg
AN ACT
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION; PROHIBITING SPECIAL REGISTRATION
PLATES FROM DISPLAYING CERTAIN CHARACTERS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 66-3-15 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1978,
Chapter 35, Section 35, as amended) is amended to read:
"66-3-15. SPECIAL REGISTRATION PLATES--PROCEDURES--FEE.--
A. The division shall establish and issue special
registration plates, including motorcycle special prestige
registration plates, and [shall establish and ] may promulgate
[procedures] rules for applications for and issuance of special
registration plates.
B. For a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00), which fee
shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration
fees, any owner of a motor vehicle may apply for the issuance
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of a special registration plate as defined in Subsection A of
this section. No two owners will be issued identically
lettered or numbered plates or plates that cannot be easily
differentiated.
C. An owner [must] shall make a new application and
pay a new fee each year [he ] that the owner desires to obtain a
special registration plate; however, [he will ] the owner shall
have first priority on that plate for each subsequent year that
[he] the owner makes timely and appropriate application.
D. All fees collected shall be paid to the state
treasurer to the credit of the motor vehicle suspense fund with
distribution in accordance with Section 66-6-23 NMSA 1978.
E. No special registration plate shall be
established or issued that displays characters that the
division determines:
(1) to be derogatory, offensive or misleading;
(2) to be obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit
or profane;
(3) promotes drugs, alcohol or other
intoxicating substances; or
(4) promotes violence or gang affiliation. "
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