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SENATE BILL 377
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Antonio Maestas
AN ACT
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES; ENACTING A NEW SECTION OF THE MOTOR
VEHICLE CODE TO CREATE A NEW MEXICO UNITED SPECIAL REGISTRATION
PLATE; ESTABLISHING CRITERIA FOR A CESSATION OF ISSUANCE;
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. A new section of the Motor Vehicle Code is
enacted to read:
"[NEW MATERIAL] SPECIAL NEW MEXICO UNITED REGISTRATION
PLATE.--
A. The division shall issue a standardized New
Mexico united special registration plate that indicates that
the owner of the vehicle is a supporter of the New Mexico
united soccer team. The plate shall have a logo designed
pursuant to Section 66-3-424 NMSA 1978 and shall use a format
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similar to the format the division uses on its chile vehicle
registration plates with the registration numbers and letters
in yellow on a field of black.
B. For an initial fee of fifty dollars ($50.00),
which shall be in addition to the regular motor vehicle
registration fees, the owner of a vehicle may apply for
issuance of a New Mexico united special registration plate.
The vehicle owner shall pay a renewal fee of twenty dollars
($20.00) each year to retain and renew the New Mexico united
special registration plate.
C. The revenue from the additional fee for a New
Mexico united special registration plate shall be distributed
as follows:
(1) twelve dollars ($12.00) of the initial fee
collected shall be retained by and is appropriated to the
department to defray the cost of making and issuing the special
registration plate; and
(2) thirty-eight dollars ($38.00) of the
initial registration fee and the entire twenty dollars ($20.00)
of subsequent renewal fees shall be distributed and are
appropriated to the tourism department to promote sports-
related tourism.
D. Beginning on July 1, 2028, and on July 1 of each
subsequent year, the department shall compare the number of New
Mexico united special registration plates issued or
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registration renewals for those plates in the previous fiscal
year with the average of the number of those plates issued in
fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
E. Beginning in fiscal year 2029, by September 1 of
a fiscal year in which the department determines that the
number of New Mexico united special registration plates issued
or registration renewals for those plates in the previous
fiscal year is less than fifty percent of the average number of
those plates issued in fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the
department shall stop issuing New Mexico united special
registration plates."
SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
provisions of this act is July 1, 2025.
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