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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:
"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 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. SB 377
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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 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 SB 377
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united special registration plates."
SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
provisions of this act is July 1, 2025.