§ 66-1-4-6

As used in the Motor Vehicle Code: A. 'farm tractor' means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry; B. 'financial responsibility' means the ability to respond in damages for liability resulting from traffic accidents arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of New Mexico, in amounts not less than specified in the Mandatory Financial Responsibility Act [66-5-201 to 66-5-239 NMSA 1978] or having in effect a motor vehicle insurance policy. 'Financial responsibility' includes a motor vehicle insurance policy, a surety bond or evidence of a sufficient cash deposit with the state treasurer; C. 'first offender' means a person who for the first time under state or federal law or a municipal ordinance or a tribal law has been adjudicated guilty of the charge of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any other drug that renders the person incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle, regardless of whether the person's sentence was suspended or deferred; D.

r the influence of intoxicating liquor or any other drug that renders the person incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle, regardless of whether the person's sentence was suspended or deferred; D. 'flammable liquid' means any liquid that has a flash point of seventy degrees fahrenheit or less, as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device; E. 'foreign jurisdiction' means any jurisdiction other than a state of the United States or the District of Columbia; F. 'foreign vehicle' means every vehicle of a type required to be registered under the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code brought into this state from another state, territory or country; and G. 'freight trailer' means any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer drawn by a truck tractor or road tractor, and any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer drawn by a truck that has a gross vehicle weight of more than twenty-six thousand pounds, but 'freight trailer' does not include manufactured homes, trailers of less than one-ton carrying capacity used to transport animals or fertilizer trailers of less than three thousand five hundred pounds empty weight. History: 1978 Comp., § 66-1-4.6, enacted by Laws 1990, ch.

han one-ton carrying capacity used to transport animals or fertilizer trailers of less than three thousand five hundred pounds empty weight. History: 1978 Comp., § 66-1-4.6, enacted by Laws 1990, ch. 120, § 7; 1998, ch. 34, § 2; 2003, ch. 164, § 1. ANNOTATIONSThe 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, substituted 'a municipal ordinance or a tribal law' for 'municipal ordinance' following 'federal law or' in Subsection C. The 1998 amendment, effective July 1, 1998, in Subsection B, substituted 'or having in effect a motor vehicle insurance policy.' for 'the term' at the end of the first sentence, and substituted 'Financial responsibility includes a motor vehicle insurance policy' for 'liability policy, a certified motor vehicle liability' in the last sentence; in Subsection G, substituted 'freight trailer' for 'the term' near the middle of the subsection; and made minor stylistic changes.