Definitions
NMSA 1978, § 66-1-4.18
in effect66-1-4.18. Definitions
As used in the Motor Vehicle Code:
A. "unclaimed vehicle or motor vehicle" means a vehicle or motor vehicle that has been placed in an impound lot by a law enforcement agency or removed to any storage lot by a property owner, and to which no owner or lienholder of record has asserted a valid claim; and
B. "utility trailer" means any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer, but does not include freight trailers, 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.
1978 Comp., § 66-1-4.18, enacted by Laws 1990, ch. 120, § 19.
Source: New Mexico Compilation Commission (nmonesource.com)URL: https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18569/index.do#!b/66-1-4.18Fetched: 10/20/2026