N.M. Stat. § 66-1-4.18
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§ 66-1-4.18. Definitions
Official statutory text
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.
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.
Status: in_force
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