Division may assign new identifying number.

  1. Law
  2. New Mexico Statutes
  3. Motor Vehicles
  4. Registration Laws; Security Interests; Anti-Theft Provisions; Bicycles; Equipment; Unsafe Vehicles; Off-Highway Motor Vehicles; Other Vehicles
  5. REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND REGISTRATION PLATES GENERALLY
  6. Division may assign new identifying number.

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The division is authorized to assign a "distinguishing number" to a vehicle, required to be registered under the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code [66-1-1 NMSA 1978], whenever the identifying number thereon is destroyed or obliterated. The distinguishing number shall be affixed to the vehicle in a position to be determined by the director. Such vehicle shall be registered under such distinguishing number in lieu of the former identifying number.

History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-25, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 45.


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