A. The division shall issue a standardized pet care special registration plate with a logo specified in Section 66-3-424 NMSA 1978 indicating that the recipient supports pet care.
B. The division, with the advice and consultation of animal control offices and animal shelters in communities around the state, shall determine the color and design of the pet care special registration logo and provide for its issuance.
C. For a fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fees, an owner of a motor vehicle may apply for the issuance of a pet care special registration plate. The owner of a motor vehicle shall apply and pay the fee each year that the owner wishes to retain and renew a pet care special registration plate.
D. The revenue from the pet care special registration plates shall be distributed as follows:
(1) ten dollars ($10.00) of the fee collected for each pet care special registration plate shall be retained by and is appropriated to the division for the manufacture and issuance of the registration plates; and
(2) twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of the fee collected for each pet care special registration plate shall be paid to the state treasurer for credit to the animal care and facility fund, statewide spay and neuter subaccount.
History: 1978 Comp., § 66-3-424.1, enacted by Laws 2003, ch. 175, § 2; 2009, ch. 192, § 1; 2015, ch. 82, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — This section was originally enacted as 66-3-424.1 NMSA 1978, but was renumbered as 66-3-424.3 NMSA 1978 by the compiler to accommodate a similarly numbered section enacted by an earlier 2003 act.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, directed that certain revenue from the pet care special registration plate be distributed to the statewide spay and neuter subaccount; in Subsection D, Paragraph (2), after "animal care and facility fund", added "statewide spay and neuter subaccount".
The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, in Paragraph (2) of Subsection D, after "credit to the", deleted "motor vehicle suspense fund for distribution in accordance with Section 66-6-23 NMSA 1978" and added "animal care and facility fund".