Combinations of motor vehicles, as enumerated in Section 66-3-808 NMSA 1978, engaged in driveway-towaway [driveaway-towaway] operations shall be equipped as follows:
A. on the towing vehicle:
(1) on the front, two head lamps and two amber clearance lamps, one at each side;
(2) on each side and near the front, one amber side-marker lamp;
(3) on the rear, one red tail lamp; one red or amber stop lamp; and
(4) provided, however, that vehicles of less than eighty inches in width shall be equipped as provided in Section 66-3-809 NMSA 1978;
B. on the towed vehicle of a tow-bar combination, the towed vehicle of a single saddle-mount combination and on the rearmost towed vehicle of a double saddle-mount combination:
(1) on each side, and near the rear, one red side-marker lamp; and
(2) on the rear, one red tail lamp; two red clearance lamps, one at each side; one red or amber stop lamp; two red reflectors, one at each side;
C. on the first saddle-mounted of a double saddle-mount combination: on each side, and near the rear, one amber side-marker lamp; and
D. combinations of vehicles less than eighty inches in width in driveaway-towaway operations shall carry lamp and reflectors as required in Section 66-3-809 NMSA 1978.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-3-815, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 121.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material in this section was inserted by the compiler. It was not enacted by the legislature, and it is not part of the law.