{"data":{"id":"us-nm/66-1-4.6","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"66-1-4.6","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in the Motor Vehicle Code:\nA. \"farm tractor\" means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry;\nB. \"financial responsibility\" means the ability to respond in damages for liability resulting from traffic accidents arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of New Mexico, in amounts not less than specified in the Mandatory Financial Responsibility Act [66-5-201 to 66-5-239 NMSA 1978] or having in effect a motor vehicle insurance policy. \"Financial responsibility\" includes a motor vehicle insurance policy, a surety bond or evidence of a sufficient cash deposit with the state treasurer;\nC. \"first offender\" means a person who for the first time under state or federal law or a municipal ordinance or a tribal law has been adjudicated guilty of the charge of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any other drug that renders the person incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle, regardless of whether the person's sentence was suspended or deferred;\nD. \"flammable liquid\" means any liquid that has a flash point of seventy degrees fahrenheit or less, as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device;\nE. \"foreign jurisdiction\" means any jurisdiction other than a state of the United States or the District of Columbia;\nF. \"foreign vehicle\" means every vehicle of a type required to be registered under the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code brought into this state from another state, territory or country; and\nG. \"freight trailer\" means any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer drawn by a truck tractor or road tractor, and any trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer drawn by a truck that has a gross vehicle weight of more than twenty-six thousand pounds, but \"freight trailer\" does not include 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.","path":["Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles","ARTICLE 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18569/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:20Z","sha256":"61f8764cce2f64c0a43410a7571a0285458ab63082c1693b9bd7316fe84c10dd","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/66-1-4.5","next":"us-nm/66-1-4.7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}