{"data":{"id":"us-nm/66-3-1012","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"66-3-1012","heading":"Driving of off-highway motor vehicles adjacent to highway.","body":"A. Off-highway motor vehicles issued a validating sticker or nonresident permit may be driven adjacent to a highway, yielding to all vehicles entering or exiting the highway, in a manner so as not to interfere with traffic upon the highway, only for the purpose of gaining access to or returning from areas designed for the operation of off-highway motor vehicles by the shortest possible route and when no other route is available or when the area adjacent to a highway is being used as a staging area. Such use must occur between the highway and fencing that separates the highway from private or public lands.\nB. When snow conditions permit, an off-highway motor vehicle may be operated on the right-hand side of a highway, parallel, but not closer than ten feet, to the inside of the plow bank.","path":["Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles","ARTICLE 3 Registration Laws; Security Interests; Anti-Theft Provisions; Bicycles; Equipment; Unsafe Vehicles; Off-Highway Motor Vehicles; Other Vehicles"],"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":"37b56ab5ff46c823fda214fd1b8cb161cd449334b6374bd531ceda46c286d3a4","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/66-3-1011","next":"us-nm/66-3-1013"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}