The total outside width of any vehicle or its load, excepting mirrors, shall not exceed eight feet six inches. Safety devices up to three inches on either side of the vehicle and recreational vehicle appurtenances, including retracting awnings, up to six inches on either side of the vehicle are also excepted.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-402, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 473; 1981, ch. 53, § 1; 1983, ch. 30, § 1; 1991, ch. 160, § 18; 2001, ch. 127, § 4.
Cross references. — For excessive width of vehicles being an unlawful use of the highways, see 66-7-401 NMSA 1978.
For permits for excessive size, see 66-7-413 NMSA 1978.
The 2001 amendment, effective June 15, 2001, inserted "and recreational vehicle appurtenances, including retracting awnings, up to six inches on either side of the vehicle".
The 1991 amendment, effective July 1, 1991, deleted former Subsection B which read "Any bus operated as part of a municipal transit system and operated solely in the county in which the municipality is situate may have a width not to exceed eight feet ten inches" and made a related stylistic change.
Section 64-23-13, 1953 Comp. (similar to this section) did not relate to a towed load. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 72-21.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 7A Am. Jur. 2d Automobiles and Highway Traffic §§ 198, 791, 792.
Violation of regulations governing size or weight of motor vehicles, or combinations of vehicles and loads, on the highway as basis of liability for personal injury, death, or damage to private property, 21 A.L.R.3d 989.
60 C.J.S. Motor Vehicles §§ 32, 43.
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