+ CHAPTER 70: UNIFORM TRAFFIC CODE
+ CHAPTER 71: SAFE TRAFFIC OPERATIONS PROGRAM
– NEW MEXICO UNIFORM TRAFFIC ORDINANCE Revised 3/12
+ ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS Revised 3/12
+ ARTICLE II TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION
+ ARTICLE III APPLICATION OF TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
+ ARTICLE IV ACCIDENT AND ACCIDENT REPORTS
+ ARTICLE V SIGNS, SIGNALS AND MARKINGS
+ ARTICLE VI TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
• 12-6-1 SPEED REGULATIONS.
• 12-6-1.1 BASIC RULE.
• 12-6-1.2 SPEED LIMITS.
• 12-6-1.3 ESTABLISHMENT OF SPEED ZONES.
• 12-6-1.4 REGULATION OF SPEED BY TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
• 12-6-1.5 MINIMUM SPEED REGULATION.
• 12-6-1.6 CHARGING VIOLATIONS.
• 12-6-1.7 SPECIAL SPEED LIMITATIONS.
• 12-6-2 DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF STREET – OVERTAKING AND PASSING – USE OF STREET.
• 12-6-2.1 DRIVE ON RIGHT SIDE OF STREET – EXCEPTIONS.
• 12-6-2.2 PASSING VEHICLES PROCEEDING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
• 12-6-2.3 OVERTAKING A VEHICLE ON THE LEFT.
• 12-6-2.4 LIMITATIONS ON OVERTAKING ON THE LEFT.
• 12-6-2.5 FURTHER LIMITATIONS ON DRIVING ON LEFT OF CENTER OF STREET.
• 12-6-2.6 WHEN OVERTAKING ON THE RIGHT IS PERMITTED.
• 12-6-2.7 NO PASSING ZONES AND RESTRICTIONS ON PASSING.
• 12-6-2.8 AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS.
• 12-6-2.9 OBEDIENCE TO SIGNS DESIGNATING ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS.
• 12-6-2.10 ROTARY TRAFFIC ISLANDS.
• 12-6-2.11 RESTRICTED DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT ON STREETS DURING CERTAIN PERIODS.
• 12-6-2.12 DRIVING ON STREETS LANED FOR TRAFFIC.
• 12-6-2.13 FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY.
• 12-6-2.14 DRIVING ON DIVIDED STREETS.
• 12-6-2.15 CONTROLLED ACCESS.
• 12-6-2.16 RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF CONTROLLED-ACCESS STREETS.
• 12-6-3 DESIGNATING STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS.
• 12-6-3.1 THROUGH STREETS DESIGNATED.
• 12-6-3.2 AUTHORITY TO ERECT STOP AND YIELD SIGNS AT THROUGH STREETS.
• 12-6-3.3 AUTHORITY TO ERECT STOP OR YIELD SIGNS AT OTHER INTERSECTIONS.
• 12-6-4 RIGHT OF WAY.
• 12-6-4.1 VEHICLE APPROACHING OR ENTERING INTERSECTION.
• 12-6-4.2 VEHICLES TURNING LEFT AT INTERSECTION.
• 12-6-4.3 VEHICLE ENTERING STOP OR YIELD INTERSECTION.
• 12-6-5 TURNING AND STARTING AND SIGNALS ON STOPPING AND TURNING.
• 12-6-5.1 REQUIRED POSITION AND METHOD OF TURNING AT INTERSECTION.
• 12-6-5.2 AUTHORITY TO PLACE DEVICES ALTERING NORMAL COURSE FOR TURNS.
• 12-6-5.3 AUTHORITY TO PLACE RESTRICTED TURN SIGNS.
• 12-6-5.4 OBEDIENCE TO NO-TURN SIGNS.
• 12-6-5.5 LIMITATIONS ON TURNING AROUND.
• 12-6-5.6 TURNING ON CURVE OR CREST OF GRADE PROHIBITED.
• 12-6-5.7 STARTING PARKED VEHICLE.
• 12-6-5.8 TURNING AND STOPPING MOVEMENTS AND REQUIRED SIGNALS.
• 12-6-5.9 SIGNALS BY HAND AND ARM OR SIGNAL DEVICE.
• 12-6-5.10 METHOD OF GIVING HAND AND ARM SIGNALS.
• 12-6-6 STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING.
• 12-6-6.1 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES.
• 12-6-6.2 ADDITIONAL PARKING REGULATIONS.
• 12-6-6.3 STOPPED OR PARKED VEHICLES NOT TO INTERFERE WITH OTHER TRAFFIC.
• 12-6-6.4 PARKING IN ALLEYS.
• 12-6-6.5 ALL-NIGHT PARKING PROHIBITED.
• 12-6-6.6 PARKING FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES PROHIBITED.
• 12-6-6.7 PARKING ADJACENT TO SCHOOLS PROHIBITED.
• 12-6-6.8 PARKING PROHIBITED ON NARROW STREETS.
• 12-6-6.9 STANDING OR PARKING ON ONE-WAY STREETS.
• 12-6-6.10 STANDING OR PARKING ON DIVIDED STREETS.
• 12-6-6.11 NO STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING NEAR HAZARDOUS OR CONGESTED PLACES.
• 12-6-6.12 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING RESTRICTED OR PROHIBITED ON CERTAIN STREETS.
• 12-6-6.13 ANGLE PARKING AND PERMITS FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING AT AN ANGLE TO THE CURB.
• 12-6-6.14 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING OUTSIDE OF BUSINESS OR RESIDENCE DISTRICTS.
• 12-6-7 SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED.
• 12-6-7.1 EMERGING FROM ALLEY, BUILDING, DRIVEWAY OR PRIVATE ROAD.
• 12-6-7.2 STOP WHEN TRAFFIC OBSTRUCTED.
• 12-6-7.3 STOPPING FOR SCHOOL BUS.
• 12-6-7.4 OPERATION OF VEHICLE ON APPROACH OF AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE; OF ONCOMING VEHICLE – YIELD RIGHT OF WAY.
• 12-6-7.5. RAILROAD-HIGHWAY GRADE CROSSING VIOLATIONS – ALL DRIVERS.
• 12-6-7.6 ALL VEHICLES MUST STOP AT CERTAIN RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS.
• 12-6-7.7 RAILROAD-HIGHWAY GRADE CROSSING VIOLATIONS – CERTAIN VEHICLES REQUIRED TO ALWAYS STOP – EXCEPTIONS
• 12-6-7.8 MOVING HEAVY EQUIPMENT AT RAILROAD GRADE CROSSINGS.
• 12-6-8 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONES.
• 12-6-8.1 AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE CURB LOADING ZONES.
• 12-6-8.2 PERMITS FOR CURB LOADING ZONES.
• 12-6-8.3 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING IN PASSENGER CURB LOADING ZONES.
• 12-6-8.4 STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING IN FREIGHT CURB LOADING ZONES.
• 12-6-9 PUBLIC CARRIER STOPS AND STANDS.
• 12-6-9.1 AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE PUBLIC CARRIER STOPS AND STANDS.
• 12-6-9.2 STOPPING, STANDING, AND PARKING OF BUSES AND TAXICABS REGULATED.
• 12-6-9.3 RESTRICTED USE OF BUS AND TAXICABS REGULATED.
• 12-6-10 SCHOOL CROSSINGS.
• 12-6-11 EXCESSIVE SIZE AND WEIGHT, SLOW-MOVING AND HAZARDOUS VEHICLES.
• 12-6-11.1 PERMIT FOR EXCESSIVE SIZE AND WEIGHT – SPECIAL NOTIFICATION REQUIRED ON MOVEMENT OF MANUFACTURED HOMES.
• 12-6-11.2 SLOW-MOVING VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION.
• 12-6-11.3 ESCORT TO BE FURNISHED FOR MOVEMENT OF HAZARDOUS VEHICLES.
• 12-6-12 DRIVING REGULATIONS AND OFFENSES.
• 12-6-12.1 OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR OR DRUGS; CHEMICAL TESTING; OFFICER TO FILE STATEMENT; IMMEDIATE LICENSE REVOCATION.
• 12-6-12.2 OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR OR DRUGS; PENALTIES; SENTENCING; FEES.
• 12-6-12.3 RECKLESS DRIVING AND AGGRESSIVE DRIVING.
• 12-6-12.4 CARELESS DRIVING.
• 12-6-12.5 OPERATORS AND CHAUFFEURS MUST BE LICENSED.
• 12-6-12.6 UNLAWFUL USE OF LICENSE; DRIVING WHEN PRIVILEGE TO DO SO HAS BEEN SUSPENDED OR REVOKED.
• 12-6-12.7 FLEEING OR ATTEMPTING TO ELUDE A POLICE OFFICER.
• 12-6-12.8 UNATTENDED MOTOR VEHICLE.
• 12-6-12.9 LIMITATIONS ON BACKING.
• 12-6-12.10 OBSTRUCTION TO DRIVER’S VIEW OR DRIVING MECHANISM.
• 12-6-12.11 RESTRICTION ON USE OF TELEVISION IN MOTOR VEHICLES.
• 12-6-12.12 COASTING PROHIBITED.
• 12-6-12.13 FOLLOWING FIRE APPARATUS PROHIBITED.
• 12-6-12.14 CROSSING FIRE HOSE.
• 12-6-12.15 DRIVING THROUGH SAFETY ZONES PROHIBITED.
• 12-6-12.16 VEHICLES SHALL BE DRIVEN ONLY ON STREETS, PRIVATE ROADS AND DRIVEWAYS.
• 12-6-12.17 DRIVING ON SIDEWALK AND PRIVATE PROPERTY.
• 12-6-12.18 PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES WHILE DRIVING.
• 12-6-12.19 RACING ON STREETS.
• 12-6-12.20 PROCESSIONS.
• 12-6-12.21 DRIVER TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS APPROACHING THE BLIND.
• 12-6-12.22 OFFENSES BY PERSONS OWNING OR CONTROLLING VEHICLES.
• 12-6-12.23 PERMITTING UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS TO DRIVE.
• 12-6-12.24 PARTIES TO UNLAWFUL ACTS.
• 12-6-13 MISCELLANEOUS TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
• 12-6-13.1 OFFENSES RELATING TO DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE.
• 12-6-13.2 UNLAWFUL RIDING.
• 12-6-13.3 UNHITCHED TRAILER ON STREET.
• 12-6-13.4 MOVING OR MOLESTING UNATTENDED VEHICLES.
• 12-6-13.5 DESTRUCTIVE OR INJURIOUS MATERIAL ON ROADWAY.
• 12-6-13.6 TRAINS AND BUSES NOT TO OBSTRUCT STREETS.
• 12-6-13.7 BOARDING OR ALIGHTING FROM VEHICLES.
• 12-6-13.8 IMPROPER OPENING OF DOORS.
• 12-6-13.9 OCCUPIED MOVING HOUSE TRAILER.
• 12-6-13.10 ANIMALS ON STREET.
• 12-6-13.11 DRIVING ON STEEP GRADES.
• 12-6-13.12 CHILD PASSENGER RESTRAINT; PENALTY; ENFORCEMENT.
• 12-6-13.13 MANDATORY USE OF SEATBELTS.
• 12-6-13.14 CONSUMPTION OR POSSESSION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN OPEN CONTAINERS IN A MOTOR VEHICLE PROHIBITED – EXCEPTIONS.
• 12-6-13.15 LITTERING
• 12-6-14 PEDESTRIANS’ RIGHTS AND DUTIES.
• 12-6-14.1 PEDESTRIAN OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES AND TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
• 12-6-14.2 PEDESTRIANS RIGHT OF WAY IN CROSSWALKS.
• 12-6-14.3 PEDESTRIANS TO USE RIGHT HALF OF CROSSWALK.
• 12-6-14.4 CROSSING AT OTHER THAN CROSSWALKS.
• 12-6-14.5 PEDESTRIANS ON STREETS.
• 12-6-14.6 PEDESTRIANS SOLICITING RIDES OR BUSINESS.
• 12-6-14.7 OBEDIENCE OF PEDESTRIANS TO BRIDGE AND RAILROAD SIGNALS.
• 12-6-14.8 DRIVERS TO EXERCISE DUE CARE.
• 12-6-15 REFERENCE TO VEHICLES UPON THE STREETS.
• 12-6-16 RELOCATION OF VEHICLE NOT COMPLYING TO ORDINANCE.
• 12-6-16.1 NEIGHBORHOOD ELECTRIC CARS.
• 12-6-17 BOATING REGULATIONS AND OFFENSES BOATING WHILE INTOXICATED ACT
• 12-6-17.1 DEFINITIONS
• 12-6-17.2 OPERATING A MOTORBOAT WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR OR DRUGS
• 12-6-17.3 GUILTY PLEAS – LIMITATIONS
• 12-6-17.4 BLOOD-ALCOHOL TESTS – PERSONS QUALIFIED TO PERFORM TESTS – RELIEF FROM CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LIABILITY
• 12-6-17.5 BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST – LAW ENFORCEMENT, JUDICIAL OR PROBATION OFFICER UNAUTHORIZED TO MAKE ARREST OR DIRECT TEST EXCEPT IN PERFORMANCE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES AUTHORIZED BY LAW
• 12-6-17.6 IMPLIED CONSENT TO SUBMIT TO CHEMICAL TEST
• 12-6-17.7 CONSENT OF PERSON INCAPABLE OF REFUSAL NOT WITHDRAWN
• 12-6-17.8 ADMINISTRATION OF CHEMICAL TEST – PAYMENT OF COSTS – ADDITIONAL TESTS.
• 12-6-17.9 USE OF TESTS IN CRIMINAL OR CIVIL ACTIONS – LEVELS OF INTOXICATION – MANDATORY CHARGING
• 12-6-17.10 MOTORBOATS – INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR OR DRUGS – FEE UPON CONVICTION
+ ARTICLE VII SPECIAL RULES FOR MOTORCYCLES AND OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLES
+ ARTICLE VIII OPERATION OF BICYCLES AND CERTAIN VEHICULAR OPERATIONS PERTAINING TO BICYCLES Revised 3/12
+ ARTICLE IX PARKING REGULATIONS
+ ARTICLE X VEHICLE REGULATIONS
+ ARTICLE XI TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS BUREAU
+ ARTICLE XII PENALTIES AND PROCEDURES ON ARREST Revised 3/12
+ ARTICLE XIII EFFECT AND SHORT TITLE OF ORDINANCE
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