New Mexico § 66-3-301 - Registration by nonresidents

§ 66-3-301. Registration by nonresidents

A. Any nonresident owner of a vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration

may use or permit the use of the vehicle within the state for a period of one hundred

eighty days without registering his vehicle, but any vehicle so used must display

current registration plates issued for the vehicle in the state where the owner resides. B. Any person gainfully employed within the boundaries of this state for a period

of thirty days or more within a sixty-day period shall be presumed to be a resident

of this state. C. Notwithstanding the fact of their employment, the following are not required to

register their vehicles if they display current registration plates issued for the

vehicle in the state where the owner resides: (1) nonresident students engaged in a full-time course of study at an institution

of higher learning located within this state, and the vehicle displays a valid nonresident

student sticker issued by the institution which they attend; or (2) a nonresident owner gainfully employed within the boundaries of this state who

uses his vehicle to commute daily from his home in another state to and from his place

of employment within this state. The provisions of this paragraph apply only if the state in which the owner resides

extends like privileges to New Mexico residents gainfully employed within the boundaries

of that state. D. A nonresident owner of a foreign vehicle operated within this state for the transportation

of persons or property for compensation or for the transportation of merchandise either

regularly according to a schedule or for a consecutive period exceeding thirty days

shall register the vehicle and pay the same fees as required with reference to like

vehicles owned by residents of this state. This subsection shall not be construed as limiting the effect of validly entered

reciprocal agreements between New Mexico and other states or of proportional registration

provided for in Section 66-3-4 NMSA 1978 . E. Every nonresident including any foreign corporation carrying on business within

this state and owning and regularly operating in that business any vehicle, trailer,

semitrailer, house trailer or pole trailer within the state shall register each vehicle

and pay the same fees as required with reference to like vehicles owned by residents

of this state.