New Mexico § 66-3-16.1 - Prohibited acts; penalties

§ 66-3-16.1. Prohibited acts; penalties

A. Any person who provides false information in order to acquire, or who assists an

unqualified person to acquire, a special registration plate or parking placard as

provided in Section 66-3-16 NMSA 1978 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978 . B. Any person, other than the person to whom a special registration plate or a parking

placard was issued, who in the absence of the holder of the plate or placard, parks

in a designated accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation

while displaying the plate or placard, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction

shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978 . C. A special registration plate or parking placard displayed on a vehicle parked in

a designated accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation

in the absence of the holder of that plate or placard is subject to immediate seizure

by a law enforcement official and if seized shall be delivered to the division within

seventy-two hours. Failure to surrender the parking placard on demand of a law enforcement officer

is a petty misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars

($100).