New Mexico § 66-5-408 - Fees

§ 66-5-408. Fees

A. Upon application for an identification card with a four-year term, there shall

be paid to the department a fee of five dollars ($5.00). Upon application for an identification card with an eight-year term, there shall

be paid to the department a fee of ten dollars ($10.00). A fee shall not be charged to an applicant for an identification card if the applicant

is at least seventy-five years of age or a homeless individual. B. The department with the approval of the governor may increase the amount of the

identification card fee by an amount not to exceed three dollars ($3.00) for the purpose

of implementing an enhanced licensing system; provided that for an identification

card issued for an eight-year period, the amount of the fee shall be twice the amount

charged for other identification cards. The additional amounts collected pursuant to this subsection are appropriated to

the department to defray the expense of the new system of licensing and for use as

set forth in the provisions of Subsection F of Section 66-6-13 NMSA 1978 . Unexpended and unencumbered balances from fees collected pursuant to the provisions

of this subsection at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund

but shall be expended by the department in fiscal year 2010 and subsequent fiscal

years. C. As used in this section, “ homeless individual ” means an individual: (1) who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including an individual

who: (a) lives in the housing of another person due to that individual's loss of housing,

economic hardship or other reason related to that individual's lack of a fixed residence; (b) lives in a motel, hotel, trailer park or camping ground due to the lack of alternative

adequate accommodations; (c) lives in an emergency or transitional shelter; (d) sleeps in a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular

sleeping accommodation for human beings; or (e) lives in an automobile, a park, a public space, an abandoned building, substandard

housing, a bus station, a train station or a similar setting; and (2) whose homelessness can be verified through an attestation, which shall not be

required to be notarized, by one of the following: (a) a public or private governmental or nonprofit agency that provides services to

homeless individuals; (b) a local education agency homeless liaison, school counselor or school nurse; (c) a social worker licensed in the state; or (d) the homeless individual.