0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES; AMENDING THE MOTOR VEHICLE CODE PERTAINING
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0003| TO SPEED REGULATION.
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0005| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0006|      Section 1.  Section 66-7-301 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1978, Chapter
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0007| 35, Section 405, as amended) is amended to read:
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0008|      "66-7-301.  SPEED REGULATION.--
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0009|           A.  No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed
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0010| greater than:
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0011|                (1)  fifteen miles per hour on all highways when
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0012| passing a school while children are going to or leaving school and
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0013| when the school zone is properly posted;
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0014|                (2)  thirty miles per hour in any business or
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0015| residence district;
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0016|                (3)  seventy-five miles per hour, provided that the
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0017| maximum speed on interstate highways for commercial motor vehicles and
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0018| any motor vehicle towing a manufactured home or another motor vehicle
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0019| shall be sixty-five miles an hour; and
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0020|                (4)  the posted speed limit in construction zones,
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0021| provided that the posted speed limit shall be determined by an
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0022| engineering study performed by the state highway and transportation
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0023| department.
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0024|           B.  In every event, speed shall be so controlled by the
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0025| driver as may be necessary:
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0001|                (1)  to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle or
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0002| other conveyance on or entering the highway;
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0003|                (2)  to comply with legal requirements as may be
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0004| established by the state highway and transportation department or the
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0005| New Mexico state police division of the department of public safety
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0006| and the duty of all persons to use due care; and
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0007|                (3)  to protect workers in a construction zone.
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0008|           C.  The speed limits set forth in Subsection A of this
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0009| section may be altered as authorized in Section 66-7-303 NMSA
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0010| 1978."                                                     
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