HOUSE BILL 701
48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007
INTRODUCED BY
Richard D. Vigil
AN ACT
RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSES; CHANGING THE NUMBER OF TIMES AN APPLICANT MAY TAKE THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TEST.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 66-5-60 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1989, Chapter 14, Section 9, as amended) is amended to read:
"66-5-60. COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE--QUALIFICATIONS--STANDARDS.--
A. The division shall not issue a commercial driver's license to a person unless that person is a resident of New Mexico and has passed a knowledge and skills test for driving a commercial motor vehicle and for related endorsements, has passed a medical fitness test and has satisfied any other requirements of the New Mexico Commercial Driver's License Act.
B. The division may authorize a person, including an agency of this or another state, an employer, a private driver-training facility or other private institution or a department, agency or instrumentality of local government to administer the skills test specified by this section.
C. The director may waive the requirement of any test specified in this section for a commercial driver's license applicant who complies with the other provisions of the New Mexico Commercial Driver's License Act through any pertinent rules [regulations] or contractual agreements with the public education department, other governments or private entities.
D. A commercial driver's license applicant shall not take a test specified in this section more than [three] six times within [one year] a six-month period. If an applicant does not pass on the sixth attempt, the applicant shall not take the test again for at least one year.
E. If the department determines that a commercial driver's license applicant has committed an offense in taking a test specified in this section, the division shall not issue a commercial driver's license to that applicant within one year of the department's determination."
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