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Griego |
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HB |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Increase Fines for Parking in Disabled Spaces |
SB |
359 |
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APPROPRIATION
Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
FY03 |
FY04 |
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$3.7 |
Recurring |
OSF |
REVENUE
Estimated Revenue |
Subsequent Years Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
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$Insignificant |
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Recurring |
OSF |
Responses
Received From
Department
of Public Safety (DPS)
State
Highway and Transportation Department (SHTD)
Taxation
& Revenue Department (TRD)
Administrative
Office of the Courts (AOC)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
Senate Bill 359 amends
Section 66-3-16.1 NMSA to prohibit the lending of a disabled parking plate or
placard to another person when the holder is not in the motor vehicle. Penalties are as follows:
1) For a first offense, TRD shall suspend the holder’s privilege to have a special registration place or parking placard for six months.
2) For a second offense, TRD shall permanently revoke the holder’s privilege to have a special plate or placard.
SB 359 also increases
the penalty for providing false information to acquire or assisting an unqualified
person to acquire a plate or placard, or parking in a disabled parking space
while displaying the plate or placard absent the holder, to a fine of not less
than $250 or more than $400.
Significant Issues
Other offenses involving disabled plates or
placards involve fines, but the penalty for giving or lending the plate
involves suspension and revocation.
There is no route of appeal for one who has his plate or placard
suspended or revoked.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The AOC states there
will be a minimal administrative cost for statewide update, distribution, and
documentation of statutory changes.
The Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) will need
programs and codes to keep track of the violations because a subsequent
violation results in a lifetime revocation of the holder’s ability to have the
placard or plate. The estimated cost is
$3.7.
It is possible there
will be a positive fiscal impact resulting from SB 357 from fines collected
from those convicted of failing to properly display a parking placard or
special registration plate would increase.
That amount, however, cannot be reasonably estimated and would likely be
insignificant.
The database application that services the parking
placard is tied to an “individual.” The
special registration plate is simply one of many different types of plates
issued by MVD for registration of a “vehicle.”
The placard vehicle registration databases are completely independent of
each other. The parking placard database
application does not currently have any functionality programmed into it that
would allow for a suspension or revocation.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
TRD has raised the
following:
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