0001|                           SENATE BILL 193
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          JOSEPH J. CARRARO
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO HIGHWAYS; REQUIRING THE STATE HIGHWAY AND
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0012|     TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT TO INSTALL VEHICLE IMMOBILIZERS ON
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0013|     INTERSTATE HIGHWAY EXIT RAMPS TO OBSTRUCT VEHICLES FROM
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0014|     ENTERING THE WRONG WAY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  VEHICLE IMMOBILIZERS--DUTIES.--The state
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0018|     highway and transportation department shall install vehicle
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0019|     immobilizers on all interstate exit ramps to prevent vehicles
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0020|     from entering interstate highways the wrong way.  As used in
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0021|     this section, "vehicle immobilizer" means any device engineered
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0022|     to obstruct or immobilize a vehicle traveling in the wrong
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0023|     direction and may include tire shredders triggered by a
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0024|     direction detection monitor.
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0025|     .113908.1
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