0001|                            HOUSE BILL 440
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           EARLENE ROBERTS
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES; AMENDING THE ELEMENTS OF RECKLESS
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0012|     DRIVING; PROVIDING PENALTIES; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE MOTOR
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0013|     VEHICLE CODE.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 66-8-113 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1978,
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0017|     Chapter 35, Section 521, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "66-8-113.  RECKLESS DRIVING.--
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0019|               A.  Any person who drives any vehicle carelessly

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0020|     and heedlessly in willful or wanton disregard of the rights or
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0021|     safety of others and without due caution and circumspection
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0022|     and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely
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0023|     to endanger any person or property is guilty of reckless
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0024|     driving.
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0025|               <u>B.  A person who commits three or more violations
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<u></u>0001| <u>    of the Motor Vehicle Code during a single episode of driving
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<u></u>0002| <u>    is guilty of reckless driving.</u>
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0003|               <s>[B.]</s> <u>C.</u>  Every person convicted of reckless
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0004|     driving shall be punished, notwithstanding the provisions of
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0005|     Section 31-18-13 NMSA 1978, upon a first conviction by
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0006|     imprisonment for not less than five days <s>[nor]</s> <u>or</u> more
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0007|     than ninety days or by a fine of not less than twenty-five
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0008|     dollars ($25.00) <s>[nor]</s> <u>or</u> more than one hundred dollars
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0009|     ($100), or both and on a second or subsequent conviction by
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0010|     imprisonment for not less than ten days <s>[nor]</s> <u>or</u> more than
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0011|     six months or by a fine of not less than fifty dollars
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0012|     ($50.00) <s>[nor]</s> <u>or</u> more than one thousand dollars ($1,000),
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0013|     or both.
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0014|               <s>[C.]</s> <u>D.</u>  Upon conviction of violation of this
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0015|     section, the director may suspend the license or permit to
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0016|     drive and any nonresident operating privilege for not to
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0017|     exceed ninety days."
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0018|          Section 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0019|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1998.
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