Section 66-7-415 - When the state transportation commission or local authorities may restrict right to use streets. - New Mexico Statutes

66-7-415. When the state transportation commission or local authorities may restrict right to use streets.

A.     Local authorities, with respect to streets under their jurisdiction, may also, by ordinance or resolution, prohibit the operation of trucks or other commercial vehicles or may impose limitations as to the size or weight thereof, on designated streets in areas that are primarily residential, which prohibitions and limitations shall be designated by appropriate signs placed on such street.   

B.     The local authority enacting an ordinance or resolution shall erect or cause to be erected and maintained signs designating the provisions of the ordinance or resolution at each end of that portion of any street affected, and the ordinance or resolution shall not be effective unless and until such signs are erected and maintained and notice thereof given in writing to the nearest officer or employee of the motor transportation division of the department of public safety authorized to issue special permits.   

C.     The state transportation commission shall likewise have authority, as granted to local authorities in Subsections A and B of this section, to determine by resolution and to impose restrictions as to the size and weight of vehicles operated upon any highways under the jurisdiction of the commission, and such restrictions shall be effective on and after the passage of a resolution and when signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the highway or portion of any highway affected by such resolution. The commission shall deliver a copy of all restrictions adopted by it to the motor transportation division of the department of public safety.