New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 18 - TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS
Chapter 17 - NAVIGATION AND BOATING
Part 2 - BOATING OPERATION AND SAFETY
Section 18.17.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Certificate of number" means the registration certificate required to operate a motorboat on the waters of New Mexico.

B. "Combination lights" means lights required on vessels operating on the waters of New Mexico in the hours of darkness, green on the starboard (right) side and red on the port (left) side and shall throw the lights from dead ahead to two points abaft of the beam on their respective sides.

C. "Department" means the energy, minerals and natural resources department.

D. "Director" means the director of the energy, minerals and natural resources department, state parks division.

E. "Division" means the energy, minerals and natural resources department, state parks division.

F. "Person" means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, joint venture or other entity.

G. "Personal flotation device" means a U.S. coast guard approved personal floatation device used in accordance with its U.S. coast guard approved label.

H. "Personal watercraft" means a class A motorboat less than 16 feet, designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel rather than the operator sitting or standing inside the vessel. Examples include jet skis, sea doos, wave runners and similar devices.

I. "Power driven vessel" means any vessel propelled by machinery at the time of operation.

J. "Registration" means the process by which motorboats owned by persons domiciled in New Mexico and motorboats not registered in another state nor by the United States, which are operated on the waters of this state are numbered as evidenced by a certificate of number issued by the New Mexico taxation and revenue department under a joint powers agreement with the department.

K. "Right of way" means the right of a vessel, which is proceeding on an established forward course at a relatively constant speed to continue such course unchanged without reducing speed, turning, veering or reversing.

L. "Secretary" means the secretary of the energy, minerals and natural resources department.

M. "Superintendent" means a division employee who is in charge of a specific park.

N. "Vessel" means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.

O. "Wake" means white water created from wave action breaking off the vessel's bow or sides.