As used in the Motor Vehicle Code:

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A. “day” means calendar day, unless otherwise provided in the Motor Vehicle Code; B. “dealer”, except as specifically excluded, means any person who sells or solicits or advertises the sale of new or used motor vehicles, manufactured homes or trailers subject to registration in this state; “dealer” does not include:

(1)     receivers, trustees, administrators, executors, guardians or other persons appointed by or acting under judgment, decree or order of any court;

(2)     public officers while performing their duties as such officers; (3)     persons making casual sales of their own vehicles;

(4)     finance companies, banks and other lending institutions making sales of repossessed vehicles; or

(5)     licensed brokers under the Manufactured Housing Act [N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 60, Article 14] who, for a fee, commission or other valuable consideration, engage in brokerage activities related to the sale, exchange or lease purchase of pre-owned manufactured homes on a site installed for a consumer;

C. “declared gross weight” means the maximum gross vehicle weight or gross combination vehicle weight at which a vehicle or combination will be operated during the registration period, as declared by the registrant for registration and fee purposes; the vehicle or combination shall have only one declared gross weight for all operating considerations;

D. “department” means the taxation and revenue department, the secretary of taxation and revenue or any employee of the department exercising authority lawfully delegated to that employee by the secretary;

E. “designated accessible parking space for persons with significant mobility limitation” means any space, including an access aisle, that is marked and reserved for the parking of a passenger vehicle that carries registration plates or a parking placard with the international symbol of access issued in accordance with Section 66-3-16 N.M. Stat. Ann. and that is designated by a conspicuously posted sign bearing the international symbol of access and, if the parking space is paved, by a clearly visible depiction of this symbol painted in blue on the pavement of the space;

F. “director” means the secretary;

G. “disqualification” means a prohibition against driving a commercial motor vehicle;

H. “distinguishing number” means the number assigned by the department to a vehicle whose identifying number has been destroyed or obliterated or the number assigned by the department to a vehicle that has never had an identifying number;

I. “distributor” means a person who distributes or sells new or used motor vehicles to dealers and who is not a manufacturer;

J. “division”, without further specification, “division of motor vehicles” or “motor vehicle division” means the department;

K. “driveaway-towaway operation” means an operation in which any motor vehicle, new or used, is the item being transported when one set or more of wheels of any such motor vehicle is on the roadway during the course of transportation, whether or not the motor vehicle furnishes the motive power;

L. “driver” means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle, including a motorcycle, upon a highway, who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle or who operates or is in actual physical control of an off-highway motor vehicle;

M. “driver-assisted platoon” means a series of motor vehicles platooning with a driver in each vehicle;

N. “driver’s license” means any license, permit or driving authorization card issued by a state or other jurisdiction recognized under the laws of New Mexico pertaining to the authorizing of persons to operate motor vehicles and includes a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license and a standard driver’s license; and

O. “dynamic driving task” means all of the real-time operational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic, excluding the strategic functions such as trip scheduling and selection of destinations and waypoints.