New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-220. Effect of default on risk of loss
(1) Where risk of loss is to pass to the lessee and the time of passage is not stated: (a) if a tender or delivery of goods so fails to conform to the lease contract as to give a right of rejection, the risk of their loss remains with the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, until cure or acceptance; and
Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-220
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:
(i) the lessor does not select, manufacture or supply the goods. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
- goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract or are fixtures (Section New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
- lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this article and any other applicable rules of law. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
- lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
- lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
- supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See New Mexico Statutes 55-2A-103
(b) if the lessee rightfully revokes acceptance, he, to the extent of any deficiency in his effective insurance coverage, may treat the risk of loss as having remained with the lessor from the beginning.
(2) Whether or not risk of loss is to pass to the lessee, if the lessee as to conforming goods already identified to a lease contract repudiates or is otherwise in default under the lease contract, the lessor, or, in the case of a finance lease, the supplier, to the extent of any deficiency in his effective insurance coverage may treat the risk of loss as resting on the lessee for a commercially reasonable time.