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Opinion No. 45-4822

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 12/06/1945
File Number 1945 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 45-4822

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Opinion No. 45-4822

December 6, 1945

BY: C. C. McCULLOH, Attorney General

TO: Mr. L. D. Wilson Office Engineer State Highway Dept. Santa Fe, New Mexico

{*160} Replying to your request of Dec. 3, 1945 for an opinion on the following question:

May a truck and trailer, used to transport gasoline refined from oil produced in New Mexico, come within the Tolerance Over-load Statute?

Chap. 35, Laws 1943, sec. 3, p. 50, being Sec. 68-603a, 1941 Comp., provides:

"Motor vehicles and trailers coming under the provisions of this act (Secs. 68-602 -- 68-603a, 68-605) and hauling or transporting livestock and products of New Mexico mines, forests, agriculture and oil fields shall be permitted a tolerance of the provisions relative to load limitations herein set forth not exceeding 20%."

It is my opinion that the Legislature, in providing the above exceptions, had in mind Tolerance in Load Limitations, which come within your question and the answer is in the affirmative.

By THOS. C. McCARTY,

Asst. Atty. General

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.