A Teen Driver's License
Section 66-5-8 — a provisional license at fifteen and a half, with a midnight to 5:00 a.m. limit
- At least fifteen years and six months old.
- A driver education course with a DWI prevention component.
- An instruction permit held for at least six months, with thirty days added for each traffic violation while on the permit.
- No pending traffic citation.
- At least fifty hours of practice driving, ten of them at night, certified by a parent or guardian.
Who handles this in New Mexico: Enlace Comunitario; and legal aid programs and the state offices, listed in the New Mexico directory.
A provisional licensee may carry no more than one passenger under twenty-one who is not immediate family, and drives between 5:00 a.m. and midnight, unless with a licensed driver twenty-one or older, for family or medical necessity, to and from work, school or a religious activity with the signed statement the section requires, or in a medical emergency.
Sources for this section (1)
- NMSA 1978, § 66-5-8 — Provisional licenses; instruction permits; driver education students; temporary licenses
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of November 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed New Mexico attorney.