No person, firm, association or corporation shall operate a driver education school or engage in the business of giving instruction for hire in the driving of motor vehicles or in the preparation of an applicant for examination for a Class D, E or M driver's license unless a license has been secured from the bureau. History: 1953 Comp., § 64-35-2, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 185, § 2; 1993, ch. 68, § 46. The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, substituted "education" for "training" in the catchline and text of the section, substituted "a class D, E or M driver's" for "an operator's or chauffeur's" and substituted "bureau" for "state department of education", and made a minor stylistic change. Traffic safety bureau's authority to approve motor vehicle accident prevention courses. — Nonprofit corporations that provide motor vehicle accident prevention courses approved by the traffic safety bureau and are engaged in providing courses exclusively for drivers who are fifty years of age or older are exempt from the Driver's School Licensing Act's (DSL Act) requirements, 66-10-12 NMSA 1978; this exemption does not suggest that the traffic safety bureau may only approve accident prevention courses for older drivers when they are provided by nonprofit corporations. The DSL Act requires the traffic safety bureau to license any "person, firm, association or corporation" including for-profit entities, it deems qualified to operate a driver education school or engage in the business of giving instruction for hire in the driving of motor vehicles. Exemption from Driving School Licensing Act (12/12/17), Att'y Gen. Adv. Ltr. 2017-07.
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