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        "max_mph": 28
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          "kind": "device_limit",
          "key": "max_w",
          "value": 750,
          "note": "The ordinance names no measurement basis — rated, continuous or peak."
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          "kind": "device_limit",
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      "operative_quote": "equipped with one wheel and a motor of no more than seven hundred fifty (750) watts",
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        "section": "§ 12-1-86.5",
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        "label": "Santa Fe UTO § 12-1-86.5 — \"unicycle\" and \"electric unicycle\" definition and the 750 W / 28 mph ceiling",
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        "effective_on": "2023-08-30",
        "tier": "A",
        "tier_label": "Tier A — the jurisdiction’s own official publication",
        "manual_verification_required": false
      },
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        {
          "section": "§ 12-1-40",
          "id": "us-nm-santa-fe/sf-uto-12-1-40",
          "label": "Santa Fe UTO § 12-1-40 — \"motor vehicle\" as amended to carve out electric unicycles",
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          "kind": "signage",
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      "rule_id": "us-nm-santa-fe/euc/limited_access",
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        "label": "Santa Fe UTO § 12-6-2.16 — unicycles barred from controlled-access streets",
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        "tier": "A",
        "tier_label": "Tier A — the jurisdiction’s own official publication",
        "manual_verification_required": false
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        {
          "section": "Ordinance No. 2023-24",
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      ],
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        "verifier_name": "Jesse Garnier",
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      "answered_by": "us-nm-santa-fe",
      "inherited": false,
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      "operative_quote": "a bicyclist or unicyclist having entered such a lane shall endeavor to maintain the lane",
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        "section": "§ 12-8-12",
        "id": "us-nm-santa-fe/sf-uto-12-8-12",
        "label": "Santa Fe UTO § 12-8-12 — operation in a bicycle lane: maintain the lane, with exceptions",
        "official_url": "https://santafenm.gov/media/ordinances_resolutions/2023-24_o.pdf",
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        "tier": "A",
        "tier_label": "Tier A — the jurisdiction’s own official publication",
        "manual_verification_required": false
      },
      "supporting_citations": [
        {
          "section": "Ordinance No. 2023-24",
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          "tier_label": "Tier A — the jurisdiction’s own official publication",
          "manual_verification_required": false
        }
      ],
      "verification": {
        "verifier": "jesse",
        "verifier_name": "Jesse Garnier",
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    },
    {
      "rule_id": "us-nm-santa-fe/euc/shared_path",
      "answered_by": "us-nm-santa-fe",
      "inherited": false,
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      "supporting_citations": [],
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    },
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      "inherited": false,
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      "tone": "ok",
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          "audible_signal_required": false
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      "operative_quote": "No person shall ride a bicycle or unicycle on any sidewalk when signs are posted prohibiting the riding of bicycles or unicycles on the sidewalk",
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        "section": "§ 12-8-15",
        "id": "us-nm-santa-fe/sf-uto-12-8-15",
        "label": "Santa Fe UTO § 12-8-15 — sidewalk riding allowed unless signs prohibit it; duty to yield",
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        "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250113095654/https://santafenm.gov/media/ordinances_resolutions/2023-24_o.pdf",
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        "effective_on": "2023-08-30",
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        "tier_label": "Tier A — the jurisdiction’s own official publication",
        "manual_verification_required": false
      },
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          "manual_verification_required": false
        }
      ],
      "verification": {
        "verifier": "jesse",
        "verifier_name": "Jesse Garnier",
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        "stale": false
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    },
    {
      "rule_id": "us-nm-santa-fe/euc/trail",
      "answered_by": "us-nm-santa-fe",
      "inherited": false,
      "subject": "trail",
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      "definition_phrase": "No verified definition yet",
      "verdict": "unverified",
      "phrase": "Not yet verified — help us",
      "tone": "unknown",
      "gating_criterion": [],
      "thresholds": {},
      "conditions": [],
      "supporting_citations": [],
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      },
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      "page_url": "https://pevra.org/legal/us/nm/santa-fe#trail"
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "us-nm-santa-fe/euc/park",
      "answered_by": "us-nm-santa-fe",
      "inherited": false,
      "subject": "park",
      "definition_state": "unverified",
      "definition_phrase": "No verified definition yet",
      "verdict": "unverified",
      "phrase": "Not yet verified — help us",
      "tone": "unknown",
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      "thresholds": {},
      "conditions": [],
      "supporting_citations": [],
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    },
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      "rule_id": "us-nm-santa-fe/euc/helmet",
      "answered_by": "us-nm-santa-fe",
      "inherited": false,
      "subject": "helmet",
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      "definition_phrase": "The law names this device",
      "verdict": "permitted_by_default",
      "phrase": "Not required — no rule addresses it",
      "tone": "cond",
      "gating_criterion": [
        "enumerated_list"
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      "conditions": [],
      "summary_plain": "No helmet rule PEVRA can find reaches an electric unicycle rider here. The city's code mentions a helmet only as a place a light may be mounted (UTO § 12-8-7 A). The state Child Helmet Safety Act puts a duty on parents of riders under 18, but only for its own list — bicycle, skates, scooter, skateboard — and its definitions require pedals and a saddle (bicycle) or handlebars (scooter), which a unicycle has neither of. One reading is untested: a 2023 amendment made the Act’s “skateboard” wheel-count-agnostic (“a set of wheels attached to a platform … regardless of the number or placement of those wheels”), and PEVRA found no authority applying it to a one-wheeled self-balancing device. PEVRA’s advice does not change with the law: wear one.",
      "operative_quote": "It is unlawful for a parent or legal guardian of a minor to knowingly permit that minor to operate or be a passenger on a bicycle, skates, scooter or skateboard unless that minor wears a well-fitted protective bicycle helmet",
      "citation": {
        "section": "§§ 32A-24-2, 32A-24-3",
        "id": "us-nm/nmsa-32a-24",
        "label": "NM Child Helmet Safety Act — definitions and the parent-liability helmet rule for an enumerated device list",
        "official_url": "https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18532/index.do#a24",
        "archive_url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260315201902/https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18532/index.do",
        "evidence_r2_key": "evidence/us-nm/nmsa-ch32a-art24-child-helmet-safety-act.pdf",
        "source_as_of": "2026-03-15",
        "effective_on": "2007-07-01",
        "tier": "A",
        "tier_label": "Tier A — the jurisdiction’s own official publication",
        "manual_verification_required": true
      },
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        {
          "section": "§ 12-8-7",
          "id": "us-nm-santa-fe/sf-uto-12-8-7",
          "label": "Santa Fe UTO § 12-8-7 — lamps, reflector and brake",
          "official_url": "https://santafenm.gov/media/ordinances_resolutions/2023-24_o.pdf",
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          "manual_verification_required": false
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          "manual_verification_required": false
        }
      ],
      "verification": {
        "verifier": "jesse",
        "verifier_name": "Jesse Garnier",
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        "next_review": "2027-03-01",
        "stale": false
      },
      "ethics_visibility": "public",
      "page_url": "https://pevra.org/legal/us/nm/santa-fe#helmet"
    },
    {
      "rule_id": "us-nm-santa-fe/euc/min_age",
      "answered_by": "us-nm-santa-fe",
      "inherited": false,
      "subject": "min_age",
      "definition_state": "named",
      "definition_phrase": "The law names this device",
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      "phrase": "No minimum age — no rule sets one",
      "tone": "cond",
      "gating_criterion": [],
      "thresholds": {},
      "conditions": [],
      "summary_plain": "As introduced, the ordinance would have barred riders under 16 from a “Class 2” unicycle; the council struck the two-class scheme and the age ban by floor amendment before adopting it. The adopted code sets no minimum age for riding a unicycle — its under-16 rule reaches Class 3 electric bicycles only. State law is a separate question PEVRA has not yet verified.",
      "operative_quote": "delete “And to prohibit anyone under the age of sixteen from riding a class two electric unicycle”",
      "citation": {
        "section": "Floor amendment to Ordinance No. 2023-24",
        "id": "us-nm-santa-fe/sf-ord-2023-24-floor-amendment",
        "label": "Santa Fe Ordinance No. 2023-24 — floor amendment striking the two-class scheme and the under-16 ban",
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        "effective_on": "2023-08-30",
        "tier": "A",
        "tier_label": "Tier A — the jurisdiction’s own official publication",
        "manual_verification_required": false
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          "manual_verification_required": false
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      "conditions": [],
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      "operative_quote": "every vehicle, except electric bicycles and electric unicycles, that is propelled by electric power obtained from batteries",
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        "stale": false
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    },
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      "answered_by": "us-nm-santa-fe",
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      "verdict": "permitted_with_conditions",
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        "max_w": 750
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      "operative_quote": "Where riding on sidewalks is allowed, bicycles and unicycles shall be limited to ten (10) miles per hour",
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        "section": "§ 12-8-10",
        "id": "us-nm-santa-fe/sf-uto-12-8-10",
        "label": "Santa Fe UTO § 12-8-10 — reasonable-and-prudent speed, and the 10 mph sidewalk cap",
        "official_url": "https://santafenm.gov/media/ordinances_resolutions/2023-24_o.pdf",
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      },
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        {
          "section": "§ 12-1-86.5",
          "id": "us-nm-santa-fe/sf-uto-12-1-86-5",
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      ],
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    },
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      "rule_id": "us-nm-santa-fe/euc/equipment",
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        },
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          "note": "§ 12-8-7.B: a brake capable of stopping the device on dry, level, clean pavement. No stopping distance is specified."
        }
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