This response is from City of Rio Rancho administration.

Your information will be provided to the Police Department and Code Enforcement Division, and they will attempt to locate and review the properties in question based on the information you have provided to verify if code violations are present.

Below is from the city municipal code pertaining to inoperable or abandoned vehicles, which can be found on the city’s Web site.

To report future issues to the City of Rio Rancho directly, please visit the city’s Web site at http://www.ci.rio-rancho.nm.us and click on the “Citizen Question Forms” link located on the left side of the main home page.

91.06 INOPERABLE OR ABANDONED VEHICLES.
(A) Outdoor storage of inoperable or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof on the premises is prohibited. Inoperable or abandoned vehicles may only be stored on the premises within a building so as not to be visible from any adjoining property or public road. Vehicles shall not be used for storage or other purposes unless enclosed within a building on the premises.
(B)(1) This section shall not apply in an area where an activity is within the contemplated purposes of a duly licensed business with the appropriate zoning, or where vehicles are kept in an enclosed structure, or when vehicles are owned and actively being restored by the owner or tenant of the premises. A motor vehicle is being actively restored if within the last 30 days the owner has spent at least ten hours of labor in repairing, rebuilding or reconstruction of the motor vehicle. The burden shall be on the owner of the vehicle to prove that it is being actively restored which may include receipts for the purchase of parts and supplies during the last 30 days which have been installed on the vehicle.
(2) Any person, being owner or tenant, may store, permit to be stored or allow to remain upon his residential premises, any dismantled, partially dismantled or inoperative motor vehicle, or parts thereof, for a period not to exceed one month, if the motor vehicle is registered in the resident’s name; or
(3) One inoperable or abandoned vehicle may be stored upon property within the city when not within a wholly enclosed structure, if fully covered and placed in the side or back yard. Any vehicle must be at least five feet from any property line and at least five feet from any permanent structure.
(C) Any person violating this section may, in the event of hardship, request an extension of this subchapter’s compliance period by a written request to the City Development Director.
(D) This section shall not be construed to permit the parking or placement of inoperable or abandoned motor vehicles on any public street. Placement of inoperable or abandoned vehicles on any public street is subject to enforcement by the Department of Public Safety.