CHAPTER 23
HB 242 – FINAL VERSION
2005 SESSION
03/04
HOUSE BILL 242
This bill requires the suspension or revocation of a license or registration issued by the division of motor vehicles based on an application made with any false statement or fraudulent document.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
05-0748
03/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five
AN ACT relative to falsification of motor vehicle applications filed with the department of safety.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
23:1 Motor Vehicle Applications; False Statement or Fraudulent Document. Amend RSA 260:10 to read as follows:
260:10 Applications. Every application filed with the department under the provisions of this chapter or other laws and rules relative to motor [vehicle laws] vehicles shall contain the words “This application is signed under penalty of unsworn falsification pursuant to RSA 641:3.” The director, upon evidence satisfactory to him or her that the person who has made an application under the provisions of this chapter or other laws and rules relative to motor vehicles has made any materially false statement in such application, [may] or used fraudulent documents in connection with such application, shall, after hearing, suspend or revoke the license or certificate of registration issued to such person.
23:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2006.
(Approved: May 10, 2005)
(Effective Date: January 1, 2006)