HB493 (2005) Detail

Relative to noncommercial antique motor vehicle restoration activities.


HB 493 – AS INTRODUCED

2005 SESSION

05-0044

08/01

HOUSE BILL 493

AN ACT relative to noncommercial antique motor vehicle restoration activities.

SPONSORS: Rep. Gibson, Hills 19; Rep. Bicknell, Rock 1; Rep. Newton, Straf 1

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill allows noncommercial antique motor vehicle restoration activities to be conducted in temporary structures and preempts political subdivisions from changing the number of vehicles permitted by statute.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

05-0044

08/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five

AN ACT relative to noncommercial antique motor vehicle restoration activities.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Antique Motor Vehicle Restoration Storage. Amend RSA 236:111-a, III(b)-(c) to read as follows:

(b) All antique motor vehicles and parts of antique motor vehicles are kept out of view of the public and abutters by means of storage inside a permanent structure, or by suitable fencing which complies with the fencing requirements of RSA 236:123, or by trees or shrubbery sufficient to block visual access year round, or by a temporary structure designed to be assembled, disassembled, and transported from place to place; provided, that such structure is properly assembled, properly anchored to prevent movement by wind, maintained in good condition, and fully encloses the motor vehicles and parts from public view; and

(c) Any combination of antique motor vehicles or parts of antique motor vehicles that are not stored inside a permanent structure shall otherwise comply with the requirements of this section and shall not exceed a total amount of 5 vehicles. For purposes of this section, the sum of the parts of antique motor vehicles that equal in bulk to one antique motor vehicle shall be counted as one antique motor vehicle. No ordinance of a political subdivision shall further restrict the provisions of this subparagraph; and

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2006.