HB 1367 – AS INTRODUCED
2006 SESSION
03/04
HOUSE BILL 1367
AN ACT prohibiting vehicle number plate covers that obscure the plate numbers.
SPONSORS: Rep. Morris, Rock 14
This bill prohibits vehicle number plate covers that obscure the plate numbers.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
06-2458
03/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT prohibiting vehicle number plate covers that obscure the plate numbers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Improper Use of Evidence of Registration or Title; Plate Cover. Amend RSA 261:61, I to read as follows:
I. No person shall lend to another any certificate of title, registration certificate, number plate, temporary permit, or other permit issued to him or her if the person desiring to borrow the same would not be entitled to the use thereof, nor shall any person knowingly permit the use of any of the same by one not entitled thereto, nor shall any person display upon a vehicle any registration certificate, number plate, or permit assigned by the director or authority of any other jurisdiction not issued to such vehicle or otherwise lawfully used under this chapter, or knowingly obscure or permit to be obscured the figures or letters on any number plate attached to any motor vehicle, including by the use of a tinted or shaded plate cover or screen.
2 Misuse or Failure to Display Plates; Plate Cover. Amend RSA 261:176, I to read as follows:
I. Any person who knowingly attaches or permits to be attached to a vehicle a number plate assigned by the department, or authority of any other jurisdiction, to another vehicle or who knowingly obscures or permits to be obscured the figures or letters on any number plate attached to any vehicle, including by the use of a tinted or shaded plate cover or screen, or who knowingly and deliberately fails to display on a vehicle the number plates and the registration number duly issued therefor shall be guilty of a violation.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2007.