HB1592 (2010) Detail

Relative to the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans.


CHAPTER 62

HB 1592-FN – FINAL VERSION

2010 SESSION

10-2260

09/03

HOUSE BILL 1592-FN

AN ACT relative to the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans.

SPONSORS: Rep. Emiro, Rock 3; Rep. K. Roberts, Ches 3; Rep. Theberge, Coos 4; Rep. Butynski, Ches 4

COMMITTEE: Local and Regulated Revenues

ANALYSIS

This bill expands eligibility for the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans to all such disabled veterans who served in a qualifying war or armed conflict as defined in RSA 72:28.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

10-2260

09/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten

AN ACT relative to the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans.

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

62:1 Exemption of Amputee and Other Disabled Veterans. Amend RSA 261:157 to read as follows:

261:157 Exemption of Amputee and Other Disabled Veterans. No fee shall be charged for a permit to register a motor vehicle owned by a veteran of [World War I or II, the Korean conflict, or the Vietnam conflict] any war or armed conflict, as defined in RSA 72:28, V, who because of being an amputee[,] or paraplegic or having suffered loss or use of a limb from a service-connected cause, as certified by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, has received said vehicle from the United States government or cash settlement in lieu thereof; or because of a disability incurred in, or aggravated by such service, and upon satisfactory proof that the veteran is evaluated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to be totally and permanently disabled from such service-connected disability.

62:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: May 18, 2010

Effective Date: July 17, 2010