CHAPTER 33
SB 303 – FINAL VERSION
01/27/10 0228s
2010 SESSION
03/04
SENATE BILL 303
AN ACT relative to motor vehicle dealers, transporters, and repairers.
SPONSORS: Sen. Letourneau, Dist 19; Sen. Gilmour, Dist 12; Rep. R. Williams, Merr 11; Rep. Packard, Rock 3
COMMITTEE: Transportation and Interstate Cooperation
This bill clarifies the authority of the director of the division of motor vehicles to suspend or revoke the registration, license, or privileges of a dealer, utility dealer, automotive recycling dealer, transporter, or repairer.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01/27/10 0228s
10-2694
03/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to motor vehicle dealers, transporters, and repairers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
33:1 Dealers, Transporters, and Repairers; Suspension or Revocation. Amend RSA 261:177, I(a) to read as follows:
(a) After a hearing and upon a finding that a dealer, utility dealer, automotive recycling dealer, transporter, or repairer has violated any provision of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, suspend or revoke [any] the dealer’s, utility dealer’s, automotive recycling dealer’s, transporter’s, or repairer’s registration, license, or privileges for an appropriate period of time considering the severity of the offense, the number of offenses committed, and whether the dealer, utility dealer, automotive recycling dealer, transporter, or repairer committed prior offenses. If the license is revoked and the director determines after a hearing that an owner, partner, or officer of the dealer, utility dealer, automotive recycling dealer, transporter, or repairer is in violation of any provision of the dealer, utility dealer, automotive recycling dealer, transporter, or repairer laws or rules, the director [and] may prohibit an owner, partner, or officer from opening any other [type of] dealership for a period of time not to exceed 5 years; or
33:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011.
Approved: May 18, 2010
Effective Date: January 1, 2011