CHAPTER 183
SB 99 – FINAL VERSION
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2011 SESSION
03/05
SENATE BILL 99
AN ACT relative to trailer brakes.
SPONSORS: Sen. Rausch, Dist 19
This bill modifies exemptions from the trailer brakes requirements.
This bill was requested by the department of safety.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
02/16/11 0182s
18May2011… 1603h
11-0961
03/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT relative to trailer brakes.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
183:1 Trailer Brakes. Amend RSA 266:30 to read as follows:
266:30 Trailer Brakes.
I. No motor vehicle trailer or semi-trailer[, the weight of which, including its load, is 3,000 pounds or more,] shall be driven on the ways of this state unless equipped with adequate brakes in good working order and sufficient to control the said vehicle at all times. No house trailer weighing in excess of 1,500 pounds shall be driven on the ways of this state unless so equipped. [This section shall not apply to wood-sawing machines, log splitters, cement mixers, compressors, tar kettles, conveyors, or to devices of 2 wheels used by public utilities for the transportation of cables or poles not exceeding 6 in number, road rollers and sweepers, thawing devices, or to refreshment booths on wheels towed not more than 2 miles at any one time.]
II. This section shall not apply to:
(a) A motor vehicle trailer or semi-trailer with a gross weight of less than 3,000 pounds if the axle weight of the towed vehicle does not exceed 40 percent of the sum of the rated axle weights of the towing vehicle.
(b) Wood-sawing machines, log splitters, cement mixers, compressors, tar kettles, conveyors, devices of 2 wheels used by public utilities for the transportation of cables or poles not exceeding 6 in number, road rollers and sweepers, thawing devices, or refreshment booths on wheels towed not more than 2 miles at any one time, only if being driven in intrastate commerce on the ways of New Hampshire.
183:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2012
Approved: June 14, 2011
Effective Date: January 1, 2012