HB163 (2013) Detail

Relative to special number plates for disabled veterans.


CHAPTER 102

HB 163 – FINAL VERSION

2013 SESSION

13-0603

03/04

HOUSE BILL 163

AN ACT relative to special number plates for disabled veterans.

SPONSORS: Rep. Rhodes, Hills 30; Rep. Hinch, Hills 21; Rep. Roberts, Ches 4

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill permits disabled veterans to receive veteran plates without charge in lieu of disabled veteran plates.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

13-0603

03/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT relative to special number plates for disabled veterans.

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

102:1 Special Number Plates; Disabled Veterans. Amend RSA 261:86, I(a) to read as follows:

(a) Because of being an amputee, or paraplegic, has received said motor vehicle from the United States government or whose vehicle is to replace one so received, or who is evaluated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to be permanently and totally disabled from such service-connected disability. The special number plates shall incorporate the international accessibility symbol. The permanently and totally disabled veteran, in lieu of the special number plates described in this subparagraph, may opt to receive without charge one set of the special number plates for veterans described in RSA 261:87-b, but in such case shall not be entitled to free parking privileges that are reserved for plates with the international accessibility symbol.

102:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2014.

Approved: June 24, 2013

Effective Date: January 1, 2014