HB 1183 – VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
05/01/14 1548s
2014 SESSION
03/10
HOUSE BILL 1183
AN ACT relative to display of antique motor vehicle plates.
SPONSORS: Rep. Turcotte, Merr 22; Rep. Gordon, Rock 35; Rep. Davis, Merr 20; Rep. Schuett, Merr 20; Sen. Woodburn, Dist 1
This bill changes a year of manufacture date in the statute governing display of plates issued in the year of manufacture of an antique motor vehicle and requires that the antique plate number not be in use on another motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
05/01/14 1548s
14-2040
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to display of antique motor vehicle plates.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Number Plates; Antique Motor Vehicle. Amend RSA 261:89-a, I to read as follows:
I. The director may permit the owner of an antique motor vehicle or motorcycle, as defined in RSA 259:4, or trailer, as defined in paragraph II of this section, to use a registration plate which was issued in the same year that the antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer was manufactured, provided the motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer is registered as an antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer under this chapter, and the number of the antique plate is recorded with the director. Registration plates issued in the same year that the antique motor vehicle was manufactured may be affixed to both the front and rear of the antique motor vehicle, to either the front or rear of the antique motorcycle, and to the rear of the antique trailer for any such vehicle with a year of manufacture of [1960] 1975 or earlier if the registration plate matching the registration certificate is carried within the antique motor vehicle, so long as the number on the antique plate is not in use on another motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer. Any antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer bearing a registration plate with the year of manufacture shall also carry, within it, a valid antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer registration certificate and a permit issued under this section.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2015.