SB 211 – VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
2014 SESSION
05/08
SENATE BILL 211
AN ACT relative to reporting requirements in fatal motor vehicle accident reports.
SPONSORS: Sen. Rausch, Dist 19
This bill requires the investigating officer to provide certain information regarding a fatal accident to the department of safety within 7 days.
This bill is a request of 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
14-2613
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to reporting requirements in fatal motor vehicle accident reports.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Uniform Police Investigation Report of Accident; Fatal Accident Reporting Requirements. Amend RSA 264:26, II to read as follows:
II. In each reportable accident in which any person is killed or injured or in which damage to the property of any one individual, including the driver, is sustained, the police officer, agency or individual who, in the regular course of duty, investigates such accident, either at the time of or at the scene of the accident or thereafter, by interviewing the participants or witnesses, shall, within 5 days after completing such investigation, complete and forward one copy of such report to the division. Such report shall call for and contain all available detailed information to disclose the cause of the accident, the conditions then existing and the persons and vehicles involved including the names and addresses of all occupants of the vehicles involved, as well as the enforcement action taken. In each reportable accident in which a person is killed, the police officer, agency, or individual who, in the regular course of duty, investigates the accident shall provide written notice to the department of safety within 7 days of the accident. The notice shall include the information contained on the front page of the uniform police accident report and may be submitted electronically or by fax. This requirement shall not relieve the investigating agency or officer from the responsibility in RSA 265:25 of filing the complete report as soon as it is available.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.