Revision: June 15, 2014, midnight
SB 389 – VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
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2014 SESSION
10/08
SENATE BILL 389
AN ACT relative to the enforcement of motor vehicle laws by officers of the fish and game department.
SPONSORS: Sen. Woodburn, Dist 1; Rep. Karrick, Merr 25; Rep. Suzanne Smith, Graf 8; Rep.?Theberge, Coos 3; Rep. H. Richardson, Coos 4
This bill allows the fish and game officers to enforce the motor vehicle laws.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
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03/06/14 0714s
15May2014… 1841h
06/04/14 1967CofC
14-2687
10/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to the enforcement of motor vehicle laws by officers of the fish and game department.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Fish and Game; Powers; Motor Vehicle Laws. Amend RSA 206:26 by inserting after paragraph XIV the following new paragraph:
XV. To enforce all provisions of RSA title XXI relative to motor vehicle laws, absent any violation or suspected violation of fish and game laws, with the same authority and powers as any other certified law enforcement officer in the state.
2 Fish and Game Officers; Prohibition Deleted. Amend RSA 206:26-b, II to read as follows:
II. The executive director and each conservation officer shall not:
(a) Serve civil processes; or
(b) Act or be used or called upon for service within any town in any industrial dispute unless actual violence has occurred, and then only upon order of the governor[; or
(c) Have general power to enforce any provision of RSA title XXI relative to motor vehicles].
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.