HB196 (2015) Detail

Requiring the removal of identifying features from vehicles formerly used as ambulances.


CHAPTER 63

HB 196 – FINAL VERSION

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2015 SESSION

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08/09

HOUSE BILL 196

AN ACT requiring the removal of identifying features from vehicles formerly used as ambulances.

SPONSORS: Rep. Welch, Rock 13; Rep. Fields, Belk 4

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the removal of identifying features from vehicles formerly used as ambulances.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

4Mar2015… 0282h

04/09/2015 1214s

15-0532

08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen

AN ACT requiring the removal of identifying features from vehicles formerly used as ambulances.

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

63:1 New Paragraph; Vehicles Formerly Used as Ambulances. Amend RSA 266 by inserting after paragraph 78-q the following new paragraph:

266:78-r Vehicle Formerly Used as Ambulance to Have Identifying Features Removed. Prior to driving on the ways of the state, a vehicle which was formerly used as an ambulance or rescue vehicle but is no longer licensed as an ambulance under RSA 159-A, a person shall remove any siren, red forward and side emergency lights, gold lettering, red cross, caduceus, or other medical insignia, “Keep back 500 feet,” “Emergency,” “Ambulance,” “Rescue,” or other lettering or insignia that might cause the vehicle to be mistaken for a working ambulance or rescue vehicle. This section shall not apply to vehicles owned or leased by state, county, or municipal emergency response agencies, the American Red Cross, duly registered antique vehicles, or licensed transporting EMS agencies.

63:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: June 2, 2015

Effective Date: August 1, 2015