Bill Text - HB319 (2017)

(Second New Title) limiting 20-day registration plates, relative to the suspension of a driver's license, and relative to salvage certificates of titles for motor vehicles.


Revision: March 30, 2017, 9:09 a.m.

HB 319 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

8Mar2017... 0622h

2017 SESSION

17-0483

03/10

 

HOUSE BILL 319

 

AN ACT relative limiting 20-day registration plates.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Packard, Rock. 5

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill limits the 20-day registration plates used for the same vehicle to 3 plates within a 12-month period.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

8Mar2017... 0622h 17-0483

03/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative limiting 20-day registration plates.

 

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

 

1  Twenty-Day Registration.  Amend RSA 261:57, I to read as follows:

I.  Any resident of this state who intends to purchase a vehicle in another state or from another person or who is unable to register a vehicle because of limited hours of operation of the town clerk in the town where the person resides may apply to the division or its substation or authorized agent nearest his or her residence for a registration to drive said vehicle on the ways of the state in an unregistered condition.  Said resident shall appear in person at the division or substation to obtain such registration and shall sign under penalty of perjury a statement that the vehicle meets all New Hampshire inspection requirements, and in the case of a person seeking an extension of his or her registration, that he or she was unable to register the vehicle because of the limited hours of the town clerk, before said registration may be issued.  Said registration shall be valid for 20 days from the time it is issued.  Application blanks and permits in the form prescribed by the director shall be designed, printed, and supplied to the substations by the division.  The fee for the issuance of a registration shall be $10.  It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on the ways of the state under a registration issued pursuant to this section unless said person has in his or her possession a valid bill of sale for the vehicle he or she is driving, or in the case of a person whose registration is extended, a copy of the form indicating he or she was unable to register because of the limited hours of the town clerk.  No person shall make application for a 20-day registration on the same vehicle more than once within a 12-month period.  Only 3 20-day registrations shall be issued on the same vehicle within a 12-month period.

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