Bill Text - HB483 (2017)

Prohibiting the issuance of a summons or warrant for failure to license a dog.


Revision: Jan. 27, 2017, 8:52 a.m.

HB 483 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0283

08/04

 

HOUSE BILL 483

 

AN ACT prohibiting the issuance of a summons or warrant for failure to license a dog.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Sapareto, Rock. 6; Rep. L. Ober, Hills. 37; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. Webb, Rock. 6; Rep. J. Edwards, Rock. 4

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits a defendant summoned for failure to license a dog from being arrested for failure to appear on such summons.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0283

08/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT prohibiting the issuance of a summons or warrant for failure to license a dog.

 

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

 

1  Summons; Defendant Disobeying; Failure to License a Dog.  Amend RSA 592-A:15 to read as follows:

592-A:15  Default.

I.  Except as provided in paragraph II, if a party, being summoned by delivering to him an attested copy of the summons as provided in RSA 592-A:14, shall not appear, the justice may then issue a warrant as provided in RSA 592-A:8.  Such party shall be in contempt of court for failing to attend after being so summoned and may be fined not more than $100.

II.  A party summoned to appear due to failure to license a dog under RSA 466:1 shall not be held in contempt nor have a warrant issued for their arrest for failing to appear when summoned.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.