Bill Text - HB1549 (2018)

Relative to the availability of vehicle accident reports.


Revision: Nov. 6, 2017, 4 p.m.

HB 1549 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2696

08/03

 

HOUSE BILL 1549

 

AN ACT relative to the availability of vehicle accident reports.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Weyler, Rock. 13; Rep. Green, Rock. 13; Rep. Welch, Rock. 13

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that motor vehicle accident reports be sent to parties to an accident and, in certain cases, a copy kept on file at the police station making the report.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2696

08/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to the availability of vehicle accident reports.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Accident Reports.  Amend RSA 264:25 by inserting after paragraph  III the following new paragraph:

IV.  A copy of the report filed by law enforcement under paragraph I shall be sent by the filing law enforcement agency to the parties involved in the accident at the same time it is filed with the department of safety.  If there is no contact information available for any party to the accident, the police department making the report shall keep a copy of such report on file for 90 days.  

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