Bill Text - SB516 (2018)

(New Title) prohibiting motorcycle-only checkpoints.


Revision: Dec. 20, 2017, 12:03 p.m.

SB 516  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2872

03/05

 

SENATE BILL 516

 

AN ACT prohibiting the use of motorcycle-only roadside checkpoints.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. French, Dist 7; Rep. T. Walsh, Merr. 24; Rep. Packard, Rock. 5; Rep. St. Clair, Belk. 9

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits the enforcement of motorcycle noise level restrictions at motorcycle-only roadside checkpoints.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2872

03/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT prohibiting the use of motorcycle-only roadside checkpoints.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Motorcycle Noise Levels; Roadside Checkpoints.  Amend RSA 266:59-a by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV.  No law enforcement agency of the state or a political subdivision of the state may enforce this section at a motorcycle-only roadside checkpoint.

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