Bill Text - SB37 (2019)

Relative to the registration of motor vehicles.


Revision: Jan. 14, 2019, 10:07 a.m.

SB 37  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-0179

11/08

 

SENATE BILL 37

 

AN ACT relative to the registration of motor vehicles.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. French, Dist 7; Rep. Forsythe, Merr. 8; Rep. Hill, Merr. 3; Rep. Plumer, Belk. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill modifies the length of time a nonresident must garage a vehicle in this state to qualify such vehicle for nonresident registration.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0179

11/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to the registration of motor vehicles.

 

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

 

1  Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Reciprocity for Nonresidents.  Amend RSA 261:46 to read as follows:

261:46  Nonresident Registration.  Notwithstanding RSA 261:45, a nonresident who garages a vehicle [exclusively] for 6 months or more in this state may register such vehicle in this state as a nonresident.  No exemption from the payment of a permit fee shall be granted by reason of nonresidence except by the director, who shall in all cases require proof satisfactory to him or her of residence elsewhere, and of the liability of a nonresident owner, otherwise entitled to such exemption, to pay a property tax on the vehicle for the current year in the state of his or her residence.

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