Bill Text - HB1408 (2020)

Relative to license plate covers.


Revision: Dec. 3, 2019, 8:39 a.m.

HB 1408 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2196

11/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1408

 

AN ACT relative to license plate covers.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. S. Pearson, Rock. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that any covers attached to number plates must be completely transparent.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2196

11/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to license plate covers.

 

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

 

1  Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Misuse or Failure to Display Plates.  Amend RSA 261:176, II to read as follows:

II.  Any person who knowingly places a cover that is not 100 percent transparent over a number plate shall be guilty of a violation.

III.  The fine for a violation of this section shall be $150.

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