Bill Text - HB1502 (2020)

Relative to equipment required for vehicle inspections.


Revision: Dec. 3, 2019, 10:35 a.m.

HB 1502 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2683

11/03

 

HOUSE BILL 1502

 

AN ACT relative to equipment required for vehicle inspections.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Read, Rock. 17; Rep. Roy, Rock. 32; Rep. Burt, Hills. 39; Rep. Costable, Rock. 3; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill states that vehicle equipment not required by state law shall not be required to be in working order to pass inspection.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2683

11/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to equipment required for vehicle inspections.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Equipment Not Required.  Amend RSA 266 by inserting after section 4 the following new section:

266:4-a  Equipment Not Required.  Any equipment of a vehicle that is not mandated by this chapter shall not be required to be in working order for purposes of passing an inspection required by RSA 266:1.  This section shall apply to aftermarket equipment that is installed by persons other than the manufacturer as well as optional equipment installed by the manufacturer that is not mandated by this chapter.

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