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1 Motor Vehicles; Words and Phrases Defined; Agricultural/Industrial Utility Vehicle. Amend RSA 259:2-a to read as follows:
259:2-a Agricultural/Industrial Utility Vehicle. "Agricultural/industrial utility vehicle" shall mean a vehicle, including an off highway recreational vehicle, with 4 or 6 wheels, an internal combustion engine or electric motor, or both, but excluding a tractor, equipped in accordance with the provisions of RSA 261:41-a, III, that is capable of carrying not more than 6 occupants, has a load capacity of 1,500 pounds or less, and is in use for farming, agricultural, residential and private property maintenance and related business, or light industrial uses, and is limited to ways or portions of ways where such vehicles are allowed and having posted speed limits of 40 miles per hour or less, within a 10 mile radius from an entrance to land used by the farm or a 2 mile radius from the entrance to the light industrial complex or construction site, and subject to any other special conditions established by the government authority controlling the way.
2 Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Number Plates; Agricultural Plates. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 261:82, I to read as follows:
I. A truck, truck-tractor, tractor, agricultural/industrial utility vehicle, or cargo van shall qualify for agricultural registration rates and number plates and shall be driven with such registration only within a 20 mile radius from the main entrance to the farm upon which said vehicle is driven, and may be used for the following purposes:
3 New Subparagraph; Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Number Plates; Agricultural Plates. Amend RSA 261:82, I by inserting after subparagraph (e) the following new subparagraph:
(f) Residential and private property maintenance and related business.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
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1 Motor Vehicles; Words and Phrases Defined; Agricultural/Industrial Utility Vehicle. Amend RSA 259:2-a to read as follows:
259:2-a Agricultural/Industrial Utility Vehicle. "Agricultural/industrial utility vehicle" shall mean a vehicle, including an off highway recreational vehicle, with 4 or 6 wheels, an internal combustion engine or electric motor, or both, but excluding a tractor, equipped in accordance with the provisions of RSA 261:41-a, III, that is capable of carrying not more than 6 occupants, has a load capacity of 1,500 pounds or less, and is in use for farming, agricultural, residential and private property maintenance and related business, or light industrial uses, and is limited to ways or portions of ways where such vehicles are allowed and having posted speed limits of 40 miles per hour or less, within a 10 mile radius from an entrance to land used by the farm or a 2 mile radius from the entrance to the light industrial complex or construction site, and subject to any other special conditions established by the government authority controlling the way.
2 Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Number Plates; Agricultural Plates. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 261:82, I to read as follows:
I. A truck, truck-tractor, tractor, agricultural/industrial utility vehicle, or cargo van shall qualify for agricultural registration rates and number plates and shall be driven with such registration only within a 20 mile radius from the main entrance to the farm upon which said vehicle is driven, and may be used for the following purposes:
3 New Subparagraph; Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Number Plates; Agricultural Plates. Amend RSA 261:82, I by inserting after subparagraph (e) the following new subparagraph:
(f) Residential and private property maintenance and related business.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.