Bill Text - HB388 (2023)

Relative to number plates for motor vehicles.


Revision: Dec. 1, 2022, 3:01 p.m.

 

2023 SESSION

23-0602.0

02/04

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to number plates for motor vehicles.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill would require private passenger vehicles to display only one number plate on the rear of the vehicle.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0602.0

02/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to number plates for motor vehicles.

 

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

 

1  Number Plates.  Amend RSA 261:75, II to read as follows:

II.  Every vehicle driven in or on any way in this state, if required to be registered hereunder, shall have displayed conspicuously thereon a number plate or plates to be furnished by the department, together with any current validation sticker issued by the department and which has a changeable designation of their effective period.  The director may make special rules relative to the number of plates, the location of said plate or plates on the vehicle, and the material and design thereof, provided, however, that number plates for passenger vehicles shall have the state motto "Live Free or Die" written thereon, and further provided that a private passenger vehicle shall only be required to display one number plate on the rear of the vehicle.  The plate shall be kept clean.

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