HB498: relative to 20-day vehicle registrations.

CHAPTER 17

HB 498 - FINAL VERSION

2003 SESSION

03-0914

03/09

HOUSE BILL 498

AN ACT relative to 20-day vehicle registrations.

SPONSORS: Rep. Packard, Rock 75

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill eliminates the restriction that allowed only one 20-day registration to be issued during a calendar year for a 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0914

03/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT relative to 20-day vehicle registrations.

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

17:1 Twenty-Day Registration. Amend RSA 261:57, I to read as follows:

I. Any resident of this state who intends to purchase a vehicle in another state or from another person or who is unable to register a vehicle because of limited hours of operation of the town clerk in the town where the person resides may apply to the division or its substation or authorized agent nearest his or her residence for a registration to drive said vehicle on the ways of the state in an unregistered condition. Said resident shall appear in person at the division or substation to obtain such registration and shall sign under penalty of perjury a statement that the vehicle meets all New Hampshire inspection requirements, and in the case of a person seeking an extension of his or her registration, that he or she was unable to register the vehicle because of the limited hours of the town clerk, before said registration may be issued. Said registration shall be valid for 20 days from the time it is issued. Application blanks and permits in the form prescribed by the director shall be designed, printed, and supplied to the substations by the division. The fee for the issuance of a registration shall be $10. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on the ways of the state under a registration issued pursuant to this section unless said person has in his or her possession a valid bill of sale for the vehicle he or she is driving, or in the case of a person whose registration is extended, a copy of the form indicating he or she was unable to register because of the limited hours of the town clerk. No person shall make application for a 20-day registration on the same vehicle more than once within a 12-month period. [Only one 20-day registration shall be issued during any one calendar year for a vehicle.]

17:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: April 22, 2003)

(Effective Date: June 21, 2003)