HB544: relative to exemptions from auctioneering for Internet sales.

HB 544 – AS INTRODUCED

2007 SESSION

07-0796

05/04

HOUSE BILL 544

AN ACT relative to exemptions from auctioneering for Internet sales.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hunt, Ches 7

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill exempts Internet sales from the law regulating and requiring licensure of auctioneers.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

07-0796

05/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven

AN ACT relative to exemptions from auctioneering for Internet sales.

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

1 Definition of Auctioneer and Auctioneering; Internet Sales Excluded. Amend RSA 311-B:1, I and II to read as follows:

I. “Auctioneer” means a person who engages in this state in the business of selling for another real, personal or mixed property by auction; except that auctioneer shall not include a person who sells such property for another through the Internet.

II. “Auctioneering” means the business or act of selling for another real, personal or mixed property by auction; except that auctioneering shall not include selling such property for another through the Internet.

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