HB406: relative to contemporary motor vehicle plates.

2009 SESSION

09-0411

03/01

HOUSE BILL 406

AN ACT relative to contemporary motor vehicle plates.

SPONSORS: Rep. Mead, Hills 4; Rep. W. O'Brien, Hills 4; Rep. F. Holden, Hills 4; Sen. Roberge, Dist 9

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill authorizes the use for antique vehicles of registration plates from the year of manufacture.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

09-0411

03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to contemporary motor vehicle plates.

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

1 Contemporary Motor Vehicle, Motorcycle, or Trailer Plates. Amend RSA 261:89-a to read as follows:

261:89-a [Antique] Contemporary Motor Vehicle, Motorcycle, or Trailer Plates.

I. The director may permit the owner of an antique motor vehicle or motorcycle, as defined in RSA 259:4, or trailer, as defined in paragraph II of this section, to use a registration plate or set of registration plates which was issued in the same year that the antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer was manufactured, provided the motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer is registered as an antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer under this chapter, and the number of the antique plate is recorded with the director. Any antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer bearing a registration plate or set of registration plates with the year of manufacture shall also carry, within it, a valid antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer registration certificate and a permit issued under this section. [The registration plate matching the registration certificate shall be affixed to the rear of the antique motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer.] The registration plate which was issued in the same year that the antique [motor vehicle] motorcycle or trailer was manufactured shall be affixed to the [front of the antique motor vehicle, to either the front or] rear of the antique motorcycle[, and to the rear of] or the antique trailer[, provided it is not placed in a location where the registration plate is normally affixed]. The set of registration plates which was issued in the same year that the antique motor vehicle was manufactured shall have matching plate numbers and conspicuously bear the year of manufacture and be affixed to the front and the rear of the antique motor vehicle, except that motor vehicles manufactured from 1942 to 1947 shall require only one plate, which shall be affixed to the rear of the vehicle.

II. For the purposes of this section, “trailer” means any vehicle with a single axle and one tire on each side of the axle, without motive power, designed for carrying passengers or property wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a self-propelled vehicle.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2010.