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HB88: prohibiting filing with the registry of deeds a document that includes an individual's armed forces service number.
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- Neal Kurk House · Hills 7
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CHAPTER 69
HB 88 – FINAL VERSION
2009 SESSION
09-0116
10/01
HOUSE BILL 88
AN ACT prohibiting filing with the registry of deeds a document that includes an individual’s armed forces service number.
ANALYSIS
This bill includes an armed forces service number in the personal or financial numbers which may not be included on documents filed with the register of deeds, and which may be redacted from any previously filed documents available on the Internet.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0116
10/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT prohibiting filing with the registry of deeds a document that includes an individual’s armed forces service number.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
69:1 Registers of Deeds; Records; Armed Forces Service Numbers Excluded. Amend RSA 478:4-b to read as follows:
478:4-b Records; Social Security Numbers and Financial Information.
I. The preparer of a document shall not include an individual’s social security number, armed forces service number, credit card number, or deposit account numbers in a document that is prepared and presented for recording in the office of the register of deeds. This paragraph shall not apply to state or federal tax liens, certified copies of death certificates, and other documents required by law to contain such information that are filed or recorded in the office of the register of deeds. For the purpose of this section, “preparer” shall mean the person who drafts the documents that are recorded with the register of deeds. Preparer shall not include any person who hires, requires, refers, pays, or requests that the documents be drafted or recorded.
II. If a deed or instrument that includes an individual’s social security number, armed forces service number, credit card number, or deposit account numbers, was filed with the register of deeds and is available on the Internet, the individual may request that the register of deeds redact such information from the Internet record. The register of deeds shall establish a procedure by which individuals may request that such information be redacted from its files which are available on the Internet. Upon request, the information shall be redacted.
III. The register of deeds shall comply with an individual’s request to redact his or her social security number, armed forces service number, credit card number, or deposit account numbers within 5 business days of the receipt of the request, or sooner, if ordered to do so by a court, for good cause shown.
69:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 9, 2009
Effective Date: August 8, 2009