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HB1156: relative to interference with traffic devices.

Citation
2016 HB1156
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House status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Senate status
Laid on Table
Committee
SENATE Transportation
Hearing
04/05/2016 at 02:00 PM
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Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Transportation

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HB 1156 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

9Mar2016... 0523h

2016 SESSION

16-2356

03/10

HOUSE BILL 1156

AN ACT relative to interference with traffic devices.

SPONSORS: Rep. Higgins, Graf. 12; Rep. Baber, Straf. 14

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill exempts public transit bus operators from the prohibition on using a device to change, disrupt, or interfere with the operation of a traffic signal.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

9Mar2016... 0523h 16-2356

03/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to interference with traffic devices.

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

1 New Subparagraph; Interference With Traffic Signals; Public Transit Bus Operators. Amend RSA 265:15, II(c) by inserting after subparagraph (4) the following new subparagraph:

(5) Fixed route public transit bus service operators while in service.

2 Interference With Traffic Signals; Applicability of Exemptions. Amend RSA 265:15, II(d) to read as follows:

(d) The exemptions set forth in subparagraphs (c)(1)-[(c)(4)] (c)(5) shall only apply to such personnel when they are operating licensed ambulances, licensed fire apparatus, [or] government-owned vehicles, or fixed route public transit buses.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2017.