HB1458: allowing for mailing of driver's license suspension notices by first class mail.

HB 1458 - AS INTRODUCED

2020 SESSION

20-2438

11/10

HOUSE BILL 1458

AN ACT allowing for mailing of driver's license suspension notices by first class mail.

SPONSORS: Rep. Steven Smith, Sull. 11

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill allows driver's license suspension notices to be mailed by first class mail.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2438

11/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

AN ACT allowing for mailing of driver's license suspension notices by first class mail.

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

1 License Suspension and Revocation; Suspension or Revocation for Default, Noncompliance, or Nonpayment of Fine. Amend RSA 263:56-a, I(d) to read as follows:

(d) If a defendant receives a summons in hand from a law enforcement officer, no further notification to such defendant is required before the suspension of his or her driving privileges occurs as provided in subparagraph I(c). If a defendant receives a summons in any manner other than in hand by a law enforcement officer, the court or director, as applicable, shall notify such defendant by [certified mail] first class mail at his or her last known address that his or her driving privileges shall be suspended 30 days after the mailing of such notification.

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