CHAPTER 176

SB 598-FN - FINAL VERSION

2024 SESSION

24-3156

11/08

SENATE BILL 598-FN

AN ACT requiring funeral procession lead vehicles to obey yield signs.

SPONSORS: Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17

COMMITTEE: Transportation

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires funeral escort lead vehicles to obey yield signs before proceeding.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-3156

11/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

AN ACT requiring funeral procession lead vehicles to obey yield signs.

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

176:1  Funeral Escort Lead Vehicles; Yield Signs.  Amend RSA 265:156, I to read as follows:

I. The operator of a funeral lead vehicle shall comply with stop signs, yield signs, and traffic control signals. When the funeral lead vehicle has proceeded across an intersection in accordance with a signal or after stopping as required by a stop or yield sign, all vehicles in the funeral procession may proceed without stopping, regardless of the sign or signal. The lead vehicle and the vehicles in the funeral procession shall proceed with due caution. Operators of vehicles in a funeral procession shall have the right-of-way.

176:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.

Approved: July 03, 2024

Effective Date: January 01, 2025