HB 127 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
03/01
HOUSE BILL 127
This bill requires the department of safety to issue 4 number plates to a retail vehicle dealer at the time the department issues a certificate of registration to the dealer. This bill also reduces the minimum storage and display area required for a retail vehicle dealer to apply for a general distinguishing number from 1,200 square feet to 500 square feet.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0178
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to motor vehicle dealer plates.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Motor Vehicles; Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Registration by Motor Vehicle Manufacturers or Dealers; Application for Retail Vehicle Dealer Registration; Area Requirement. Amend RSA 261:103, I(b) to read as follows:
(b) Such business location is capable of storing and displaying motor vehicles indoors, in one building, in an area of at least [1,200] 500 contiguous square feet.
2 Motor Vehicles; Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Registration by Motor Vehicle Manufacturers or Dealers; Registration and Plates. Amend RSA 261:104 to read as follows:
261:104 Registration and Plates. The department may, if it is satisfied of the facts stated in [such] the application authorized by RSA 261:103, grant the same and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration containing such information as the director may determine. All vehicles owned by or consigned to such [manufacturer or] dealer shall, while so owned or consigned, be regarded as registered under [such] the dealer's distinguishing number. The department shall, at the time of issuing a certificate to a dealer, furnish the dealer with 4 sets of number plates and such further number of sets as the dealer may require.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.