CHAPTER 5
HB 76 - FINAL VERSION
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2003 SESSION
03/10
HOUSE BILL 76
This bill establishes equipment and operation requirements for neighborhood electric vehicles. A neighborhood electric vehicle is an electric vehicle that has a maximum speed of greater than 20 miles per hour but not greater than 25 miles per hour.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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03-0166
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three
AN ACT relative to neighborhood electric vehicles.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
5:1 New Section; Motor Vehicles; Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Defined. Amend RSA 259 by inserting after section 66-a the following new section:
259:66-b Neighborhood Electric Vehicle. "Neighborhood electric vehicle" shall mean any 4-wheeled electric vehicle that has a maximum speed which is greater than 20 miles per hour but not greater than 25 miles per hour, and which complies with the federal safety standards established in 49 C.F.R. section 571.500.
5:2 New Subdivision; Special Rules for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. Amend RSA 265 by inserting after section 157 the following new subdivision:
Special Rules for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles
265:158 Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. No person shall operate a neighborhood electric vehicle except on a way where the posted speed limit is 35 miles per hour or less. This section shall not prohibit a person from operating a neighborhood electric vehicle across an intersection with a way that has a posted speed limit of more than 35 miles per hour.
5:3 New Subdivision; Equipment of Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. Amend RSA 266 by inserting after section 113 the following new subdivision:
Neighborhood Electric Vehicles
266:114 Equipment Required for Neighborhood Electric Vehicles. Neighborhood electric vehicles shall be equipped in accordance with 49 C.F.R. section 571.500. This equipment shall include headlamps, stop lamps, turn signal lamps, tail lamps, reflex reflectors, a parking brake, a rearview exterior mirror, a rearview interior mirror, a windshield, a windshield wiper, a speedometer, an odometer, braking for each wheel, seat belts, a vehicle identification number, and such other equipment as is required by federal regulations.
5:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
(Approved: April 22, 2003)
(Effective Date: June 21, 2003)