CHAPTER 81

HB 1534 - FINAL VERSION

10Mar2022... 0908h

2022 SESSION

22-2567

12/04

HOUSE BILL 1534

AN ACT authorizing the use of side exhausts for antique vehicles.

SPONSORS: Rep. Walsh, Merr. 24

COMMITTEE: Transportation

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ANALYSIS

This bill allows antique motor vehicles to use a side exhaust system.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

10Mar2022... 0908h 22-2567

12/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT authorizing the use of side exhausts for antique vehicles.

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

81:1  New Section; Equipment Authorized for Antique Motor Vehicles.  Amend RSA 266 by inserting after section 116 the following new section:

266:117  Equipment Authorized for Antique Motor Vehicles.  Exhaust systems discharging along the side of the vehicle shall be allowed on antique motor vehicles, provided the exhaust discharge point is to the rear edge of either door if the vehicle has 2 doors and to the rear edge of either rear door if the vehicle has 4 doors, and any such system shall direct exhaust gas away from the vehicle.

81:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: May 20, 2022

Effective Date: July 19, 2022