CHAPTER 55

HB 496-FN - FINAL VERSION

7Apr2021... 0631h

2021 SESSION

21-0494

11/08

HOUSE BILL 496-FN

AN ACT relative to license plate covers.

SPONSORS: Rep. S. Pearson, Rock. 6

COMMITTEE: Transportation

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ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits persons from attaching or permitting to be attached to a license plate any coverings that are colored, smoked, or tinted.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

7Apr2021... 0631h 21-0494

11/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One

AN ACT relative to license plate covers.

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

55:1  Certificates of Title and Registration of Vehicles; Misuse or Failure to Display Plates.  Amend RSA 261:176, II to read as follows:

II.  Any person who applies or permits to be applied any covering to a license plate that is colored, smoked, or tinted shall be guilty of a violation.

III.  The fine for a violation of this section shall be $150.

55:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2022.

Approved: May 25, 2021

Effective Date: January 01, 2022