CHAPTER 238

HB 518 – FINAL VERSION

05/20/09 1662s

2009 SESSION

09-0828

03/09

HOUSE BILL 518

AN ACT relative to driver’s license application forms and relative to transporting manufactured housing and modular buildings.

SPONSORS: Rep. Borden, Rock 18; Rep. M. Smith, Straf 7; Rep. Benn, Graf 9; Rep. Kurk, Hills 7

COMMITTEE: Transportation

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill authorizes the department of safety to omit certain options that are currently required to be on the driver’s license application form. This bill also authorizes the use of a utility registration to transport manufactured housing and modular buildings.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

05/20/09 1662s

09-0828

03/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to driver’s license application forms and relative to transporting manufactured housing and modular buildings.

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

238:1 Application Form Options. Amend RSA 263:40-a, I(c) to read as follows:

(c) The application form for an initial driver’s license or a renewal of a driver’s license shall include a box to check off if the applicant does not wish to have his or her social security number appear on the license, a box to check off if the applicant wishes to have his or her mailing address appear on the license instead of his or her home address, and a box to check off if the applicant does not wish to have his or her computerized image, likeness, or photograph retained in the records of the department of safety. The department may omit the applicable box from the form if it does not print social security numbers or home addresses on licenses or retain images, likenesses, or photographs.

238:2 Words and Phrases Defined; Utility Dealer. Amend RSA 259:121, I to read as follows:

I. Any person engaged in the manufacture, purchase, sale, or exchange at wholesale or retail of travel or camp trailers, utility trailers, boat trailers, semi-trailers, tractors, farm equipment, construction equipment, chassis with special equipment, modular buildings, manufactured housing, or any combination thereof.

238:3 Use of Utility Plates; Modular Buildings. Amend RSA 261:121, I to read as follows:

I. Utility registration shall be used only for moving non-motorized vehicles, modular buildings, or chassis with specialized equipment which are either owned or not owned by the utility dealer for business purposes, including but not limited to delivery, demonstration, sale, or repair.

238:4 New Paragraph; Use of Utility Plates; Manufactured Housing. Amend RSA 261:121 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. A utility plate may be used by a manufacturer, dealer, or installer of manufactured housing, or his or her employees or agents contracted by the manufacturer, dealer, or installer, on a manufactured housing chassis owned or not owned by the manufacturer, dealer, or installer if used solely for the purpose of transporting manufactured housing to and from his or her place of business for sale or installation. Such chassis shall be exempt from inspection under RSA 266:1, but shall be subject to inspection by a law enforcement officer at any time when being transported on a way and shall be placed out of service by the law enforcement officer if it is found to be in an unsafe condition to be transported upon a way.

238:5 Effective Date.

I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: July 16, 2009

Effective Date: I. Section 1 shall take effect September 14, 2009.

II. Remainder shall take effect July 16, 2009.