CHAPTER 249
SB 389 – FINAL VERSION
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2014 SESSION
10/08
SENATE BILL 389
AN ACT relative to the enforcement of motor vehicle laws by officers of the fish and game department.
SPONSORS: Sen. Woodburn, Dist 1; Rep. Karrick, Merr 25; Rep. Suzanne Smith, Graf 8; Rep. Theberge, Coos 3; Rep. H. Richardson, Coos 4
This bill allows the fish and game officers to enforce the motor vehicle laws.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/06/14 0714s
15May2014… 1841h
06/04/14 1967CofC
06/04/14 2016EBA
14-2687
10/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to the enforcement of motor vehicle laws by officers of the fish and game department.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
249:1 New Paragraph; Fish and Game; Powers; Motor Vehicle Laws. Amend RSA 206:26 by inserting after paragraph XIV the following new paragraph:
XV. To enforce all provisions of RSA title XXI relative to motor vehicle laws, absent any violation or suspected violation of fish and game laws, with the same authority and powers as any other certified law enforcement officer in the state.
249:2 Fish and Game; Powers. Amend RSA 206:26, XIV to read as follows:
XIV. To have and exercise the powers and privileges granted by RSA 594 as to matters within their jurisdiction under this section[.]; and
249:3 Fish and Game Officers; Prohibition Deleted. Amend RSA 206:26-b, II to read as follows:
II. The executive director and each conservation officer shall not:
(a) Serve civil processes; or
(b) Act or be used or called upon for service within any town in any industrial dispute unless actual violence has occurred, and then only upon order of the governor[; or
(c) Have general power to enforce any provision of RSA title XXI relative to motor vehicles].
249:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 21, 2014
Effective Date: September 19, 2014