422-C:1 Authority to Take. –
The commissioner of transportation, any police employee of the department of safety, any police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff or selectman upon discovery of any aircraft or aircraft parts apparently abandoned, or of any aircraft without a currently effective state of New Hampshire or federal registration certificate, whether situated within any public, municipal airfield or private airfield open for public use, for a period in excess of 3 years, may take such aircraft or component aircraft into his custody and may cause the same to be taken away and stored in some suitable place out of public view.