Bill Text: NH HB1447 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to motorcycle number plates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2012-02-15 - House Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote; House Journal 16, PG.928 [HB1447 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1447-Introduced.html

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HB 1447 – AS INTRODUCED

2012 SESSION

12-2264

03/09

HOUSE BILL 1447

AN ACT relative to motorcycle number plates.

SPONSORS: Rep. Ward, Rock 13; Rep. Abrami, Rock 13; Rep. Copeland, Rock 13; Rep. Peckham, Rock 13

COMMITTEE: Transportation

ANALYSIS

This bill requires that motorcycle number plates bear the “Live Free or Die” motto.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

12-2264

03/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT relative to motorcycle number plates.

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

1 Number plates. Amend RSA 261:75, I to read as follows:

II. Every vehicle driven in or on any way in this state, if required to be registered hereunder, shall have displayed conspicuously thereon a number plate or plates to be furnished by the department, together with any current validation sticker issued by the department and which has a changeable designation of their effective period. The director may make special rules relative to the number of plates, the location of said plate or plates on the vehicle, and the material and design thereof, provided, however, that number plates for passenger vehicles or motorcycles shall have the state motto “Live Free or Die” written thereon. The plate shall be kept clean.

2 Implementation. Number plates for motorcycles issued after the effective date of this act shall bear the “Live Free or Die” motto in the location where the word “motorcycle” had previously appeared.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.