Title XXI, Motor Vehicles

The director is hereby authorized to design and to issue, under such rules as the director deems appropriate, distinctive identifying decals to be placed on the windshield of a custom vehicle at the time of registration designating the vehicle as a custom vehicle. Such decal shal…

Roadable aircraft as defined in RSA 259:91-a shall be identified using the federally issued tail number and shall not be required to display an additional license plate or decal.

I. The director of motor vehicles is directed to solicit designs for a vanity plate clearly identifying the owner of the vehicle to be an amateur radio operator and including the call sign of said operator, who shall present Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification a…

The certificate of title shall be mailed or delivered to the first lienholder named in it or, if none, to the owner. In the event the lien has been satisfied by a dealer, the dealer becomes the owner and the state is authorized to mail the title to the dealer.

Upon payment of a fee, the director may issue and shall designate official cover plates with the reproduction of the state seal thereon to be affixed to a vehicle of United States senators from this state, representatives to congress from this state, the governor, members of the …

Upon payment of the motor vehicle registration fee, if any, the director shall issue and shall designate a special plate, to be affixed to the vehicle of the county sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, members or retired members of the national guard of any state, active-duty members of th…

The director is authorized to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A for the design, sale, and distribution by towns and cities celebrating the centennial, bicentennial, tricentennial, sesquicentennial, or sestercentennial of the founding of the town or city or similar special occasio…

The director is authorized to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A for the design, sale, and distribution by the department of safety celebrating the 250th anniversary of American Independence, and the display of said plates in place of the front license plate on vehicles, during wh…

The director shall have the authority to prescribe special rules relative to registration of vehicles owned and driven by the government of the United States, the state, or by any county, city, town, regional planning commission, school district, volunteer fire department, eligib…

For the purposes of RSA 261:92, motor vehicles owned by or issued to, and driven by, the New Hampshire Civil Air Patrol, shall be deemed as owned and driven by the government of the United States.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law any official cover plates and special number plates which are issued to elected or appointed officials who have a term of office shall expire at the expiration of their terms of office or upon their retirement, resignation, disqualifica…

The owner or the surviving spouse of the owner who returns number plates with an affidavit that they have never been used and if the director is satisfied that the number plates have never been used, shall be refunded the registration fee paid, provided such plates are returned w…

If any number plate supplied by the department is lost or mutilated, or if the registration number thereon becomes illegible, the owner or person in control of the vehicle for which said plate was furnished shall apply in writing to the department for a new plate and deposit with…

The director shall have the authority to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 260:5 relative to the issuance and use of dealer number plates by motor vehicle dealers, motorcycle dealers, OHRV dealers, snowmobile dealers, utility dealers, boat dealers, transporters, repairers and wholesale…

I. The director is hereby authorized to issue special conservation number plates, in lieu of other number plates. The design of these special plates shall be determined as provided in RSA 261:97-d. The plates shall retain the "live free or die" logo. Such plates shall be issued o…

[Paragraph I(intro. par.) effective until September 8, 2026; see also paragraph I(intro. par.) set out below.] I. There is hereby established a conservation number plate fund under the administration of the commissioner of safety. The fund shall be used for the promotion, protect…

The moneys in the fund shall be distributed as provided in RSA 261:97-b. The proceeds shall be used as follows: I. The funds transferred to the department of natural and cultural resources shall be used to promote the use and conservation of cultural resources in New Hampshire an…

I. A New Hampshire conservation number plate advisory committee is hereby established. The conservation number plate advisory committee shall be composed of the following: (a) The commissioner of natural and cultural resources, or designee. (b) The executive director of fish and …

Plates may be used on passenger motor vehicles and recreation vehicles.

I. The members representing the department of transportation, the department of natural and cultural resources, the department of fish and game, the state conservation committee, and the department of safety shall each submit a report to the New Hampshire conservation number plat…

I. The director is hereby authorized to issue special New Hampshire first for veterans number plates, in lieu of other number plates. The design of these special plates shall be determined as provided in RSA 261:97-k. The plates shall retain the "live free or die" logo. Such plat…

I. There is hereby established a New Hampshire first for veterans number plate fund under the administration of the commissioner of safety. The fund shall be used to promote the general welfare of the state's veterans, service members and their families by providing quality servi…

The moneys in the fund shall be distributed as provided in RSA 261:97-h. The proceeds shall be used as follows: I. The funds transferred to the department of military affairs and veteran services shall be used to promote the general welfare of the state's veterans, service member…

Plates issued under this subdivision may be used on passenger motor vehicles and recreation vehicles.

I. There is established a New Hampshire first for veterans number plate advisory commission to attract and retain veterans in New Hampshire and perform other tangential duties. II. Notwithstanding RSA 14:49, II, the members of the commission shall be as follows: (a) Two members o…

I. The department of military affairs and veteran services, employment security, the department of business and economic affairs, and the department of safety shall submit an annual report to the New Hampshire first for veterans number plate advisory commission on or before Octob…

I. (a) Every retail vehicle dealer as defined in RSA 259:89-a, every auto wholesale dealer as defined in RSA 259:5-a, every automotive recycling dealer as specified by RSA 261:123, and certain utility dealers as defined by RSA 259:121 if required by rule of the commissioner, shal…

Dealers shall be required to file a bond or equivalent proof of financial responsibility in accordance with this subdivision with the department.