Title XXI, Motor Vehicles

I. Except as provided in paragraph III, a motor carrier's privilege to have any commercial motor vehicle driven shall be suspended or revoked, upon written order of the director, whenever such motor carrier: (a) Defaults on an arraignment or other scheduled court appearance in co…

It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be driven on the ways of this state equipped with a siren. The provisions of this section shall not apply to such emergency vehicles as police, fire department, fire patrol, state department of corrections vehicles, retired fire appar…

I. In this section, "image display device" means equipment capable of displaying rapidly changing images as follows: (a) A broadcast television image or similar entertainment content transmitted by other wireless means to the equipment; or (b) A dynamic visual image, other than t…

Every motorcycle equipped with a sidecar, when on the ways of this state at night, shall display 2 lighted lamps on the front as required for motor vehicles.

It shall be illegal to drive a motorcycle with improvised, defective, or repaired handlebars.

Every motorcycle driven upon the ways of this state shall have footrests for each person driving or riding upon the same and a rear view mirror. Three-wheel scooters with enclosed cabs shall be exempt from the requirements for footrests.

I. In this section: (a) "Emergency light" means a steady burning, oscillating, rotating, or flashing red or blue colored light. (b) "Warning light" means a steady burning, oscillating, rotating, or flashing amber light or arrow board or white colored light. (c) "Transportation ne…

I. No person other than a sworn law enforcement officer with power of arrest, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties shall operate a vehicle equipped with blue colored lights, except in the case of a servic…

No person other than those authorized in this section shall operate a vehicle equipped with red colored emergency lights. Red lights are authorized for the following vehicles: I. Emergency response vehicles owned or leased by municipal, village district, or federal fire departmen…

Police, fire, state department of corrections, and emergency medical response vehicles, in addition to but not in place of the lights authorized by RSA 266:78-b and RSA 266:78-c, may be equipped with light bars containing one or more amber warning lights or amber arrow boards.

Only authorized emergency vehicles, including law enforcement, fire, state department of corrections, and emergency medical services vehicles, state department of transportation vehicles engaged in construction or maintenance activities, and bicycles may be equipped with a device…

Law enforcement officers, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties shall only illuminate emergency lights and warning lights when in pursuit or stopping a violator, when responding to but not returning from a…

Police, fire, ambulance, state department of corrections, and rescue vehicles, and other vehicles authorized under RSA 266:78-c shall only illuminate emergency lights and warning lights when responding to but not returning from an actual or reported emergency, transporting a pati…

No person other than those authorized in this section or in RSA 266:78-c shall operate a vehicle equipped with amber colored warning lights. Amber warning lights are authorized for the following vehicles: I. Vehicles owned by or leased to state, county, or municipal public works …

Vehicles authorized to use amber colored warning lights authorized by RSA 266:78-h may only illuminate the warning lights when their duties require them to be stopped or parked on or immediately adjacent to a way at a road, water, or sewer line construction or maintenance site in…

Snowplows may use amber or white wing lights to illuminate the wings of the snowplow when the plow is in operation. A white or amber light mounted on or adjacent to a salt or sand spreader may be used when the spreader is in operation.

School buses shall be equipped with warning lights and stop signals only as provided in RSA 266:39.

Vehicles owned by or leased to licensed public or private security services but not personally owned vehicles of security guards may be equipped with amber or green warning lights, which shall only be illuminated when patrolling a shopping center or mall parking lot or other priv…

Funeral escort and lead vehicles may be equipped with purple warning lights only as provided in RSA 265:156.

Vehicles operating in a parade or celebration may display emergency lights or warning lights.

The use of emergency lights or warning lights on personally owned or leased vehicles of public safety personnel may be revoked at any time by their department heads or emergency response employers by notifying the person in writing with a copy to the director. The director, upon …

Any person convicted of a violation of this subdivision shall, notwithstanding the provisions of title LXII, be guilty of a violation and fined $250 plus penalty assessment for a first offense and not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 plus penalty assessment for a second offens…

Prior to driving on the ways of the state, a vehicle which was formerly used as an ambulance or rescue vehicle but is no longer licensed as an ambulance under RSA 153-A, a person shall remove any siren, red forward and side emergency lights, gold lettering, red cross, caduceus, o…

Vehicles using transportation network company or rideshare lighted signs may illuminate such sign while not in motion.

I. A permit authorizing, in whole or in part, an operation for which application is made shall be issued to any qualified applicant. II. Conditions for qualification: (a) The applicant must be fit, willing, and able to properly perform the proposed service; (b) The applicant must…

The director may establish equipment standards by rules adopted pursuant to RSA 260:5, for the manufacture of special motor vehicles, or for the assembly and construction of vehicles from new or used parts or kits, or for the alteration or reconstruction of a motor vehicle which …

I. No person shall drive, or permit to be driven upon any way a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer: (a) Which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger the driver, occupants, or any other person or property; or (b) Any motor vehicle which is not equipped with lamps, brakes, …

No preceding provision of this chapter shall apply to bicycles nor to equipment for use on bicycles unless a provision has been made specifically applicable to bicycles or their equipment.

Every bicycle operated upon any way during darkness shall be equipped with a lamp emitting a white light visible from a distance of 300 feet in front of the bicycle and with a red reflector on the rear of a type approved by the director, which shall be visible from a distance of …

I. No person shall operate a bicycle, except for a bicycle equipped with clipless pedals, or moped unless such bicycle or moped has pedals equipped with a reflector of a type approved by the director which conform to 49 CFR 571.108 Table 2 and which shall be visible from the fron…

Every bicycle and moped shall be equipped with a brake or brakes which will enable its driver to stop the bicycle or moped within 25 feet from a speed of 10 miles per hour on dry, level, clean pavement.

No bicycle or moped shall be equipped with a siren, nor shall any person on a bicycle or moped use a siren.

No person shall change the height of, or alter a bumper of, a private passenger vehicle so that the height of any horizontal bumper falls below the minimum distance of 16 inches or above the maximum distance of 20 inches. No person shall change the height of, or alter a bumper of…

Applications for certificates and permits required by RSA 266-A:4 and RSA 266-A:7 shall be: I. Made in writing to the department; II. Verified under oath; III. Accompanied by the proper fee; IV. In the form specified in rules adopted by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 541-A; and…

The governor of this state is hereby authorized to execute a compact on behalf of the state of New Hampshire with any one or more of the states of Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island and the general court hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratifi…

In this chapter, "electric personal assistive mobility device" or "EPAMD" shall mean a self-propelled device, regardless of the number of wheels, designed to transport only one person, solely powered by an electric propulsion system, with a maximum speed of less than 20 miles per…

An EPAMD shall not be considered a "vehicle" within the meaning of the law of this state.

An EPAMD shall be equipped with front, rear, and side reflectors; a system that when employed will enable the operator to bring the device to a controlled stop; and, if the EPAMD is operated between 1/2 hour after sunset and 1/2 hour before sunrise, a lamp emitting a white light …

I. An operator of an EPAMD shall have the rights and duties of pedestrians prescribed in RSA 265:34-40. II. When propelling an EPAMD upon a way at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time and place, the operator of an EPAMD shall rem…

I. A person operating an EPAMD on a sidewalk or roadway, shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with, and shall yield the right-of-way to, persons traveling on foot. II. [Repealed.]

I. An EPAMD may be parked on a sidewalk unless prohibited or restricted by an official traffic control device. II. An EPAMD shall not be parked on a roadway in such a manner as to prevent the movement of a legally parked motor vehicle. III. In all other respects, any person opera…

No person shall carry or transport on an EPAMD hazardous materials.

Any person found in violation of this chapter shall be subject to a written warning for a first offense, a $5 fine for a second offense, and a $10 fine for a third and any subsequent offense.