Title XXI, Motor Vehicles

If the department approves the application, it shall issue to the applicant number plates and a certificate of registration containing such information as the director may require.

I. Utility registration shall be used only for moving non-motorized vehicles, modular buildings, or chassis with specialized equipment which are either owned or not owned by the utility dealer for business purposes, including but not limited to delivery, demonstration, sale, or r…

I. Utility plates shall not be loaned or assigned to any other person. II. Personal use shall be prohibited.

Any person who has an established place of business and who is engaged in the business of buying secondhand motor vehicles for the purpose of remodeling, taking apart, or rebuilding the same, or buying or selling parts of secondhand motor vehicles, or tires, or assembling secondh…

The applicant for an automotive recycling registration license shall make application to the department upon blanks furnished by it for that purpose, for a general distinguishing number for his motor vehicles.

The director may, if he is satisfied of the facts stated in such application, grant the same and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration containing such information as the director may determine. All motor vehicles owned by such automotive recycling dealer shall, whi…

If such automotive recycling dealer has an established place of business or agency in more than one city or town he shall secure a separate certificate of registration for each such place of business or agency.

The department shall, at the time of issuing a certificate to such automotive recycling dealer, furnish such person with as many sets of number plates as such person may require.

An automotive recycling dealer shall not loan number plates which have been assigned to him under these provisions to a subagent or to any other person.

An automotive recycling dealer shall not rent or otherwise use or permit to be used motor vehicles so registered, except for demonstration purposes or service in connection with his business.

When a new vehicle is delivered in this state by the manufacturer to its agent or franchised dealer, the manufacturer shall execute and deliver to the agent or franchised dealer a certificate of origin in the form prescribed by the director, and no person shall bring into this st…

All secondhand motor vehicles or parts thereof purchased or taken in exchange by any automotive recycling dealer, or left on the premises of any such dealer for the purpose of sale, exchange, or assembly shall be retained by the dealer 4 days unless he shall receive from the dire…

Every automotive recycling dealer shall keep a book, in such form as shall be approved by the director, in which, at the time of the purchase, sale, exchange, or receipt for the purpose of sale of any secondhand motor vehicle or parts thereof, shall be legibly written in the Engl…

The director, the chief of police of any city, the selectmen of a town, or any police officer authorized by any of said officials, any police employee of the division of state police, or a highway enforcement officer, may at any time enter upon any premises used by any automotive…

The director may, in his discretion, revoke such automotive recycling registration for violation of any of the provisions of this subdivision or of any rule relating to such registration.

The director shall have the authority to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 260:5 consistent with the provisions of this subdivision relative to the purchase, sale, or exchange of secondhand motor vehicles or parts thereof.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this subdivision or any rule of the director made hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.

A repairer may make application to the department, upon blanks furnished by it for that purpose, for a general distinguishing number and for a supplemental repair plate.

I. A repairer may use a repairer registration on unregistered vehicles not owned by the repairer and temporarily in the repairer's custody for transport to or from the repair facility for the purposes of repair, adjustment, reconditioning, or to install after market equipment. II…

The department shall furnish a repairer one set of number plates, and in its discretion may issue additional sets.

A repairer shall not loan number plates which have been assigned to him under the provisions hereof. He shall not loan or rent a motor vehicle to which such number plates have been attached, except for service directly connected with his repair business.

A repairer shall not drive motor vehicles, nor permit the same to be driven, under a repairer's registration number except as specifically permitted under the provisions of RSA 261:137 to 139, inclusive.

I. If an owner transfers his interest in a vehicle, other than by the creation of a security interest, he shall, at the time of delivery of the vehicle, execute an assignment and warranty of title to the transferee in the space provided therefor on the certificate or as the direc…

I. Any auto wholesale dealer as defined in RSA 259:5-a, who has an established place of business which meets the signage requirements under paragraph II and is licensed pursuant to RSA 261:103-a, may make application on blanks furnished by the director for a general distinguishin…

I. Auto wholesale dealer vehicle registration shall be used for motor vehicle business purposes only, on vehicles owned by the auto wholesale dealer which are being transported to the auto wholesale dealer's place of business, to another location for mechanical service, or to a w…

If a wholesale dealer has an established place of business or agency in more than one city or town he shall secure a separate certificate of registration for each such place of business or agency.

The department shall collect fees for registrations as follows: I. Flat Fees: (a) For each trailer or semi-trailer upon which is permanently mounted a power substation or transformer and associated equipment used for standby or emergency purposes in public service-$5. (b) For mot…

The department shall collect an additional $5 fee for each registration processed by electronic means.

I. In addition to any other registration fees required under this chapter, the division of motor vehicles shall assess an annual electric vehicle registration fee according to the following schedule: Vehicle Type GVWR Annual Fee Battery electric vehicle (BEV) 1-1,000 lbs $0 Batte…

In the computation of fees, gross weight shall be the actual weight of said vehicle in pounds plus the manufacturer's rated load capacity in the case of freight or merchandise vehicles, and, in the case of passenger vehicles, shall be the actual weight of said vehicle plus the su…

The director shall have authority in disputed cases to determine the classification in which any vehicle belongs and the amount of the fee which shall be paid therefor.

Any person desiring to carry a greater load than that given under the manufacturer's rating shall so declare at the time of registration, and in such case the department shall base the fees upon the weight given by the owner.

Vehicles owned or operated by the state, or by any county, city, town, or school district, or by any volunteer fire department, or by any public or private educational institution used for the purpose of student driver training, shall be exempt from registration fees but shall be…

Vehicles owned and driven by non-profit organizations and used exclusively without charge for emergency purposes shall be exempt from registration fees but shall be registered as any other vehicles are.

For each number plate issued, the department shall charge, in addition to any other fee required herein, a manufacturing fee of $4.00 per plate to be collected and disposed of as provided in RSA 228:25.

No vehicle, except an OHRV, snowmobile or moped, owned or controlled by a resident of this state shall be registered under the provisions of this chapter until the owner or person controlling the same has obtained a permit for registration from the city or town wherein he resides…

If a dealer buys a vehicle and holds it for resale and procures the certificate of title from the owner or the lienholder within 10 days after delivery of the vehicle, the dealer need not send the certificate to the department but, upon transferring the vehicle to another person …

I. Upon transfer of ownership of a vehicle the permit shall expire; provided, however, that any owner who has paid a permit fee for registration of a vehicle the ownership of which is transferred or of one which is subsequently totally lost by fire, theft, or accident, during the…

No portion of any permit fee once paid shall be repaid to any person, provided that in a case where the department acting under the authority of law shall have refused upon original application for the registration period to register the vehicle to which the permit relates, the t…

Permits shall be in the form prescribed by the director and shall be issued with such duplicates as the director shall determine. The town clerk shall prepare forms for permits and applications for registration of vehicles as required by RSA 261:52. Said forms shall be prepared b…

I. The treasurer of each city, or such other person as the city government may designate, and the town clerk of each town shall collect fees for such permits as follows: on each vehicle offered for registration a sum equal to 18 mills on each dollar of the maker's list price for …

The governing bodies of towns and cities of a population greater than 50,000 as determined by the last federal census may, subject to the provisions of RSA 261:155, direct the city treasurer or the town clerk to collect in addition to the fees imposed in RSA 261:153, fees for suc…

I. Optional Referendum. If the governing body of a town or city wishes to place the question of whether or not to collect the fees imposed by RSA 261:154 on a referendum to be voted upon at any regular municipal election or at a special election called for the purpose, they may d…

The director, upon receipt of a complaint from the city official whom the city government may designate, or the town clerk of a town that a person has paid a permit fee with a bad check as defined in RSA 638:4, may suspend the registration privilege of such person until the city …

For the initial set of plates, no fee shall be charged for a permit to register a motor vehicle owned by a veteran of any war or armed conflict, as defined in RSA 72:28, V, who because of being an amputee or paraplegic or having suffered loss or use of a limb from a service-conne…