Bill Text: NH HB1020 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to additional lights on emergency vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-31 - Pending Motion Ought to Pass; 03/31/2022; Senate Journal 7 [HB1020 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1020-Amended.html
HB 1020 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
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2022 SESSION
22-2073
11/05
HOUSE BILL 1020
AN ACT relative to additional lights on emergency vehicles.
SPONSORS: Rep. Trottier, Belk. 6; Rep. Littlefield, Belk. 3; Rep. Bordes, Belk. 3
COMMITTEE: Judiciary
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ANALYSIS
This bill permits police and fire vehicles to affix certain lights to vehicles owned or leased by the state, county, or local municipality.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16Feb2022... 0142h 22-2073
11/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two
AN ACT relative to additional lights on emergency vehicles.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Additional Lights Approved for Police, Fire, State Department of Corrections, and Rescue Vehicles. Amend RSA 266:78-d to read as follows:
266:78-d Additional Lights Approved for Police, Fire, State Department of Corrections, and Rescue Vehicles.
I. 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.
II. Police vehicles may affix red lights in accordance with federal standards only to the driver's side front and rear of its emergency lighting system, so long as such vehicles are owned or leased by the state, county, or local municipality. Privately owned vehicles used for official police function shall not be permitted to affix red lights in accordance with this paragraph.
III. Fire vehicles may affix a single blue light in accordance with federal standards to the passenger side rear emergency lighting system, so long as such vehicles are owned or leased by the state, county, or local municipality. Privately owned vehicles used for fire/emergency medical services shall not be permitted to affix a blue light to such vehicles.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
