Bill Text: NH HB1431 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to motorcycle auxiliary lamping.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-16 - Vacated from Committee and Laid on Table, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/16/2020 Senate Journal 8 [HB1431 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1431-Introduced.html

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HB 1431 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2316

11/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1431

 

AN ACT relative to motorcycle auxiliary lamping.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Packard, Rock. 5; Rep. Walsh, Merr. 24; Rep. St. Clair, Belk. 9

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts motorcycles from the requirement to have auxiliary lamps.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2316

11/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to motorcycle auxiliary lamping.

 

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

 

1  Motor Vehicles; Spot Lamps and Auxiliary Lamps.  Amend RSA 266:37, II to read as follows:

II.  Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not to exceed 3 auxiliary driving lamps mounted on the front at a height not less than 12 inches nor more than 42 inches above the level surface upon which the vehicle stands, with such measurements to be made from the ground to the center of the lens, except that vehicles while used in the winter maintenance of ways may be driven with auxiliary head lamps higher than 42 inches above the surface upon which the vehicle stands provided such head lamps shall be aimed so that the top of the beam of light produced by these head lamps does not exceed the height of a horizontal line which is 42 inches high at a distance of 75 feet ahead of the head lamps of said vehicle.  The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to motorcycles as defined in RSA 259:63.

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