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NH Rev Stat § 264:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:26 - Uniform Police Investigation Report of Accident.

    264:26 Uniform Police Investigation Report of Accident. –||I. The commissioner shall prescribe for each police department and officer and other suitable agencies or individuals a uniform police investigation report of accident, in such form as the commissioner shall determine, which form shall be followed in filing all such reports.||II. In each reportable accident in which any person is killed or injured or in which damage to the property of any one individual, including the driver, is sustained, the police officer, agency, or individual who, in the regular course of duty, investigates such accident, either at the time of or at the scene of the accident or thereafter, by interviewing the participants or witnesses, shall, within 5 days after completing such investigation, complete and forward one copy of such report to the division. Such report shall call for, contain, and incorporate by reference all available detailed information to establish and to disclose the cause of the accident, the conditions then existing and the persons and vehicles involved including the names and addresses of all occupants of the vehicles involved, as well as the enforcement action taken. In each reportable accident in which a person is killed, the police officer, agency, or individual who, in the regular course of duty, investigates the accident shall provide written notice to the department of safety within 7 days of the accident. The notice shall include the information contained on the front page of the uniform police accident report and may be submitted electronically or by fax. This requirement shall not relieve the investigating agency or officer from the responsibility of filing the complete report as required by this paragraph.||III. A police officer ordering removal of a body under RSA 611-B:14, II shall include as part of the report required by this section a survey of the location report required under RSA 611-B:14, I.||IV. The department of safety investigation officer reviewing a report relative to an accident involving a motor vehicle fatality shall contact the victim's next of kin as to knowledge of the circumstances of the accident and shall include a statement concerning the results of such contact as a part of any written report made as a result of such review.|||Source. RSA 262-A:67-a. 1967, 338:1. 1981, 146:1. 1983, 431:17. 1986, 130:2; 193:4. 1993, 239:1. 2007, 324:13, eff. Sept. 14, 2007. 2014, 243:1, eff. Sept. 19, 2014. 2017, 139:5, eff. June 16, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 264:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:27 - Statistical Information Based on Reports.

    264:27 Statistical Information Based on Reports. –||The department shall tabulate and analyze all such accident reports and shall publish annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon. Commensurate with the demand for service and the ability to comply, the department shall render statistical information service to all contributing agencies.|||Source. RSA 262-A:67-b. 1967, 338:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 264:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:28 - False Reporting of Accidents.

    264:28 False Reporting of Accidents. –||Except as provided in RSA 264:29, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor if he knowingly gives or causes to be given false information to any law enforcement officer or to the department or its agents concerning an accident or alleged accident.|||Source. RSA 262-A:67-c. 1977, 43:1. 1981, 146:1. 1983, 431:18, eff. Aug. 23, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 264:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:29 - Penalty.

    264:29 Penalty. –||Whoever fails to comply with the foregoing requirements relating to injury to property, or relating to the report to be made to the division, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. Whoever fails to comply with the foregoing requirements when death or personal injury results, or whoever gives information required knowing or having reason to believe that such information is false, or fails to comply with any of the other requirements thereof shall be guilty of a class B felony.|||Source. 1911, 133:20. 1921, 119:19. 1925, 50:1. PL 102:18. RL 118:20. 1951, 66:4. 1953, 144:1. RSA 262:25. 1963, 330:1. RSA 262-A:69. 1973, 529:50. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 264:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:30 - Repealed by 1981, 538:11, XVI, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:02 a.m.

    264:30 Repealed by 1981, 538:11, XVI, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:02 a.m. –|
NH Rev Stat § 264:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:31 - Report of Injury to Dog or Cat.

    264:31 Report of Injury to Dog or Cat. –||The driver of any vehicle who knowingly strikes a dog or cat and fails to report the incident to the dog's owner or custodian or the cat's owner or custodian or to a police officer as soon as possible, shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. RSA 262-A:5-a. 1977, 37:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982. 2021, 154:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2022.|
NH Rev Stat § 264:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:32 - Applicability of Requirement.

    264:32 Applicability of Requirement. –||Any person who became subject to the laws of this state as they existed prior to May 1, 1951, having to do with financial responsibility for the ownership or driving of vehicles, shall continue to be subject to such laws, except that if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the director either from his own records or from extraneous information which shall be supplied to him in such form as he may require, that a person, who has become subject to the operation of such laws solely as a result of involvement in any accident, had in effect at the time of such accident a policy of insurance or other prescribed form of proof of financial responsibility for such accident, then and in that event such person may be relieved from the liability of furnishing past and future proof of responsibility for such accident.|||Source. 1951, 66:6. RSA 262:44. 1963, 330:1. RSA 262-A:68. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 264:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:33 - Application of Chapter.

    264:33 Application of Chapter. –||This chapter shall in no respect be considered as a repeal of the provisions of the motor vehicle laws but shall be construed as supplemental thereto. Its provisions shall not apply to a vehicle owned by, or under lease to, the federal government nor to a member of the national guard when engaged in military duty pursuant to orders from proper authority under existing state and federal laws, nor to a permanent, call, or volunteer fireman of a municipal fire department, nor to a city or town police officer, nor to a municipal public works or highway department employee while on official duty, nor to a state police employee or highway enforcement officer while on official duty, driving a vehicle owned by the state or said fire or police department or said municipality, and shall not apply to said vehicle while so driven.|||Source. 1937, 161:26. 1939, 153:1; 163:1. RL 122:25. 1947, 118:1. RSA 268:26. 1981, 146:1. 1988, 288:8. 2005, 46:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 264:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 264 - Accidents and Financial Responsibility|Section 264:34 - Other Remedies Unaffected.

    264:34 Other Remedies Unaffected. –||This chapter shall not be construed to prevent the plaintiff in any action at law from relying for security upon the other processes provided by law.|||Source. 1937, 161:27. RL 122:26. RSA 268:27. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:1 - Vehicles on Highways; Exceptions.

    265:1 Vehicles on Highways;  Exceptions. –||The provisions of this title relating to the driving of vehicles refer exclusively to the driving of vehicles upon ways except where a different place is specifically referred to in a given section, and except that the provisions of this title which prohibit driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, reckless driving, driving at an unreasonable speed, and driving after suspension or revocation may be enforced on all roads and streets, or driveways of business establishments, when such roads, streets or driveways are not closed to the general public.|||Source. RSA 262-A:1. 1963, 330:1. 1981, 146:1; 479:7, 26, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:01 a.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:1-a - Sobriety Checkpoints.

    265:1-a Sobriety Checkpoints. –||Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no law enforcement officer or agency shall establish or conduct sobriety checkpoints for the purposes of enforcing the criminal laws of this state, unless such law enforcement officer or agency petitions the superior court and the court issues an order authorizing the sobriety checkpoint after determining that the sobriety checkpoint is warranted and the proposed method of stopping vehicles satisfies constitutional guarantees.|||Source. 1996, 301:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:1-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:1-b - Motorcycle-Only Checkpoints Prohibited.

    265:1-b Motorcycle-Only Checkpoints Prohibited. –||No law enforcement officer or agency shall establish or conduct motorcycle-only checkpoints.|||Source. 2018, 153:1, eff. May 30, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:2 - Required Obedience to Traffic Laws; Penalty.

    265:2 Required Obedience to Traffic Laws;  Penalty. –||Unless otherwise declared in this chapter with respect to particular offenses, any person who commits any act forbidden or fails to perform any act required in this chapter shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. RSA 262-A:2. 1963, 330:1. 1973, 529:47. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:3 - Obedience to Police Officers.

    265:3 Obedience to Police Officers. –||I. No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.||II. The fine for a violation of this section shall be $100.|||Source. RSA 262-A:3. 1963, 330:1. 1981, 146:1. 2005, 177:29, eff. July 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:3-a - Obedience to School Crossing Guards.

    265:3-a Obedience to School Crossing Guards. –||I. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any school crossing guard invested with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic. If the school crossing guard is displaying a signal to stop, the driver of a vehicle upon a way shall stop the vehicle at least 25 feet before reaching such school crossing guard. The driver shall not proceed until the school crossing guard indicates that traffic may proceed and until the driver can do so safely.||II. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined not more than $100 for the first offense and not more than $250 for any subsequent offense committed during any calendar year.|||Source. 1998, 332:1, eff. Sept. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:3-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:3-b - Obedience to Flagpersons.

    265:3-b Obedience to Flagpersons. –||I. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any flagperson in the act of directing, controlling, or regulating traffic within any construction, maintenance, or utility work area indicated by official traffic control devices. If the flagperson is displaying a signal to stop, the driver of a vehicle upon a way shall stop the vehicle at least 25 feet before reaching such flagperson. The driver shall not proceed until the flagperson indicates that traffic may proceed and until the driver may do so safely.||II. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined not more than $100 for the first offense and not more than $250 for any subsequent offense committed during any calendar year.|||Source. 2001, 36:1, eff. June 8, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:4 - Disobeying an Officer.

    265:4 Disobeying an Officer. –||I. No person, while driving or in charge of a vehicle, shall:||(a) Refuse, when requested by a law enforcement officer, to give his name, address, date of birth, and the name and address of the owner of such vehicle;||(b) Give a false name, date of birth, address, name and address of the owner of such vehicle, or any other false information to a law enforcement officer that would hinder the law enforcement officer from properly identifying the person in charge of such motor vehicle;||(c) Purposely neglect to stop when signaled to stop by any law enforcement officer who is in uniform or who displays his badge conspicuously on the outside of his outer coat or garment, or who signals such person to stop by means of any authorized audible or visual emergency warning signals; or otherwise willfully attempt to elude pursuit by a law enforcement officer by increasing speed, extinguishing headlamps while still in motion or abandoning a vehicle while being pursued;||(d) Refuse, on demand of such officer, to sign his name in the presence of such officer;||(e) Refuse, on demand of such officer, to produce his license to drive such vehicle or his certificate of registration or to permit such officer to take the license or certificate in hand for the purpose of examination;||(f) Refuse or neglect to produce his license when requested by a court or justice, or refuse to surrender to the director or to any authorized employee of the department or other authorized representative of the director any license, registration certificate or number plate upon demand after suspension or revocation of the same.||II. Any person who violates any provision of paragraph I of this section may have his or her license or privilege to drive and any registrations issued in his or her name suspended. In addition, any person who violates the provisions of subparagraphs I (a), (b), (d), (e), or (f) of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.||III. (a) In addition to the penalties listed in paragraph II, any person who violates the provisions of subparagraph I(c) shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than $500.||(b) Any person who violates the provisions of subparagraph I(c), and is involved in a motor vehicle accident which causes serious bodily injury as defined in RSA 625:11, VI while being pursued, shall be guilty of a class B felony.||(c) Any person who violates the provisions of subparagraph I(c), and is involved in a motor vehicle accident which causes the death of another while being pursued, shall be guilty of a class A felony.|||Source. 1911, 133:21. 1921, 119:20. PL 102:19. RL 118:21. RSA 262:26. 1955, 143:1. 1981, 146:1; 479:5, 27. 1987, 221:1. 2002, 213:1, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:5 - Persons Riding Animals; Driving Animal-Drawn Vehicles.

    265:5 Persons Riding Animals;  Driving Animal-Drawn Vehicles. –||Every person riding an animal or driving any animal-drawn vehicle upon a roadway shall be granted all the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter, except those provisions of this chapter which by their very nature can have no application.|||Source. RSA 262-A:4. 1963, 330:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:6 - Persons Working on Highways; Exceptions.

    265:6 Persons Working on Highways;  Exceptions. –||Unless specifically made applicable, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to persons, teams, vehicles and other equipment while actually engaged in work upon the surface of a highway when a violation of any of such provisions is reasonably necessary for the completion of such work. The provisions of this chapter relative to civil liability shall apply to such persons and vehicles, and all provisions of the chapter shall apply to such persons and vehicles when traveling to or from such work. This section shall not be construed as exempting any person from the provisions of RSA 265:79-93.|||Source. RSA 262-A:6. 1963, 330:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:6-a - Highway Construction and Maintenance.

    265:6-a Highway Construction and Maintenance. –||I. The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any authorized vehicle or pedestrian actually engaged in work upon the highway within any construction or maintenance area indicated by official traffic control devices.||II. The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any authorized vehicle obviously and actually engaged in work upon a highway whenever such vehicle displays emergency lights or amber warning lights as authorized under RSA 266:78-a through RSA 266:78-q and shall give wide berth, without endangering oncoming traffic, to highway workers and stationary or moving vehicles owned by or contracted to state or local highway maintenance departments displaying amber warning lights. Any person violating this paragraph shall be fined $150 plus penalty assessment for a first offense and $250 plus penalty assessment for a subsequent offense in a 12-month period.||III. Any offense involving speeding in a highway construction or maintenance zone on a state or interstate highway, manned by workers, shall be a construction work zone driving offense. A person found guilty of an offense shall be fined not less than $250 nor more than $500.||IV. The department of transportation shall post signs notifying motorists of construction or maintenance work zones and construction zone speed limits. The department shall require signs notifying motorists of the increased penalties for a violation of paragraph III.|||Source. 1981, 479:28. 1994, 252:1. 2008, 358:14. 2012, 135:1, eff. June 5, 2012. 2015, 112:1, eff. Aug. 7, 2015; 202:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:7 - Permits for Construction Equipment.

    265:7 Permits for Construction Equipment. –||The board or officer having charge of a way or in the case of a state way or way determined by the state highway department to be a through route, the state highway commissioner may issue a permit for the use of construction equipment upon such a way. Such permit shall limit the time within which it shall be in force and during which the ways may be used and shall contain any provisions or conditions necessary for the protection of such ways from injury.|||Source. 1905, 86:1. 1911, 133:1. 1913, 81:1. 1915, 129:1. 1917, 229:1. 1919, 161:1. 1921, 119:1. 1923, 75:1. 1925, 25:1; 68:1. PL 99:1. 1927, 52:1. 1929, 43:1. 1935, 73:2, 3. 1939, 47:1; 130:1; 189:1, 2, 3, 5; 190:1. 1941, 98:1; 111:1; 142:2. RL 115:1. 1943, 189:1. 1947, 177:1. 1949, 189:1, 2; 197:1; 212:2; 233:1; 286:4. 1953, 252:3. RSA 259:1, XII. 1981, 146:1. 2006, 317:3, eff. Aug. 18, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:8-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:8-a - Police Pursuit and Emergency Response.

    265:8-a Police Pursuit and Emergency Response. –||Each state, county and local law enforcement agency that conducts emergency response and vehicular pursuits shall adopt a written policy or policies that set forth the manner in which these operations shall be conducted. Such policy or policies shall conform to state or national accreditation standards as adopted by the police standards and training council or the national commission on accreditation for law enforcement agencies and shall be kept on file and available for inspection by the police standards and training council and the attorney general.|||Source. 1999, 171:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 265:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Motor Vehicles|Title 265 - Rules of the Road|Section 265:9 - Obedience to Any Required Traffic Control Devices.

    265:9 Obedience to Any Required Traffic Control Devices. –||I. The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any traffic control device applicable thereto placed as provided by law, unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this chapter.||II. No provision of this chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.||III. Whenever traffic control devices are placed in position approximately conforming to the requirements of this chapter, such devices shall be presumed to have been so placed by the official act or direction of lawful authority, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.||IV. Any traffic control device placed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and purporting to conform to the lawful requirements pertaining to such devices shall be presumed to comply with the requirements of this chapter, unless the contrary shall be established by competent evidence.||V. When a traffic control device is not operational, the driver shall obey the rules of the road applicable to intersections without traffic control devices or intersections with 4-way stop signs, including, but not limited to:||(a) Yielding the right of way to a vehicle on the right, RSA 265:28, I.||(b) Vehicle turning left yielding to approaching vehicle, RSA 265:29.||(c) Yielding to vehicle which has entered the intersection, RSA 265:30, I.||(d) Yielding by vehicle entering from private roadway or driveway, RSA 265:32.||(e) Yielding to emergency vehicles, RSA 265:33.||(f) Yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks, RSA 265:35.|||Source. RSA 262-A:8. 1963, 330:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982. 2018, 41:1, eff. July 14, 2018.|