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2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:90 - Revocation.

259:90 Revocation. –
"Revocation" shall mean the termination by formal action of the department or of a court of competent jurisdiction of a person's driver's license or privilege to drive on the ways of this state, or of any other license, registration or permit issued by the department. After a license, registration, permit or privilege has been revoked, no application for reissue of said license, registration, permit, or privilege may be acted upon by the department until the expiration of the period of revocation. The revocation of any license, registration, permit, or privilege shall remain in effect until a license, registration, or permit has been reissued or the privilege has been restored by the department. If the license, registration, or permit expires during the period of revocation, the person shall be required to obtain a new license, registration, or permit at the regular fee.
Source.
1981, 146:1. 1983, 431:3. 1985, 213:4. 1986, 60:1, eff. July 4, 1986.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:91 - Right-of-Way.

259:91 Right-of-Way. –
"Right-of-way" shall mean the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching under such circumstances of direction, speed or proximity as to give rise to the danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other.
Source.
1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:91-a - Roadable Aircraft.

259:91-a Roadable Aircraft. –
"Roadable aircraft" shall mean any aircraft capable of taking off and landing from a suitable airfield which is also designed to be driven on public roadways as a conveyance.
Source.
2020, 33:31, eff. Sept. 22, 2020.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:92 - Roadway.

259:92 Roadway. –
"Roadway" shall mean that portion of a way improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk, berm or shoulder even though such sidewalk, berm or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles or other human powered vehicles. In the event a way includes 2 or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any such roadway separately but not to all such roadways collectively.
Source.
1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:93 - Rural Residence District.

259:93 Rural Residence District. –
"Rural residence district" shall mean the territory contiguous to a way not comprising a business or urban residence district when the frontage on such way for a distance of 1/2 mile or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use for business on any one side.
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, XXVII. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:94 - Safety Glass.

259:94 Safety Glass. –
"Safety glass" shall mean glass so treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injury to persons by objects from external sources or by glass when the glass is cracked or broken.
Source.
1935, 72:1. RL 119:42. RSA 263:71. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:95 - Sale.

259:95 Sale. –
"Sale," as used in the provisions of this title relative to road tolls, shall mean any transfer of ownership and any use of motor fuel by a distributor for the propulsion of vehicles on the ways.
Source.
1943, 65:1. RSA 265:2, V. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:96 - School Bus.

259:96 School Bus. –
"School bus" shall mean a vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency, or a privately owned vehicle, including a station wagon, suburban, panel body vehicle and vehicles converted to a school bus, but excluding a passenger vehicle, employed solely in transporting school children to and from school or school activities by virtue of a contract with a municipality, municipal board or school board authorities.
Source.
RSA 263:26-a. 1961, 251:3. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:96-a - Mixed Use School Bus.

259:96-a Mixed Use School Bus. –
"Mixed use school bus" shall mean a station wagon, suburban, sport utility vehicle, passenger van, panel body vehicle, or vehicle converted to a school bus, owned or leased by a public school or private school and driven by a school employee, which bears a valid state inspection sticker and is employed principally in transporting schoolchildren to and from school activities.
Source.
1996, 19:5. 2011, 44:2. 2013, 176:1, eff. Aug. 31, 2013.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:97 - Security Agreement.

259:97 Security Agreement. –
"Security agreement" shall mean an interest in a vehicle reserved or created by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an obligation. The term includes the interest of a lessor under a lease intended as security.
Source.
RSA 269-A:1, VII. 1967, 357:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:98 - Semi-trailer.

259:98 Semi-trailer. –
"Semi-trailer" shall mean a vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a self-propelled vehicle that a considerable part of its own weight or that of its load rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle, and not including a pair or set of wheels commonly used as an implement for other purposes than transportation, provided, however, that the word "semi-trailer" shall not include any vehicle as described in this section if used exclusively for agricultural purposes unless said vehicle be of the type constructed specifically to be towed by a tractor-type truck.
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, XXVIII. 1959, 207:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:98-a - Serious Traffic Violation.

259:98-a Serious Traffic Violation. –
"Serious traffic violation" shall mean:
I. Excessive speeding, which means traveling at a rate that is 15 miles per hour or more above the speed limit;
II. Reckless driving, as provided in RSA 265:79;
III. A violation of any state or local law relating to motor vehicle traffic control, other than a parking violation, arising in connection with an accident or collision resulting in death to any person;
IV. Any other violation of a state or local law relating to motor vehicle traffic control, other than a parking violation, which pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 541-A is determined to be serious, such as but not limited to: vehicular homicide, manslaughter, or similar offense resulting from operation of a motor vehicle; driving or being in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug; and leaving the scene of a motor vehicle collision resulting in death or personal injury to any person;
V. Driving a commercial motor vehicle without obtaining a commercial driver license;
VI. Driving a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial driver license in the driver's possession, unless the driver provides proof to the court or the arresting officer's agency by the scheduled court date or date for fine payment that he or she held a valid commercial driver license on the date the citation was issued;
VII. Driving a commercial motor vehicle without the proper class of commercial driver license endorsement or endorsements for the specific vehicle group being operated or for the passenger or type of cargo being transported;
VIII. Driving a commercial motor vehicle in violation of RSA 265:25;
IX. Driving a commercial motor vehicle in violation of RSA 265:24, I;
X. Driving a commercial motor vehicle in violation of RSA 265:79-c; or
XI. Driving a commercial motor vehicle in violation of RSA 265-A:37.
Source.
1989, 319:14. 2010, 95:1. 2013, 180:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2014. 2022, 43:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2023; 136:3, eff. Aug. 6, 2022; 136:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2023 at 12:01 a.m.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:98-b - Serious Injury.

259:98-b Serious Injury. –
"Serious injury" shall mean any harm to the body which causes severe, permanent or protracted loss of or impairment to the health or to the function of any part of the body.
Source.
1992, 21:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:99 - Sidecar.

259:99 Sidecar. –
"Sidecar" shall mean a one-wheel attachment to a motorcycle.
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, XXIX. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:100 - Sidewalk.

259:100 Sidewalk. –
"Sidewalk," as used in the provisions of this title relative to bicycles, shall mean all sidewalks laid out as such by a city, town or village district, or reserved by custom for the use of pedestrians, that are within the compact part of a city, village or district. It shall not include crosswalks, nor footpaths outside the compact part of towns and cities that are worn only by travel and not improved by towns or cities or the abutters, nor any paths or walks that are built for the exclusive use of bicyclists.
Source.
1897, 93:2. PL 90:13. RL 106:13. 1945, 188:1, part 20:13. RSA 250:13. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:100-a - Single Unit Vehicle.

259:100-a Single Unit Vehicle. –
"Single unit vehicle" shall mean a truck consisting of cab, chassis and body capable of carrying a load and not primarily designed for drawing other vehicles.
Source.
1983, 434:3, eff. June 24, 1983.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:101 - Ski Area Vehicles.

259:101 Ski Area Vehicles. –
"Ski area vehicles" shall mean motor vehicles, except private passenger vehicles, whether wheeled or tracked, on-highway or off-highway, owned or leased by a ski area as defined in RSA 225-A:2, VIII, and used exclusively in winter or summer maintenance of ski trails, parking lots, private access roads, structures and other ski area facilities. These vehicles shall include snow cats, snow dozers, snow grooming equipment and tractors, except that it shall not include vehicles with metal tracks or cleats operated outside the bounds of any road maintained exclusively by the ski area.
Source.
RSA 259:1, XXXVIII. 1979, 389:2. 1981, 146:1. 2005, 145:9, eff. July 1, 2005.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:102 - Snowmobile.

259:102 Snowmobile. –
"Snowmobile" shall mean any vehicle propelled by mechanical power that is designed to travel over ice or snow supported in part by skis, tracks, or cleats. Only vehicles that are no more than 54 inches in width and no more than 1200 pounds in weight shall be considered a snowmobile. Snowmobiles shall not include OHRVs as defined in RSA 215-A.
Source.
RSA 269-C:1, XIII. 1973, 560:1. 1981, 146:1. 2005, 210:41, eff. July 1, 2006.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:103 - Solid Tires.

259:103 Solid Tires. –
"Solid tires" shall mean tires of rubber or similarly elastic material that do not depend on confined air for the support of the load.
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, XXX. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:103-a - Special Fuel.

259:103-a Special Fuel. –
"Special fuel" shall mean all products, except gasoline, propane, natural gas, or liquified natural gas, used in an internal combustion engine for the generation of power to propel motor vehicles or mechanical contrivances on or over the ways.
Source.
1990, 62:3. 1996, 292:8, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:104 - Special Mileage Commercial Tire.

259:104 Special Mileage Commercial Tire. –
"Special mileage commercial tire" shall mean a tire manufactured with an extra layer of rubber between the cord body and original tread design, which extra layer is designed for the purpose of recutting or regrooving, and which tire is specially labelled as a special mileage commercial tire.
Source.
RSA 263:85, II. 1965, 299:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:105 - Special Mobile Equipment.

259:105 Special Mobile Equipment. –
"Special mobile equipment" shall mean a vehicle not designed for the transportation of persons or property upon a highway and only incidentally driven or moved over a way, including but not limited to ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth moving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and self-propelled cranes and earth moving equipment. The term does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, cranes or shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
Source.
RSA 265:2, IX; 269-A:1, IX. 1967, 357:1. 1979, 358:8, I. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:106 - State.

259:106 State. –
"State" shall mean:
I. For purposes of the provisions of this title relative to financial responsibility, any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any province of the Dominion of Canada.
II. For purposes of the provisions of this title relative to certificate of title, any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a province of the Dominion of Canada;
III. For the purposes of the commercial driver licensing statutes, a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Republic of Mexico, and any province of the Dominion of Canada.
Source.
1927, 54:1. 1937, 161:1. 1941, 198:4. RL 122:1. 1949, 188:1. RSA 263-B:2(b); 268:1, IV; 269-A:1, X. 1963, 252:1. 1967, 357:1. 1981, 146:1; 568:144. 1989, 319:15. 1996, 255:2, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:106-a - Street Rod.

259:106-a Street Rod. –
"Street rod" shall mean a vehicle, the body and frame of which were manufactured prior to the year 1949 and which has been modified for safe road use, or a replica thereof which has also been modified for safe road use. For purposes of this section, the word "modified" means, but is not limited to, a substantial and material alteration or replacement of the engine, drive-train, suspension or brake system or alteration of the body which may be chopped, channelled, sectioned, filled or otherwise changed dimensionally from the original manufactured body. Any such modification may be made only if said modification equals, improves or enhances the safety aspects of the original equipment so modified. For purposes of this section, the word "replica" means a body or frame manufactured after the year 1949 and which resembles that of the original vehicle and which retains the basic style and dimensions as originally manufactured and whose major components such as grill shell, hood, or doors are readily interchangeable with the original pre-1949 component.
Source.
1992, 214:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:107 - Suspension.

259:107 Suspension. –
"Suspension" shall mean the temporary withdrawal by formal action of the department or of a court of competent jurisdiction of a person's driver's license or privilege to drive a vehicle on the ways of this state, or any other license, registration or permit issued by the department, which temporary withdrawal shall be for a period specifically designated by the department or court and until the reissuance of the license, registration, permit or privilege.
Source.
1981, 146:1. 1985, 213:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:107-a - Tandem Axle.

259:107-a Tandem Axle. –
"Tandem axle" shall mean 2 consecutive axles whose centers may be included between parallel vertical planes spaced at least 4 feet and not more than 10 feet apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle, except that for vehicles being driven on the interstate and defense highway system with a gross weight in excess of 73,280 pounds a tandem axle shall be limited to 2 or more consecutive axles whose centers may be included between parallel vertical planes spaced not less than 40 nor more than 96 inches apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle.
Source.
1983, 434:4, eff. June 24, 1983.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:108 - Tractor.

259:108 Tractor. –
"Tractor" shall mean: any self-propelled vehicle designed or used for agricultural purposes or as a traveling power plant or for drawing other vehicles, but having no provision for carrying a load other than attached implements such as snowplows, tool boxes, or bucket loaders, but shall not include vehicles used for recreational purposes or agricultural/industrial utility vehicles as defined in RSA 259:2-a.
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, XXXI. 1981, 146:1. 1985, 261:11. 2010, 309:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2010. 2014, 282:3, eff. July 28, 2014.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:109 - Tractor-trailer.

259:109 Tractor-trailer. –
"Tractor-trailer" shall mean any truck-tractor and semi-trailer.
Source.
RSA 259:1, XVI-c. 1967, 341:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:110 - Traffic.

259:110 Traffic. –
"Traffic" shall mean pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any way for purposes of travel.
Source.
1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:111 - Traffic Control Signal.

259:111 Traffic Control Signal. –
"Traffic control signal" shall mean any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed.
Source.
1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:112 - Repealed by 1981, 538:11, VIII, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:02 a.m.

259:112 Repealed by 1981, 538:11, VIII, eff. Jan. 1, 1982 at 12:02 a.m. –
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:113 - Trailer.

259:113 Trailer. –
"Trailer" shall mean any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure and for being drawn by a self-propelled vehicle, except those running exclusively on snow or on stationary tracks and vehicles used exclusively for agricultural purposes.
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, XXXII. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:114 - Transporter.

259:114 Transporter. –
"Transporter" shall mean:
I. Any person who moves any motor vehicle owned by another person which requires registration for use upon a way for business purposes; or
II. Any person engaged in the business of buying promissory notes secured by mortgages or conditional sales contracts who, in the regular course of such business, has occasion to repossess any vehicle.
Source.
RSA 259:1, XXXII-a. 1969, 463:1. 1981, 146:1. 1997, 179:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:115 - Tread Depth.

259:115 Tread Depth. –
"Tread depth" shall mean the amount of tread design on the tire. Tread depth includes both original, retread and recap tread design; and, in respect to special mileage commercial tires, recut, re-grooved and siped tread design.
Source.
RSA 263:85, I. 1965, 299:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:115-a - Tridem.

259:115-a Tridem. –
"Tridem" shall mean 3 consecutive axles, the centers of which, when measured between the first and third axles, may be included between parallel vertical planes spaced more than 8 feet apart, and which tridem unit measures less than 12 feet overall between the centers of extreme axles, extending across the full width of the vehicles; except that for vehicles being driven on the interstate and defense highway system with a gross weight in excess of 73,280 pounds, a tridem shall measure not less than 40 inches nor more than 96 inches between the parallel vertical planes.
Source.
1983, 434:6, eff. June 24, 1983.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:116 - Truck-tractor.

259:116 Truck-tractor. –
"Truck-tractor" shall mean any vehicle designed and intended primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the vehicle and load so drawn, except that a truck-tractor engaged in the transportation of automobiles may transport motor vehicles on a part of the power unit.
Source.
RSA 259:1, XXVIII-a. 1967, 341:1. 1981, 146:1. 1983, 434:5, eff. June 24, 1983.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:117 - Uninsured Motor Vehicle.

259:117 Uninsured Motor Vehicle. –
"Uninsured motor vehicle," for the purposes of RSA 264:15, shall mean, subject to the terms and conditions of the coverage required therein, an insured motor vehicle for which the liability insurer is unable to make payment with respect to the legal liability of its insured within the limits specified therein because of insolvency. The term shall also include an insured motor vehicle if and to the extent that, at the time of the subject accident, (1) the applicable liability insurance limits are less than the limits of the uninsured motorist coverage applicable to the insured; or (2) the available liability insurance has been reduced by payments to others injured in the subject accident to an amount less than the limits of the uninsured motorist coverage applicable to the insured.
Source.
RSA 268:15-a, II, V. 1967, 284:2. 1969, 485:2. 1970, 37:11. 1981, 146:1; 507:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1982. 2014, 154:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:118 - Urban Residence District.

259:118 Urban Residence District. –
"Urban residence district" shall mean the territory contiguous to a highway not comprising a business district when the frontage on such highway for a distance of 300 feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use for business.
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, XXXIII. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:119 - Use.

259:119 Use. –
"Use," as used in the provisions of this title relative to road tolls, shall mean, in addition to its original meaning, the receipt of special fuel by any user into his motor vehicle or into a receptacle from which special fuel is supplied by such user to his motor vehicle.
Source.
1923, 75:5. PL 104:7. 1935, 73:8. 1941, 204:3. RL 120:10. 1943, 65:1. 1947, 138:5, 6. 1949, 32:1. RSA 265:22, II(c). 1963, 300:2. 1967, 426:4. 1981, 146:1. 1990, 62:4, eff. June 5, 1990.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:120 - User.

259:120 User. –
"User," as used in the provisions of this title relative to road tolls, shall mean any person, except the United States government or any of its agencies, the state of New Hampshire and all of its political subdivisions, including school districts and village districts, or any state of the United States, District of Columbia or a province or territory of Canada.
Source.
1923, 75:5. PL 104:7. 1935, 73:8. 1941, 204:3. RL 120:10. 1943, 65:1. 1947, 138:5, 6. 1949, 32:1. RSA 265:22, II(b). 1967, 426:4. 1979, 358:8, VII. 1981, 146:1. 1990, 62:5, eff. June 5, 1990.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:121 - Utility Dealer.

259:121 Utility Dealer. –
"Utility dealer" shall mean:
I. Any person engaged in the manufacture, purchase, sale, or exchange at wholesale or retail of travel or camp trailers, utility trailers, boat trailers, semi-trailers, tractors, farm equipment, construction equipment, chassis with special equipment, modular buildings, manufactured housing, or any combination thereof.
II. Any person engaged in the lease or rental of storage trailers.
Source.
RSA 259:1, XXXII-b. 1969, 463:1. 1981, 146:1. 1983, 230:11. 1997, 179:6. 2009, 238:2, eff. July 16, 2009.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:122 - Vehicle.

259:122 Vehicle. –
"Vehicle" shall mean:
I. Except as provided in paragraphs II and III, every mechanical device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a way, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks;
II. [Repealed.]
III. When used in the provisions of RSA 264, the same as paragraph I of this section, but not including bicycles, electric bicycles, and mopeds.
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, XXXIV; 263-B:2(a); 269-A:1, XI. 1963, 252:1. 1967, 357:1. 1975, 324:1. 1979, 404:1. 1981, 146:1; 422:8. 1983, 230:19, II; 431:4, eff. Aug. 23, 1983. 2019, 93:10, eff. Aug. 18, 2019.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:123 - Vehicle Identification Number.

259:123 Vehicle Identification Number. –
"Vehicle identification number" shall mean a unique distinguishing number issued by a vehicle manufacturer to a particular vehicle and stamped or embossed on a permanent part of the vehicle or on a plate provided by the manufacturer for that purpose, or such unique distinguishing number issued by the motor vehicle titling authority of this or any other state in lieu of a manufacturer's number.
Source.
RSA 269-A:1, III. 1967, 357:1. 1975, 324:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:124 - Walking Disability.

259:124 Walking Disability. –
"Walking disability," as used in RSA 261:88, means a severe physical impairment including partial paralysis, lower limb amputation, chronic heart disease, emphysema, arthritis, rheumatism or other debilitating condition:
I. Which limits personal mobility and results in an inability to travel without the use of a wheelchair, crutch, walker, prosthetic, orthotic or other assistive device, and which is verifiable by a comparable disability rating from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration, or Workers' Compensation Board;
II. Caused by a cardiovascular impairment to the extent that functional limitations are rated in either class III or class IV standards as accepted by the American Heart Association; or
III. Caused by lung dysfunction to the extent that the person's forced respiratory expiratory volume in one second, as measured by spirometry, is less than one liter, or the person's arterial oxygen tension (pO
2
) is less than 60 mm/Hg in room air at rest.
Source.
RSA 260:18-a, IV. 1957, 160:1. 1977, 301:1. 1978, 26:1. 1979, 36:1. 1981, 146:1. 1988, 65:1, eff. June 10, 1988.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:125 - Way.

259:125 Way. –
"Way" shall mean:
I. Except as provided in paragraph II, the entire width between the boundary lines of any public highway, street, avenue, road, alley, park or parkway, or any private way laid out under authority of statute, or any such way provided and maintained by a public institution to which state funds are appropriated for public use, or any such way which has been used for public travel thereon, other than to and from a toll bridge or ferry, for 20 years, or any public or private parking lot which is maintained primarily for the benefit of paying customers;
II. For the purposes of RSA 265:71, IV, RSA 265:79, RSA 265-A:2, I, RSA 265-A:3, RSA 265-A:4, RSA 265-A:25, and RSA 265-A:31, any public highway, street, avenue, road, alley, park, parking lot or parkway; any private way laid out under authority of statute; ways provided and maintained by public institutions to which state funds are appropriated for public use; any privately owned and maintained way open for public use; and any private parking lots, including parking lots and other out-of-door areas of commercial establishments which are generally maintained for the benefit of the public.
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, 65:1; 189:1. 1947, 177:1. 1949, 189:1, 2; 197:1; 212:2; 233:1; 286:4. 1953, 252:3. RSA 259:1, XXXV; 262-A:84; 262-B:2, II; 265:2, III. 1963, 330:1. 1965, 274:1. 1969, 433:1. 1971, 171:1. 1973, 584:1. 1981, 146:1; 543:10. 1985, 231:1. 2006, 260:15. 2008, 210:2, eff. Aug. 15, 2008. 2023, 76:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2024.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 259 - Words and Phrases Defined › Section 259:126 - Wrecker.

259:126 Wrecker. –
"Wrecker" shall mean a motor vehicle of the truck type designed, manufactured, intended, or adapted primarily for the towing of vehicles upon a way.
Source.
1986, 216:2. 1989, 305:18, eff. July 1, 1989.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:1 - Division Established.

260:1 Division Established. –
There shall be a division of motor vehicles within the department of safety as provided in RSA 21-P:8.
Source.
1981, 146:1. 1987, 124:22, eff. July 1, 1987.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:2, 260:3 - Repealed by 1987, 124:26, V, eff. July 1, 1987.

260:2, 260:3 Repealed by 1987, 124:26, V, eff. July 1, 1987. –
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:4 - Responsibility for Registration of Boats and Motor Carriers.

260:4 Responsibility for Registration of Boats and Motor Carriers. –
Those powers, duties, functions and personnel, relating to the registration of boats and motors, motor carriers of property and motor carriers of passengers, shall be within the division as provided in RSA 106-A:12.
Source.
1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:5 - Rulemaking Authority.

260:5 Rulemaking Authority. –
All rulemaking authority expressly granted under the provisions of this title to the department or any of its administrators, officials, divisions or bureaus, or to any agency as defined in RSA 541-A:1, II, shall be subject to the provisions of RSA 541-A. Whenever, under the provisions of this title, the department or any of its administrators, officials, divisions or bureaus, or any other agency, has been granted authority to prescribe or otherwise require forms, reports or other matter included in the definition of rule in RSA 541-A:1, XV, such authority shall be construed as rulemaking authority and shall be subject to RSA 541-A. Provided, however, that under the provisions of this title wherever any administrator, official, division or bureau in the department has been granted the authority to adopt rules, either expressly or as stated above, such authority shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner. Unless otherwise specified in this title, appeals from any order or decision of the director, commissioner, division, department or other agency acting under the provisions of this title shall be pursued as provided in RSA 541.
Source.
1981, 146:1. 1994, 412:27, eff. Aug. 9, 1994.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:6 - Hearing.

260:6 Hearing. –
A person aggrieved by an act or omission to act of the department under this chapter is entitled, upon request, to rehearing and appeal in accordance with RSA 541.
Source.
RSA 269-A:30. 1967, 357:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:6-a - Administrative Review of Sanctions Against Inspection Stations.

260:6-a Administrative Review of Sanctions Against Inspection Stations. –
In all cases in which a sanction is imposed by a hearings officer against an official inspection station for violation of the rules relative to inspection stations and the sanction involves a loss of inspection privileges for a period of greater than 20 days, any party aggrieved by the decision may, prior to seeking the remedies provided in RSA 541, request administrative review of the decision by the commissioner or his designee. The commissioner or his designee shall affirm or modify such sanction as justice may require.
Source.
1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:6-b - Point System for Automobile Dealer and Inspection Station Violations.

260:6-b Point System for Automobile Dealer and Inspection Station Violations. –
I. The director of motor vehicles may adopt rules pursuant to RSA 260:5 to establish 2 different uniform point systems for separately identifying automobile dealers and inspection stations which have violated the provisions of this title or rules adopted under this title. The rules shall include a designated level of point accumulation which so identifies automobile dealers and inspection stations.
II. The director may assess points for violations of this title or rules adopted pursuant to this title which have been found by a court of law or a hearing officer to have been violated. Notice of the assessment of points shall be given in accordance with the rules adopted by the director.
III. In the case of a conviction or finding against a dealer or inspection station of 2 or more violations committed on a single occasion, such dealer or inspection station shall be assessed points for one offense only, under each separate point system if the same entity holds both a dealer's registration, license, or privileges, and inspection station privileges. If the offenses have different point values, the dealer or inspection station shall be assessed for the offense having the greater point value.
IV. The director may suspend or revoke the dealer's registration, license, or privileges, or in the case of an inspection station the inspection station privileges, in accordance with the rules adopted under this section. The rules shall provide a mechanism for reduction of points for a dealer or inspection station that has completed a training course approved by the director.
V. The director may distinguish between larger and smaller dealers and inspection stations in establishing the point system. For the purposes of the point system established under this section, an inspection station may not be liable for violations committed by an individual mechanic if the mechanic deliberately commits an action that is contrary to the law, the rules of the department, or the policies and procedures of the station.
VI. Both point systems authorized under this section shall only count points for violations committed within the 3 most recent calendar years and shall only count violations that are committed on or after the effective date of the rules adopted under this section.
Source.
2007, 372:1, eff. July 18, 2007.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:8 - Seal.

260:8 Seal. –
The director shall have a seal for use in preparing certified copies of papers and records pertaining to his office, the form of which shall be approved by the governor and council.
Source.
1915, 154:2. 1919, 82:1. PL 99:3. RL 115:3. RSA 259:5. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:9 - Facsimile Signature.

260:9 Facsimile Signature. –
The director shall have the authority to use an engraved or printed facsimile of his signature for the purpose of affixing the same to any official document for which his signature is required, in accordance with the provisions of RSA 93-A.
Source.
RSA 259:5-a. 1973, 204:1. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:10 - Applications.

260:10 Applications. –
Every application filed with the department under the provisions of this chapter or other laws and rules relative to motor vehicles shall contain the words "This application is signed under penalty of unsworn falsification pursuant to RSA 641:3." The director, upon evidence satisfactory to him or her that the person who has made an application under the provisions of this chapter or other laws and rules relative to motor vehicles has made any materially false statement in such application, or used fraudulent documents in connection with such application, shall, after hearing, suspend or revoke the license or certificate of registration issued to such person.
Source.
1911, 133:3. 1913, 81:2. 1917, 229:3. 1921, 119:3. PL 100:31. RS 116:40. RSA 260:44. 1957, 310:1. 1981, 146:1. 1993, 117:1. 2005, 23:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:10-a - Availability of Anatomical Gift Notice.

260:10-a Availability of Anatomical Gift Notice. –
I. Every application form, renewal form, or other appropriate form or communication issued by the department shall provide an option to make an anatomical gift by inclusion in the donor registry, established under RSA 263:41, and shall be accompanied by a statement that the licensee or prospective licensee may make an anatomical gift by registering with the division of motor vehicles in accordance with RSA 263:41.
II. Every office dealing with motor vehicle licensure regulated by the division of motor vehicles shall place a notice in a conspicuous place stating that a licensee or prospective licensee may become an anatomical gift donor by registering with the division of motor vehicles in accordance with RSA 263:41.
Source.
1991, 108:2. 2006, 216:2, eff. July 31, 2006.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:10-b - Collection of Biometric Data Prohibited.

260:10-b Collection of Biometric Data Prohibited. –
I. The state shall not collect, obtain, or retain any biometric data in connection with motor vehicle registration or operation, or in connection with driver licensing. "Biometric data" includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Fingerprints, palm prints, and other methods for measuring or recording ridge pattern or fingertip characteristics.
(b) Facial feature pattern characteristics.
(c) Behavior characteristics of a handwritten signature, such as shape, speed, pressure, pen angle, or sequence.
(d) Voice data used for comparing live speech with a previously-created speech model of a person's voice.
(e) Iris recognition data containing color or texture patterns or codes.
(f) Keystroke dynamics, measuring pressure applied to key pads.
(g) Hand geometry, measuring hand characteristics, including the shape and length of fingers, in 3 dimensions.
(h) Retinal scans, reading through the pupil to measure blood vessels lining the retina.
(i) DNA/RNA.
II. Paragraph I shall not apply to:
(a) The collection or retention of fingerprints or the purpose of enforcing laws relating to serious traffic offenses, including, but not limited to, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, operating after being declared an habitual motor vehicle offender, or any motor vehicle offense for which a physical custody arrest was made and bail is required.
(b) The taking or use of signatures, computerized images, likenesses, or photographs, in any form used by the department prior to the effective date of this subparagraph, for licensing purposes, provided that the taking or use is consistent with the provisions of RSA 260:14.
(c) The taking of fingerprints for the purpose of performing criminal records checks required under federal regulations governing the issuance of hazardous materials endorsements on drivers' licenses.
Source.
2004, 133:1, eff. July 18, 2004.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:11 - Bonds.

260:11 Bonds. –
The director and the administrative assistants shall give bonds to the state conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices.
Source.
1915, 154:2. 1919, 82:1. 1921, 118:2. PL 99:4. 1929, 34:1. RL 115:4. 1950, 5:1, part 24:25. RSA 259:6. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:12 - Expenses.

260:12 Expenses. –
All salaries and expenses of the division shall be paid out of the receipts of the division upon the warrant of the governor.
Source.
1915, 154:2. 1919, 82:1. PL 99:5. RL 115:5. RSA 259:9. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
2023 New Hampshire Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Motor Vehicles › Chapter 260 - Administration of Motor Vehicle Laws › Section 260:13 - Procedure by Director.

260:13 Procedure by Director. –
In the administration of the laws and rules relative to motor vehicles, and to the drivers and the driving thereof, the director may summon witnesses in behalf of the state, and may administer oaths and take testimony. He may also cause depositions to be taken, and may order the production of books, papers, agreements and documents.
Source.
1911, 133:23. 1921, 119:22. PL 102:26. RL 118:28. RSA 262:33. 1981, 146:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.