providing transportation but does not include a private passenger vehicle; (i) “cycle” means a bicycle, power bicycle, motorcycle or moped; (j) “dealer” means any person who buys or sells motor vehicles as a business, either as principal or agent; (k) “driver” means a person who is driving or is in actual physical control of a vehicle; (l) “driving” or “drive” includes having the care or control of a vehicle; (l.1) “driving record” means a record of all of the information held by the Registrar that relates to an individual driver’s history; (m) “emergency vehicle” means (i) a vehicle operated by a police service as defined in the Police Act; (ii) a firefighting or other type of vehicle operated by the fire protection service of a municipality; (iii) an ambulance operated by a person or organization providing ambulance services; (iv) a vehicle operated as a gas disconnection unit of a public utility; (v) a vehicle designated by regulation as an emergency response unit; (n) “financial responsibility card” means a card issued or authorized pursuant to the Insurance Act; (o) “goods” means any thing or load that is or may be carried by means of a vehicle; (p) “highway” means any thoroughfare, street, road, trail, avenue, parkway, driveway, viaduct, lane, alley, square, bridge, causeway, trestleway or other place or any part of any of them, whether publicly or privately owned, that the public is ordinarily entitled or permitted to use for the passage or parking of vehicles and includes (i) a sidewalk, including a boulevard adjacent to the sidewalk,
Forcible entry of vehicles, etc. 78 When a vehicle is to be removed or stored under this Act, the person authorized to remove or store the vehicle, or that person’s agent, may forcibly unlock or open a door of the vehicle or otherwise gain access into or on a vehicle and do those other things that are reasonably required to facilitate the removal or storage of the vehicle, its contents and any goods being carried by the vehicle. 1999 cT6.4 s78 Exclusion from liability 79 Where a person sells, disposes of, deals with or otherwise handles a vehicle, its contents and any goods being carried by the vehicle, or any of them, under section 77 or 78 or the regulations, no liability attaches to that person with respect to that sale, disposition, dealing or handling carried out in respect of that vehicle or those contents or goods. 1999 cT6.4 s79 Sale and rental of vehicles 80 Except as otherwise permitted under this Act, a person shall not do any of the following: (a) hire or let for hire a motor vehicle unless the person by whom the motor vehicle is to be driven is authorized under this Act to drive the motor vehicle; (b) sell a motorcycle to a person who is under the age of 16 years, other than a motorcycle that (i) is an offhighway vehicle, and (ii) does not meet the specifications under the regulations to operate on a highway; (c) purchase a motorcycle for or on behalf of a person who is under the age of 16 years, other than a motorcycle that (i) is an offhighway vehicle, and (ii) does not meet the specifications under the regulations to operate on a highway. RSA 2000 cT6 s80;2016 c14 s12 Regulations 81 The Minister may make regulations (a) governing any matter with respect to (i) the construction, modification and configuration of vehicles;
(a) when a peace officer decides to lay an information against the driver alleging that the driver has, in contravention of the Criminal Code (Canada), committed any offence (i) involving the actual driving of a motor vehicle by the driver, and (ii) involving (A) the condition of the driver or the amount of alcohol in the driver’s blood, as the case may be, resulting from the consumption by the driver of alcohol, (B) the condition of the driver resulting from the introduction by the driver into the driver’s body of any drug or other substance, (C) the condition of the driver resulting from the introduction by the driver into the driver’s body of a combination of alcohol and a drug, or (D) the driver, with respect to the driving of a motor vehicle, having failed or refused, without a reasonable excuse, to comply with a demand made on that person under section 320.27 or 320.28 of the Criminal Code (Canada), or (b) where the driver’s operator’s licence is suspended or the driver is disqualified from driving a motor vehicle under section 88 or 88.1. RSA 2000 cT6 s90;2001 c14 s15;2011 c22 s13; 2017 c26 s25 30day suspension re novice driver 90(1) In this section, (a) “approved drug screening equipment” means equipment that is designed to ascertain the presence of a drug in a person’s body and that is (i) approved drug screening equipment within the meaning of section 320.11 of the Criminal Code (Canada), or (ii) approved under this Act by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to be used for the purposes of this section;
(a.01) “approved instrument” means a device that is designed to receive and make an analysis of a sample of the breath of a person in order to measure the concentration of alcohol in that person’s blood and that is (i) an approved instrument within the meaning of section 254 of the Criminal Code (Canada), or (ii) approved under this Act by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to be used for the purposes of this section; (a.1) “approved screening device” means a device that is designed to ascertain the presence of alcohol in a person’s blood and that is (i) an approved screening device within the meaning of section 320.11 of the Criminal Code (Canada), or (ii) approved under this Act by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to be used for the purposes of this section; (a.2) “drug” means any drug for which a blood drug concentration is prescribed by regulation under the Criminal Code (Canada); (b) “notice of suspension” means a notice of suspension referred to in subsection (4); (c) “novice driver” means a person who holds a novice operator’s licence; (d) “novice operator’s licence” means an operator’s licence classified as a learner’s operator’s licence or a probationary operator’s licence. (e), (f) repealed 2011 c22 s14. (2) If a peace officer reasonably suspects that the driver of a motor vehicle who is a novice driver, having consumed alcohol, drove the motor vehicle, the peace officer may require that the novice driver forthwith provide a breath sample into an approved screening device or approved instrument. (2.1) If a peace officer reasonably suspects that the driver of a motor vehicle who is a novice driver, having consumed a drug, drove the motor vehicle, the peace officer may require that the novice driver forthwith provide a bodily substance sample for analysis by approved drug screening equipment. (3) On being required to provide a breath sample under subsection (2), the novice driver must provide a breath sample forthwith.