SB 389 – AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

03/06/14 0714s

2014 SESSION

14-2687

10/08

SENATE BILL 389

AN ACT relative to the enforcement of motor vehicle laws by officers of the fish and game department.

SPONSORS: Sen. Woodburn, Dist 1; Rep. Karrick, Merr 25; Rep. Suzanne Smith, Graf 8; Rep. Theberge, Coos 3; Rep. H. Richardson, Coos 4

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill allows the fish and game officers to enforce the motor vehicle laws.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03/06/14 0714s

14-2687

10/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to the enforcement of motor vehicle laws by officers of the fish and game department.

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

1 New Paragraph; Fish and Game; Powers; Motor Vehicle Laws. Amend RSA 206:26 by inserting after paragraph XIV the following new paragraph:

XV. To enforce all provisions of RSA title XXI relative to motor vehicle laws.

2 Fish and Game Officers; Prohibition Deleted. Amend RSA 206:26-b, II to read as follows:

II. The executive director and each conservation officer shall not:

(a) Serve civil processes; or

(b) Act or be used or called upon for service within any town in any industrial dispute unless actual violence has occurred, and then only upon order of the governor[; or

(c) Have general power to enforce any provision of RSA title XXI relative to motor vehicles].

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