Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 215-A - Off Highway Recreational Vehicles and Trails

• Accompanied by: or "accompany" means when a person is within sight and when actual physical direction and control can be effected. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• accompany: means when a person is within sight and when actual physical direction and control can be effected. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Antique all terrain vehicle: means any all terrain vehicle manufactured prior to the year 1969 or 25 or more years old owned by a resident of the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Antique trail bike: means any trail bike manufactured prior to the year 1969 or 25 or more years old owned by a resident of the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bureau: means the bureau of trails in the department of natural and cultural resources. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• bylaw: when used in reference to legislative action taken by a city, town, county or village district shall have the same meaning as an ordinance and shall be subject to the same procedures for enactment. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:45
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means a person in the OHRV or snowmobile business who sells OHRVs to the general public, or demonstrates for sale vehicles on consignment to the general public. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executive director: means the executive director of the fish and game department. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• farm: means any land, buildings, or structures on or in which agriculture and farming operations or activities are carried out or conducted and shall include the residence or residences of owners, occupants, or employees located on such land. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:34-a
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
• governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Off highway recreational vehicle: means any mechanically propelled vehicle used for pleasure or recreational purposes running on rubber tires, tracks, or cushion of air and dependent on the ground or surface for travel, or other unimproved terrain whether covered by ice or snow or not, where the operator sits in or on the vehicle. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• OHRV: means off highway recreational vehicle. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• OHRV club: means an organized, dues-paying group of OHRV users with bylaws, registered with the secretary of state as a nonprofit organization. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• OHRV trails maintenance vehicle: means any mechanically-propelled vehicle used to maintain OHRV trails or cross country ski trails, classified by the chief of the bureau of trails. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Operate: in all its moods and tenses, when it refers to an OHRV, means to use that vehicle in any manner for transportation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Operator: means a person riding on or in, and who is in actual physical control of, an OHRV or snowmobile. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Owner: means any person, other than a lienholder, having title to an OHRV. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• petitioner: shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• Public water: means any public body of water as defined by N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Public way: means any public highway, street, sidewalk, avenue, alley, park or parkway, or any way that is funded by state, city, town, county, or the federal government, or laid out by statute, or any parking lots open for use by the public or vehicular traffic, or any frozen surface of a public body of water; provided, however, the off highway portion of any trail established specifically for OHRVs shall not be a public way. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Railroad motorcar: also known as section car, track car, and putt putt, means any vehicle propelled by mechanical power with flanged wheels that is designed and specifically manufactured for use on standard railroad tracks, and that does not exceed 70 inches in width and 1950 pounds. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Registered for Highway Use: means any OHRV as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Rental agent: means a person licensed under N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Resident: means a resident of the state as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• road: shall include all bridges thereon. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:26
• seal: shall include an impression of the official seal made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression thereof made by means of wax, or a wafer, affixed thereto. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:11
• Sled dogs: means teams of dogs driven by a person or persons pulling sleds, a skier, wheeled rigs, and other motorized and non-motorized devices used to train or control the teams. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Snowmobile: means any vehicle propelled by mechanical power that is designed to travel over ice or snow supported in part by skis, tracks, or cleats. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• sworn: when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take oaths therein prescribed, shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a justice of the peace, or other person authorized to administer official oaths in such cases. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:25
• Trail bike: means any motor-driven wheeled vehicle on which there is a saddle or seat for the operator or passenger or both and which is designed or adapted for travel over surfaces other than maintained roads, whether covered by ice or snow or not. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Trail connector: means that specific portion of an OHRV trail or cross country ski trail on which an OHRV trail maintenance vehicle may operate authorized within a state highway right-of-way by the department of transportation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Traveled portion: means all areas of a public highway between the plowed snowbanks. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Utility terrain vehicle: means any mechanically propelled vehicle which is designed or adapted for travel over surfaces other than maintained roads with one or more tires or tracks equipped with a rollover protection system and/or safety belts, having capacity for passengers or other payloads, not in excess of 2,000 pounds unladen dry weight, and not to exceed 65 inches in overall width, excluding side mirrors. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1
• Youth model all terrain vehicle: means an all terrain vehicle that is equipped with an internal combustion engine with a maximum piston displacement of 95 cubic centimeters. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 215-A:1