New Hampshire Revised Statutes 261:3 – Exempted Vehicles
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I. No certificate of title need be obtained for:
(a) A vehicle owned by the United States or owned or operated by the New Hampshire National Guard;
(b) A vehicle owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on the highway or used for purposes of testing or demonstration; or a vehicle used by a manufacturer solely for testing;
(c) A vehicle owned by a nonresident of this state and not required by law to be registered in this state;
(d) A vehicle regularly engaged in the interstate transportation of persons or property for which a currently effective certificate of title has been issued in another state;
(e) A vehicle moved solely by animal power;
(f) An implement of husbandry;
(g) Special mobile equipment;
(h) A self-propelled wheelchair or invalid tricycle;
(i) A snowmobile as defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 259:102;
(j) Trailers with gross weight of less than 3,001 pounds;
(k) Any motor vehicle whose manufacturer’s model year is before the year 2000, except heavy trucks and truck-tractors whose gross vehicle weight exceeds 18,000 pounds.
(l) A roadable aircraft as defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 259:91-a.
II. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 262:1 to 5 inclusive do not apply to:
(a) A vehicle moved solely by animal power;
(b) An implement of husbandry;
(c) Special mobile equipment;
(d) A self-propelled wheelchair or invalid tricycle.
(a) A vehicle owned by the United States or owned or operated by the New Hampshire National Guard;
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 261:3
- Certificate: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:9 - Dealer: shall mean a retail vehicle dealer or an auto wholesale dealer. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:18
- Implement of husbandry: shall mean equipment designed or adapted and used exclusively for agricultural, horticultural, forestry, or livestock operations, for which use on a public way is incidental to its intended function. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:44
- Motor vehicle: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:60 - Nonresident: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:67 - 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:91-a
- 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:102
- 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:105
- State: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:106 - United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
- Vehicle: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:122
(b) A vehicle owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on the highway or used for purposes of testing or demonstration; or a vehicle used by a manufacturer solely for testing;
(c) A vehicle owned by a nonresident of this state and not required by law to be registered in this state;
(d) A vehicle regularly engaged in the interstate transportation of persons or property for which a currently effective certificate of title has been issued in another state;
(e) A vehicle moved solely by animal power;
(f) An implement of husbandry;
(g) Special mobile equipment;
(h) A self-propelled wheelchair or invalid tricycle;
(i) A snowmobile as defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 259:102;
(j) Trailers with gross weight of less than 3,001 pounds;
(k) Any motor vehicle whose manufacturer’s model year is before the year 2000, except heavy trucks and truck-tractors whose gross vehicle weight exceeds 18,000 pounds.
(l) A roadable aircraft as defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 259:91-a.
II. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 262:1 to 5 inclusive do not apply to:
(a) A vehicle moved solely by animal power;
(b) An implement of husbandry;
(c) Special mobile equipment;
(d) A self-propelled wheelchair or invalid tricycle.