New Hampshire Revised Statutes 261:82 – Agricultural Plates
(a) Transportation of agricultural products for delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 261:82
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Driver: shall mean a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:25
- 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.
- farm: means any land, buildings, or structures on or in which agriculture and farming 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 259:32
- 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
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Place of business: shall mean the site, location or building within this state at which a person conducts the business in which he is engaged. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:76
- 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 N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:108
- Truck: shall mean every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:115-b
- 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:116
- Vehicle: shall mean :
I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:122
(b) Non-commercial hauling of firewood harvested on the farm.
(c) Hauling animals, hay, fertilizer, feed, livestock, poultry, agricultural supplies, farm workers or other supplies or farm products in connection with the registrant’s farming operation.
(d) Hauling household rubbish or garbage from the farm to a disposal site.
(e) Hauling or towing implements of husbandry.
II. Notwithstanding the limitations set forth in paragraph I, a vehicle registered under this section may be used to transport animals and agricultural products to agricultural fairs and exhibits for exhibition purposes only.
III. A vehicle registered under this section shall not be used for the purpose of transporting goods for sale or hire, including the common or contract carriage of freight or merchandise, or for commuting to and from a place of employment, or for leisure activities.
IV. This section shall be construed as authorizing the holder of agricultural plates, or a driver authorized by the holder, to operate the vehicle while it is empty so long as it is being used generally to accomplish the purposes allowed in this section, and to transport within such vehicle incidental personal property such as food, tools, and clothing. The holder or authorized driver may operate the vehicle for purposes that are incidental to the purposes in paragraph I, including, but not limited to, stops at a school or place of business during travel authorized by paragraph I.
V. (a) To be eligible for the issuance of an agricultural vehicle registration for agricultural and farming purposes, the applicant shall sign the following form which the treasurer of a city or such other official as the city government may designate or the town clerk shall provide. This form shall be provided to the applicant upon request without further evidence from the applicant that the plate shall be used for purposes of this section.
I, the undersigned, fully understand the limitations concerning the use of trucks, tractor-trucks, tractors, or cargo vans registered under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:82, and hereby certify that my vehicle will be used only for agricultural and farming purposes and uses incidental thereto, within a 20 mile radius of the main entrance of the farm upon which the vehicle is to be driven.
Signed:
Date:
Copies to:
Town or City Clerk
Applicant
(b) To be eligible for the issuance of an agricultural vehicle registration in support of commercial fishing operations, the applicant shall sign the following form which the treasurer of a city or such other official as the city government may designate or the town clerk shall provide. This form shall be provided to the applicant upon request without further evidence from the applicant that the plate shall be used for purposes of this section.
I, the undersigned, fully understand the limitations concerning the use of trucks, tractor-trucks, tractors, or cargo vans registered under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:82, and hereby certify that my vehicle will be used only in support of commercial fishing operations, within a 10 mile radius of the main entrance to the docking area of the commercial fishing boats it is supporting.
Signed:
Date:
Copies to:
Town or City Clerk
Applicant
VI. A truck, truck-tractor, tractor, or cargo van shall qualify for agricultural registration rates and number plates and shall be driven with such registration if:
(a) It is used exclusively in support of commercial fishing operations; and
(b) It is driven within a 10 mile radius from the main entrance to the docking area of the commercial fishing boats it is supporting; and
(c) It is used only for the transportation of commercial fishing products for delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market or in support of maintenance or operations of the fishing boat and transportation of the crew.