CHAPTER 231
HB 292-FN-A – FINAL VERSION
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2014 SESSION
06/03
HOUSE BILL 292-FN-A
AN ACT relative to registration fees for commercial, private, and pleasure vessels.
SPONSORS: Rep. Ahlgren, Carr 6; Rep. S. Schmidt, Carr 6; Rep. Spang, Straf 6; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3
COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development
This bill increases the additional fee for commercial, private, and pleasure vessels.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
29Jan2014… 2269h
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06/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to registration fees for commercial, private, and pleasure vessels.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
231:1 Vessel Registration; Registration Fees. Amend RSA 270-E:5, II(a) to read as follows:
(a) [$7.50] $9.50 for each registration specified in paragraph I. The fees collected under this subparagraph shall be paid into the lake restoration and preservation fund established under RSA 487:25.
231:2 Lake Restoration and Preservation Fund; Addition to Boat Registration. Amend RSA 487:25, I to read as follows:
I. The fee of [$7.50] $9.50 collected under the provisions of RSA 270-E:5, II(a) shall be paid to the director of the division of motor vehicles. The director of the division of motor vehicles shall pay over said fee to the state treasurer who shall keep the fee in a special fund to be expended by the department of environmental services. The department shall use $.50 of the fee for lake restoration and preservation measures, exclusive of exotic aquatic weed control, [$3] $5 of the fee for the control of exotic aquatic weeds, and $4 of the fee for the milfoil and other exotic aquatic plants prevention program. The department shall deposit the $4 into a special account within the lake restoration and preservation fund which shall be used to administer the milfoil and other exotic aquatic plants prevention program. The special fund shall be nonlapsing. All funds received under this section are continually appropriated to the department for the purposes of this subdivision.
231:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2015.
Approved: July 21, 2014
Effective Date: January 1, 2015