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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 261:3: Exempted Vehicles.

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  1. Title XXI: MOTOR VEHICLES
  2. Chapter 261: CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
  3. Certificate of Title

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 RSA 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 RSA 259:91-a.

II. RSA 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.

Collected 2026-09-05T14:34:19Z. Source file · JSON

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