2015 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XXI - MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 261 - CERTIFICATES OF TITLE AND REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES
Section 261:3 - Exempted Vehicles.

    261:3 Exempted Vehicles. –
    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.
    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.

Source. RSA 269-A:2. 1967, 357:1. 1969, 488:3; 504:1, 2. 1977, 458:1. 1981, 146:1. 1989, 54:1. 1998, 202:1-5. 2006, 90:11, eff. July 1, 2006 at 12:01 a.m. 2014, 262:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.