§ 270:12-d — Penalties

I. Any person who buys, receives, possesses, sells or disposes of a boat, boat engine or outboard motor, with knowledge that a hull identification number or serial number has been removed, defaced or changed, with the intent to conceal or misrepresent the identity, shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person and guilty of a felony if any other person.
II. It shall be a misdemeanor to buy, receive, possess, sell or dispose of a boat, engine or outboard motor knowing the hull identification number or serial number has been removed, changed or altered. If upon discovery of the removed, defaced, changed, or altered hull identification number or serial number, the person reports it to the nearest police station or the bureau of marine patrol, he shall not be charged with a violation.
III. Anyone who willfully removes, defaces, obliterates, changes or alters a hull identification number, or serial number shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
IV. Any person who operates a boat on public water while knowingly having in his possession or in any part of the boat a controlled drug, in violation of RSA 318-B, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall have his right to operate a boat suspended for a period of one year.

Legislative History

1991, 369:3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.