§ 487:11 — Appeal to Division; Notice and Hearing

Whenever the person or occupant producing a certificate of registration which is taken up for violation of this chapter is not also the registered owner, that fact shall be made known to the department of safety, division of motor vehicles, at the time of its delivery to said division, whereupon it shall be the duty of the department of safety, division of motor vehicles, to give notice in writing of the fact of suspension and the reason for such suspension to the registered owner at the address appearing upon said registration. Such notice shall be by registered mail. Any registered owner whose certificate is suspended for violation of this chapter shall have 10 days from receipt of actual notice of said suspension to appeal to the division in protest of such suspension and to request a hearing on the question of such suspension. In such hearings the division shall have authority to compel the attendance of witnesses and the taking of testimony under oath and shall preserve in writing a summary of substantial evidence produced before it upon which any decision in such cases is rendered. Decisions of the division under this section shall be appealable pursuant to RSA 21-O:14. Nothing in this section shall operate to reinstate any certificate of registration pending a decision of the division other than by proof before it that the violation of this chapter for which the registration certificate was suspended no longer continues or by proof that no violation in fact occurred.

Legislative History

1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.