registering cars

[OCCASparky]

Originally Posted by mal7014

Strange. My town hall lets me do it through the mail. They handle the DMV. Couldn't be more convenient.

When I first moved here, Hampton wouldn't let me. I hope Rochester will, tho.

[Yankeehombre]

In some towns all business in registration can be completed at town hall, unless you vehicle is over 10,000 lbs.

[woodchuck]

In Londonderry you can pay your registration either by mail or do it at the Town Hall all in one stop. While there, you can register your utility trailers, snowmobiles, ATV's, boats, canoes and motorcycles too. Be perpared for a sticker shock tho. The registration fee on my 05 Harley was $265.00 last year. Make no mistake about it, while they are called fees, it is, in reality, another form of taxation.

NH has had emissions testing in the past. The last time it was abandoned because it was discovered that they were testing for the wrong polutants. In the middle eighties I had striped all of the emission devices from my truck and was still able to pass the test with flying colors. In the early eighties NH's vehicle inspections were biannual. They were later changed to annual inspections.

[southward bound]

Originally Posted by HockeyFan

The drivers license thing sounds absurd! So if you can't prove you're a resident to their satisfaction, you keep the old one... and then they give you a ticket for not having a license, right? An electric bill.. that's strange... don't you have to change the license in the first two weeks or something? Needless to say, you will not have an electric bill yet!! Anytime I've moved, I've changed the license within the first couple of days, never had a problem.

This is the type of stuff that turned me off from moving to Mass, I have no tolerance for excessive red tape. Is NH different... or is the DL thing indicative of what I'd be in for?

You have 30 days to get a new license and registration in NH.

[NeverTooLate]

Hockey
It's indictive of 911/homeland security

[HockeyFan]

30 days to get a license... most times when I've moved somewhere, the first utility bill comes 40-50 days after I move in, as it's usually the first full month and the days added on on the previous month. Oh well, I'm sure if you got pulled over, they'd have to be understanding, you can't get a license if they won't give it to you within the prescribed time!

Many years ago when I moved to Colorado, it literally took more than 10 trips to DMV to register my car, as they kept giving me incorrect information on what documents I needed! It was like something out of Groundhog Day. To make things worse, the only DMV for the county was about 30-45 minutes away and they closed early, so there was a LOT of missed work time to get this done!

[DareToDream]

When we moved to NH this past April, we were allowed to use our lease as a proof of residence and we also had the electric company give us basically a letter stating we had set up the electric in our name at our place of residence. We had no problems at all. We moved in on a Thursday and went to get our new licenses on the following Monday....We're in Littleton and had to go to Twin Mountain to do it, but it was no big deal....I don't know if your location makes a difference or not, but up here it wasn't a big deal, at least for us....

[east2west]

According to NH DMV website, under FAQ, you have 60 days to get a NH license when you move from out of state.