HB 104 – AS INTRODUCED
2013 SESSION
13-0009
08/04
HOUSE BILL 104
AN ACT amending certain requirements to obtain a local vendor license.
SPONSORS: Rep. Parison, Hills 25
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill removes the required federal criminal records check from the requirements to obtain a local vendor license.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
13-0009
08/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT amending certain requirements to obtain a local vendor license.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Background Checks for Certain Vendors. Amend RSA 31:102-b, I-III to read as follows:
I. Any municipality may require
persons who go from door to door, place to place within a town, or town
to town, who sell, offer to sell, or take orders for merchandise or
offer to perform personal services for household repairs or
improvements, to submit to a [state records check only, or both a federal and]
state records check. Municipalities that require a criminal history
records check shall have such person submit to the municipality a
notarized criminal history records release form, as provided by the
division of state police, which authorizes the release of the person’s
criminal records, if any. [To obtain a federal records check, such
person shall also submit to the municipality, with the release form, a
complete set of fingerprints.]
II. [For a state and federal
criminal records check, the municipality shall request that such person
submit with the release form a complete set of fingerprints taken by a
qualified law enforcement agency or an authorized employee of the
department of safety. The municipality shall submit the criminal
history records release form and inked fingerprint card to the division
of state police which shall conduct a criminal records check through its
records and through the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Fingerprints
taken digitally by Live Scan or similar device shall be transmitted
directly to the New Hampshire division of state police. In the event
that the first set of fingerprints is invalid due to insufficient
pattern, the municipality may, in lieu of the criminal history records
check, accept police clearances from every city, town, or county where
the person has lived during the past 10 years. Upon completion of the
records check, the division of state police shall release copies of the
criminal history records to the local law enforcement agency of the
municipality which shall maintain the confidentiality of all criminal
history records information received pursuant to this section. The
municipality may charge a fee to recover the costs of such
investigation.
III.] To obtain a state records check [only],
the municipality shall submit a state criminal history records release
form, completed by such person, to the division of state police.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2013/HB0104.html