Any registration/inspection check points?

[TheOmni]

Today, out here in western New York State, I had to drive through a registration/inspection checkpoint.  Cops had traffic slowed down from the normal 40 some miles an hour to about 10, while two officers stood in the middle of the road checking stickers to make sure everyone had paid their bribe to the government to allow them to use their car.  It's things like this that always make me excited to think about moving to New Hampshire and how much better it will be, and how it will get even better as time goes on.

In New Hampshire do things like this happen?  I know they do not require insurance, but I know nothing of the regulations around inspections and registrations.  And do they ever set up checkpoints like this, and are there any laws or rules concerning this type of action?

Just two more years until I can move.  I can't wait.

[KBCraig]

I'm not there yet, so I can't comment directly. But I do read the Berlin Daily Sun every day (well... those days that they publish the online edition). Being a small city, they publish their daily police blotter reports, and I see a lot of citations for registration/inspection violations.

Given how traffic flow in the small cities and towns seems to move, I don't think they need to set up special checkpoints. Any street corner will do.

Like the article said... "Get your 'Live Free Or Die' license plate. Just don't drive without it!"

Kevin

[Pat McCotter]

In Concord police will stand on Main St and look for inspection/registration as well as folks not stopping for pedestrians in crosswalk. There is not a checkpoint that slows traffic.

[Russell Kanning]

I have not run into any checkpoints. In CA they had sobriety checkpoints.
We run around NH with our company cars MT plates .... and have no problems...... I could never do that in CA 

[KBCraig]

We run around NH with our company cars MT plates .... and have no problems...... I could never do that in CA 

I wondered what kind of licensing you gave in to. 

Do you have to present proof of insurance to renew MT plates?

[Russell Kanning]

I didn't.

[Kat Kanning]

I wondered what kind of licensing you gave in to. 

It was my car.

[Russell Kanning]

It has been radicalized

[Mark]

I have not run into any checkpoints. In CA they had sobriety checkpoints.
We run around NH with our company cars MT plates .... and have no problems...... I could never do that in CA 

I think they did sobriety checkpoints for a while (I could be confusing this with a neighboring Maine town, since I live on the border and pass back and forth almost daily). I haven't seen one in a while. Never seen an inspection/registration checkpoint, but they pull a lot of people over for it. It's easy to spot just sitting in traffic, so I don't think they bother with checkpoints.  I've never known anyone to get a warning for an inspection/registration violation -- if you get stopped, you're probably getting ticketed. They often give warnings for speed and other violations (or so I hear  ).

[Michael Fisher]

Oh yeah, they did a sobriety checkpoint in Portsmouth last year.

And they did a children's seatbelt checkpoint in one New Hampshire town as well recently.

[lildog]

Once in a great while I see cops near the stoplight where 101 turns in Bedford.  They don?t actually hold up traffic but they?ll point and wave anyone over they see stopped at the light with out of date inspection stickers.

[Russell Kanning]

That is where we make faces at the fbi guys.