Outside a business or residence district, you want to stop a normally operating car to check a route. A safe, practical place off the paved or main-traveled roadway is available. Where should you stop?
Correct answer: Off the paved or main-traveled roadway in the available safe place.
Outside a business or residence district, a driver must not voluntarily stop, stand or park on the paved or main-traveled part when it is practicable to do so off that part. The unavoidable disabled-vehicle exception is not relevant to this normally operating car.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:68, Stopping, Standing or Parking Outside Business or Residence Districts, I–II; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
You are choosing an otherwise lawful voluntary stopping place outside a business or residence district. Along with leaving unobstructed room for traffic, how far away must the stopped car be clearly visible in each direction?
Correct answer: At least 200 feet.
For this rural stopping rule, an unobstructed width must remain for other vehicles and the stopped vehicle must be clearly visible from 200 feet in each direction. Hazard lights do not replace those requirements.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:68, Stopping, Standing or Parking Outside Business or Residence Districts, I, unobstructed-width and clear-view clauses; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
With no traffic emergency or official direction, you want to stop beside a car already parked at the curb so a passenger can get out. Is this allowed just because it will be brief?
Correct answer: No. Stopping on the roadway side of the parked car is prohibited.
Double parking is in the category that prohibits stopping, standing and parking. The momentary passenger exception in the separate standing/parking category does not create a passenger-loading exception here. The scenario excludes the general traffic-conflict and official-direction exceptions.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:69, Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places, opening exceptions and I(a); contrasted with II; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
An otherwise safe curb location has an official No Standing sign, with no additional restriction. Which activity fits the statute's momentary passenger exception?
Correct answer: Momentarily stopping to pick up a passenger who is ready at the curb.
The standing/parking category allows a momentary stop to pick up or discharge passengers. It does not provide the same exception for waiting, route planning or merchandise delivery. Other applicable restrictions must still be respected.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:69, Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places, II opening and II(f); official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
A curb location is marked only No Parking and is not otherwise restricted. Which activity is within the statute's temporary loading exception?
Correct answer: Temporarily stopping while actually unloading merchandise.
The no-parking category excepts temporary stops for the purpose of, and while actually engaged in, loading or unloading merchandise or passengers. Merely planning to load later does not satisfy that condition. A No Standing or No Stopping restriction is a different category.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:69, Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places, III opening and III(b); official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
You plan to wait several minutes 10 feet from a fire hydrant. You will stay in the car and are not momentarily picking up or dropping off a passenger. With no official direction or traffic necessity, is this allowed?
Correct answer: No. Standing or parking within 15 feet of the hydrant is prohibited in this situation.
The statute prohibits standing or parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, whether or not the vehicle is occupied. The momentary passenger exception and general traffic/official-direction exceptions are excluded by this scenario.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:69, Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places, opening exceptions, II opening and II(b); official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
You want to leave your car while shopping, 15 feet from a crosswalk at an intersection. No officer, traffic necessity or other special circumstance directs the stop. Does that meet the state clearance rule?
Correct answer: No. Standing or parking is prohibited within 20 feet of an intersection crosswalk.
Standing or parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection is prohibited, subject to the statute's stated exceptions. Leaving a car to shop is not momentary passenger loading. Local restrictions can also apply.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:69, Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places, opening exceptions, II opening and II(c); §265:70 local restrictions retained; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
With no exception or official direction applying, you plan to park 25 feet before a stop sign located at the side of the roadway. Is this far enough under the state approach-clearance rule?
Correct answer: No. Standing or parking is prohibited within 30 feet on the approach to the sign.
The restriction is within 30 feet on the approach to a roadside flashing signal, stop sign or traffic-control signal. Sign visibility alone does not cancel that clearance. This scenario is parking, not the momentary passenger exception.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:69, Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places, opening exceptions, II opening and II(d); official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
Your car carries a valid accessible-parking placard for a family member, but you are shopping alone and are not transporting that person to or from the space. May you use a designated accessible space?
Correct answer: No. The qualifying person must be transported to or from the parking place.
Having a valid placard is not enough when the qualifying person is absent. The statute ties use of the designated space to transporting that person to or from the parking place.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:74, Parking Privileges for Persons With Walking Disability, I; paired with §265:69 I(j); official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
You are lawfully using an accessible space, but part of your car overlaps the marked access aisle beside it. Does the placard allow that overlap?
Correct answer: No. You must keep the car out of the access aisle.
The separate access-aisle prohibition covers stopping, standing or parking in or overlapping an access aisle. A lawful accessible-space privilege does not authorize occupying the aisle.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:69, Stopping, Standing or Parking Prohibited in Specified Places, I(m), with I(j) accessible-space distinction; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
On an otherwise unrestricted one-way roadway, no local ordinance changes the normal rule. Which parallel-parking position follows the state rule?
Correct answer: Face the authorized traffic direction, with the wheels on the chosen curb side within 12 inches of that curb.
Unless a local ordinance provides otherwise, a vehicle on a one-way roadway must be parallel to the curb or edge in the direction of authorized traffic. Its right wheels must be within 12 inches of the right curb/edge, or its left wheels within 12 inches of the left curb/edge.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:71, Additional Parking Regulations, II; local-ordinance qualification; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
You are leaving a conventional keyed car unattended on a level public street. It was not started by remote control. Which set of precautions meets the unattended-vehicle rule?
Correct answer: Stop the engine, lock the ignition, remove the key and effectively set the brake.
The ordinary unattended-car rule requires stopping the engine, locking the ignition, removing the key and effectively setting the brake. This public-street, non-remote-start scenario does not invoke the remote-start or own-property idling exceptions.
Source: New Hampshire RSA 265:72, Unattended Vehicle, I; level public street, no remote-control starter or own-property exception; official operative HTML body read October 1, 2026. ↗
