New Hampshire — statewide
New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles
In short
New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles issues 2 permits we publish for New Hampshire — statewide, last verified 2026-09-04. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle Inspection Station Licenseonly if it applies to you | New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles | $25 a year | annual — renews by 30 September | 2026-09-04 |
| Repairer Registrationonly if it applies to you | New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles | $48 for the first plate; each additional plate is $18 — a further $250 applies only if the shop also sells vehicles | 2 years, on an even-year renewal cycle, prorated for an odd-year start | 2026-09-04 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Vehicle Inspection Station License
This is optional business a repair shop can take on, not a condition of repairing vehicles at all. Twenty-five dollars a year covers the license itself, but qualifying is not just a matter of paying the fee: a station must also be registered with the Secretary of State, approved for occupancy by the local town or city, and visited on site by the state police before it can operate. Roughly 2,400 stations hold this license statewide.
Repairer Registration
A repair dealer is defined precisely as someone principally in the motor vehicle business who repairs vehicles for others, is not a dealer, and has an established place of business in the state — the registration covering that activity is priced by the plate rather than as a flat license fee, $48 for the first and $18 for each additional or supplemental one, on a two-year cycle. The state's own application form is confusingly headed as though it were a dealer application, which makes the boundary easy to miss: the extra $250 license fee and the $25,000 dealer's surety bond apply only once a repair shop crosses into also buying, selling or exchanging vehicles. A shop that sticks to repair alone never reaches that additional cost.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- New Hampshire — statewide
- Phone
- (603) 227-4120
- Website
- www.dmv.nh.gov/
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- New Hampshire DMV — vehicle inspection station licensing, $25 a yearNew Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
- New Hampshire DMV form RDMV 720 — repairer registration, and the boundary with dealer licensingNew Hampshire Division of Motor Vehicles · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-04
Other New Hampshire statewide offices
- New Hampshire Office of Professional Licensure and Certification
- New Hampshire Secretary of State, Corporation Division
- New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Food Protection Section
- New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration
- New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Child Care Licensing Unit
New Hampshire jurisdictions
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