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Originally Posted by RI Swamp Yankee
Does NH require a drivers license to operate a boat? If not then he can't ask for it.
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As we have discussed previously, it is always wise to carry a legal secondary form of identification when boating in New Hampshire. By law, any law enforcement officer has the right to have you produce a driver's license or other legal form of identification to ensure the person(s) he has articulable reason to be in temporary custody is indeed the person claimed.
From RSA 270:12-b Disobeying an Officer:
...(c) Knowingly refuse, on demand of a peace officer or agent of the director, to produce some means of positive identification such as a driver's license, passport, or other document, or to verify his identity by some other means so that the identity of the operator or person otherwise in charge of a vessel can be determined with reasonable certainty by such peace officer or agent of the director...
Accordingly if you can't prove who you are and the officer can articulate that he has reasonable belief that you are being deceptive, then that officer can take you into custody until your actual identity can be established. And if you have been deceptive or evasive the offense is a misdemeanor.
You can read the entire text of RSA 270:12-b
HERE.