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Transferring a vehicle in New Hampshire after someone dies

New Hampshire does not transfer the family car to a widow or widower. It deems the couple to have held it jointly all along — if they were married, if the owner lived here, if the vehicle was used for family purposes, and unless the certificate of title says otherwise. What the survivor then presents is a signature and a copy of the death record. A copy: the statute says so.

State New Hampshire

The procedure is set by the state that issued the title, not by where the owner lived.

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Paths
4 in this state

The paths this state offers

Every route Sahvelo has verified for transferring a vehicle after a death in this state, side by side. The guided questions identify which one applies to you.

Path When it applies Court involvement Tax owed Speed Authority
Surviving spouse, certificate exists A married resident owner, a vehicle registered in New Hampshire and used for family purposes, with nothing on the certificate designating otherwise None No tax is stated in the sections read; no title fee arises where no new certificate is obtained Fastest — a signature and a copy of the death record N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 261:17, 261:14
Surviving spouse, no certificate ever issued The same conditions, where no certificate of title has been issued and the transfer requires one None The title fee under section 261:20 The statute says a first certificate shall be issued immediately on the application, the copy of the death record and the fee N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:17, II
Surviving joint owner Two owners joined by "or", or joined by "and" with survivorship designated on the title application None No new title is required, so no title fee arises unless one is obtained The survivor may transfer without a new title, or simply continue registering the vehicle N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:17, III
Through the estate No survivorship applies — including two names joined by "and" with no designation Likely. Section 553:32's waiver still runs from an appointment by the probate court The title fee under section 261:20 Not published. Section 261:16's only timing word is "promptly", and the estate cannot close less than six months after the appointment N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 261:16, 553:32

Deemed, not transferred

The whole of New Hampshire's answer for a married couple is one sentence, and it is written in the past tense: “Upon the death of a married resident owner of a motor vehicle registered in this state, said motor vehicle, if used for family purposes, shall be deemed to have been jointly held property with right of survivorship unless otherwise designated on the certificate of title, and the interest of said decedent shall pass to his or her surviving spouse.”1

Nothing is being granted. The vehicle is treated as having been jointly held with survivorship from the start, so the interest passes on the death and the paperwork only records it. That is why the rest of the section can be three lines long.1

And one escape hatch, which lives on the certificate rather than in the will: “unless otherwise designated on the certificate of title”. A separation, a disagreement or a contrary instruction in a will is not what switches this off — a designation on the title is.1

A copy of the death record, and the statute says it is enough

Where a certificate of title exists, the surviving spouse “may transfer the vehicle pursuant to RSA 261:14 without obtaining a new certificate of title. The signature of the surviving spouse on the certificate and a copy of the death record shall be deemed valid and sufficient for the proper transfer of the motor vehicle.”1

Read the word “copy”. Several states in this corpus insist on a certified or state-certified death certificate and reject a photocopy at the counter. New Hampshire's provision is drafted the other way round — it says what is sufficient rather than what is refused.1

Where no certificate was ever issued and one is now needed, the statute does not send the family away to get one first: “a first certificate of title shall be immediately issued to said spouse” on an application including the information required by section 261:4, I(a) and (b), “(a) A copy of the death record; and” “(b) The required fee.” That fee is $35 for a first certificate since 1 January 2026.14

The transfer the spouse then makes is the ordinary one. Section 261:14 has the owner “execute an assignment and warranty of title to the transferee in the space provided therefor on the certificate” — a warranty, which is what the signature is worth.5

"And" is an opt-in here, not a dead end

For joint owners who are not the married couple the first sentence covers, paragraph III — rewritten with effect from 1 September 2024 — reverses the reading most states give the conjunction. “Individuals who are joint owners may provide for survivorship. If their joint ownership is held by using “and” between their names, they may obtain title as joint tenants with rights of survivorship by designating this preference on their title application. If their joint ownership is held by using “or” between their names, no other designation is required.”1

So “and” is not a bar. It is a case where the owners had to say so on the application — and where they did, the survivor transfers under section 261:14 without obtaining a new title, may continue registering the vehicle without one, and renews in their own birth month.1

That designation is not in the family's papers. It is in the title application the Division holds, so it is a question for the Division rather than for the glovebox.1

One of the joint owners may live out of state: such a nonresident “shall be exempt from the requirements of RSA 261:71 for the purposes of this section only.”1

The registration does not die with the owner

Families often assume a car becomes undrivable the moment the registered owner dies. In New Hampshire the statute says the opposite in as many words: “Upon the transfer of ownership of any vehicle, its registration shall expire. The person in whose name such vehicle is registered shall retain the expired certificate of registration in order to obtain transfer credit, if applicable. The decease of the owner shall not terminate such registration unless there is an actual transfer of ownership.”3

Two consequences. Nothing about the registration forces the family's hand in the first week. And when the transfer does happen, keep the expired certificate of registration — it is what obtains the transfer credit.3

The credit itself is worth having: a person who transfers or loses a registered vehicle “may have registered in his name a like vehicle for the remainder of the registration period”, paying nothing more where the new vehicle's fee is the same or less, and only the difference where it is greater.3

A simplified estate with no ceiling at all — and a floor of six months

Most states' simplified estate is an affidavit used instead of administration, gated by a dollar figure. New Hampshire's is an administration with the machinery removed, gated by who is doing it. Section 553:32 provides that there is “no requirement for an inventory of the estate, no requirement for a bond, and no requirement for an accounting for assets” in six circumstances.6

No value is mentioned anywhere in the section. A large estate qualifies as readily as a small one, provided the people who inherit are the people administering.6

There is a floor rather than a ceiling. The estate closes on an affidavit of administration filed and approved “not less than 6 months and no more than one year after the date of appointment of the administrator”, stating that there are no outstanding debts or obligations and listing all real estate owned at death. Miss the window and the court may issue a notice of default, a show cause order, or require full administration.6

The alignment the section demands can be engineered: “Disclaimer, ademption of legacies, or declination to serve as executor may be effectively used to cause the estate to conform to the requirements of paragraph I.” And any interested person may petition for full administration at any time before the affidavit is filed.6

What Sahvelo could not read, and will not guess

Everything on this page comes from the New Hampshire Revised Statutes as published by the General Court. The Division of Motor Vehicles' own guidance is not here, and that is a gap rather than an omission: www.dmv.nh.gov and www.nh.gov answer every request with an access-denied page from their content delivery network, to an ordinary request and to plain command-line tools alike.

It matters most on the estate route. Section 261:16 asks for “proof of the transfer” and for an application “in the form the director prescribes”, and defines neither. What the Division accepts as proof, and which form it wants, are unestablished here — so call the Division before assembling anything, rather than trusting a checklist that was not read at the source.2

One thing the statute does settle: a new certificate is not an adjudication. Surrendering the old one on the department's request “does not affect the rights of the person surrendering the certificate, and the action of the department issuing a new certificate of title as provided herein is not conclusive upon the rights of an owner or lienholder named in the old certificate.”2

What to do, step by step

The order of operations for each path. Only one of these applies to you — the guided questions will say which.

Surviving spouse, certificate exists

The vehicle is deemed to have been jointly held; the spouse signs and attaches a copy of the death record.

  1. First

    Check the four conditions

    Married, a resident owner, a vehicle registered in this state, used for family purposes — and nothing on the certificate designating the ownership otherwise.

  2. as soon as it is available

    Get a copy of the death record

    The statute says the survivor's signature and a copy of the death record are valid and sufficient.

  3. at the same time

    Find the certificate — including with the lender

    A lienholder in possession must, on request, either deliver the certificate or send the assignment, application and fee to the department itself, unless the transfer breaches the security agreement.

  4. once the death record copy is in hand

    Execute the assignment and warranty of title

    Signed in the space provided on the certificate, and the certificate and assignment mailed or delivered to the transferee or to the department. No new certificate is needed first.

  5. at the transfer, not before

    Deal with the registration when ownership actually moves

    The decease of the owner does not terminate the registration. It expires on the transfer — keep the expired certificate of registration to obtain the transfer credit.

Surviving spouse, no certificate ever issued

A first certificate is issued immediately on an application, a copy of the death record and the fee.

  1. First

    Establish that a certificate is now required

    The paragraph applies where no certificate has been issued and where the transfer requires the issuance of one.

  2. as soon as it is available

    Get a copy of the death record

    It is one of the two stated conditions.

  3. once the copy is in hand

    Apply to the department

    The application includes the information required by section 261:4, I(a) and (b), with the copy of the death record and the required fee.

Surviving joint owner with survivorship

Names joined by "or", or by "and" with survivorship designated on the title application.

  1. First

    Confirm the survivorship

    Names joined by "or" need no other designation. Names joined by "and" carry survivorship only where the owners designated that preference on their title application — a record the Division holds.

  2. as soon as it is available

    Get a copy of the death record

    The survivor's signature on the record and a copy of the death record are deemed valid and sufficient for the transfer.

  3. when you choose to

    Transfer under section 261:14, or simply keep registering

    The surviving owner may transfer without obtaining a new title, and may continue to register the vehicle without one. Renewal then follows the surviving owner's birth month.

Through the estate

The last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application in the form the director prescribes.

  1. First

    Ask the Division what it accepts as proof of the transfer

    Section 261:16 does not define it and names no form. The Division's own guidance could not be retrieved, so this is a question to ask rather than a list to assemble.

  2. alongside

    Consider whether somebody needs to be appointed

    Section 553:32 removes the inventory, the bond and the accounting where the people who inherit are the people administering. It sets no value ceiling.

  3. at the same time

    Find the last certificate of title if it exists

    The section asks for it 'if available', so a missing certificate does not close the route.

  4. once the Division has told you what it needs

    Send the three items to the department

    The last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and the application for a new certificate. The section's only timing word is 'promptly'.

  5. at least six months after the appointment

    Close the estate on the affidavit of administration

    Filed and approved not less than six months and no more than one year after the appointment, stating there are no outstanding debts or obligations and listing all real estate owned at death.

Documents and forms

Each name below links to the official form or the agency page that issues it.

Needed on every path

Needed on some paths

  • The certificate of title

    Applies to Deemed jointly held — the spouse signs the certificate and attaches a copy of the death recordTwo owners with survivorship — the survivor transfers without a new titleThrough the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

    Where one exists, the surviving spouse or surviving joint owner signs it and transfers under section 261:14 without obtaining a new certificate. On the estate route the last certificate is asked for 'if available'.

    Link checked 2026-08-18

  • A copy of the death record

    Applies to Deemed jointly held — the spouse signs the certificate and attaches a copy of the death recordNever titled — a first certificate is issued to the spouse immediatelyTwo owners with survivorship — the survivor transfers without a new title

    The statute states what is sufficient: the survivor's signature and a copy of the death record. The same copy is one of the two conditions for a first certificate where none was ever issued.

    Link checked 2026-08-18

  • Application for a certificate of title

    Applies to Never titled — a first certificate is issued to the spouse immediatelyThrough the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

    On the estate route, an application 'in the form the director prescribes'. For a first certificate to a surviving spouse, an application including the information required by section 261:4, I(a) and (b).

    Link checked 2026-08-18

  • Proof of the transfer

    Applies to Through the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

    Required by section 261:16 where an interest passes other than by voluntary transfer, and not defined there. What the Division accepts is not established — its own website refuses automated retrieval — so ask before assembling.

    Link checked 2026-08-18

  • Affidavit of administration

    Only in some situations

    Applies to Through the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

    What closes an estate administered under the waiver: filed and approved not less than six months and no more than one year after the appointment, stating there are no outstanding debts or obligations and listing all real estate owned at death.

    Link checked 2026-08-18

  • The certificate held by a lienholder

    Only if yes

    Applies to Deemed jointly held — the spouse signs the certificate and attaches a copy of the death recordTwo owners with survivorship — the survivor transfers without a new titleThrough the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

    A lienholder in possession must, on request of the owner or transferee, either deliver the certificate or send the owner's assignment, the application and the fee to the department — unless the transfer was a breach of its security agreement.

    Link checked 2026-08-18

Where and how to file

  • By mail

    The New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Motor Vehicles

    The statutes describe delivery rather than a counter: an owner transferring an interest causes the certificate and assignment to be mailed or delivered to the transferee or to the department, and a transferee on an involuntary transfer promptly mails or delivers the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer and the application.Where a lender holds the certificate, it may send the assignment, the application and the fee to the department itself on request.What the Division requires in practice — its forms, its counters, its appointment arrangements — could not be read: its website refuses automated retrieval. Call the Division before posting anything on the estate route.

    See the mailing instructions

    Applies to every path

  • court-e-file

    The circuit court, probate division, for the county where the person lived

    An administrator is appointed by the probate court, and section 553:32's waiver runs from that appointment rather than replacing it.The estate is completed by filing an affidavit of administration for the court's approval, not less than six months and no more than one year after the appointment. On motion, for good cause shown, the court may extend the one-year deadline.Any interested person may petition for full administration at any time from the original grant to the filing of that affidavit, and the court may grant it for good cause shown.

    Open the official page

    Applies to Through the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

What it costs

Fees change, and the agency's own schedule is the only current source. Where Sahvelo cannot verify a fixed amount, it links the schedule rather than quoting a number.

FeeAmountNotesFee schedule
First certificate of title, with or without a lienholder named Published by the agency The figure effective from 1 January 2026. Until that date the same paragraph read twenty-five dollars, which is what an older leaflet or web page will still say. Current fee schedule
Certificate of title after a transfer, with or without a lienholder named Published by the agency The same figure as a first certificate, and it changed on the same date. Current fee schedule
Duplicate certificate of title Published by the agency Also changed on 1 January 2026, from twenty-five dollars. Current fee schedule
Registration, after the transfer credit Published by the agency Where a like vehicle is registered for the remainder of the period, nothing further is due if its fee is the same or less — only the difference where it is greater. The expired certificate of registration is what obtains the credit. Current fee schedule

After you file

  • The registration expires on the transfer of ownership — not on the death. Keep the expired certificate of registration: it is what obtains the transfer credit.A like vehicle can then be registered for the remainder of the period, with nothing more to pay where its fee is the same or less, and only the difference where it is greater.

    Applies to every path

  • The renewal month changes. Where a surviving joint owner continues to register the vehicle without obtaining a new title, the surviving owner's birth month determines the month for registration renewal.That is worth diarizing, because it may not be the month the household has been used to.

    Applies to Two owners with survivorship — the survivor transfers without a new title

  • A new certificate does not settle who owns the car. Section 261:16 says the department's issuing of a new certificate is not conclusive upon the rights of an owner or lienholder named in the old one, and that surrendering the old certificate on request does not affect the rights of the person surrendering it.So a disagreement inside the family is not resolved by getting the title changed, and it is not made worse by handing the old certificate in.

    Applies to Through the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

  • Where the estate is being administered under the waiver, the clock that matters is the one to the affidavit of administration: not less than six months and no more than one year after the appointment.Missing it is not fatal but it is not free either — the court may issue a notice of default or a show cause order, or require full administration of the estate.

    Applies to Through the estate — the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, and an application

If your situation doesn't fit one of these paths

Common complications, and what each one changes.

  • The vehicle was a work truck, or registered to a business

    The deeming rule reaches a motor vehicle “if used for family purposes”. That phrase is a condition, and a vehicle kept for something other than the family's use is the case it excludes.

    Where any of the four conditions fails — married, resident owner, registered in this state, family purposes — the vehicle is not deemed jointly held, and it passes as part of the estate under section 261:16 instead.12

  • The certificate says something about how the ownership is held

    That is the one thing that switches the deeming off: the vehicle is deemed jointly held with survivorship “unless otherwise designated on the certificate of title”.

    Note where the escape hatch is not. It is not in the will, not in a separation agreement and not in what the couple told each other — it is on the certificate.1

  • Two names joined by "and", and nobody remembers designating anything

    Ask the Division rather than assume. Joint owners holding by “and” may obtain title as joint tenants with rights of survivorship “by designating this preference on their title application” — and that application is a record the Division holds, not a paper the family keeps.

    Where the designation was made, the survivor transfers under section 261:14 without a new title. Where it was not, there is no survivorship on that route and the interest passes through the estate.12

  • The vehicle was never titled

    New Hampshire does not title every vehicle, and the statute writes for that case: where no certificate has been issued and the transfer requires one, “a first certificate of title shall be immediately issued to said spouse” on an application, a copy of the death record and the fee.

    Read the inner condition too — this runs where the transfer requires the issuance of a certificate. Where the vehicle needs none, the registration is the document that matters.13

  • The bank has the title and will not send it

    The statute obliges it. On request of the owner or transferee, a lienholder in possession of the certificate must — unless the transfer was a breach of its security agreement — either deliver the certificate to the transferee for delivery to the department, or itself mail the owner's assignment, the transferee's application and the fee to the department.

    Handing it over costs the lender nothing: “The delivery of the certificate does not affect the rights of the lienholder under his security agreement.”5

  • The estate is large, but everything goes to one person

    New Hampshire's simplified route is not gated by value. Section 553:32 removes the inventory, the bond and the accounting wherever the people who inherit are the people administering — a sole beneficiary under the will appointed as administrator, all the beneficiaries as co-administrators, the sole heir on an intestacy including a surviving spouse, and so on.

    It is gated by time instead: the affidavit of administration cannot be filed until at least six months after the appointment, and must be filed within a year.6

  • One beneficiary out of several is willing to step back

    The statute contemplates exactly that: “Disclaimer, ademption of legacies, or declination to serve as executor may be effectively used to cause the estate to conform to the requirements of paragraph I.”

    It is a decision with consequences beyond the paperwork, so take advice before anybody disclaims anything — but the route is written into the section rather than being a workaround.6

Questions people ask about this

  • My husband's name was the only one on the title. Do I need probate for the car?

    Not on the face of the statute, if the four conditions hold. Section 261:17 deems a motor vehicle registered in this state to have been jointly held with right of survivorship where the owner was a married resident and the vehicle was used for family purposes — unless the certificate designates otherwise — and the decedent's interest passes to the surviving spouse.Where a certificate exists you may transfer it under section 261:14 without obtaining a new one, on your signature and a copy of the death record.1

  • Does the death certificate have to be certified?

    For the survivorship routes the statute says what is sufficient, and it says copy: “The signature of the surviving spouse on the certificate and a copy of the death record shall be deemed valid and sufficient for the proper transfer of the motor vehicle.” The same wording appears for a surviving joint owner.A copy of the death record is also one of the two conditions for a first certificate where none was ever issued. What the Division asks for in practice could not be read, so it is worth confirming when you contact them.1

  • Our title says one name AND another. Is that bad?

    Not necessarily, and New Hampshire is unusual here. Joint owners holding by “and” may obtain title as joint tenants with rights of survivorship by designating that preference on their title application; owners holding by “or” need no other designation.So the question is whether the designation was made. It lives in the Division's record of the title application rather than in the family's papers.1

  • Can we still drive the car?

    The registration is not the obstacle. Section 261:66 provides that the registration expires on the transfer of ownership, and that “The decease of the owner shall not terminate such registration unless there is an actual transfer of ownership.”Insurance is a separate question and is not addressed by the sections read here.3

  • What does the title cost?

    $35 — for a first certificate of title, for a certificate after a transfer, and for a duplicate, with or without a lienholder named.That figure took effect on 1 January 2026. The statute prints the older twenty-five dollar version alongside it, bracketed as effective until that date, which is why a leaflet or a page written earlier may still say twenty-five.4

  • What is "proof of the transfer" on the estate route?

    Section 261:16 does not say, and it names no form — the application is simply “in the form the director prescribes”. Whatever the Division accepts is its own published requirement.Sahvelo has not read those requirements: www.dmv.nh.gov and www.nh.gov answer every request with an access-denied page. Call the Division and ask before assembling anything, rather than relying on a list assembled from another state.2

  • Is there a small estate affidavit in New Hampshire?

    What section 553:32 provides is different in kind: an administration with the inventory, the bond and the accounting waived, where the people who inherit are the people administering. There is no value ceiling in it, and there is still an appointed administrator.It closes on an affidavit of administration filed not less than six months and no more than one year after the appointment. Whether the Division of Motor Vehicles will accept anything short of an appointment for a vehicle is not established here.62

What the terms mean

6 terms used on this page, defined from the statute
Deemed to have been jointly held
The operation of N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:17. On the death of a married resident owner of a motor vehicle registered in New Hampshire, the vehicle, if used for family purposes, is deemed to have been jointly held property with right of survivorship unless otherwise designated on the certificate of title — and the decedent's interest passes to the surviving spouse. Nothing is granted or applied for: the ownership is treated as having been joint from the start. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:17
Involuntary transfer
Where the interest of an owner in a vehicle passes to another other than by voluntary transfer. Under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:16 the transferee promptly mails or delivers to the department the last certificate of title, if available, proof of the transfer, and an application for a new certificate in the form the director prescribes. The department's issuing of a new certificate is not conclusive upon the rights of an owner or lienholder named in the old one. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:16
Waiver of administration
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 553:32. Not an alternative to administration but a stripped-down version of it: no inventory, no bond and no accounting, in six circumstances that mostly require the person administering to be the person who inherits. No value ceiling applies. The estate is completed by filing an affidavit of administration for the probate court's approval, not less than six months and no more than one year after the appointment. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 553:32
Affidavit of administration
The document that closes an estate administered under the waiver in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 553:32. It states that to the best of the administrator's knowledge and belief there are no outstanding debts or obligations attributable to the estate, and lists all real estate owned by the decedent at death including the location, book and page. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 553:32
Transfer credit
The credit for the unused part of a registration period, obtained by retaining the expired certificate of registration. Under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:66 a registration expires on the transfer of ownership — but not on the death of the owner — and a like vehicle may then be registered for the remainder of the period, with only the difference payable where its fee is greater. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:66
Assignment and warranty of title
What an owner executes on the certificate under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:14 when transferring an interest in a vehicle, in the space provided or as the director prescribes. It is a warranty as well as an assignment — the person signing is warranting the title they are passing. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:14

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Sources

Every rule on this page traces to one of the following. All are sections of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated as published by the General Court.

  1. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:17 — joint tenancy with rights of survivorship

    Joint tenancy with rights of survivorship: the deeming rule for a married resident owner's family vehicle, what the surviving spouse presents where a certificate exists and where none does, and the 2024 rewrite of the rule for joint owners.

    gc.nh.gov Checked 2026-08-18

  2. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:16 — involuntary transfers

    Involuntary transfers: the last certificate if available, proof of the transfer, an application in the form the director prescribes — and the rule that a new certificate is not conclusive upon anybody's rights.

    gc.nh.gov Checked 2026-08-18

  3. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:66 — transfer of ownership, registration

    Transfer of ownership: the registration expires on a transfer, the decease of the owner does not terminate it, and the expired certificate is kept to obtain the transfer credit.

    gc.nh.gov Checked 2026-08-18

  4. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:20 — fees

    Fees, printed with both the figure effective until 1 January 2026 and the figure effective from it.

    gc.nh.gov Checked 2026-08-18

  5. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 261:14 — transfer of interest in vehicle

    Transfer of interest in a vehicle: the assignment and warranty of title executed on the certificate, and the lienholder's duty to release the certificate on request.

    gc.nh.gov Checked 2026-08-18

  6. N.H. Rev. Stat. § 553:32 — waiver of administration

    Waiver of administration: the six circumstances in which no inventory, bond or accounting is required, and the affidavit of administration filed not less than six months and no more than one year after appointment.

    gc.nh.gov Checked 2026-08-18

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