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(03/06/07)
Perry Registers Car in New
Hampshire
Paula Porten
 North Andover School Committee
Chairman Al Perry has been seen driving around town in a
new 2007 Cadillac Escalade with New Hampshire license
plates. This week he admitted that he registered his new
car in the state of New Hampshire, explaining that,
“after March, I plan to spend much of my time at my
new home in New Hampshire and that is where the car will
be.”
Rumors have been spreading furiously throughout North
Andover that the School Committee chairman registered his
cars in New Hampshire and is really a New Hampshire
resident. Something that Perry denies.
Perry said the rumors are a political ploy to negate his
voting on the committee. “People in town are not
happy with my vote for O’Neill for superintendent
and are trying to make trouble for me. They are trying to
make a case that I am a New Hampshire resident, so my
vote does not count and that I would have to immediately
resign from the School Committee.”
“I have five other cars that are registered in
Massachusetts for which I pay excise tax here in North
Andover,” he said. “I also have a business in
North Andover and pay income taxes and property taxes in
Massachusetts.”
Perry’s term expires at the end of this month and he
says he is not running again for office in North Andover.
In addressing the controversy, Perry spoke candidly with
The Valley Patriot. “A year and a half ago, I
purchased a lake house in Meredith, N.H. It is a
beautiful 7,000 square foot home with seven bedrooms and
six baths. I pay $18,000 a year in property taxes in New
Hampshire for that home and $1,000 a year for a car tax.
It is that car tax and that registered car that are the
center of this controversy.
“This new Escalade will be driven predominately in
New Hampshire, so I registered it in New Hampshire,”
Perry continued. “I am still a registered voter in
North Andover,” he says. “These attacks are
purely political.”
School Committeeman Bill Kelly questioned Perry’s
judgment in registering his car in New Hampshire. “A
member of the School Committee must follow the rules as
we ask our students to and not evade them,” he
charged. “We need to lead by example.”
Upon learning that Perry was registering his new car in
the state of New Hampshire, North Andover Selectman (and
Police Officer) Dan Lanen was outraged. “This town
has been vigorously going after out-of-state
registrations and unpaid property taxes. I do not know
the particulars of this case, but I would be shocked if
one of our elected officials would be skirting the law.
If you live in North Andover, your car should be
registered in North Andover,” Lanen concluded.
When asked about the regulations regarding registering a
car in Massachusetts versus New Hampshire, Tom Sullivan
of Sullivan Insurance in Lawrence said, “It is a
question of fact. In what state is the car principally
garaged? That is where the car should be registered.
Anyone who lives in Massachusetts and registers their car
in New Hampshire is breaking the law unless the car is
principally garaged in New Hampshire.”
“Al Perry is an elected official and owns an
insurance agency in Massachusetts. He, of all people
should know better than to register a car in New
Hampshire,” Sullivan concluded.
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The March 2007 Edition
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