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NH Rev Stat § 485:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:20 - Injunctions.

    485:20 Injunctions. –||I. The superior court shall have power to issue injunctions restraining any person from violating the provisions of RSA 485:17.||II. Municipalities may apply to a justice of the superior court for injunctive relief against existing or impending violations of RSA 485:17. The municipality shall give notice of any such action to the attorney general and the commissioner of environmental services, who may take such steps as they deem necessary to ensure uniform statewide enforcement, including but not limited to joining the action, assuming sole prosecution of the action, or, as of right, dismissing the action without prejudice. Such notice shall be given at least 30 days prior to the commencement of any such action, unless more immediate action is necessary to prevent irreparable environmental damage or other serious public harm, in which case such notice shall be given as soon as practicable, but in no event later than the date of commencement of the action. This paragraph shall not be construed to affect, in any manner, existing authority of municipalities to act based upon the provisions of other statutes or local ordinances.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1991, 340:3. 2009, 210:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:21 - Fishing; Ice Racing; Penalty.

    485:21 Fishing;  Ice Racing;  Penalty. –||Said local legislative bodies and officers may also adopt all reasonable rules regarding fishing and the use of boats in and upon any such lake, pond or reservoir, and regarding racing or speeding horses upon the ice of such water body, which they may deem expedient. Any person who shall violate any of said rules after notice of such rules shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:22 - Bathing.

    485:22 Bathing. –||If any person shall bathe in such lake, pond or reservoir, within the limits prescribed for the protection of said water supply by the local board of health or health officer or the department, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:23 - Petition to Protect Water Supplies.

    485:23 Petition to Protect Water Supplies. –||I. Whenever any board of water commissioners, local board of health, local health officer or 10 or more citizens of any town or city have reason to believe that a public water or ice supply is being contaminated or is in danger of contamination, and that the local regulations are not sufficient or effective to prevent such pollution, they may petition the department to investigate the case, and to adopt rules under RSA 541-A as the department may deem necessary for the protection of the said supply against any pollution that in its judgment would endanger the public health. Citizens petitioning under this section shall designate a signatory of the petition as the person to whom the department shall send its response.||II. Whenever any board of water commissioners, local board of health, or other owner of a public water supply has reason to believe that a public water supply is in danger of being contaminated or is otherwise threatened and that an emergency condition exists such that a petition pursuant to paragraph I to the department and the adoption of rules would not adequately protect the water supply, the board or owner may petition the governor to declare a state of emergency for the public water supply. At the request of the governor, the department shall consult with the owner of the water supply and make a recommendation as to emergency protections that may be necessary. If the governor declares a state of emergency for a public water supply, those additional protections that the governor deems necessary shall be effective immediately and for the duration of the emergency. The declaration of a state of emergency for a public water supply shall not exceed 6 months. The governor may renew the declaration one time for up to 6 additional months upon further request by the original petitioner. At such time as any of the emergency protections are to become permanent, the department shall initiate rulemaking in accordance with RSA 485:24. Any protections in the governor's declaration shall be enforced in the same manner as rules adopted pursuant to RSA 485:24 or RSA 485:25 with violations of the protections subject to RSA 485:4 and RSA 485:58.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106. 2002, 141:1, eff. May 13, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:23-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:23-a - Review of Private Access Facilities.

    485:23-a Review of Private Access Facilities. –||No private boat access facility shall be constructed to any public waters which serve as a public water supply for a public or private water utility company, without the approval of the department of environmental services upon consultation with the public water access advisory board and notification to the public utilities commission for any water utility under its jurisdiction.|||Source. 1996, 224:2, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:24 - Investigations; Rules.

    485:24 Investigations;  Rules. –||I. The department shall respond in writing to a petition filed under RSA 485:23, I, after due investigation, but not later than 30 days after receipt of the petition, informing the petitioners of the department's intended action. In response to a petition, or upon its own motion, the department shall adopt such rules under RSA 541-A as it may deem best to protect the water or ice supply against any dangerous contamination. If requested by the department, the local board of water commissioners, the local board of health, or the local health officer, shall enforce such rules in cooperation with the department.||II. In the case of water supplies any part of which may be outside the town or city concerned, the health officer of such town or city may act as an agent of the department for the enforcement of these rules when so designated by the department. The department may empower the board of water commissioners, local board of health, or local health officer and their agents of the affected municipality to enforce rules adopted under the provisions of this section.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106. 2002, 141:2, eff. May. 13, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:25 - Interstate Waters.

    485:25 Interstate Waters. –||To protect the purity of interstate waters used as sources of public drinking water supply by adjoining states, the commissioner is authorized, at the request of the state health department of an adjoining state, to adopt rules under RSA 541-A for the protection of the purity of the waters of any lakes, ponds, streams, and reservoirs within any specified drainage area in this state.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:110, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:26 - Penalty for Violation of Rules.

    485:26 Penalty for Violation of Rules. –||Any person violating rules adopted pursuant to RSA 485:24 or 25 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:27 - Power to Require Improvements in Sewage Treatment.

    485:27 Power to Require Improvements in Sewage Treatment. –||The department is empowered to investigate the conditions and methods pertaining to existing systems of sewerage and sewage treatment works and to require the application of any treatment, improvement or enlargement of such facilities as will insure their proper operation and provide adequate protection of the public health. Issuance of orders requiring changes or improvements in such sewerage systems or treatment works shall be in the manner as prescribed in RSA 485:4.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:28 - Power to Require the Installation of Sewage Facilities.

    485:28 Power to Require the Installation of Sewage Facilities. –||The department is hereby empowered to investigate the conditions and methods relating to the disposal of sewage in any municipality, as set forth in RSA 486:1, and to require the installation of public sewers, as defined in RSA 147:8, whenever such investigation demonstrates that individual sewage disposal systems are inadequate or incapable of protecting the health and welfare of the citizens of the affected municipality or preventing pollution of the surface waters of the state, as defined in RSA 485-A. Before issuing an order requiring the installation of public sewer facilities, the department shall notify the municipality of its findings and shall give the municipality an opportunity to be heard. After such hearing if it shall be determined that said facilities are necessary, the municipality shall be so notified in writing and the requirements so ordered shall be effected pursuant to RSA 38:25 within a reasonable time to be fixed by the department. If any municipality whose duty it is to act shall fail or refuse for a period of 10 days after the expiration of the time fixed by said order, or, in the case of appeal for a period of 10 days after final judgment shall have been entered, to obey the same or in good faith to begin to make the installation as ordered, such municipality so failing shall be fined not more than $1,000 for each day of failure to comply with the order of the department. Said fine shall be paid to the state and may be recovered in an action of debt brought by the attorney general in the name of the state treasurer.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106. 1997, 206:7, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:29 - Appeal.

    485:29 Appeal. –||Any person aggrieved by any decision, regulation, ruling or order made by the department pursuant to the provisions of RSA 485:24, 27, and 28 may appeal such decisions pursuant to RSA 21-O:14.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:30 - Discharge of Sewage; Penalty.

    485:30 Discharge of Sewage;  Penalty. –||No person, association or corporation shall cause or permit the discharge of sewage or other deleterious waste from any dwelling, camp, factory, hotel, boardinghouse, or other commercial establishment into any stream, lake, pond, or river not previously polluted, without first submitting detailed plans of said proposed discharge to the department and securing the approval of the said department. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:31 - Tampering With Public Water Systems.

    485:31 Tampering With Public Water Systems. –||I. Any person who tampers with, attempts to tamper with, or makes a threat to tamper with a public water system shall be guilty of a class B felony if a natural person and guilty of a felony if any other person.||II. Notwithstanding RSA 651:2, a natural person may, in addition to any sentence of imprisonment, probation or conditional discharge, be fined not more than $50,000 if found guilty of tampering with a public water system, and not more than $25,000 if found guilty of an attempt to tamper with or making a threat to tamper with a public water system. Each day of violation shall constitute a separate violation.||III. Any person who tampers, attempts to tamper, or makes a threat to tamper with a public water system shall be liable to the state, upon suit brought by the attorney general, for a civil forfeiture not to exceed $50,000 for such tampering or not to exceed $25,000 for such attempt or threat.||IV. In this section, the term "tamper" means:||(a) To introduce a contaminant into a public water system with the purpose of harming persons; or||(b) To otherwise interfere with the operation of a public water system with the purpose of harming persons.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:32 - Injuring Property.

    485:32 Injuring Property. –||Any person who shall willfully injure any of the property of any water company or of any city or town, used by it in supplying water to its inhabitants, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person, and such person shall also forfeit and pay to such water company, city or town 3 times the amount of actual damages sustained, to be recovered in an action on the case.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:33 - Analyses; Prohibiting Use.

    485:33 Analyses;  Prohibiting Use. –||Whenever any well, spring or other water supply is suspected of being polluted by sewage or other matter dangerous to health, the health officer of the town where it is located may cause an analysis of the water to be made by a competent chemist, without expense to the owner. If the analysis shows the water to be unfit for drinking purposes they may, with the approval of the department, prohibit its use, and, if it be from a well, may cause the well to be closed.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:34 - Enforcement.

    485:34 Enforcement. –||The department shall have concurrent jurisdiction with local boards and officers to enforce the provisions of this subdivision.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:35 - Prohibiting Use; Penalty.

    485:35 Prohibiting Use;  Penalty. –||Whenever the department, upon investigation, becomes satisfied that a well, spring or other supply of water, used for domestic purposes, has become polluted so as to endanger the public health, it is authorized to prohibit the person or corporation owning or controlling said supply from furnishing such water for domestic purposes, until it becomes satisfied that said water supply has been purified and made fit for domestic use. Any person who knowingly violates the order of the department is guilty of a class B felony for each day he or she continues to furnish water after the order of the department has been served on such person.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106. 2008, 161:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:35-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:35-a - Repealed by 1991, 215:3, eff. Aug. 9, 1991.

    485:35-a Repealed by 1991, 215:3, eff. Aug. 9, 1991. –|
NH Rev Stat § 485:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:36 - Injunctions to Enforce.

    485:36 Injunctions to Enforce. –||The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, upon application of the department, to enforce the orders of the department issued under RSA 485:35.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:37 - Fencing or Covering.

    485:37 Fencing or Covering. –||No person who owns or occupies land shall knowingly allow any well which is within 500 feet of a dwelling or within 200 feet of any highway to remain open on such land, unless there is around such well a substantial fence or protection at least 3 feet high so constructed that no child can crawl through or under it. Any such well shall be deemed to be open unless it is protected by a covering strong enough to hold 1,000 pounds and secured so that it cannot be easily removed by children. The term "well" as used in this subdivision shall mean any artificially made hole in the surface of the earth (a) which is more than 4 feet deep and (b) which is more than 8 inches in diameter and less than 16 square feet in area at the top and (c) the sides of which are steeper than a 60 degree slope.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:38 - Nuisance.

    485:38 Nuisance. –||Any open well which is not fenced or protected as provided in RSA 485:37 is declared a nuisance and the same may be ordered abated by any court of competent jurisdiction on complaint of any prosecuting officer.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:39 - Penalty.

    485:39 Penalty. –||Whoever violates any provision of RSA 485:37 or RSA 485:38 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:40 - Emergency Planning.

    485:40 Emergency Planning. –||The department shall develop plans, with the advice and assistance of the division of homeland security and emergency management, and of the public water systems of the state, for emergency conditions and situations that may endanger the public health or welfare by contamination of drinking water. Such plans may include potential sources of contaminants and situations or conditions that could place them in the sources of public drinking water, techniques and methods to be used by public water systems to reduce or eliminate the dangers to public health caused thereby, methods and times for analysis or testing during such emergency conditions or situations, alternate sources of water available to public water systems, and methods of supplying drinking water to consumers if a public water system cannot supply such water.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:71. 2002, 257:10. 2003, 319:128. 2004, 171:20. 2008, 361:15, eff. July 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:43 - Notification of Noncompliance; Water Quality.

    485:43 Notification of Noncompliance;  Water Quality. –||I. A public water system shall, upon granting of a variance or exemption or upon determination of its noncompliance with any primary drinking water standard or any rule adopted under this chapter or with any other requirement of this chapter notify the department of such noncompliance within 48 hours and shall notify its users of such noncompliance in accordance with rules adopted by the department under RSA 485:3.||II. Each community public water system shall annually notify each of its users of the results of water quality tests required by RSA 485:41. Such notification shall be in the form prescribed by rule adopted by the commissioner, pursuant to RSA 541-A, under RSA 485:3, VII. Such notification shall include, but not be limited to, a listing of contaminants identified under rules adopted pursuant to RSA 485:3, I, and the results of testing for various bacteriological agents. Where multiple tests have been conducted, a summary or average level of contaminants or biological agents may be provided.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, 110, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 485:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 485 - New Hampshire Safe Drinking Water Act|Section 485:45 - Testing of Water Supplies.

    485:45 Testing of Water Supplies. –||The state laboratory shall make periodic inspections and analyses of the public water supplies of the state and any special investigations of such water supplies that may be called for; also, when requested or as may be deemed by them necessary or expedient in the interests of the public health, make inspections or analyses of sources furnishing water to institutions, schools, hotels, camps, other places of public resort and individuals, and advise in connection with the same.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|