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NH Rev Stat § 230:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:14 - Layout by Commission.

    230:14 Layout by Commission. –||I. The governor, with advice of the council, may appoint a commission of 3 persons who, upon hearing, shall determine whether there is occasion for the laying out or alteration of a class I or class II highway or a highway within the state included in the national system of interstate highways as proposed by the commissioner of transportation. If such a determination is made by the commission, the commissioner may purchase land or other property that is reasonably necessary for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration and shall lay out the remainder of such highway or alteration. Any such land or property which cannot be acquired by agreement with the owner or owners thereof may be acquired in accordance with RSA 498-A and all issues that are appealed relating to necessity, public use, and net public benefit shall be determined in accordance with RSA 230:19. Property rights acquired under the provisions of this section shall be in fee simple or in the form of easements, including property acquired by condemnation proceedings.||II. The commissioner may acquire such property as he or she determines necessary to:||(a) Lay out and establish, construct, improve, or maintain, provide a change of alignment of, or provide drainage for class I or class II highways.||(b) Construct, improve, and maintain transportation projects as directed by law and provide mitigation for existing or potential environmental effects of transportation projects.||(c) Provide rest areas, parking strips, and roadside and landscape development for the preservation and development of natural scenic beauty.||(d) Provide for the health, safety, and welfare of the public using a class I or class II highway.||(e) Secure materials, with necessary ways and access, for the construction, improvement, and maintenance of class I or class II highways.||(f) Erect administrative, storage, and operational buildings.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:2. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 3. RSA 233:2. 1981, 87:1. 1983, 297:8. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2). 1992, 150:4. 1998, 74:1. 2006, 324:23, eff. Jan. 1, 2007. 2018, 155:1, eff. July 29, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:15 - Owners Defined.

    230:15 Owners Defined. –||Owners shall include tenants for life or years, remaindermen, reversioners, or holders of undischarged mortgages of record whose mortgages are dated not earlier than 20 years prior to date of filing such petition.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:3. RSA 233:3. 1955, 56:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:16 - Oath of Commissioners.

    230:16 Oath of Commissioners. –||The persons appointed to the commission shall be sworn to act faithfully and impartially in the performance of their duties and the certificate of their oath shall be returned to the secretary of state.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:4. RSA 233:4. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:17 - Layout of State Highways; Notice of Hearing.

    230:17 Layout of State Highways;  Notice of Hearing. –||The governor with the advice of the council, or the commission appointed by the governor with advice of the council, at least 14 days previous to a public hearing as provided in RSA 230:19, shall cause notice in writing of the time and place of hearing appointed by them, together with a description of the proposed location, to be given to each owner of land or other property over which such highway may pass, and to the clerk of any city or town in which such highway or alteration may be laid out. Other meetings shall be noticed in accordance with RSA 91-A.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:5. 1954, 1:2. RSA 233:5. 1955, 56:2. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981. 2017, 156:121, eff. July 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:18 - Method of Giving Notice.

    230:18 Method of Giving Notice. –||I. When the owner resides or lives within the state, notice shall be given to him in person or left at his abode or sent to him by certified mail.||II. When the owner does not reside or live within the state notice may be given to the person, if any, who has the care or possession of the land, or may be sent by registered mail to the owner's last known address.||III. If the owner is a person under guardianship or conservatorship notice shall be given to his guardian or conservator. If the owner is under any legal disability a guardian or conservator may be appointed.||IV. When the owner, or his residence, is unknown or uncertain, a copy of such notice, when posted in 2 public places in the city or town in which the land is situate, at least 14 days previous to hearing, shall be deemed sufficient notice to such owner.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:6-9. RSA 233:6-9. 1977, 80:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:19 - Hearing.

    230:19 Hearing. –||The governor and council, or the commission, at the time and place appointed for hearing shall make a personal examination of the proposed location, and of any highway for which the proposed highway is designed to be a substitute, shall hear all parties interested who may attend, and may adjourn as they see cause. They may admit or reject any evidence offered and there shall be no appeal from their findings on the matter of occasion for the laying out of the highway or alteration thereof in the absence of fraud or gross mistake.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:10. RSA 233:10. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:20 - Repealed by 1998, 74:3, eff. July 18, 1998.

    230:20 Repealed by 1998, 74:3, eff. July 18, 1998. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:21 - Repealed by 1983, 297:9, I, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    230:21 Repealed by 1983, 297:9, I, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:22 - Repealed by 1983, 297:9, II, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    230:22 Repealed by 1983, 297:9, II, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:23 - Repealed by 1983, 297:9, III, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    230:23 Repealed by 1983, 297:9, III, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:24 - Repealed by 1983, 297:9, IV, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    230:24 Repealed by 1983, 297:9, IV, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:25 - Keeping of Records.

    230:25 Keeping of Records. –||In the making of all awards the commission shall keep a complete record of all evidence considered by it in arriving at its awards and shall submit same to the governor and council with its report to them. The expense of such record shall be a charge against the highway fund.|||Source. 1954, 1:1. RSA 233:19. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:26 - Repealed by 1983, 297:9, V, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    230:26 Repealed by 1983, 297:9, V, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:27 - Repealed by 1983, 297:9, VI, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    230:27 Repealed by 1983, 297:9, VI, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:28 - Repealed by 1983, 297:9, VII, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    230:28 Repealed by 1983, 297:9, VII, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:29 - Purchase of Entire Tract; Sale of Portion.

    230:29 Purchase of Entire Tract;  Sale of Portion. –||Whenever the commission is of the opinion that savings to the state will thereby be effected, it may purchase an entire tract of land or other property upon agreement with the owner, and, with the consent of the governor and council, may sell therefrom whatever land or other property is not needed for the location or relocation of the highway.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:21. RSA 233:23. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:30 - Taking Tree Rights.

    230:30 Taking Tree Rights. –||The commission may include in their assessment of damages to the abutting owners, damages for the maintenance or planting, from time to time, within the limits of such highway, of such shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery as may be necessary in the opinion of the commissioner of transportation, for the preservation, improvement, or landscaping of such highway, and upon tender of such damages there shall be a public easement on such highway for such purposes and to protect, preserve and renew the growth thereon.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:22. RSA 233:24. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2).|
NH Rev Stat § 230:30-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:30-a - Vending Machines.

    230:30-a Vending Machines. –||I. In consultation with the commissioner of the department of transportation, the director of plant and property management shall, when feasible, authorize the installation of vending machines dispensing non-alcoholic beverages and food items in the facilities located in rest areas along the state highway system.||II. The director of plant and property management shall put out bids for the installation and maintenance of the vending machines on a rest area by rest area basis. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 186-B:9-15, any bidder shall be eligible to bid for this service and shall be eligible to service more than one rest area.||III. In implementing this section, the director of plant and property management shall not incur any capital expense to the state of New Hampshire general fund.||III-a. The commissioner of the department of transportation may incur capital expenses for the erection of new facilities to house vending machines.||IV. The state's share of the funds derived from the vending machine revenue shall be apportioned as follows: 75 percent to the general fund, and 25 percent to the department of transportation beginning July 1, 1999.||V. The provisions of RSA 230:52 shall not apply to the installation of vending machines under this section.|||Source. 1985, 154:1. 1998, 142:1, eff. June 8, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:31 - Payment of Expense.

    230:31 Payment of Expense. –||The state shall pay for all land and other property taken or acquired by the commission, and, with the approval of the governor, with advice of the council, for the services and expenses of the commissioners and costs of litigation incurred by the commission in the taking of such land and property, and all such sums shall be a charge upon the state highway department funds.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 4:23. RSA 233:25. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:32 - Required Filing.

    230:32 Required Filing. –||Whenever proceedings have been completed under the provisions of this chapter for the taking of land or other property for class I or class II highways the commissioner of transportation shall cause to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds for the respective county where said land or other property is situated a plan of the final taking together with all deeds, if any, received by the state in such taking, which deeds shall make specific reference to said plan, and, if eminent domain proceedings have been had hereunder, a copy of the return of the commissioners showing the highway or any alteration by them laid out as provided in RSA 230:20 shall be recorded in said registry of deeds.|||Source. 1953, 175:1. RSA 233:26. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2).|
NH Rev Stat § 230:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:33 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, V, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:33 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, V, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:34 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, VI, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:34 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, VI, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:35 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, VII, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:35 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, VII, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:36 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, VIII, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:36 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, VIII, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:37 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, IX, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:37 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, IX, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:38 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, X, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:38 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, X, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:39 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XI, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:39 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XI, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:40 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XII, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:40 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XII, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:41 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XIII, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:41 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XIII, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:42 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XIV, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:42 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XIV, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:43 - Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XV, eff. May 17, 1989.

    230:43 Repealed by 1989, 147:2, XV, eff. May 17, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 230:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:44 - Definition.

    230:44 Definition. –||For the purposes of this subdivision, a limited access facility is defined as a highway especially designed for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement or only a limited right or easement of access, light, air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such limited access facility or for any other reason. Such highways may be parkways from which trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles shall be excluded; or they may be freeways open to use by all customary forms of highway traffic.|||Source. 1943, 79:1, par. 1. 1945, 188:1, part 7:1. RSA 236:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:44-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:44-a - Jurisdiction of Class III-a Highways.

    230:44-a Jurisdiction of Class III-a Highways. –||For the purpose of this subdivision, the executive director of the fish and game department shall have authority over all class III-a highways.|||Source. 1992, 265:11, eff. July 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:45 - Occasion for Layout; Layout.

    230:45 Occasion for Layout;  Layout. –||The governor, with the advice of the council, on the governor's own motion or a special committee of 3 persons appointed by the governor and council for the purpose, may determine, upon hearing, whether there is occasion for the laying out or alteration of a limited access facility including service roads as proposed by the commissioner of transportation; and, if so, the commissioner may purchase land or other property as proposed and shall lay out the remainder of such facility, service roads, or alteration thereof. The commissioner may acquire private or public property and property rights for such facility and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise, purchase, or condemnation in the same manner as provided for acquiring property for class I highways. Property rights acquired under the provisions of this section may be in fee simple or in the form of easements, including property acquired by condemnation proceedings. The commissioner, in his or her discretion, may acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of land if, by so doing, the interests of the public will be best served even though the entire lot, block, or tract is not immediately needed for the right-of-way proper. The commissioner of transportation, with the approval of the governor and council, may sell, convey, transfer, or lease any surplus property, real or personal, at public or private sale.|||Source. 1943, 79:1, par. 2. 1945, 188:1, part 7:2. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 2. RSA 236:2. 1955, 292:1. 1981, 87:1. 1983, 297:10. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2). 1992, 150:5. 1996, 28:1. 1998, 74:2, eff. July 18, 1998. 2017, 156:122, eff. July 1, 2017. 2018, 155:3, eff. July 29, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 230:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:46 - Design.

    230:46 Design. –||The commissioner of transportation is authorized to so design any limited access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. He is authorized to divide and separate any limited access facility into separate roadways by the construction of raised curbings, central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by designating such separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes and the proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes and other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to, from, or across limited access facilities to or from abutting lands, except at such designated points at which access may be permitted, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified by the commissioner of transportation from time to time.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 7:3. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 2. RSA 236:3. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2).|
NH Rev Stat § 230:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:47 - New and Existing Facilities.

    230:47 New and Existing Facilities. –||The commissioner of transportation may designate and establish limited access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish any existing road, street or highway within the state as included within a limited access facility. He shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of limited access facilities with any existing road, street or highway, by grade separation or service road or by closing off such road, street, or highway at the right-of-way boundary line of such limited access facility; and after the establishment of any limited access facility, no road, street or highway which is not part of said facility shall intersect the same except at such locations and upon such conditions as the commissioner of transportation shall approve.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 7:4. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 2. RSA 236:4. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2).|
NH Rev Stat § 230:48 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:48 - Local Service Roads.

    230:48 Local Service Roads. –||The commissioner of transportation is authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain or discontinue any road, street or highway or portion thereof, or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road, street or highway, and to exercise jurisdiction over service roads in the same manner as is authorized over limited access facilities if in his opinion such local service roads are necessary or desirable.|||Source. 1943, 79:1, par. 3. 1945, 188:1, part 7:5. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 2. RSA 236:5. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(2).|
NH Rev Stat § 230:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 230 - State Highways|Section 230:49 - Motorist Service Signing Program Established; Signs.

    230:49 Motorist Service Signing Program Established;  Signs. –||I. The location of essential motorist services, including food, fuel, lodging, camping, and attractions, on connecting service roads within 3 miles of the intersection with the limited access highway, within 5 miles for a campground, within 20 miles for an attraction, or within one mile of the intersection in urban compact areas, may be indicated to users of the limited access facility by appropriate signs, the specifications of which shall be determined by the commissioner of transportation. The distance specified shall be measured by computing the travel length from the terminal of an exit ramp to the nearest point along the public highway where the nearest existing driveway entrance to the service is reached. Additional motorist service signs may be placed in advance of intersections on limited access highways.||II. Signs permitted under paragraph I may be rented for a fee established by rules adopted by the commissioner of transportation pursuant to RSA 541-A. Alternatively, the commissioner may contract with a private entity to administer the program; fees shall be in accordance with the contract and forwarded to the commissioner by the administering entity. The sum of the fees collected shall be sufficient to ensure the motorist service sign program is self-supporting.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 7:6. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 2. RSA 236:6. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I, b, 2. 1994, 296:1, eff. June 6, 1994. 2009, 111:1, eff. Aug. 14, 2009. 2014, 320:1, eff. Aug. 1, 2014. 2016, 106:1, eff. May 19, 2016. 2021, 68:1, eff. Aug. 9, 2021.|