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NH Rev Stat § 205:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:3-a - Authority to Take Real Property by Eminent Domain Limited.

    205:3-a Authority to Take Real Property by Eminent Domain Limited. –||In undertaking redevelopment projects pursuant to this chapter, a housing authority shall have the power to take real property by eminent domain. The power of eminent domain shall be used only for the purpose of acquiring real property that will be put to public use, as defined in RSA 205:3-b.|||Source. 2006, 324:9, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:3-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:3-b - "Public Use" Defined.

    205:3-b "Public Use" Defined. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in this chapter, "public use" means:||I. (a) The possession, occupation, and enjoyment of real property by the general public or governmental entities;||(b) The acquisition of any interest in real property necessary to the function of a public or private utility or common carrier either through deed of sale or lease;||(c) The acquisition of real property to remove structures beyond repair, public nuisances, structures unfit for human habitation or use, and abandoned property when such structures or property constitute a menace to health and safety; and||(d) Private use that occupies an incidental area within a public use; provided, that no real property may be condemned solely for the purpose of facilitating such incidental private use.||II. Except as provided in subparagraphs I(b) and (d) of this section, public use shall not include the public benefits resulting from private economic development and private commercial enterprise, including increased tax revenues and increased employment opportunities.|||Source. 2006, 324:9, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:4 - Initiation of Projects.

    205:4 Initiation of Projects. –||An authority shall not initiate any redevelopment project under this chapter until the governing body (or agency designated by it or empowered by law so to act) of each city or town (hereinafter called "municipalities") in which any of the area to be covered by said project is situated, has approved a plan (herein called the "redevelopment plan") which provides an outline for the development or redevelopment of said area and is sufficiently complete (1) to indicate its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriate land uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities and other public improvements; (2) to indicate proposed land uses and building requirements in the area; and (3) to indicate the method for the temporary relocation of persons living in such areas; and also the method for providing (unless already available) decent, safe and sanitary dwellings substantially equal in number to the number of substandard dwellings to be cleared from said area, at rents within the financial reach of the income groups displaced from such substandard dwellings. Such municipalities are hereby authorized to approve redevelopment plans through their governing body or agency designated by it for that purpose. Any municipality, as defined in the housing authorities law, RSA 203, shall have the same rights and powers to cooperate with and assist housing authorities with respect to redevelopment projects that such municipality has pursuant to such law for the purpose of assisting the development of administration of slum clearance and housing projects in the same manner as though the cooperation provisions of the housing authorities law were applicable to redevelopment projects undertaken under this chapter.|||Source. 1947, 210:4, eff. June 19, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:4-a - Disasters.

    205:4-a Disasters. –||Any area certified by the governing body of a city or town to be in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the governor of the state has certified the need for disaster assistance under Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, or other federal law, shall be a blighted area within the meaning of this chapter but clauses (1) and (3) of RSA 205:4 shall not be applicable to a redevelopment plan for a redevelopment project carried out in such a disaster area.|||Source. 1959, 49:1, eff. June 8, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:4-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:4-b - Early Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property.

    205:4-b Early Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property. –||An authority may, with the approval of the governing body (or agency designated by it or empowered by law so to act) of the municipality in which the real property lies, and prior to the approval of a redevelopment plan for a redevelopment project including such real property, (1) acquire any real property constituting the whole or any part or parts of any area which it has determined to be an area necessary for its purposes under this chapter, as amended, and for which it is preparing a redevelopment plan for a redevelopment project and clear the areas so acquired, and (2) dispose of said real property at any time after acquisition in the manner provided in RSA 205:5 and subject to the provisions of any redevelopment plan which may later be approved for the area of any redevelopment project including such real property. For the acquisition and disposition of any such real property an authority shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities that are granted to the authority in this chapter with respect to any real property included in a redevelopment project for which a redevelopment plan has been approved as provided in RSA 205:4.|||Source. 1965, 109:1, eff. May 20, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:4-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:4-d - Repealed by 2013, 7:3, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.

    205:4-d Repealed by 2013, 7:3, eff. Nov. 1, 2013. –|
NH Rev Stat § 205:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:5 - Land Available for Public or Private Agencies.

    205:5 Land Available for Public or Private Agencies. –||The authority may make land in a redevelopment project available for use by private enterprise or public agencies in accordance with the redevelopment plan. Such land may be made available at its use value, which represents the value (whether expressed in terms of rental or capital price) at which the authority determines such land should be made available in order that it may be developed or redeveloped for the purposes specified in such plan. To assure that land acquired in a redevelopment project is used in accordance with the redevelopment plan, an authority, upon the sale or lease of such land, shall obligate purchasers or lessees: (1) to use the land for the purpose designated in the redevelopment plan; (2) to begin the building of their improvements within a period of time which the authority fixes as reasonable; and (3) to comply with such other conditions as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Any such obligations by the purchaser shall be covenants and conditions running with the land where the authority so stipulates.|||Source. 1947, 210:5, eff. June 19, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:6 - Tax Status.

    205:6 Tax Status. –||Any property which the authority leases to private individuals or corporations for development under a redevelopment plan shall have the same tax status as if such leased property were owned by such private individuals or corporations.|||Source. 1947, 210:6, eff. June 19, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:7 - Federal Assistance.

    205:7 Federal Assistance. –||An authority may borrow money or accept contributions from the federal government to assist in its undertaking redevelopment projects. An authority may do any and all things necessary or desirable to secure such financial aid (including obligating itself in any contract with the federal government for annual contributions to convey to the federal government the project to which said contract relates upon the occurrence of a substantial default thereunder), in the same manner as it may do to secure such aid in connection with slum clearance and housing projects under the provisions of the housing authorities law.|||Source. 1947, 210:7, eff. June 19, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:8 - Bonds.

    205:8 Bonds. –||Bonds or other obligations issued by a housing authority in connection with a redevelopment project pursuant to this chapter shall be security for public deposits and legal investments to the same extent and for the same persons, institutions, associations, corporations, and other bodies and officers as bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to the housing authorities lawin connection with the development of slum clearance or housing projects.|||Source. 1947, 210:8, eff. June 19, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:9 - Advisory Board.

    205:9 Advisory Board. –||For the purpose of coordinating its activities and undertakings under this chapter with the needs and undertakings of other local organizations and groups, a housing authority may establish an advisory board consisting of the chairman of the authority (who shall be chairman of the advisory board) and of sufficient members to represent so far as practicable: the general public and consumers of housing; general business interests; real estate, building and home financing interests; labor; any official planning body in the locality; and church and welfare groups. The members of the advisory board shall be appointed by the chairman of the authority.|||Source. 1947, 210:9, eff. June 19, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:9-a - Preliminary or General Planning of Redevelopment Activities.

    205:9-a Preliminary or General Planning of Redevelopment Activities. –||A housing authority is authorized to make preliminary or general plans outlining redevelopment activities for the community as a whole or for neighborhoods to embrace 2 or more redevelopment project areas, preliminary surveys to determine if the undertaking and carrying out of a redevelopment project are feasible, and plans for carrying out a program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements.|||Source. 1959, 49:2, eff. June 8, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:9-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:9-b - Demonstration Projects.

    205:9-b Demonstration Projects. –||A housing authority is authorized to develop, test and report methods and techniques, and carry out demonstrations and activities, for the prevention and the elimination of urban blight.|||Source. 1959, 49:2, eff. June 8, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:10 - Powers Hereunder Are Supplementary.

    205:10 Powers Hereunder Are Supplementary. –||The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.|||Source. 1947, 210:10, eff. June 19, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:11 - Workable Program.

    205:11 Workable Program. –||The governing body of a municipality, or such public officer or public body as it may designate, is hereby authorized to prepare a workable program, which may include an official plan of action as it exists from time to time for effectively dealing with the problem of blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating areas within the community and for the establishment and preservation of a well planned community with well organized neighborhoods, for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate and to prevent the development or spread of such areas, to encourage needed rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted areas, and to establish and preserve a well planned community.|||Source. 1959, 52:3, eff. April 9, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 205:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205 - Redevelopment Projects|Section 205:12 - Relocation Payments.

    205:12 Relocation Payments. –||A housing authority is authorized to make plans for relocation of and to make payment to persons, including families, business concerns and others, displaced by a redevelopment project, for moving expenses and loss of property for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made, including the making of such payments financed by the federal government, provided that any amount set aside for any such payments not financed by the federal government shall be approved by the governing body of the municipality.|||Source. 1959, 52:3, eff. April 9, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:1 - Definitions.

    205-A:1 Definitions. –||As used solely in this chapter unless the context specifically requires otherwise:||I. "Manufactured housing" includes, but is not limited to, manufactured housing as defined by RSA 674:31, and also includes any prefabricated dwelling unit which:||(a) Is designed for long term and continuous residential occupancy;||(b) Is designed to be moved on wheels, as a whole or in sections; and||(c) On arrival on the site, is complete and ready for occupancy, except for incidental unpacking, assembly, connection with utilities, and placing on support or permanent structure.||Nothing herein shall be construed to include campers or recreational vehicles within the definition of "manufactured housing".||II. "Manufactured housing park" means any parcel of land under single or common ownership or control which contains, or is designed, laid out or adapted to accommodate 2 or more manufactured houses. Nothing herein shall be construed to apply to premises used solely for storage or display of manufactured housing.||III. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship.||IV. "Tenant" means any person who owns or occupies manufactured housing and pays rent or other consideration to place said manufactured housing in a manufactured housing park.||V. "Manufactured housing park owner" means the person holding title to the manufactured housing park to be sold.||VI. "Family member" includes the owner's spouse, son, daughter, mother, father, brother, sister, grandson, granddaughter, stepchildren, stepgrand-children, or first cousins.||VII. "Final unconditional offer" means a fully executed agreement for the sale of a manufactured housing park.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1983, 230:10, 18. 1985, 333:1. 1987, 383:1, eff. May 26, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:3 - Termination of Tenancy.

    205-A:3 Termination of Tenancy. –||A tenancy in a manufactured housing park may be terminated by a manufactured housing park owner or operator upon giving notice in writing to the tenant in the manner prescribed by RSA 540:5 and by first class mail, to remove from the premises within a period of not less than:||I. 30 days, for an action based on RSA 205-A:4, I.||II. 60 days, for an action based on RSA 205-A:4, II, III, IV, or V.||III. 18 months, for an action based on RSA 205-A:4, VI.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1979, 477:2. 1983, 230:18. 1985, 57:1; 333:2. 1988, 48:1, eff. Mar. 31, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:4 - Permissible Reasons for Eviction.

    205-A:4 Permissible Reasons for Eviction. –||After the effective date of this section, a tenancy may be terminated by a park owner or operator pursuant to this chapter only for one or more of the following reasons:||I. Nonpayment of rent, utility charges, or reasonable incidental service charges; provided that no action for possession shall be maintained if prior to the expiration of an eviction notice the tenant shall pay or tender all arrearages due plus $15 as liquidated damages.||II. Failure of the tenant to comply with local ordinances or state or federal law or regulations relating to manufactured housing or manufactured housing parks, provided that the tenant is first given written notice of the tenant's failure to comply with said laws or regulations and a reasonable opportunity thereafter to comply with said laws or regulations.||III. Damage by the tenant to the demised property, reasonable wear and tear excepted.||IV. Repeated conduct of the tenant, upon the manufactured housing park premises, which disturbs the peace and quiet of other tenants in the manufactured housing park.||V. Failure of the tenant to comply with reasonable written rules and regulations of the manufactured housing park as established by the park owner or operator in the rental agreement at the inception of the tenancy or as amended subsequently with the written consent of the tenant, or without the tenant's consent upon 3 months' written notice; provided that the tenant is first given written notice of the failure to comply and a reasonable opportunity thereafter to comply with said rules and regulations. Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to permit a park owner or operator to vary the terms of a written or oral rental agreement without the express written consent of the tenant.||VI. Condemnation or change of use of the manufactured housing park.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1983, 230:18. 1985, 57:2. 1991, 293:2. 1996, 127:5, 6. 2006, 192:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:5 - Reason to be Specified.

    205-A:5 Reason to be Specified. –||The manufactured housing park owner or operator shall specify in the notice required by this chapter the reason for the termination of any tenancy in such manufactured housing park.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1983, 230:18, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:6 - Fees, Charges, Assessments.

    205-A:6 Fees, Charges, Assessments. –||I. A manufactured housing park owner or operator shall fully disclose in writing all terms and conditions of the tenancy including rental, utility and service charges, prior to entering into a rental agreement with a prospective tenant. No charges so disclosed may be increased by the park owner or operator without an explanation for the increase and specifying the date of implementation of said increase, which date shall be no less than 60 days after written notice to the tenant, and providing notice of the opportunity for voluntary private mediation of the increase under the Manufactured Housing Consumer Action Program. Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to permit a park owner or operator to vary the terms of a written or oral rental agreement without the express written consent of the tenant.||I-a. (a) Every notice of rent increase issued by a park owner pursuant to paragraph I shall contain the following statement in 10 point bold face print:||IF YOU OBJECT TO THIS RENT INCREASE AS ARBITRARY OR UNREASONABLE YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ENGAGE IN MEDIATION, WITH THE COST OF THE MEDIATOR TO BE FULLY PAID BY THE PARK OWNER, IF: AT LEAST ONE ADULT MEMBER OF NO LESS THAN 51 PERCENT OF THE HOME OWNERS IN THE PARK SIGNS A PETITION REQUESTING MEDIATION, and THE RENT INCREASE EXCEEDS $15 PER MONTH.||(b) The notice required in this section shall also provide the name, address, and telephone number of the person or entity which shall arrange the mediation.||II. In the event that a park owner or operator shifts responsibility for payment of water, sewer, or any other utility service to the tenant, the park owner or operator shall be responsible for the cost incurred in the conversion, including the cost of installation of utility meters, if any, on each manufactured home in the park, except as permitted by the public utilities commission pursuant to RSA 374 and RSA 378. After such a conversion, manufactured housing park tenants shall be billed directly by the utility for the use of such services.||III. Any park owner or operator who is billed as a single entity for any utility service shall be prohibited, on and after the effective date of this paragraph, from charging manufactured housing park tenants an administrative fee in relation to such utility service, except as permitted by the public utilities commission pursuant to RSA 374 and RSA 378.||IV. No manufactured housing park owner or operator shall charge a late fee for any rental payment that is paid in full within 7 calendar days of the due date.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1983, 230:18. 1994, 314:2. 1996, 127:1, eff. July 20, 1996. 2018, 73:1, eff. July 24, 2018. 2019, 59:1, eff. July 1, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:7 - Security Deposits.

    205-A:7 Security Deposits. –||No owner or operator of a manufactured housing park shall require as a security or damage deposit an amount greater than one month's rent. Said deposit shall be held or disposed of by said owner or operator in compliance with the provisions of RSA 477:48.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1977, 551:2. 1983, 230:18, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:8 - Purchase of Equipment.

    205-A:8 Purchase of Equipment. –||No manufactured housing park owner or operator shall require a resident therein to purchase from any particular person under-skirting, equipment for tying down manufactured housing or any other equipment required by law, local ordinance or regulation of the manufactured housing park. However, the park owner or operator may determine by rule or regulation the style or quality of such equipment to be purchased by the tenant from a vendor of the tenant's choosing.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1983, 230:18, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 205-A:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 205-A - Regulation of Manufactured Housing Parks|Section 205-A:9 - RSA 540 Applicable Where Not Inconsistent.

    205-A:9 RSA 540 Applicable Where Not Inconsistent. –||The provisions of RSA 540 shall apply to tenancies in manufactured housing parks except where such application would produce a result inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1973, 291:1. 1983, 230:18, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|