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NH Rev Stat § 38:13-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:13-a - Aggregate Municipal Revenue Bonds.

    38:13-a Aggregate Municipal Revenue Bonds. –|| If the commission orders divestiture of generation facilities in the implementation of electric utility restructuring under RSA 374-F, any municipality which has voted to acquire a hydro-electric facility as provided in RSA 38 may jointly issue with any other municipality which has also voted to acquire a hydro-electric facility as provided in RSA 38 municipal revenue bonds and notes pursuant to RSA 33-B as may be necessary and expedient for the purpose of defraying the cost of purchasing or taking such hydro-electric generation facilities. Such municipal revenue bonds or notes may be in the aggregate of the total cost of purchasing or taking such generation facilities as set forth in RSA 33-B:3 and may be issued in the joint names of any such municipalities in accordance with their respective interests therein. In all other respects, the provisions of RSA 33-B shall apply to the issuance of such municipal revenue bonds and notes.|||Source. 2000, 164:2, eff. May 23, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:14 - Operation of Plant.

    38:14 Operation of Plant. –||A municipality, which has so acquired the plant, property, or facilities of a public utility in any other municipality, may operate within such other municipality as a public utility with the same rights and franchises which the owners of such outlying plant, as purchased, would have had such purchase not been made. The operation by a municipality outside its own limits shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the commission except as provided in RSA 362. If the outlying municipality shall itself vote to establish a municipal plant all the provisions of this chapter shall be binding as to such determination.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:15 - Taking Property.

    38:15 Taking Property. –||Any such municipality may enter upon and take by eminent domain any land or any interest in land or water right within its limits, or in the case of a village district within the limits of the town or towns within which it is situated, which may be necessary for the construction, extension, or maintenance of its plant, and shall pay all damages sustained thereby, or by any other thing done under the authority of this chapter.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:16 - Damages.

    38:16 Damages. –||If the municipality shall not agree with the owner of the property referenced in RSA 38:15 as to damages, either party may apply to the superior court in the county where the town or district is located, or if the municipality is a village district then to the board of selectmen of the town or towns within which the village district is situated, to have the same laid out and the damages determined and proceedings thereon shall be as upon a petition for the laying out of a highway.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:17 - Supply Contracts.

    38:17 Supply Contracts. –||Any such municipality may contract to supply electricity, gas, or water to individuals, corporations, other municipalities, or any person for any of the purposes named or contemplated in this chapter, and make such contracts, and establish such regulations and such reasonable rates for the use thereof, as may from time to time be authorized by the commission.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:18 - Commissioners.

    38:18 Commissioners. –||For the more convenient management of any such electric, gas, or water works system, any such municipality may vest the construction, management, control, and direction of the same in a board of commissioners to consist of 3 or more citizens of such municipality, the commissioners to have such powers and duties as the municipality may prescribe. Their term of office shall be for 3 years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The first board of commissioners may be chosen for terms of one, 2, and 3 years, respectively, by the legal voters of the municipality at any legal meeting or election at which the provisions of this chapter are accepted, or at any special meeting or election thereafter called for that purpose, and their successors shall be elected at each annual meeting or election thereafter in the manner or form as the municipality may determine.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:19 - Appointment.

    38:19 Appointment. –||The commissioners may be appointed by the mayor and board of aldermen or city council, by the selectmen of the town, or by the commissioners of the district if the municipality fails to elect or votes to allow appointments.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:20 - Compensation and Organization.

    38:20 Compensation and Organization. –||The compensation of the commissioners shall be fixed by the municipality. They shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties. They shall annually organize by choosing one of their number as chairperson of their board. They shall appoint a clerk and a superintendent of the works and such other officers as they may deem necessary, and shall thereupon furnish a certificate of such organization to the clerk of the municipality, who shall record the same in the clerk's records. The commissioners shall fix the compensation of all officers and agents appointed by them, and all officers and agents shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:21 - Reports.

    38:21 Reports. –||The commissioners shall annually, at the time other city, town, or district officers report, make a report to the municipality of the condition of the plant financially and otherwise, showing the funds of the department, the expenses and income of the department, and all other material facts. This report shall be published in the annual report of the municipality.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:23 - Security Deposits from Tenants.

    38:23 Security Deposits from Tenants. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any public utility, including any municipal corporation, providing electricity or gas services other than for resale to a customer who is not the owner of the premises serviced by the utility and who has a separate electric or gas meter, for the premises serviced, may obtain a security deposit from the customer only, and shall not obtain a security deposit from the owner of the premises. The owner of the premises shall not be liable for the failure of a tenant to pay the utility bill when such tenant's premises has a separate meter, and the utility shall not have any lien on the property of the landlord under RSA 38:22 for the tenant's failure to pay the utility bill.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:24 - Effect on City Charters.

    38:24 Effect on City Charters. –||Nothing contained in this chapter shall affect, alter or change the provisions of any city charter with respect to the management, control, and direction of electric, gas, or water works.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:25 - Water Control.

    38:25 Water Control. –||Any municipality which shall have received an order from the department of environmental services under the provisions of RSA 147, 485 or 485-A shall proceed forthwith, after a majority vote in favor of such action, by the governing body, to acquire whatever easements and lands as are necessary to comply with the order and may enter upon, for the purpose of survey leading to land description, any land within the municipality. In so proceeding, the selectmen of the town, commissioners of the district, county commissioners, or mayor and aldermen of a city shall institute any necessary land taking in accordance with the provisions of RSA 38:15 and RSA 38:16, and anything contained in RSA 231 or in the statutes generally notwithstanding, the decision of the officials authorized by this section to institute proceedings shall not be vacated and any subsequent appeal or other action by the owner or owners shall be based solely on the amount of damages assessed, and the duly authorized agents of the municipality shall have full right of immediate entry for the purposes of detailed surveys, borings, or the conduct of any and all other actions necessary or desirable to aid the municipality in the implementation of the order of the department.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:25-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:25-a - Village District Hearings.

    38:25-a Village District Hearings. –||Prior to authorizing the expansion of a franchise area of a water company owned or operated by a water village district, the public utilities commission shall, after notice, hold a public hearing in each town or city in which the village district is located, at which it shall hear testimony and receive evidence from any interested party.|||Source. 2002, 174:1, eff. May 15, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:26 - Bylaws and Ordinances.

    38:26 Bylaws and Ordinances. –||I. In municipalities with public water systems the governing body, or the board of water commissioners, if any, may adopt such ordinances and bylaws relating to the system or structures as required for proper maintenance and operation.||II. Any person who violates any ordinance or bylaw adopted pursuant to paragraph I of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 per day of such violation.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:27 - Assessment for Water Supply.

    38:27 Assessment for Water Supply. –||The governing body, or board of water commissioners if any, may assess upon the persons who are served by the water system, or whose lands receive special benefit from the water system, their just share of the expense of constructing, acquiring, and operating the system or paying any capital debt or interest incurred for the system.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:28 - Water Rates.

    38:28 Water Rates. –||For the defraying of the cost of acquisition, construction, payment of the interest on any debt incurred, management, maintenance, operation, and repair of water systems, or construction, enlargement, or improvement of such systems, the governing body, or the board of water commissioners, if any, may establish a scale of rates to be called water rates, may prescribe the manner in which and the time at which such rates are to be paid and may change such scale from time to time as may be deemed advisable. The amount of such rates may be based upon the consumption of water on the premises connected to the water system, or the number of persons served on the premises, or upon some other equitable basis.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:30 - Protection of Water Supply.

    38:30 Protection of Water Supply. –||Any municipality or municipal water company supplying water to the public for domestic use shall have the power to take by the exercise of the right of eminent domain any property needed to protect the purity of the water so supplied, upon petition to the superior court or in the case of a village district to the board of selectmen of the town or towns within which the district is situated and proceedings thereon as in case of a petition for the laying out of a highway.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:31 - Discontinuance of Service.

    38:31 Discontinuance of Service. –||I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, except as provided in paragraph V of this section, no municipal water company shall disconnect service to a customer if any part of the service provided accrues to the benefit of one or more parties known by company to be residential tenants, unless the company gives written notice to the tenants. Such notice shall set forth:||(a) The date on or after which the company proposes to disconnect service.||(b) A statement that the reason for disconnection is a dispute between the company and the landlord.||(c) A statement that the tenant should contact the landlord for more information.||(d) An address and telephone at which the tenant may contact the utility in order to make arrangements to maintain service.||II. A municipal water company shall refrain from terminating service to the affected premises if so requested by the tenant, provided that the tenant agrees to be responsible for service provided as of the date of the tenant's request. However, the water company may continue to list the landlord's past due balance on the tenant's bill, and the lien created pursuant to RSA 38:22 shall include any past due charges which accrue after the company begins billing the tenant. The utility shall provide direct service to the person requesting it on terms and conditions applicable to all residential customers. Such service may include other charges, such as sewer and fire protection service, if customarily included with water service billing.||III. Immediately upon learning that a tenant has been disconnected without the notice required in paragraph I, the water company shall reconnect service and may charge a reasonable reconnection fee which may be added to the existing arrearage.||IV. The notice required by paragraph I shall be provided to the tenant no less than 7 days in advance of the proposed disconnection, by posting a conspicuously lettered notice on the main entrance door to each building in which service is being terminated. In addition, the company shall post the notice on a back door or side door to which the company has reasonable access, or in a common area of each building. The company, at its option, may notify the tenants in the affected property by mail rather than by posting.||V. The notice to tenants required by paragraph I of this section shall not be required when necessary to avoid danger to life or property, and upon the order of a duly constituted public authority such as police, firefighters, public health officer, and building inspectors.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:32 - Exemption for Municipal Small Scale Power Facility.

    38:32 Exemption for Municipal Small Scale Power Facility. –||Except in municipalities which have acquired, expanded, or established a plant under this chapter, the development by a municipality of any small scale power facility, as defined in RSA 374-D:1, IV shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall be construed as exempting municipalities from the provisions of this chapter with respect to the acquisition of a utility plant and equipment if there exists a dispute between the municipality and the utility.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:33 - Consequential Damages.

    38:33 Consequential Damages. –||In matters over which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission does not have jurisdiction, or has jurisdiction but chooses to grant jurisdiction to the state, the commission shall determine, to a just and reasonable extent, the consequential damages such as stranded investment in generation, storage, or supply arrangements resulting from the purchase of plant and property from a utility and shall establish an appropriate recovery mechanism for such damages. The commission need not make such a determination when the municipality and utility agree upon the sale of utility plant and property.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997. 2000, 164:3, eff. May 23, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:34 - Unbundling Rates and Open Access.

    38:34 Unbundling Rates and Open Access. –||Municipal electric utilities established after July 1, 1997, shall unbundle their rates and allow for open access to competitive retail electric supply markets as soon as retail electric competition is certified to exist anywhere in the state pursuant to RSA 38:36. Municipal electric utilities established prior to July 1, 1997, may voluntarily unbundle their rates and allow open access to competitive retail electric supply markets.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:35 - Financial Responsibility.

    38:35 Financial Responsibility. –||I. Any retail electric customer located within a municipality that has established a municipal electric utility after July 1, 1997, but who is not within the service area of such utility, shall not be responsible for, and no entity may require the customer to pay, through taxes or otherwise, any costs associated with such utility except for electric power and services consumed directly by the municipality, and any electric power and services sold by the utility to the customer.||II. Any retail electric customer located within the service area of a municipal electric utility established after July 1, 1997, who does not purchase generation services by or acquired through such municipal electric utility, as allowed by RSA 38:34, shall not be responsible for, and no entity may require the customer to pay, through taxes or otherwise, any costs of generation services from such municipal electric utility, except for electric power consumed directly by the municipality. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent any property owners or retail electric customers from signing contracts of any duration with such municipal electric utility after retail electric competition is certified to exist pursuant to RSA 38:36, and being bound by their terms, including damages for termination.||III. If any municipal electric utility acquires existing plant and equipment used for the generation of electric power, the municipal electric utility shall make payments in lieu of property taxes in the amount that the plant and equipment would have paid taxes if they had been owned by a private owner. Such payments in lieu of taxes shall be included in "costs of generation services" as provided in paragraph II.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:36 - Certification.

    38:36 Certification. –||The chairman of the public utilities commission shall certify to the secretary of state the date that retail electric competition exists in each portion of the state.|||Source. 1997, 206:1, eff. July 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 38:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 38 - Municipal Electric, Gas, or Water Systems|Section 38:37 - Limitation on Purchase, Construction, or Operation of Certain Fossil Fuel Facilities.

    38:37 Limitation on Purchase, Construction, or Operation of Certain Fossil Fuel Facilities. –||I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no municipal electric utility or municipality may, after July 1, 2000, purchase, construct, or operate any fossil fuel plants for the manufacture of electricity and sale to customers beyond the bounds of the municipality.||II. Following consultation with the department of environmental services to adequately address present and future environmental impacts, a municipality or a municipal electric utility may petition the department for specific permission for such acquisition, operation, or construction.|||Source. 2000, 293:4, eff. June 21, 2000.|