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NH Rev Stat § 227-L:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:24 - Unorganized Places Fire Control Payments.

    227-L:24 Unorganized Places Fire Control Payments. –||I. The wardens and the deputy wardens in unorganized places shall render to the director a like statement of such expenses as they have lawfully incurred under this chapter in suppressing or preventing fires in woodlands within one month of the date upon which such expenses are incurred.||II. The statement shall be audited by the director, and, if approved, the director shall draw an order upon the state treasurer for the same.||III. The expenses lawfully incurred by a warden or deputy warden in presuppression, prevention, and suppression of woodland fires in unorganized places, computed at rates within limits established by the department and excluding the initial cost of firefighting equipment, shall be paid in the first instance by the state. Any person causing or kindling a fire in an unorganized place without a permit from the forest fire warden and written permission of the woodland owner, if no previous arrangement exists between the forest fire warden and the woodland owner when such permit is required under RSA 227-L:17, I-III, and any person, by whose negligence or by the negligence of the person's agents any fires shall be caused, shall be liable to the state in a civil action for the payment of all expenses incurred in extinguishing the fire. If a fire results from unknown or natural causes, up to 1/2 of the costs, but in no case to exceed 10 percent of the assessed valuation of the property in the place, shall thereafter be added to the tax assessed the following year against the place in the same manner as is provided for the assessment of property taxes.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:25 - Authorization.

    227-L:25 Authorization. –||The governor on behalf of this state is hereby authorized to enter into a compact, substantially in the following form, with any one or more of the states of Connecticut, Maine, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and with such other states of the United States or provinces of the Dominion of Canada as may legally join therein, and the legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact so entered into, such approval and ratification to be effective upon the filing of a copy of such compact in the office of the secretary of state.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:27 - When Effective.

    227-L:27 When Effective. –||When the governor shall have executed said compact on behalf of this state and caused a certified copy thereof to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, as required by RSA 227-L, and said compact shall have been ratified by one or more of the states named in article II thereof in accordance with the constitution of such state or states of the United States or provinces of the Dominion of Canada, in accordance with the laws of Canada, then said compact shall become operative and effective as between this state and such other state or states of the United States or provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The governor is hereby authorized and directed, upon the execution of said compact by the governor and filing of the required copy thereof in the office of the secretary of state, to notify forthwith the governors of the said named states and the President of the United States, that the state on its part has ratified said compact; or in the instance of a province of the Dominion of Canada the proper officials of that province and that dominion through the United States Secretary of State. The original notice of ratification received from the governor or other duly authorized official of any state or province joining in said compact shall be filed with the official copy of said compact in the office of the secretary of state, and such notice, if any, as may be received from the President or the Congress of the United States, signifying the consent of the Congress to said compact, shall be filed in the same manner.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:28 - Commission.

    227-L:28 Commission. –||After the aforesaid compact shall become operative and effective as provided for in RSA 227-L:27, the governor shall appoint 3 members hereinafter called commissioners of the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Commission. One of such commissioners shall always be the director of the division of forests and lands, department of natural and cultural resources. The second shall be a member of the legislature, and the third shall be a citizen of the state designated by the governor as a responsible representative to serve at the pleasure of the governor.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. 2017, 156:14, I, eff. July 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:29 - Compensation.

    227-L:29 Compensation. –||The commissioners shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:30 - Report.

    227-L:30 Report. –||The commissioners on the part of the state shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall report to the governor on or before the seventh day of January annually, setting forth in detail the transactions of the commission during the preceding calendar year, and shall include in said report recommendations for any legislative action that the commission deems advisable, including such amendments or additions to the laws of the state as may be necessary or desirable to carry out the intent and purposes of the Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:31 - Powers.

    227-L:31 Powers. –||There is hereby granted to the commission and the commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the said compact and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular. All officers of the state of New Hampshire are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective provinces and jurisdiction necessary or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular; it being hereby declared to be the policy of the state of New Hampshire to perform and carry out the said compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof and to execute a compact on behalf of the state of New Hampshire with any one or more of the states of Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and with such other states of the United States or provinces of the Dominion of Canada as may legally join therein. All officers, bureaus, departments, and persons of and in the state government or administration of the state of New Hampshire are hereby authorized and directed at convenient times and upon request of the said commission to furnish the said commission with information and data possessed by them or any of them and to aid said commission by any means lying within their legal rights respectively.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:32 - Payment by State.

    227-L:32 Payment by State. –||Upon recommendation of the director of the division of forests and lands, department of natural and cultural resources, and upon warrant of the governor with the approval of the council, the state treasurer shall pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to any state giving aid within the state under this chapter, such sums as shall be due under the terms of this chapter.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. 2017, 156:14, I, eff. July 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:33 - Reimbursement by Towns.

    227-L:33 Reimbursement by Towns. –||Each town receiving aid under the provisions of this chapter shall reimburse the state for payments made by the state under RSA 227-L:32 in the same proportion and to the same extent that such town would be required under RSA 227-L:22 to bear such expense if it had been incurred within the state.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:34 - Reimbursement Procedure.

    227-L:34 Reimbursement Procedure. –||When the state has made any payment under RSA 227-L:32, the director of the forests and lands shall, in writing, notify all towns involved, of the amount of their liability as provided in RSA 227-L:33, and within 60 days of the receipt of such notice, the respective towns shall remit the amount due to the state treasurer.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-L - Woodland Fire Control|Section 227-L:35 - Distribution to Towns.

    227-L:35 Distribution to Towns. –||When the state receives payment from another state for aid given by towns under the provisions of this chapter, the director of the division of forests and lands shall advise the state treasurer the amount due each town involved, and the state treasurer shall distribute the amounts due, to the respective towns. The governor is hereby authorized to draw a warrant for the respective amounts due.|||Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:1 - Purpose.

    227-M:1 Purpose. –||The general court finds that in order to maintain New Hampshire's quality of life and economic vitality for its citizens, growth and development should be balanced with careful protection of the state's most important natural, cultural, and historical resources. Permanent protection of these resources, through acquisition of lands, buildings, and other physical assets, or interests in these assets, must be accomplished along with their planned long-term stewardship. The general court further recognizes the importance of public-private partnerships to achieve these ends. To protect and preserve New Hampshire's natural, cultural, and historical resources for this and future generations, the general court establishes in this chapter the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program. The intent of the program is to conserve and preserve this state's most important natural, cultural, and historical resources through the acquisition of lands, and cultural and historical resources, or interests therein, of local, regional, and statewide significance, in partnership with the state's municipalities and the private sector, for the primary purposes of protecting and ensuring the perpetual contribution of these resources to the state's economy, environment, and overall quality of life.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:3 - Land and Community Heritage Investment Program Established.

    227-M:3 Land and Community Heritage Investment Program Established. –||There is hereby established the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program. The program shall acquire resource assets, through voluntary negotiations with property owners and utilization of all available federal, state, local, private, and other matching funds and incentives. The program shall also provide funding for restoration and rehabilitation of cultural and historical resources and for certain costs associated with the acquisition of resource assets. All deeds or other documents evidencing purchase of any fee interest or other easement interest in resources under this chapter shall be drawn and held in the name of the municipality, other political subdivision, or qualified publicly-supported nonprofit corporation purchasing the interest through the use of program funds. All easement interests and legal obligations that are attached in perpetuity to any property shall be recorded in the deed. The state of New Hampshire shall hold an executory interest in all easement interests acquired by the program and held by municipalities, other political subdivisions, or qualifying nonprofit corporations. There shall be no power by the state of New Hampshire to take any resource by eminent domain, nor shall any funds made available by this program be used to take by eminent domain except in cases involving the voluntary quieting of title. All acquisition projects shall involve a willing seller and willing buyer, or a willing donor of resource assets.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:6 - Executive Director.

    227-M:6 Executive Director. –||The board of directors shall nominate one or more persons for appointment by the governor and council to serve as executive director. The executive director shall serve a term of 5 years, with reappointment or a vacancy to be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. At the request of the board, the governor and council may remove the executive director for cause. The executive director shall:||I. Coordinate the activities of state agencies directly involved with the administration of the program in accordance with this chapter.||II. Evaluate the eligible resources proposed for protection or restoration under this program, and determine if these resources meet the criteria of the program, subsequent to instruction by the board.||III. At the direction of the board, administer the affairs of the program and be directly responsible for executing all policies of the board.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:6-a - Status of Employees.

    227-M:6-a Status of Employees. –||I. The authority may hire, fix, and pay compensation, prescribe duties and qualifications, and establish personnel policies without regard to any personnel or civil service law or personnel or civil service rule of the state. The employees of the authority shall not be classified employees of the state within the meaning of RSA 21-I:49. Any individual employed by the authority shall be deemed an employee at will and shall serve at the pleasure of the authority.||II. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph I, any individual employed by the authority whose employment calls for 30 hours or more work in a normal calendar week, and whose position is anticipated to have a duration of 6 months or more, shall be entitled to elect to receive such health, dental, life insurance, deferred compensation, and retirement benefits as are afforded to classified employees of the state provided, however, that the election is made in writing within 30 days of the start of employment. Upon election by such individual, the authority shall pay from its revenues the state's share of such benefits. Any remaining costs of health, dental, life insurance, deferred compensation, and retirement benefits which an individual elects to receive pursuant to this section, shall be withheld from such individual's salary as a payroll deduction. Written notice of the availability of these benefit options shall be provided to each individual upon employment by the authority.|||Source. 2001, 158:14, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:7 - Trust Fund Established; Administration.

    227-M:7 Trust Fund Established;  Administration. –||I. There is established in the office of the state treasurer the trust fund for the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program. Moneys in the fund and any interest earned on the fund shall be used for the purpose of this chapter and shall not be used for any other purpose. The trust fund shall be non-lapsing.||II. The state treasurer is instructed to invest the sums deposited in the fund in a prudent manner consistent with the purposes of this chapter. Interest earned on moneys in the fund shall accrue to the fund to the extent allowed under federal law.||III. No funds of any state agency shall be transferred to the trust fund without specific authorization from the general court. Federal funds accepted by the fiscal committee and governor and council for purposes similar to those of this chapter may be deposited in the trust fund.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:7-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:7-a - Administrative Fund.

    227-M:7-a Administrative Fund. –||I. There is established in the office of the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment authority a fund to be known as the land and community heritage investment program administrative fund into which the commissioner of safety shall credit any revenue generated pursuant to RSA 261:97-b, I-a. There shall also be deposited, on a monthly basis, interest income generated on appropriations made to the land and community heritage investment program trust fund pursuant to RSA 227-M:7. The total revenues generated to the administrative fund from these 2 sources shall not exceed $335,000 for each fiscal year. Any revenue generated from these 2 sources in excess of the $335,000 maximum per year shall be credited by the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment authority to the land and community heritage investment program trust fund in RSA 227-M:7. The authority shall include in its annual report the amount of revenues exceeding the maximum which are credited to the trust fund.||II. All sums so credited shall be appropriated to the authority for the following purposes:||(a) To pay the costs of administering and operating the authority, including, but not limited to, all wages, salaries, benefits, and other expenses authorized by the board or the executive director. The authority may enter into a contract or agreement for provision of services to withhold on a monthly basis all payroll and benefit costs for employees.||(b) In general for the payment of all expenses incident to the management and operation of the authority as are consistent with its statutory purpose and as the board or the executive director thereof may from time to time determine.||III. This fund shall constitute a continuing appropriation for the benefit of the authority. Any amount remaining to the credit of the authority at the close of any fiscal year, and any interest accrued, shall be nonlapsing and shall be carried over and credited to the fund for the succeeding year.|||Source. 2001, 158:13. 2003, 319:170. 2005, 177:22. 2007, 375:2, eff. July 1, 2007. 2016, 61:2, eff. July 4, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:9 - Acquisition, Restoration, and Protection Criteria and Guidelines.

    227-M:9 Acquisition, Restoration, and Protection Criteria and Guidelines. –||I. The criteria and guidelines adopted pursuant to RSA 227-M:5, II for acquiring resource assets shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:||(a) Imminence of threat to the land or property, such that the preservation of endangered structures and land conservation projects in densely developed or rapidly developing areas of the state shall receive a higher ranking;||(b) Uniqueness or significance of the resource;||(c) Proximity to other protected resources;||(d) Extent to which project meets multiple objectives of the program (natural, historic, and cultural);||(e) Strength of local support, such that project applications accompanied by an affirmative vote of the governing body of the municipality or governing bodies of the municipalities in which the project is located shall receive a higher ranking;||(f) Strength of private support;||(g) Cooperation between or among communities;||(h) Extent of leverage (ability of state funds to attract other public and private funds in a cost-share arrangement);||(i) Demonstrated ability and qualifying stewardship plan of eligible applicant to provide stewardship for the resource being protected; and||(j) Extent to which benefits can be conserved only through fee acquisition of the resource asset, weighed against acquisition through easement interest.||II. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require that each acquisition of a resource asset under this chapter must meet all the criteria listed in this section.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:10 - Management.

    227-M:10 Management. –||Any owner of a resource asset acquired in fee simple under this chapter or for which program funds have been expended for restoration or rehabilitation work, shall manage such asset in accordance with any stewardship plan approved for the asset and any legal obligations entered into under this chapter pertaining to the resource asset. The program shall not manage any resource asset, except to the extent permissible under RSA 227-M:5, VI.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:11 - Stewardship.

    227-M:11 Stewardship. –||All applications submitted for funding resource asset acquisitions or restoration or rehabilitation projects must contain a stewardship plan. Applicants shall be allowed flexibility in devising such plans, but the authority shall make an affirmative finding that the stewardship plan is acceptable before awarding funds. Applications to the program for activities such as resource inventories and engineering studies are not required to include stewardship plans.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 227-M:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XIX-A - Forestry|Title 227-M - Community Heritage Investment Program|Section 227-M:12 - Monitoring Endowment.

    227-M:12 Monitoring Endowment. –||I. For every eligible resource protected under this chapter by an easement interest, a percentage of funds from the program or contributions from the applicant, as specified by the authority, shall be provided to the monitoring endowment established under RSA 162-C:8.||II. Funds added to the monitoring endowment pursuant to RSA 227-M:12, I shall be used to support monitoring by state agencies, local municipalities, and qualifying nonprofit corporations of easement interests acquired under this chapter. Such monitoring shall be to ensure that the resource protected through the program will be managed according to the legal agreements concerning easement interests in the resource.|||Source. 2000, 245:1, eff. June 8, 2000.|