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NH Rev Stat § 482:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:21 - Forfeiture.

    482:21 Forfeiture. –||Upon the written complaint of any citizen filed with the attorney general, setting forth that any corporation has failed to commence the actual work of constructing its dam or plant during the time limited by RSA 482:20 or has failed to prosecute the same with reasonable diligence until such dam or plant has been completed and in operation, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to enforce by an appropriate proceeding a forfeiture of the rights, powers, privileges and franchises under which the corporation might have erected its dam or plant.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:22 - Highways.

    482:22 Highways. –||The provisions of this subdivision shall not affect the right of any town in any highway or bridge which the town may be liable to keep in repair, nor authorize any unreasonable interference with the use of any stream as a public highway.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:23 - Responsibility for Repairs.

    482:23 Responsibility for Repairs. –||The necessary repairs on a mill, milldam or flume owned by joint tenants, or tenants in common, or owned in severalty when the privilege of the water is owned jointly or in common, shall be made by the owners in proportion to their respective interests in such structures.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:24 - Petition for Order; Two Towns.

    482:24 Petition for Order;  Two Towns. –||I. When in the opinion of the owner of any part or share of a mill, milldam or flume it is necessary that it be rebuilt or repaired, and the other part owners neglect to rebuild or repair the same, he may apply, by petition in writing, to the selectmen of the town in which it is situated for an order to rebuild or repair. The petition shall contain a description of the premises, the names and shares of all persons interested in the structure who are known, the purpose of the application, including the scope of the proposed project, and a request for a hearing.||II. If such mill, milldam or flume is situated in 2 or more towns the petitions shall be to the selectmen of all the towns, and like proceedings shall be had before them as a joint board.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:25 - Notice; Posting.

    482:25 Notice;  Posting. –||The selectmen shall appoint a time and place of hearing, and notify all persons interested by causing a copy of the petition and notice of the time and place appointed to be served in hand or by certified mail, return receipt requested to each such person, if known and residing in the state, at least 14 days before the hearing. If the identity or residence of an owner of any part or share is unknown, such copy and notice shall be posted in 2 or more public places in the town, 20 days before the hearing, and shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers distributed throughout the state. If the owner resides out of state, a copy of the petition and notice shall be served pursuant to RSA 510:4 at least 30 days prior to the hearing. If any person interested is under guardianship, or is a tenant for life or years, or a mortgagee in possession, the guardian, tenant or mortgagee shall be so notified, and may be ordered to contribute as owner, and shall have a lien for the sum contributed upon the part or share of the owner on account of whose part or share such sum is paid.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:26 - Hearing; Order; Assent.

    482:26 Hearing;  Order;  Assent. –||The selectmen shall personally examine the premises, hear all persons interested, and, after consultation with the department, if they are of the opinion that the mill, milldam or flume ought to be rebuilt or repaired, they shall, by writing under their hands, order the owners to rebuild or repair, specifying the proportion or share of the expense and of the costs of the petition and hearing to be borne by each, and the time, and, if they deem it appropriate, the manner, in which it shall be done. However, no order to rebuild shall be made unless the owners of at least 1/2 of the premises to be rebuilt assent to such order.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:27 - Neglect to Comply; Lien on Share.

    482:27 Neglect to Comply;  Lien on Share. –||If any person interested neglects to comply with the order, any one or more of the others may rebuild or repair his part or share; and the cost of such repair or reconstruction, upon notice, shall be determined and certified by the selectmen, with their charges for the service, and the amount of such costs may be recovered of such delinquent, with interest at the statutory rate established in RSA 336:1. The person paying the cost and charges shall have a lien for such cost and charges upon such delinquent's part or share, and the rents and profits of such part or share, until the amount, with the interest and all taxes and repairs, is repaid.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:28 - Special Contracts.

    482:28 Special Contracts. –||If the owners of such mill, milldam or flume have made a special contract in respect to rebuilding or repairing the same, the decision of the selectmen concerning apportionment of costs shall conform to the contract. This section shall not limit the extent of repairs deemed necessary by the selectmen.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:29 - Application for Permit Before Flowing.

    482:29 Application for Permit Before Flowing. –||I. Any person proposing to erect a dam or to increase, by flashboards or permanently, the height of any existing dam for any of the purposes provided in RSA 482:17 shall file an application for a permit with the department, setting forth the location, height and description of the proposed dam or proposed increase in any existing dam.||II. The application for a permit to construct or reconstruct any dam for any of the purposes provided in RSA 482:17 shall be accompanied by a deposit to the department of $100 with each such application. This payment shall be for expenses of publication, mailing, posting of notices, and copies of hearing transcripts, if necessary, by the department, and for the expense of hiring a hearing site, if a hearing outside of Concord is necessary. If said expenses amount to more than $100, the department shall order the applicant to pay the additional amount before any decision is made by the department with regard to said application.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:30 - Notice and Investigation.

    482:30 Notice and Investigation. –||I. Upon receipt of a petition, the department shall fix a time and place for hearing the petition and shall issue an order of notice to all parties interested, which shall be published for 3 successive weeks in some newspaper in the county in which the dam is to be erected or is situated, the last publication to be not less than 14 days before the time fixed for hearing. Said order of notice shall be served on the attorney general, and such further notice, if any, shall be given as the department may order.||II. The department may conduct such reasonable studies and investigations as they deem necessary or appropriate to implement the purposes of this subdivision and may employ a consultant or consultants to assist with the duties imposed by this subdivision, the cost of which shall be borne by the applicants in such amount as may be approved by the department.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:31 - Hearing; Permit.

    482:31 Hearing;  Permit. –||The department shall, after hearing, determine whether it will be of public use and benefit to grant the rights asked for, and in such determination, shall give due consideration to the effect upon scenic and recreational values and upon fish and wildlife and upon the natural flow of the water in the stream below the dam and any hazards to navigation, fishing, bathing and other public uses. The department shall, in all cases, investigate the question whether the cutting clean and removal of all timber and tree growth from all or any part of the flowage area is reasonably required in the public interests, and in such cases as it shall find that such cutting clean and removal of all timber and tree growth from all or any part of the flowage area are so required, such cutting clean and removal of all timber and tree growth shall be a condition to the exercise of such rights. The department shall embody all its findings in its permit.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:32 - Effect of Finding.

    482:32 Effect of Finding. –||No other dam shall be erected to the injury of any proposed dam or any proposed increase in any existing dam which, in either case, has been found to be for the public good by the department pursuant to this subdivision, if the petitioner shall, within 3 years after such finding or within such further time as the department for good cause may grant, commence the construction and prosecute said construction with reasonable diligence.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:33 - Petition for Assessment of Damages.

    482:33 Petition for Assessment of Damages. –||If the land of any person shall be overflowed, drained or otherwise injured by the use of any dam or addition to such dam and the damage shall not, within 30 days after due notice of such damage, be satisfactorily adjusted by the party erecting or maintaining the dam or increase in such dam, either party may apply by petition to the superior court in the county or counties where such damage arises to have said damage that has been or may be done assessed.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:34 - Contents of Petition.

    482:34 Contents of Petition. –||The petition shall set out the title and description of the premises damaged, the right by reason of which the grievance arises, the location of the dam and the extent of the damages that the dam or dam addition has or may have occasioned.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:35 - Reference.

    482:35 Reference. –||The court, after notice to all persons interested, shall, unless the parties agree upon the judgment that shall be rendered, refer the petition to a committee of 3 disinterested persons to be appointed by the court to determine in relation to the matters set forth in the petition.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:36 - Hearing; Report.

    482:36 Hearing;  Report. –||The committee shall give such notice to the parties as shall be ordered by the court, shall hear the parties, view the premises, estimate the damages and make a report to the court at the next term of the court.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:37 - Order.

    482:37 Order. –||Upon return of the report, any person interested in the report may object to its acceptance for any irregularity or improper conduct on the part of the committee, and the court may set it aside for cause. If the report shall be accepted and established, the court shall render judgment on the report.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:38 - Jury Trial.

    482:38 Jury Trial. –||Before reference of such petition to the committee, if either party shall so elect, the court shall direct an issue to the jury to the facts alleged in the petition and to assess the damages, and judgment shall be rendered on the verdict of the jury. The court may award costs to either party at its discretion.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:39 - Damage to Other Land.

    482:39 Damage to Other Land. –||The committee or jury assessing the damage shall take into consideration any damage done to other land of the party flowed, as well as the damage occasioned to the land actually occupied.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:40 - Petition Before Flowing.

    482:40 Petition Before Flowing. –||Any person proposing to erect a dam or to increase, permanently or by flashboards, any existing dam, having obtained a permit from the department as provided in RSA 482:31, may file in the superior court a petition setting forth the location, height and description of the proposed dam or increase in any existing dam, and the title and description of the land involved or the rights in the land to be taken, and applying for the assessment of damages occasioned by such taking in advance of the taking. The court shall then proceed in accordance with the provisions of RSA 482:35-39, inclusive.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:41 - Security for Damages.

    482:41 Security for Damages. –||Any person, upon filing a petition as provided by RSA 482:33 or 482:40, may be required at any time, upon application to the court in which such petition is filed, to give within a reasonable time such security as justice may require for any damages which have been or may be occasioned by such proceedings or to satisfy any judgment which may be rendered in such proceedings, and no such person shall derive any title from the proceedings or shall be discharged from any liability in relation to the premises until the person aggrieved or damaged has been paid or tendered the amount of the judgment rendered.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:42 - License to Flow Public Lands.

    482:42 License to Flow Public Lands. –||The governor and council may grant to the owner of a dam located at the outlet of an inland public water the right to flow public lands contiguous to such public water and its tributaries when, in the opinion of the department, it is in the public interest to do so, and under such terms and conditions with respect to water levels and otherwise as the department may specify.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:43 - Deeds.

    482:43 Deeds. –||Any such grant of right of flowage and the conditions upon which the same is made shall be evidenced by deed executed in the name of the state by the governor and attested by the secretary of state and recorded in the county where the property is situated.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:44 - Authority Granted.

    482:44 Authority Granted. –||To implement this subdivision, the department is authorized:||I. To hold in the name of the state real property and rights and easements in such property, including dams in disrepair, deemed by it necessary or desirable for the purposes of this subdivision, and to use such property; provided, however, that no dam or any real property appurtenant to a dam or any rights and easements in either may be acquired pursuant to the authority of this section or any other provision of law except an act of the legislature which authorizes the acquisition of a particular dam, real property, or right or easement.||II. To construct, reconstruct, maintain and operate such dams and other real property, rights and easements.||III. To enter into agreements whereby individuals, firms, corporations, or municipal corporations may obligate themselves or itself to the payment of the costs or any part of the costs for acquisition, construction, maintenance or operation of facilities as provided for in paragraphs I and II.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:45 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:45 - Approval of Facilities.

    482:45 Approval of Facilities. –||I. [Omitted.]||II. The department shall study and survey each facility and shall submit to the governor and council a report including a detailed description and plan of the facility and a detailed estimate of the total cost of the facility and of the funds which may be received from individuals, firms, corporations or municipal corporations for such facility. The governor and council, upon receiving such report, shall determine whether the proposed facility will be of public use and benefit and within the authority conferred upon the department. No facility under this subdivision shall be finally undertaken until the same is approved by the governor and council.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:46 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:46 - Application of Statutes.

    482:46 Application of Statutes. –||The provisions of RSA 481:1-19, 482:85, and 482:91 shall apply to the facilities undertaken under the authority of this subdivision insofar as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this subdivision.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:47 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:47 - Municipal Appropriations.

    482:47 Municipal Appropriations. –||For the purpose of paying the expense, or a part of the expense, of the cost of a facility undertaken by the state under the provisions of this subdivision, as provided by any agreement with the state, a city or town may raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required under such agreement or may borrow money and issue serial notes or bonds for the paying of such expense.|||Source. 1989, 339:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 482:49 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 482 - Dams, Mills, and Flowage|Section 482:49 - Acquisition Authorized; Department of Fish and Game.

    482:49 Acquisition Authorized;  Department of Fish and Game. –||I. For a consideration of $1, the New Hampshire department of fish and game is authorized to accept conveyance and attendant easements from the owners of the following described properties for the purposes listed for each property.||II. The department of fish and game is authorized to rebuild and maintain said dams subject to specifications of the department of environmental services. The funding for the construction shall be accomplished under the Dingell-Johnson federal aid program, P.L. 81-681, and any other available federal aid programs.||III. The properties the department of fish and game is authorized to acquire under this section for the benefit of the state shall be exempt from taxation as long as said properties are held by the state.||(a) To improve and control certain water rights for smelt spawning and for the fishing season for the benefit of the state, the 1/4 acres more-or-less abutting Lucas Pond in Northwood including the dam on the land necessary for the rebuilding of Lucas Pond dam. The department of fish and game is authorized to accept from any abutting landowners an easement to provide construction road access to the dam site.||(b) To improve and control certain water rights for the perpetuation of a reclaimed trout pond: the Whittemore Pond dam, listed as dam No. 22.01 in the files of the department of environmental services and located in the towns of Bennington and Greenfield, Hillsborough county. The department of fish and game shall obtain other attendant easements which may be necessary to provide access for the purpose of maintenance or repair of said dam but not for the purpose of public access. In addition to the funding under paragraph II, funding for repairs to Whittemore Pond dam shall be accomplished by public or private donations.||(c) To improve and control certain water rights, from the owner of a certain parcel of land surrounding a dam site across Jones Brook, otherwise located on state-owned land known as the Jones Brook wildlife management area, in the town of Middleton, county of Strafford, and state of New Hampshire, and further described as follows: Commencing at a point 75 feet due west of the northwest corner of the emergency spillway for the impoundment, said point being the point of beginning; thence due north 50 feet; thence due east 750 feet; thence due south 250 feet; thence due west 750 feet; thence northerly 200 feet to the point of beginning.||(d) The outlet dam, water rights, and 2.5 acre car-top boat launch access area at Robb Reservoir in the town of Stoddard, Cheshire county.|||Source. 1989, 339:1. 1996, 228:106. 2007, 38:1, eff. July 13, 2007.|