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NH Rev Stat § 31:95-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:95-c - Special Revenue Funds.

    31:95-c Special Revenue Funds. –||I. Towns may, pursuant to RSA 31:95-d, vote to restrict revenues, or any portion of revenues, from a specific source to expenditures for specific purposes. Such revenues and expenditures shall be accounted for in a special revenue fund separate from the general fund.||II. Notwithstanding paragraph IV, towns may establish, pursuant to RSA 31:95-d, special revenue funds to:||(a) Provide special highway funds from appropriate revenues, such as revenues from block grants from the state highway fund, motor vehicle permit fees collected under RSA 261:165, parking meter fees and fines in accordance with RSA 231:131, and any other highway related revenues not otherwise designated by law. Appropriations from the special highway fund shall be used for highway expenditures.||(b) Provide special capital improvement plan funds from appropriate revenues, which include any portion of town revenues otherwise allotted to the general fund except property taxes, provided that the town has adopted and has in place an up-to-date capital improvement plan as prescribed and developed in accordance with the provisions of RSA 674:5 through 674:8. Any funds from sources includable in subparagraph (a) included in the capital improvement plan shall be used solely for highway purposes. Appropriations from the special capital improvement plan fund shall be used to fund those individual capital projects identified in an up-to-date duly adopted town capital improvement plan.||III. Any surplus in any fund created under paragraph I or II shall not be deemed part of the general fund accumulated surplus nor shall any surplus be expended for any purpose or transferred to any appropriation until such time as the legislative body shall have voted to appropriate a specific amount from said fund for a specific purpose related to the purpose or source of the revenue.||IV. This section shall not be construed to prohibit the establishment of capital reserve funds pursuant to RSA 35:1 or town created trust funds pursuant to RSA 31:19-a. The provisions of this section shall be limited to those town activities funded primarily through user fees including, but not limited to, municipal airports and solid waste facilities.|||Source. 1989, 279:1. 1993, 184:1, eff. Aug. 8, 1993. 1996, 148:1, 2, eff. May 24, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:95-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:95-d - Procedure for Adoption; Rescission or Change of Purpose.

    31:95-d Procedure for Adoption;  Rescission or Change of Purpose. –||I. Any town may adopt the provisions of RSA 31:95-c to restrict revenues, or any portion of such revenues, from a specific source to expenditures for specific purposes in the following manner:||(a) In a town, the question shall be placed on the warrant of a special or annual town meeting under the procedures set out in RSA 39:3, and shall be voted on by ballot. The question shall not be placed on the official ballot.||(b) The selectmen shall hold a public hearing on the question at least 15 days but not more than 30 days before the question is to be voted on. Notice of the hearing shall be posted in at least 2 public places in the municipality and published in a newspaper of general circulation at least 7 days before the hearing.||(c) The wording of the question shall be: "Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 31:95-c to restrict (here insert portion as a fractional or dollar amount) of revenues from (here insert source) to expenditures for the purpose of (here insert purpose)? Such revenues and expenditures shall be accounted for in a special revenue fund to be known as the (...) fund, separate from the general fund. Any surplus in said fund shall not be deemed part of the general fund accumulated surplus and shall be expended only after a vote by the legislative body to appropriate a specific amount from said fund for a specific purpose related to the purpose of the fund or source of the revenue."||II. If a majority of those voting on the question vote "Yes", RSA 31:95-c shall apply within the town on a date set by the selectmen.||III. If the question is not approved, the question may later be voted upon according to the provisions of RSA 31:95-d, I.||IV. (a) Any town which has adopted RSA 31:95-c may consider rescinding its action in the manner described in RSA 31:95-d, I(a) and (b). The wording of the question shall be the same as set out in RSA 31:95-d, I(c), except the word "adopt" shall be changed to "rescind."||(b) If a majority of those voting on the question vote "Yes", RSA 31:95-c shall not apply within the town, and any remaining amounts in the rescinded fund shall become part of the general fund accumulated surplus.||V. No change shall be made to a special revenue fund adopted under RSA 31:95-c unless the town has voted to consider changing the source or fractional portion of revenues or specific purpose of expenditures of the fund in the manner described in subparagraphs I(a) and (b) and authorized such change by a vote of 2/3 of all the voters present and voting at an annual town or district meeting.|||Source. 1989, 279:1, eff. July 28, 1989. 1996, 148:3, 4, eff. May 24, 1996. 2012, 181:2, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:95-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:95-e - Acceptance of Personal Property Donated to Towns and Village Districts.

    31:95-e Acceptance of Personal Property Donated to Towns and Village Districts. –||I. Any town or village district at an annual meeting may adopt an article authorizing the board of selectmen or board of commissioners to accept gifts of personal property, other than money, which may be offered to the town or village district for any public purpose, and such authorization shall remain in effect until rescinded by a vote of town or village district meeting.||II. Prior to the acceptance of any such gift with a value of $5,000 or more, the selectmen or board of commissioners shall hold a public hearing on the proposed acceptance. For gifts with a value of less than $5,000, a public hearing on the proposed acceptance shall be at the discretion of the selectmen or board of commissioners. If no public hearing is held, the board of selectmen or board of commissioners shall post notice of the gift in the agenda and shall include notice in the minutes of the board of selectmen or board of commissioners meeting at which such gift is discussed. The acceptance of gifts under this paragraph shall be made in public session of any regular board of selectmen or board of commissioners meeting.||III. No acceptance of any personal property under the authority of this section shall be deemed to bind the town or village district to raise, appropriate or expend any public funds for the operation, maintenance, repair, or replacement of such personal property.|||Source. 1991, 25:2, eff. June 18, 1991. 1997, 105:2, eff. Aug. 8, 1997. 1998, 196:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1998. 2008, 24:1, eff. July 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:95-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:95-f - Geographic Information Systems.

    31:95-f Geographic Information Systems. –||Any town may establish computer-based geographic information systems and control the distribution of that information, subject to RSA 91-A. The town may finance the completion and perpetuation of the system through establishing a special revenue fund under RSA 31:95-c and 31:95-d or through nonprofit corporations. The town may charge fees for the use of the system.|||Source. 1994, 76:2, eff. July 5, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:95-g (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:95-g - Option to Assign Appraisal Responsibility.

    31:95-g Option to Assign Appraisal Responsibility. –||The legislative body of any municipality may vote to authorize the elected officials to delegate the assessing functions imposed on them under RSA 75:1, 75:11, and 79-A:5 to a person certified by the department of revenue administration under RSA 21-J:14-f.|||Source. 2001, 297:6, eff. Sept. 15, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:95-h (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:95-h - Revolving Funds.

    31:95-h Revolving Funds. –||I. A town may, by vote of the legislative body, establish a revolving fund. Each revolving fund shall be limited to one of the following purposes:||(a) Facilitating, maintaining, or encouraging recycling as defined in RSA 149-M:4;||(b) Providing ambulance services, or fire services, or both;||(c) Providing public safety services by municipal employees or volunteers outside of the ordinary detail of such persons, including but not limited to public safety services in connection with special events, highway construction, and other construction projects, or for any other public safety purpose deemed appropriate by the municipality;||(d) Creating affordable housing and facilitating transactions relative thereto;||(e) Providing cable access for public, educational, or governmental use; ||(f) Financing of energy conservation and efficiency and clean energy improvements by participating property owners in an energy efficiency and clean energy district established pursuant to RSA 53-F; or||(g) Facilitating transactions relative to municipal group net metering.||II. If a town establishes a revolving fund for any of the purposes listed in paragraph I, it may deposit into the fund all or any part of the revenues from fees, charges, or other income derived from the activities or services supported by the fund, and any other revenues approved by the legislative body for deposit into the fund. The money in the fund shall be allowed to accumulate from year to year, and shall not be considered part of the town's general surplus. The town treasurer shall have custody of all moneys in the fund, and shall pay out the same only upon order of the governing body, or other board or body designated by the local legislative body at the time the fund is created; provided, that no further approval of the legislative body, if different from the governing body, shall be required. Such funds may be expended only for the purposes for which the fund was created.||III. The legislative body may, at the time it establishes a revolving fund or at any time thereafter, place limitations on expenditures from the fund including, but not limited to, restrictions on the types of items or services that may be purchased from the fund, limitations on the amount of any single expenditure, and limitations on the total amount of expenditures to be made in a year. No amount may be expended from a revolving fund established hereunder for any item or service for which an appropriation has been specifically rejected by the legislative body during the same year.||IV. The provisions of this section shall not preclude the establishment of a revolving fund for any other purpose authorized by law.|||Source. 2005, 79:1, eff. Aug. 6, 2005. 2008, 68:1, eff. July 20, 2008; 391:1, eff. Sept. 15, 2008. 2010, 215:3, eff. Aug. 27, 2010. 2013, 9:1, eff. July 6, 2013. 2017, 95:1, eff. Aug. 7, 2017. 2018, 30:1, eff. July 14, 2018; 58:1, eff. July 24, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:96 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:96 - Interlocal Cooperation on Federal or Interstate Flood Control Projects.

    31:96 Interlocal Cooperation on Federal or Interstate Flood Control Projects. –||Powers granted to a town by paragraph XXXV of RSA 31:4 may be exercised jointly with other towns similarly affected, and any 2 or more such towns may enter into agreements with one another for joint or cooperative action pursuant to the following provisions:||I. Such agreement shall be approved by a vote of the majority of those present and voting at any regular or special meeting of the town.||II. Any such agreement shall specify the following:||(a) Its duration;||(b) The precise organization, composition, and nature of any joint or cooperative agency, or of any separate legal or administrative entity, if one is created thereby, together with the powers delegated thereto;||(c) Its purposes;||(d) The manner of financing the joint or cooperative undertaking and of establishing and maintaining a budget therefor;||(e) The manner of acquiring, holding, and disposing of real and personal property used in the joint or cooperative undertaking;||(f) The permissible method or methods to be employed in accomplishing the partial or complete termination of the agreement and for disposing of property upon such partial or complete termination;||(g) Any other necessary and proper matters.||III. The attorney general shall approve any agreement submitted to him hereunder unless he finds that it does not meet the conditions set forth herein and shall detail in writing addressed to the selectmen of the towns concerned the specific respects in which the proposed agreement fails to meet the requirements of law. Failure to disapprove an agreement submitted hereunder within 30 days of its submission shall constitute approval thereof.||IV. Financing of joint projects by agreement shall be as provided by law.||V. Prior to its entry in force, an agreement made pursuant to this section shall be filed with the town clerk of each signatory town and with the secretary of state.||VI. No agreement made pursuant to this section shall relieve any town of any obligation or responsibility imposed upon it by law, except that to the extent of actual or timely performances by a joint board or other agency or entity created by an agreement made hereunder, said performance may be offered in satisfaction of the obligation or responsibility.||VII. This section shall not apply to cooperative efforts undertaken by towns pursuant to other special or general statutes.||VIII. Any town entering into an agreement pursuant to this section may appropriate funds and may sell, lease, give or otherwise supply the joint board or agency or legal entity created hereunder by providing such personnel or services therefor as may be within its legal power to furnish.|||Source. 1957, 287:2, eff. Oct. 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:97 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:97 - State Guarantee.

    31:97 State Guarantee. –||In view of the general public benefits resulting from flood control in the state, the governor and council are authorized in the name of the state of New Hampshire to guarantee unconditionally, but at no time in excess of the total aggregate sum for the entire state of $500,000, the payment of all or any portion, as they may find to be in the public interest, of the principal of and interest on any bonds or notes issued by any municipality, town, city, county or district for purposes authorized by RSA 31:96 and RSA 52:1-a and the full faith and credit of the state are pledged for any such guarantee. The state's guarantee shall be endorsed on such bonds or notes by the state treasurer; and all notes or bonds issued with state guarantee shall be sold (1) at public sealed bidding, (2) after publication of advertisement for bids, (3) to the highest bidder. Any and all such bids may be rejected and a sale may be negotiated with the highest bidder. In the event of default in payment of any such notes or bonds, the state may recover any losses suffered by it by action against the town as provided in RSA 530.|||Source. 1957, 287:4, eff. Oct. 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:98 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:98 - Repealed by 1969, 125:2, eff. July 8, 1969.

    31:98 Repealed by 1969, 125:2, eff. July 8, 1969. –|
NH Rev Stat § 31:98-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:98-a - Contingency Fund.

    31:98-a Contingency Fund. –||Every town annually by an article separate from the budget and all other articles in the warrant may establish a contingency fund to meet the cost of unanticipated expenses that may arise during the year. Such fund shall not exceed one per cent of the amount appropriated by the town for town purposes during the preceding year excluding capital expenditures and the amortization of debt. A detailed report of all expenditures from the contingency fund shall be made annually by the selectmen and published with their report.|||Source. 2013, 115:2, eff. Aug. 24, 2013. 2014, 190:5, eff. Sept. 9, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:99 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:99 - License to Occupy Portion of Street.

    31:99 License to Occupy Portion of Street. –||The selectmen of a town may grant a license in writing to any person to occupy a portion of any street, designated by distinct limits, for the purpose of laying thereon lumber and other materials for building purposes, but not for retail sale except as provided in RSA 31:100, for a time not exceeding 4 months, whenever they shall deem it necessary or proper, subject to such terms and conditions, to be expressed in the license, as the public convenience and safety may require.|||Source. 1844, 144:1. CS 119:8. GS 252:8. GL 269:8. PS 264:9. PL 378:9. RL 440:8. RSA 570:8. 1973, 532:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973; 558:8, eff. Nov. 2, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:100 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:100 - Street Fairs.

    31:100 Street Fairs. –||The selectmen of a town or governing body of a city may grant a license in writing to any person or persons to use and occupy a portion of any street or sidewalk, as may be designated in general or in specific terms, for the purpose of conducting thereon street fairs or other community events, including but not limited to the sale of merchandise by commercial retailers, or by community associations conducting street fairs or other promotions. Such licenses may include the right to encumber the designated area with boxes, shelves, stands and other devices useful in conducting such sales and shall be issued for not in excess of 3 consecutive business days. Licenses may also be subject to such other terms and conditions, to be expressed in the license, as the public convenience and safety may require.|||Source. 1971, 278:1. RSA 570:8-a. 1973, 532:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:101 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:101 - Effect of License.

    31:101 Effect of License. –||A person so licensed, who shall first cause the license to be recorded at length by the town clerk, and who shall comply with the terms expressed therein, shall be exempt from the penalties imposed by this chapter for any act authorized by the license.|||Source. 1844, 144:2. CS 119:9. GS 252:9. GL 269:9. PS 264:10. PL 378:10. RL 440:9. RSA 570:9. 1973, 532:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:102 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:102 - Obstructing Access to Highways.

    31:102 Obstructing Access to Highways. –||No person shall obstruct the highway by parking an automobile, other vehicle or object in or in front of a driveway to any dwelling, store, shop or other place of business, factory, field or forest so as to obstruct the passage of vehicles from the highway into such driveway or from such driveway into the highway. Any officer with police power or selectman is hereby authorized, if in his opinion the same is necessary, to employ a wrecker or other apparatus to remove such obstruction at the expense of the owner or operator of said obstructing vehicle or object and the owner or operator of the wrecker or apparatus used in said removal shall have a lien upon the vehicle or object so removed for his fee or charge for said removal.|||Source. 1941, 58:1. RL 440:10. RSA 570:10. 1973, 532:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:102-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:102-a - Hawkers, Peddlers and Vendors.

    31:102-a Hawkers, Peddlers and Vendors. –||The governing board of a city, town or village district may adopt, by ordinance or regulation, provisions for the licensure and regulation of itinerant vendors, hawkers, peddlers, traders, farmers, merchants, or other persons who sell, offer to sell, or take orders for merchandise from temporary or transient sales locations within a town or who go from town to town or place to place within a town for such purposes. Any person who violates any provision of such ordinance or regulation shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor, and each continuing day of violation after notice shall constitute a separate offense. A city, town, or village district shall be specifically prohibited, however, from licensing or regulating a candidate for public office in the process of obtaining signatures on nomination papers, who seeks to have the candidate's name placed on the ballot for the state general election by submitting nomination papers under RSA 655:40. Persons who are under the age of 14 who are selling soft drinks on family owned or leased property shall be exempt from city, town, or village district licensing requirements. Provisions adopted under this section shall be in addition to any requirements imposed by the state under either RSA 320 or RSA 321 and may include, but shall not be limited to:||I. Classification of licensees consistent with constitutional requirements of equal protection;||II. Imposition of reasonable requirements, including fees, for the issuance of a license;||III. Restrictions as to the areas of the municipality open to licensees and the hours and days of their operation; and||IV. Other reasonable conditions and terms deemed necessary for public convenience and safety as the governing board determines.|||Source. 1973, 558:9. 1981, 515:1. 1993, 164:1, eff. July 23, 1993. 2001, 274:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2002. 2010, 298:1, eff. Sept. 11, 2010. 2021, 166:1, eff. Sept. 28, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 31:103 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:103 - Repealed by 1983, 447:5, II, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.

    31:103 Repealed by 1983, 447:5, II, eff. Jan. 1, 1984. –|
NH Rev Stat § 31:103-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 31 - Powers and Duties of Towns|Section 31:103-a - Contributions to County or State.

    31:103-a Contributions to County or State. –||A town may, by vote of the legislative body, voluntarily contribute funds, services, property, or other resources toward any county or state project, program, or plan. Any contribution involving the expenditure of funds under this section shall be subject to the requirements of RSA 32.|||Source. 2016, 79:2, eff. July 18, 2016.|