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NH Rev Stat § 479-B:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVIII - Conveyances and Mortgages of Realty|Title 479-B - Foreclosure Consultants and Pre-Foreclosure Conveyances|Section 479-B:7 - Maintenance of Rights Against Transferee.

    479-B:7 Maintenance of Rights Against Transferee. –||I. Any agreement, encumbrance, assignment or transfer of any interest in violation of this chapter shall be voidable at the option of the homeowner, until the time of a completed conveyance to a third party.||II. No action shall be brought under this chapter more than 3 years from the date of the violation.|||Source. 2007, 322:1, eff. July 16, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 479-B:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVIII - Conveyances and Mortgages of Realty|Title 479-B - Foreclosure Consultants and Pre-Foreclosure Conveyances|Section 479-B:8 - Violation of the Consumer Protection Act.

    479-B:8 Violation of the Consumer Protection Act. –||A violation of this chapter is considered to be a violation of the New Hampshire consumer protection act, RSA 358-A, and all remedies of the consumer protection act are available for such violations.|||Source. 2007, 322:1, eff. July 16, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 479-B:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVIII - Conveyances and Mortgages of Realty|Title 479-B - Foreclosure Consultants and Pre-Foreclosure Conveyances|Section 479-B:9 - Criminal Penalties.

    479-B:9 Criminal Penalties. –||A person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.|||Source. 2007, 322:1, eff. July 16, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 479-B:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVIII - Conveyances and Mortgages of Realty|Title 479-B - Foreclosure Consultants and Pre-Foreclosure Conveyances|Section 479-B:10 - Contracts and Notices.

    479-B:10 Contracts and Notices. –||I. All disclosures, contracts, and notices required by this chapter shall be made clearly and conspicuously in language comprehensible by persons without training or knowledge in the area of real property and finance.||II. All notices required by this chapter, other than the homeowner's notice that he or she is canceling a contract, shall be printed in at least 14-point type.||III. Notices of cancellation that are required by this chapter to accompany certain contracts shall be their own separate documents, not printed on the back of any other document.|||Source. 2007, 322:1, eff. July 16, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:1 - Amount.

    480:1 Amount. –||Every person is entitled to $120,000 worth of his or her homestead, or of his or her interest therein, as a homestead. The homestead right created by this chapter shall exist in manufactured housing, as defined by RSA 674:31, which is owned and occupied as a dwelling by the same person but shall not exist in the land upon which the manufactured housing is situated if that land is not also owned by the owner of the manufactured housing.|||Source. 1851, 1089:1. CS 196:1. GS 124:1. 1868, 1:33. 1878, 22:1, 2, 3. GL 138:1, 5, 6. PS 138:1. PL 214:1. RL 260:1. 1947, 72:1. 1953, 133:1. RSA 480:1. 1973, 212:1. 1977, 299:1. 1981, 333:1. 1983, 230:15. 1991, 362:5. 1992, 118:1. 2001, 70:1. 2003, 169:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004. 2015, 57:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:2 - Repealed by 1973, 212:2, eff. Aug. 11, 1973.

    480:2 Repealed by 1973, 212:2, eff. Aug. 11, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 480:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:3 - Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961.

    480:3 Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961. –|
NH Rev Stat § 480:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:3-a - Duration.

    480:3-a Duration. –||The owner and the husband or wife of the owner are entitled to occupy the homestead right during the owner's lifetime. After the decease of the owner, the surviving wife or husband of the owner is entitled to the homestead right during the lifetime of such survivor.|||Source. 1961, 96:1, eff. June 19, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:4 - Exemption.

    480:4 Exemption. –||The homestead right is exempt from attachment during its continuance from levy or sale on execution, and from liability to be encumbered or taken for the payment of debts, except in the following cases:||I. In the collection of taxes;||II. In the enforcement of liens of mechanics and others for debts created in the construction, repair or improvement of the homestead;||III. In the enforcement of mortgages which are made a charge thereon according to law;||IV. In the enforcement of liens filed by homeowner associations or by condominium associations under RSA 356-B, for unpaid assessments against the homestead, including collection costs; and||V. In the levy of executions as provided in this chapter.|||Source. 1851, 1089:1, 5. CS 196:1, 5. GS 124:1, 18. 1868, 1:33. GL 138:1, 23. PS 138:3. PL 214:3. RL 260:3. 2014, 169:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:5 - Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961.

    480:5 Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961. –|
NH Rev Stat § 480:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:5-a - Encumbering.

    480:5-a Encumbering. –||No deed shall convey or encumber the homestead right, except a mortgage made at the time of purchase to secure payment of the purchase money, unless it is executed by the owner and wife or husband, if any, with the formalities required for the conveyance of land.|||Source. 1961, 96:2, eff. June 19, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:6 - Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961.

    480:6 Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961. –|
NH Rev Stat § 480:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:6-a - Devise.

    480:6-a Devise. –||No devise of the homestead shall affect the estate of the surviving wife or husband in the homestead right.|||Source. 1961, 96:3, eff. June 19, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:7 - Levy, Etc.

    480:7 Levy, Etc. –||The officer required to levy an execution on the debtor's property in which a homestead right may exist may levy the execution and set off or sell said property in accordance with the provisions of RSA 529, subject to any such homestead right.|||Source. 1851, 1089:3. CS 196:3. GS 124:5. GL 138:7. PS 138:6. PL 214:6. 1935, 70:1. RL 260:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:8 - Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961.

    480:8 Repealed by 1961, 96:5, eff. June 19, 1961. –|
NH Rev Stat § 480:8-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:8-a - Establishing Right.

    480:8-a Establishing Right. –||The superior court, upon petition of the owner of a homestead or the wife or husband surviving such owner, or upon petition of a judgment creditor and such notice as it may order, may appoint appraisers and cause the homestead right to be set off, and a record of the proceedings being made in the registry of deeds, the right shall be established as against all persons.|||Source. 1961, 96:4, eff. June 19, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 480:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLIX - Homesteads|Title 480 - The Homestead Right|Section 480:9 - Homestead Rights.

    480:9 Homestead Rights. –||A conveyance of real property by deed to one or more trustees of a revocable trust shall not result in the loss of homestead rights of any person executing the deed (unless the deed contains an express release of homestead rights by such person) provided that such retained homestead rights in any such property shall not be enforceable against any other person to the extent such other person acquired an interest in or lien on the property after its conveyance into the trust without having notice of the revocability of the trust. Such notice may be given by the inclusion of the word "revocable" in the name of the trust as recited in the deed, or by the recitation in the deed or a subsequently recorded document that at the time of the conveyance the trust was a revocable trust.|||Source. 1997, 97:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:1 - Declaration of Policy.

    481:1 Declaration of Policy. –||The general court finds that an adequate supply of water is indispensable to the health, welfare and safety of the people of the state and is essential to the balance of the natural environment of the state. Further, the water resources of the state are subject to an ever-increasing demand for new and competing uses. The general court declares and determines that the water of New Hampshire whether located above or below ground constitutes a limited and, therefore, precious and invaluable public resource which should be protected, conserved and managed in the interest of present and future generations. The state as trustee of this resource for the public benefit declares that it has the authority and responsibility to provide careful stewardship over all the waters lying within its boundaries. The maximum public benefit shall be sought, including the assurance of health and safety, the enhancement of ecological and aesthetic values, and the overall economic, recreational and social well-being of the people of the state. All levels of government within the state, all departments, agencies, boards and commissions, and all other entities, public or private, having authority over the use, disposition or diversion of water resources, or over the use of the land overlying, or adjacent to, the water resources of the state, shall comply with this policy and with the state's comprehensive plan and program for water resources management and protection.|||Source. 1935, 121:1. 1937, 118:1. RL 266:1. RSA 481:1. 1981, 505:1. 1983, 402:2. 1985, 400:6, eff. June 26, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:1-a - Declaration of Need.

    481:1-a Declaration of Need. –||I. It is declared that there is a statewide need for conservation and distribution of water and the regulation of the flow of rivers and streams, and for the development and promotion of hydro-energy resources, and that the public interest, welfare and necessity may, at times, require the construction of projects for the conservation, development, storage, distribution, and utilization of water and the operation of hydro-energy production facilities relying on water energy resources. The department of environmental services shall be regarded as performing a governmental function in carrying out these provisions. In carrying out the provisions and purposes of this chapter, the department of environmental services shall not, however, perform promotion activities which involve new or existing hydroelectric generation projects.||II. It is further declared that there is a special public need for dams, reservoirs and hydro-energy production facilities at strategic locations for regulating the flow of rivers and streams to lessen damages resulting from floods and to promote the state's industrial and economic welfare by enhancing and utilizing the present and potential water power along the rivers and streams. The construction, maintenance and operation of such dams, reservoirs and hydro-energy production facilities is the primary purpose of this chapter.|||Source. 1985, 400:6. 1986, 202:16, eff. Jan. 2, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:1-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:1-b - Repealed by 2010, 368:1(32), eff. Dec. 31, 2010.

    481:1-b Repealed by 2010, 368:1(32), eff. Dec. 31, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 481:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:2 - Definitions.

    481:2 Definitions. –||As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings:||I. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of environmental services.||I-a. "Department" means the department of environmental services.||II. [Omitted.]||III. "Cost of project" shall mean the cost of construction; the cost of all lands, property, rights, easements, and franchises acquired which are deemed necessary for construction; the cost of all machinery and equipment; financing charges; interest prior to and during construction; cost of engineering and legal expense, plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of costs, and other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of any project; all costs to operate, maintain, and repair the project; the proportionate administrative expense properly allocable to a project as determined by the department; and other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of the project.||III-a. "Groundwater" shall mean all water in the ground below the water table.||IV. "Hydro-energy production facility" shall mean any of those facilities which are adapted to producing and utilizing electrical or mechanical power from water resources, such as power plants and appurtenant substations, including transmission lines to the extent that the lines are necessary to utilize the power produced by a hydro-energy production facility.||V. "Project" shall be deemed to include all property, rights, easements and franchises relating to the project and necessary or convenient for its operation. "Project" shall include all means of accomplishing the purposes set forth in RSA 481:1, including, but not limited to, projects involving reservoirs, dams, diversion and distribution canals, lateral ditches, pumping units, mains, pipe lines, waterworks systems and hydro-energy production facilities. The department may enter into projects by means of contracts or agreements with any public or private entity.|||Source. 1935, 121:2. 1937, 118:2. RL 266:2. RSA 481:2. 1981, 505:2. 1983, 402:3. 1986, 202:6, I(k). 1996, 228:53, 54, 106. 2009, 112:5, eff. Aug. 14, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:3 - Authority of Commissioner.

    481:3 Authority of Commissioner. –||The commissioner may engage in projects, financed as set forth in this chapter. The commissioner is authorized:||I. To investigate and identify the facilities for storing surplus water, and for conserving, controlling and distributing surplus water, and to investigate and identify facilities for the production and utilization of hydro-energy;||II. To acquire, hold and dispose of personal property for the department's purposes;||III. To acquire in the name of the state by purchase, condemnation, lease, or otherwise, real property and rights and easements relating to the real property deemed by it necessary or desirable for its corporate purposes. The commissioner may also use the property;||IV. To sell, lease and dispose of real property and rights and easements relating to the real property not needed in the judgment of the commissioner for the purposes of this chapter;||V. To construct, reconstruct, maintain and operate projects;||VI. To charge and collect fees, rents and tolls for water, the use of water, water supply, water storage, hydro-energy production facilities, sites for hydro-energy production facilities, and other related services, subject to and in accordance with agreements with bondholders, water users, developers and operators as provided in this chapter;||VII. [Repealed.]||VIII. To exercise any of the commissioner's powers:||(a) In any adjoining state or adjoining country, unless the exercise of the power is not permitted under the laws of such state, a country or the United States of America; or||(b) In any public domain of the United States adjoining or located in this state, unless the exercise of the power is not permitted under the laws of the United States of America;||IX. [Repealed.]||X. To apply for and hold all necessary permits and licenses, and to meet all requirements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in developing hydro-energy production facilities, subject to the authority of the division of economic development in the department of business and economic affairs to promote hydro-energy projects;||X-a. To provide technical assistance to the division of economic development of the department of business and economic affairs when the division requests such assistance in the promotion or development of a hydro-energy project;||XI. [Repealed.]||XII. [Repealed.]||XIII. To do all things necessary or incidental to the foregoing powers.|||Source. 1935, 121:3. RL 266:3. RSA 481:3. 1969, 399:2. 1981, 505:3. 1983, 402:4, 5. 1985, 215:1. 1986, 202:6, I(k), 17, 18, 29, XI. 1989, 339:35, XII. 1996, 228:55, 56, 104, 106. 2009, 112:13, II, III, eff. Aug. 14, 2009. 2017, 156:14, II, eff. July 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:3-a - Lease Program for Lake Francis.

    481:3-a Lease Program for Lake Francis. –||It is the intent of the legislature to authorize a property leasing program, upon those lands under the jurisdiction of the department on the Lake Francis impoundment property. The goal of the property leasing program is to make a solid contribution to the economic vitality of the Pittsburg-Clarksville region. This policy is further designed to engender an appreciation for the appeal of northern New Hampshire for the people of New Hampshire. To accomplish these goals the department shall establish and administer, upon the property of the Lake Francis impoundment area, a property leasing program as a responsibility secondary in priority to the ongoing water resource project of Lake Francis. The department shall have the full authority, as is required, to organize a property leasing program which is compatible with its primary on-site water resource project. The administration of the property leasing program shall be accomplished subject to the following conditions:||I. The present lessees shall be given first priority in leasing their present property under the new program.||II. The term of the leases, subject to appropriate behavior as determined by the department, shall be 25 years and shall be renewable at the option of the lessee. The rental payment shall be recalculated and adjusted no later than 5 years following its last determination.|||Source. 1996, 135:1. 2009, 112:6, eff. Aug. 14, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:4 - Repealed by 2009, 112:13, IV, eff. Aug. 14, 2009.

    481:4 Repealed by 2009, 112:13, IV, eff. Aug. 14, 2009. –|
NH Rev Stat § 481:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:5 - Repealed by 1986, 202:29, XII, eff. Jan. 2, 1987.

    481:5 Repealed by 1986, 202:29, XII, eff. Jan. 2, 1987. –|
NH Rev Stat § 481:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:6 - Powers.

    481:6 Powers. –||I. The commissioner shall have the power to make contracts with the United States, any state in the United States, a foreign country, or any public corporation or body in another state or country.||II. The commissioner may:||(a) Accept grants from the United States or any federal agency;||(b) Cooperate with or accept aid from the United States or any federal agency in the construction, maintenance, operation and financing of any project;||(c) Do all things necessary in order to receive federal aid or engage in cooperation with the federal government;||(d) Cooperate with any adjoining state or agencies of a state in the planning, construction, maintenance, operation, or financing of any project located partly within this state; and||(e) Use and control all public waters of the state and all waters to which the state is entitled by reason of water rights owned by the state as is necessary to carry out this chapter.|||Source. 1935, 121:5. RL 266:5. 1950, 9:1. RSA 481:6. 1981, 505:4. 1986, 202:20. 1996, 228:105, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:6-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:6-a - Repealed by 2009, 112:13, V, eff. Aug. 14, 2009.

    481:6-a Repealed by 2009, 112:13, V, eff. Aug. 14, 2009. –|
NH Rev Stat § 481:6-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:6-b - Repealed by 2009, 112:13, VI, eff. Aug. 14, 2009.

    481:6-b Repealed by 2009, 112:13, VI, eff. Aug. 14, 2009. –|
NH Rev Stat § 481:6-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:6-c - Property Exempt From Levy.

    481:6-c Property Exempt From Levy. –||All property of the department and all property held in the name of the state under this chapter shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution. No execution or similar judicial process shall issue against the property. No judgment against the department shall be a lien upon its property or the property held in the name of the state under this chapter.|||Source. 1981, 505:5. 1986, 202:6, I(k). 1996, 228:106, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 481:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title L - Water Management and Protection|Title 481 - State Dams, Reservoirs and Other Water Conservation Projects|Section 481:7 - Repealed by 2009, 112:13, VII, eff. Aug. 14, 2009.

    481:7 Repealed by 2009, 112:13, VII, eff. Aug. 14, 2009. –|