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NH Rev Stat § 231:160-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:160-a - Exception for Existing Locations.

    231:160-a Exception for Existing Locations. –||Any poles, structures, conduits, cables or wires, the location of which have already been approved by the local land use board as part of a subdivision, site plan, or other development approval, shall, if such location becomes a public highway, be deemed legally permitted or licensed without further proceedings under this subdivision; provided, that copies of the appropriate utilities' easements, work plans, or other data showing locations of such structures, are submitted to the municipality for recording purposes.|||Source. 1989, 90:1, eff. June 30, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:162 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:162 - Confirming Locations.

    231:162 Confirming Locations. –||Similar proceedings may be had for locating and licensing poles and structures and underground conduits and cables already constructed with or without license, or for changing the location of any such property constructed with or without license; but nothing contained in this section or this subdivision shall affect the validity of locations heretofore granted.|||Source. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:3. 1945, 188:1, part 24:3. RSA 254:4. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:163 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:163 - Changes.

    231:163 Changes. –||Any such licensee or any person whose rights or interests are affected by any such license may petition the selectmen for changes in the terms thereof; and after notice to the parties and hearing, the selectmen may make such alterations therein as the public good requires. The selectmen, after notice to any such licensee and hearing, may from time to time revoke or change the terms and conditions of any such license, whenever the public good requires.|||Source. 1881, 54:4. PS 81:3. PL 97:3. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:4. 1945, 188:1, part 24:4. RSA 254:5. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:164 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:164 - Return and Record.

    231:164 Return and Record. –||The selectmen or the board of mayor and aldermen or other board having authority to locate poles and wires in cities, or the commissioner of transportation, within 6 months after any petition authorized by this subdivision has been presented for action, shall make a return of their proceedings and their decision thereon; provided, however, that if a permit is granted upon petition therefor, return and decision upon the petition for license presented in connection with such petition for permit shall be made on or before the expiration of such permit. They shall cause the petition for license and their return to be recorded by the clerk of the city or town in which the poles, structures, conduits, cables or wires are located.|||Source. PS 81:8. PL 97:8. 1935, 100:1. 1937, 102:2. RL 113:5. 1943, 126:2. 1945, 188:1, part 24:5. RSA 254:6. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(3).|
NH Rev Stat § 231:165 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:165 - Services and Fees.

    231:165 Services and Fees. –||I. If the proprietors of the line are the petitioners, they shall pay the town clerk for his services and fees.||II. If a landowner is the petitioner he shall advance the payment for such services and fees, and if his petition is sustained he may recover the same from the proprietors of the line.||III. The town clerk shall be entitled to a fee of $10, which shall be remitted when the license is recorded.|||Source. PS 81:8. PL 97:9. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:6. 1945, 188:1, part 24:6. RSA 254:7. 1981, 87:1; 360:1. 1991, 252:1, eff. Aug. 9, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:166 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:166 - Petition to Court.

    231:166 Petition to Court. –||If the selectmen or the board of mayor and aldermen or other board having authority to locate poles and wires in cities, or the commissioner of transportation, shall neglect or refuse to decide and make return of their proceedings upon any petition authorized hereby within the times limited by RSA 231:164, or if any party whose interests are affected by their decision on any such petition or in granting a license, changing the terms thereof, or revoking the same, is dissatisfied therewith, the petitioner or party so dissatisfied may apply to the superior court for relief within 60 days after the expiration of the times limited by RSA 231:164 or after such decision; and like proceedings shall thereupon be had as in the case of appeals from the laying out of highways by selectmen.|||Source. 1881, 54:7. PS 81:9. 1897, 16:1. PL 97:10. 1935, 100:1. 1937, 102:3. RL 113:7. 1945, 188:1, part 24:7. RSA 254:8. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(3).|
NH Rev Stat § 231:167 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:167 - Damages.

    231:167 Damages. –||If any person shall be damaged in his estate by the erection of any such poles or other structures, or by the installation of any such underground conduits or cables or by installing or placing any wire, cable, guy, cross-arm, fixtures, transformers, manhole, drain, or other apparatus in or under the highway by authority of any such license, he may apply to the selectmen to assess his damages. Such proceedings shall thereupon be had as are provided in the case of assessment of damages in laying out highways by the selectmen, and such damages, if any, may be awarded as shall be legally and justly due.|||Source. 1881, 54:6. PS 81:6. 1897, 81:1. PL 97:6. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:8. 1945, 188:1, part 24:8. RSA 254:9. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:168 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:168 - Interference With Travel.

    231:168 Interference With Travel. –||The location of poles and structures and of underground conduits and cables by the selectmen shall be made so far as reasonably possible so that the same and the attachments and appurtenances thereto will not interfere with the safe, free and convenient use for public travel of the highway or of any private way leading therefrom to adjoining premises or with the use of such premises or of any other similar property of another licensee. The location of any such pole or structure or underground conduit or cable, when designated by the selectmen pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision shall be conclusive as to the right of the licensee to construct and maintain the same in the place located without liability to others except as is expressly provided in RSA 231:175 and 231:176. In no event shall any town or city or any official or employee thereof or of the department of transportation be under liability by reason of the death of or damages sustained by any person or to any property occasioned by or resulting from the location, construction, or maintenance of any pole, structure, conduit, cable, wire, or other apparatus in any highway, pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision.|||Source. 1877, 50:1. GL 80:1. 1881, 54:2, 5. PS 81:4. PL 97:4. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:10. 1945, 188:1, part 24:9. RSA 254:10. 1959, 223:3. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(a)(3).|
NH Rev Stat § 231:169 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:169 - Joint Licenses.

    231:169 Joint Licenses. –||Joint licenses for erecting or installing and maintaining any jointly owned poles, structures, conduits, cables and wires may be granted under the provisions hereof to 2 or more petitioners.|||Source. 1935, 100:1. 1937, 102:5. RL 113:11. 1945, 188:1, part 24:10. RSA 254:11. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:170 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:170 - Transfer of License.

    231:170 Transfer of License. –||In connection with the transfer of all or any interest in any poles, structures, conduits, cables, or wires, the transferor may by appropriate assignment transfer his or its license to maintain the same and the transferee shall be entitled to have and exercise such license to the extent necessary for his or its use of the transferred property, upon recording such assignment with the clerk of the town in which said property is situated.|||Source. 1937, 102:6. RL 113:12. 1945, 188:1, part 24:11. RSA 254:12. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:171 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:171 - Renewal and Replacement.

    231:171 Renewal and Replacement. –||Any pole or structure or underground conduit or cable installed under license as provided herein may be renewed or replaced as occasion requires in approximately the location originally designated therefor; and any variation in location which is reasonably necessary in making such renewal or replacement in the usual or customary manner, shall not affect the rights of the licensee as defined herein.|||Source. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:13. 1945, 188:1, part 24:12. RSA 254:13. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:173 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:173 - Unlicensed.

    231:173 Unlicensed. –||If any such pole, or structure, or underground conduit or cable, or any attachment or appurtenance thereto, is willfully placed or maintained in any highway without valid license therefor, it shall be removed upon demand by the authority having jurisdiction to issue licenses pursuant to this subdivision at the place where such pole, or structure, or underground conduit or cable, or any attachment or appurtenance thereto is located.|||Source. PS 81:10. PL 97:11. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:15. 1945, 188:1, part 24:14. RSA 254:15. 1959, 223:4. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:174 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:174 - No Prescriptive Right.

    231:174 No Prescriptive Right. –||No enjoyment by a person, copartnership, or corporation for any length of time of the privilege of having or maintaining wires and their supports and appurtenances in, upon, over, or attached to any building or land of other persons, shall create an easement or raise any presumption of a grant thereof.|||Source. 1881, 54:2. PS 81:9. PL 97:12. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:16. 1945, 188:1, part 24:15. RSA 254:16. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:175 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:175 - To Indemnify Town.

    231:175 To Indemnify Town. –||The proprietors of every line of wire strung in a highway shall indemnify the town against all damages, costs and expenses to which it may be subjected by reason of any insufficiency or defect in the highway occasioned by the presence of the wires and their supports therein.|||Source. PS 81:16. PL 97:15. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:17. 1945, 188:1, part 24:16. RSA 254:17. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:176 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:176 - To Party Injured.

    231:176 To Party Injured. –||Any party receiving injury in his person or estate from any pole, or structure, or underground conduit or cable, or any attachment or appurtenance thereto within the highway limits may maintain an action for damages against the proprietor of the object causing such injury if such injury has been caused by the location of the object so as to interfere with the safe, free and convenient use of the highway, or by the negligent construction, operation or maintenance of such object; provided, however, that where a pole is unlicensed, the burden of proving that the object causing injury did not interfere with the safe, free and convenient use of the highway, or that such object was not negligently constructed, operated or maintained shall be upon the proprietor of such object. The provisions of this section shall not apply to actions for damages based upon injuries occurring prior to October 10, 1959.|||Source. PS 81:16. PL 97:16. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:18. 1945, 188:1, part 24:17. RSA 254:18. 1959, 223:5. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:177 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:177 - Removal of Wires and Poles by the State or Town After Notice.

    231:177 Removal of Wires and Poles by the State or Town After Notice. –||Poles used by telephone, telegraph or other public utilities including railroads and street railways may be removed after 10 days' notice in writing of the intention to remove the same has been given by the commissioner of transportation or the highway agent of any city or town.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 24:18. RSA 254:19. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(3).|
NH Rev Stat § 231:178 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:178 - Service of Notice.

    231:178 Service of Notice. –||Such notice may be served by any agent of the department of transportation or by the highway agent of any city or town on such utility or any agent or officer thereof.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 24:19. RSA 254:20. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(a)(3).|
NH Rev Stat § 231:179 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:179 - Notice; Contents; Record.

    231:179 Notice;  Contents;  Record. –||The notice of removal of any such pole shall designate the location in the highway to which the same shall be removed, and such notice, together with affidavit or acceptance of service thereof, shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the city or town in which such pole is located. The notice shall take effect when the same, with such affidavit or acceptance of service endorsed thereon, shall be thus recorded, and the 10 days shall run from the date of such record.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 24:20. RSA 254:21. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:180 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:180 - Defining Location.

    231:180 Defining Location. –||The location defined in such notice of any pole so removed, together with the wires thereon, shall be of the same validity as if made under a permit by the commissioner of transportation in case of state maintained highways or selectmen or mayor and aldermen in case of other highways.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 24:21. RSA 254:22. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(3).|
NH Rev Stat § 231:181 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:181 - Time of Removal.

    231:181 Time of Removal. –||All such poles shall be removed within the time designated, and, if not removed by the date stated in such notice, may be forthwith removed by the agency giving notice at the expense of the owner.|||Source. 1945, 188:1, part 24:22. RSA 254:23. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:182 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:182 - Temporary Removal.

    231:182 Temporary Removal. –||Whenever it shall be necessary for any lawful purpose temporarily to displace, remove, or sever any wire, pole, or structure lawfully maintained in any highway and the proprietor thereof shall neglect or refuse to take such action within 24 hours after request therefor, the person desiring such action may apply to the selectmen for an order requiring such action to be taken by such proprietor. Thereupon the selectmen shall appoint a hearing to be held within 6 days after such petition has been presented to them and shall give such proprietor at least 3 days' notice thereof. After hearing, the selectmen may by order require the proprietor to take the action requested, if in their judgment said action is reasonably necessary, and fix the time within which it shall be completed and specify whether the petitioner shall pay all or any part of the expense thereof; and it shall be the duty of such proprietor to comply with such order within the time stated therein and he shall thereupon be entitled to reimbursement from the petitioner in accordance with said order, within 6 days after demand therefor by the proprietor stating the amount. Such proprietor shall be entitled to recover from the petitioner in an action of debt the petitioner's part of the expense determined in said order. In case such proprietor shall fail to comply with such order, he shall forfeit to the petitioner a sum equivalent to $10 for each day while such default continues.|||Source. 1870, 10:1. GL 80:3. PS 81:14. PL 97:13. 1935, 100:1. RL 113:19. 1945, 188:1, part 24:23. RSA 254:24. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:183 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:183 - Applicability of Subdivision.

    231:183 Applicability of Subdivision. –||The provisions of this subdivision shall apply to all cities and towns now or hereafter incorporated, except such provisions thereof as may have been or are hereafter specifically amended or repealed in the act of incorporation.|||Source. 1949, 287:1. RSA 255:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:184 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:184 - Excavation in Highway.

    231:184 Excavation in Highway. –||No person or corporation shall dig up any highway or public ground for the purpose of laying water or gas pipes, or other pipes or structures therein, or of repairing the same, without first obtaining the consent of the commissioner of transportation or his division engineer when the excavation is in any state-maintained highway and in all other cases the consent of the selectmen or highway agent of the town or the mayor and aldermen or street commissioner of the city; except, in cases of emergency where the public health or safety is endangered, such action may be taken as provided in RSA 236:9.|||Source. 1854, 1527:1. GS 141:1. 1868, 1:40. GL 155:1. PS 82:1. PL 98:1. RL 114:1. 1945, 188:1, part 25:1. RSA 255:2. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(b)(3).|
NH Rev Stat § 231:185 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:185 - Restoring Highway.

    231:185 Restoring Highway. –||Every person and every corporation who shall dig up any highway or public ground for such purpose shall restore the highway or ground to as good condition as it was in before so doing, without unnecessary delay, and shall take all necessary precautions to protect the public from injury by their acts.|||Source. 1854, 1527:1. GS 141:1. 1868, 1:40. GL 155:1. PS 82:2. PL 98:2. RL 114:2. 1945, 188:1, part 25:2. RSA 255:3. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:186 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:186 - Liability for Damages.

    231:186 Liability for Damages. –||They shall be liable for all damages occasioned to the town or city, or to any person, by an act so done or by any negligence connected therewith.|||Source. 1854, 1527:1. GS 141:1. 1868, 1:40. GL 155:1. PS 82:2. PL 98:3. RL 114:3. 1945, 188:1, part 25:3. RSA 255:4. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:187 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:187 - Petition for Easement.

    231:187 Petition for Easement. –||Selectmen, upon petition of any aqueduct or gaslight corporation or company, or of any person who supplies water or gas to people for hire, may lay out for the petitioner an easement to place and maintain pipes and other structures for conveying water or gas in any unaccepted street or private way in the town if they find that the public good requires it.|||Source. 1877, 55:1, 2. GL 155:2, 3. PS 82:3. PL 98:4. RL 114:4. 1945, 188:1, part 25:4. RSA 255:5. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:188 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:188 - Procedure.

    231:188 Procedure. –||They shall proceed upon such petition the same as in the laying out of a highway; and the owner of the land in which the easement is taken shall have like remedy by appeal.|||Source. 1877, 55:2, 3. GL 155:3, 4. PS 82:4. PL 98:5. RL 114:5. 1945, 188:1, part 25:5. RSA 255:6. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:189 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:189 - Malicious Injury to Aqueducts or Pipes; Penalty.

    231:189 Malicious Injury to Aqueducts or Pipes;  Penalty. –||Any person who shall wantonly and maliciously injure any aqueduct, or the pipes, logs or other property of any gaslight company, aqueduct company or person, shall be liable to pay treble damages to such company or person in an action on the case, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person.|||Source. 1854, 1527:2. GS 141:2. 1868, 1:41. GL 155:5. PS 82:5. PL 98:6. RL 114:6. 1945, 188:1, part 25:6. RSA 255:7. 1973, 529:45. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:190 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:190 - Statement of Purpose.

    231:190 Statement of Purpose. –||The general court finds that important sectors of commerce of this state depend, in part, on the efficient vehicle transport of unprocessed natural resources, manufactured goods and other commercial products across class IV, V, and VI municipal roads. The condition of such roads may at times necessitate that certain limits, seasonal or otherwise, as authorized in RSA 41:11, be placed upon the weight of vehicles that can safely pass across such roads, so as to avoid causing damage which may result in hazards to public safety or excessive municipal expense. The general court urges municipalities to exercise this authority in ways that do not unreasonably infringe on the efficient movement of unprocessed natural resources, manufactured goods and other commercial products essential to a healthy state economy.|||Source. 1995, 104:1, eff. July 15, 1995.|