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NH Rev Stat § 471-C:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-C - Custody and Escheat of Unclaimed and Abandoned Property|Section 471-C:38 - Interest and Penalties.

    471-C:38 Interest and Penalties. –||I. A person who fails to pay or deliver property within the time prescribed by this chapter may be assessed interest by the administrator at the annual rate of 18 percent on the property or value thereof from the date the property should have been paid or delivered, or $25, whichever is greater.||II. A person who willfully fails to render any report or perform other duties required under this chapter may be assessed a civil penalty of $100 for each day the report is withheld or the duty is not performed, but not more than $5,000.||III. A person who willfully fails to pay or deliver property to the administrator as required under this chapter shall pay a civil penalty equal to 25 percent of the value of the property that should have been paid or delivered.||IV. A person who willfully refuses after written demand by the administrator to pay or deliver property to the administrator as required under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1986, 204:1. 1995, 295:2. 1999, 212:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-C:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-C - Custody and Escheat of Unclaimed and Abandoned Property|Section 471-C:39 - Agreement to Locate, Deliver, or Recover Reported Property.

    471-C:39 Agreement to Locate, Deliver, or Recover Reported Property. –||I. All agreements to pay compensation to locate, deliver, recover, or assist in the recovery of property reported under RSA 471-C:19, made within 24 months after the date payment or delivery is made under RSA 471-C:21, are unenforceable.||II. An agreement to pay compensation to recover or assist in the recovery of unclaimed property shall be valid only if the agreement is in writing and signed by the apparent owner, sets forth the nature and value of the property and the value of the apparent owner's share after the fee or compensation has been deducted, and contains the following disclosure: "Each state maintains an office of abandoned property. Generally, if for a number of years an owner of property has not communicated in writing directly with the holder of the property and has not otherwise indicated an interest in the property, the property may be transferred to the office of abandoned property which will act as custodian of the property for the owner."||III. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent an owner from asserting at any time that an agreement to locate property is based upon an excessive or unjust consideration.|||Source. 1986, 204:1. 1995, 230:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-C:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-C - Custody and Escheat of Unclaimed and Abandoned Property|Section 471-C:40 - Foreign Transactions.

    471-C:40 Foreign Transactions. –||This chapter does not apply to any property held, due and owing in a foreign country, and arising out of foreign transactions.|||Source. 1986, 204:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-C:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-C - Custody and Escheat of Unclaimed and Abandoned Property|Section 471-C:41 - Effect of New Provisions.

    471-C:41 Effect of New Provisions. –||I. This chapter does not relieve a holder of a duty that arose before January 1, 1987, to report, pay, or deliver property. A holder who did not comply with the law in effect before January 1, 1987, shall be subject to the applicable enforcement and penalty provisions that then existed and they are continued in effect for the purpose of this paragraph, subject to RSA 471-C:33, II.||II. The initial report filed under this chapter for property that was not required to be reported before January 1, 1987, shall include all items of property that would have been presumed abandoned during the 10-year period preceding January 1, 1987, as if this chapter had been in effect during that period.|||Source. 1986, 204:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-C:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-C - Custody and Escheat of Unclaimed and Abandoned Property|Section 471-C:42 - Rulemaking.

    471-C:42 Rulemaking. –||The administrator may adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1986, 204:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-C:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-C - Custody and Escheat of Unclaimed and Abandoned Property|Section 471-C:43 - Severability.

    471-C:43 Severability. –||If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 1986, 204:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-D:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-D - Disposal of Unclaimed Property by Repair Businesses|Section 471-D:1 - Definition.

    471-D:1 Definition. –||In this chapter "owner" means a person having a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this chapter or his legal representative.|||Source. 1988, 256:4, eff. June 29, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-D:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-D - Disposal of Unclaimed Property by Repair Businesses|Section 471-D:2 - Disposal by Repair Businesses of Certain Unclaimed Property.

    471-D:2 Disposal by Repair Businesses of Certain Unclaimed Property. –||I. Notwithstanding RSA 471-C, a person who repairs, alters, treats, or improves personal property in the ordinary course of his business pursuant to an express or implied contract with an owner of the personal property may, upon compliance with the notice requirement under paragraph II, dispose of any personal property of a value of $500 or less, other than a motor vehicle, that has not been claimed by the owner for a period of 60 days or more after his receipt of written notice that the property is ready to be claimed.||II. The repair business shall, at the time the property is surrendered, have a written notice of dimensions of not less than 81/2 by 11 inches prominently displayed in a conspicuous place in the office or shop where the property was surrendered containing the following message: "Not responsible for goods left on hand for more than 60 days". When the property has been repaired or otherwise processed, the repair business shall notify the owner of the property, by certified mail with return receipt requested, that the property is ready to be claimed.|||Source. 1988, 256:4, eff. June 29, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 471-D:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVI - Lost Property; Strays|Title 471-D - Disposal of Unclaimed Property by Repair Businesses|Section 471-D:3 - Exemption From Liability.

    471-D:3 Exemption From Liability. –||Any person who disposes of property in accordance with this chapter shall not be liable for damages to the owner of such disposed property.|||Source. 1988, 256:4, eff. June 29, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 472:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 472 - Boundary Lines|Section 472:1 - Disputed Boundary.

    472:1 Disputed Boundary. –||Whenever the boundary line between the land or estates of adjoining owners is in dispute, and the location of the same as described in the deeds of said owners or of their predecessors in title cannot be determined by the monuments and boundaries named in any of said deeds, the parties may establish said line by agreement in the following manner, and not otherwise.|||Source. 1903, 48:1. PL 219:27. RL 269:27.|
NH Rev Stat § 472:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 472 - Boundary Lines|Section 472:2 - Who Deemed Owner.

    472:2 Who Deemed Owner. –||The actual occupant shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be deemed the owner thereof.|||Source. RS 136:18. CS 142:18. GS 128:19. GL 142:19. PS 143:16. PL 219:16. RL 269:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 472:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 472 - Boundary Lines|Section 472:3 - Survey; Monuments.

    472:3 Survey;  Monuments. –||The line agreed upon shall be surveyed and established by courses and distances, and suitable and permanent monuments shall be placed at each end and at each angle of the boundary so agreed upon.|||Source. 1903, 48:1. PL 219:28. RL 269:28.|
NH Rev Stat § 472:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 472 - Boundary Lines|Section 472:4 - Agreement in Writing.

    472:4 Agreement in Writing. –||A writing, reciting that the parties signing the same are adjoining owners, that the division line between their lands is in dispute, that the line described in their respective deeds or in the deeds of any of their predecessors in title cannot be located on the ground by reason of the loss or obliteration of the monuments and boundaries therein named and described, and containing a full and complete description of the line thus agreed upon and established, and the volume and page where their said respective deeds are recorded, or if title was not acquired by deed, a statement identifying each owner's other source of title, shall be signed and acknowledged by the parties to the agreement before any officer having authority to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and recorded with the registry of deeds for the county where the lands are located, and, when the volume and page of an owner's deed is set forth in said agreement, the register of deeds shall note the recording of said agreement on the margin where the said respective deeds of the parties to said agreement are recorded. In those registries recording on microfilm, in lieu of noting the recording of said agreement on the margin where the respective deeds of the parties to said agreement are recorded, the register of deeds shall list all parties to the agreement in both the grantor and grantee indices.|||Source. 1903, 48:2. PL 219:29. RL 269:29. RSA 472:4. 1963, 173:1. 1977, 283:1. 1988, 85:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 472:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 472 - Boundary Lines|Section 472:5 - Permanent Magnetic Stations and True Meridian Lines Established.

    472:5 Permanent Magnetic Stations and True Meridian Lines Established. –||For the purpose of providing accuracy in land surveys, the commissioner of transportation shall be charged with the responsibility of cooperating with any agencies of the federal government engaged in studies of the earth's magnetism to the end of establishing true meridian lines at one or more suitable places in each county, and shall maintain in his office a list of all magnetic stations and true meridian lines established by such agencies in New Hampshire and shall furnish a copy of such list upon request.|||Source. 1951, 158:1. 2004, 257:33, eff. June 15, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 472:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 472 - Boundary Lines|Section 472:6 - Removing or Altering Boundary Markers.

    472:6 Removing or Altering Boundary Markers. –||I. Any person who purposely commits or causes to be committed any of the following acts with regard to a boundary marker knowing it to be a boundary marker shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: defacement, alteration of location, or removal of a stone wall or monument, or a mark on a tree, made for the purpose of designating a point, course or line in the boundary of a tract of land or in the dividing line between towns.||II. The provisions of paragraph I shall not apply when a boundary marker is moved pursuant to:||(a) Mutual agreement between all landowners whose property lines are affected by the moving of the boundary, or||(b) Authorization by government officials in order to more accurately place the boundary, or||(c) A finally adjudicated court order or decree, or||(d) A law that requires or allows the movement or alteration.|||Source. 1983, 21:2, eff. June 11, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:1 - Duty.

    473:1 Duty. –||The owners of adjoining lands under improvement shall build and repair the partition fence between them in equal shares.|||Source. RS 136:1. CS 142:1. GS 128:1. GL 142:1. PS 143:1. PL 219:1. RL 269:1.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:2 - Division by Agreement.

    473:2 Division by Agreement. –||Any division of such fence, made by the parties in writing and recorded in the town records, shall be binding upon the parties and all succeeding owners and occupants of the land.|||Source. RS 136:2. CS 142:2. GS 128:2. GL 142:2. PS 143:2. PL 219:2. RL 269:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:3 - Proof of Division.

    473:3 Proof of Division. –||Such division may be established by usage and acquiescence of the parties, and those under whom they claim, for 20 years.|||Source. 1862, 2614. GS 128:3. GL 142:3. PS 143:3. PL 219:3. RL 269:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:4 - Division by Fence-Viewers.

    473:4 Division by Fence-Viewers. –||If the parties do not agree upon a division, or a division has not been established by usage and acquiescence, the fence-viewers, upon application, shall make division, which, being recorded in the town records, shall be of the same force as a division made by the parties; and a copy of such record shall be evidence.|||Source. RS 136:3. CS 142:3. GS 128:4. GL 142:4. PS 143:4. PL 219:4. RL 269:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:5 - Legal Fences.

    473:5 Legal Fences. –||All fences of such height as to be reasonably adequate for their purpose and in good repair, consisting of rails, timber, boards or stone wall, barbed, electrified or woven wire, and all brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches, hedges and other things deemed by the fence-viewers to be equivalent thereto, shall be accounted legal and sufficient fences.|||Source. RS 136:4. CS 142:4. GS 128:5. GL 142:5. PS 143:5. PL 219:5. RL 269:5. RSA 473:5. 1967, 78:1, eff. June 26, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:6 - Proceedings for Insufficiency.

    473:6 Proceedings for Insufficiency. –||The fence-viewers, upon application of either party, shall view any fence alleged to be insufficient, and, if they judge it to be so, shall give notice to the delinquent party to build or repair the same within a time by them limited.|||Source. RS 136:5. CS 142:5. GS 128:6. GL 142:6. PS 143:6. PL 219:6. RL 269:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:7 - Waters, When Not Sufficient Fence.

    473:7 Waters, When Not Sufficient Fence. –||The fence-viewers, upon application of either party, shall view any brook, river, pond, creek or ditch alleged not to be equivalent to a legal and sufficient fence, and, if they judge it to be not so equivalent, shall make a division of the fence, and, if it is impracticable to build it on the boundary line without unreasonable cost, shall determine where it shall be located, and shall give notice to the parties to build it according to such division and location within a time by them limited.|||Source. 1881, 35:1. PS 143:8. PL 219:7. RL 269:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:8 - Default in Building or Repair.

    473:8 Default in Building or Repair. –||If either party, notified as provided in RSA 473:6 or 473:7, shall not build or repair his part of such fence within the time limited, the other party may build it.|||Source. 1881, 35:1. PS 143:9. PL 219:8. RL 269:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:9 - Appraisal of Fence Constructed or Repaired.

    473:9 Appraisal of Fence Constructed or Repaired. –||The fence-viewers, upon application, shall view any fence built or repaired as provided in RSA 473:8, and if they judge the same and the residue of the fence between the same owners upon the same tract of land to be sufficient, they shall appraise the fence so built or the repairs so made.|||Source. RS 136:7. CS 142:7. GS 128:8. GL 142:8. PS 143:10. PL 219:9. RL 269:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:10 - Recovery.

    473:10 Recovery. –||The person so building or repairing may demand and recover double the appraised value thereof of the delinquent party, with costs of suit, in an action of assumpsit.|||Source. RS 136:8. CS 142:8. GS 128:9. GL 142:9. PS 143:11. PL 219:10. RL 269:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:11 - Improving Wild Land.

    473:11 Improving Wild Land. –||The owner of improved land adjoining unimproved land of another, having erected a division fence, may demand and recover of the owner of such adjoining land, whenever he begins to improve the same, the value of such part of the fence as upon a division then or previously made it was his duty to build.|||Source. RS 136:9. CS 142:9. GS 128:10. GL 142:10. PS 143:12. PL 219:11. RL 269:11.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:12 - New Division.

    473:12 New Division. –||If after a division of fence made or established between adjoining owners a new division for any cause shall become necessary, then either party who has maintained any part of the fence under the former division may demand and recover of the owner of the adjoining land at the time of such new division the value of such part of the fence as may be assigned to him on the new division.|||Source. RS 136:9. CS 142:9. GS 128:10. GL 142:10. PS 143:12. PL 219:12. RL 269:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:13 - Appraisal in Default of Agreement.

    473:13 Appraisal in Default of Agreement. –||In such case, if the parties do not agree, the fence-viewers, on application, shall appraise such part, and the party may recover the value appraised or agreed in an action of assumpsit for so much fence sold, if the same is not paid in 30 days after demand.|||Source. RS 136:10. CS 142:10. GS 128:11. GL 142:11. PS 143:13. PL 219:13. RL 269:13.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:14 - Laying Land in Common.

    473:14 Laying Land in Common. –||If the owner of land ceases to improve it, or lays it in common, and gives notice thereof in writing to the adjoining owner, if known, or files such notice with the town clerk if the adjoining owner is unknown, he shall not be bound to repair his part of the division fence, after giving or filing such notice, so long as the land remains unimproved or in common; but he shall not remove his part of the partition fence in existence when the notice is given or filed.|||Source. RS 136:11. CS 142:11. GS 128:12. GL 142:12. PS 143:14. PL 219:14. RL 269:14.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:15 - Liability for Damages.

    473:15 Liability for Damages. –||The party neglecting to build or keep in repair any partition fence which he is bound to maintain is liable for damages arising from such neglect, and shall have no remedy for damages happening to himself therefrom.|||Source. RS 136:12. CS 142:12. GS 128:13. GL 142:13. PS 143:15. PL 219:15. RL 269:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:16 - Who Deemed Owner.

    473:16 Who Deemed Owner. –||The actual occupant of land shall be deemed the owner thereof for any of the purposes of this chapter.|||Source. RS 136:18. CS 142:18. GS 128:19. GL 142:19. PS 143:16. PL 219:16. RL 269:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:17 - Application.

    473:17 Application. –||Every application to the fence-viewers shall be in writing, and one application may embrace so many subjects as from the nature of the case may be acted upon at one meeting.|||Source. RS 136:15. CS 142:15. GS 128:16. GL 142:16. PS 143:17. PL 219:17. RL 269:17.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:18 - Notice; Hearing.

    473:18 Notice;  Hearing. –||The fence-viewers shall give notice in writing to the other party interested therein of every application, and of the time and place for considering the same; shall hear the parties, if they attend, and their evidence; and shall make their decision in writing and cause a copy thereof to be given to each of the parties within one week.|||Source. RS 136:13. CS 142:13. GS 128:14. GL 142:14. PS 143:18. PL 219:18. RL 269:18.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:19 - Decision Conclusive.

    473:19 Decision Conclusive. –||The decision of the fence-viewers, upon their being sworn that they have acted impartially, uprightly and to the best of their judgment, shall be final and conclusive upon the parties.|||Source. RS 136:16. CS 142:16. GS 128:17. GL 142:17. PS 143:19. PL 219:19. RL 269:19.|
NH Rev Stat § 473:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XLVII - Boundaries, Fences and Common Fields|Title 473 - Division Fences and Their Maintenance|Section 473:20 - Jurisdiction.

    473:20 Jurisdiction. –||If the fence in controversy is situate on the line of 2 towns, the application shall be made to the fence-viewers of the town in which the parties reside; if they reside in different towns, it shall be made to the fence-viewers of that town in which the applicant does not reside.|||Source. RS 136:17. CS 142:17. GS 128:18. GL 142:18. PS 143:20. PL 219:20. RL 269:20.|