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NH Rev Stat § 48-A:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-A - Housing Standards|Section 48-A:11 - Minimum Standards; Barring the Use or Occupancy; Violations and Punishment.

    48-A:11 Minimum Standards;  Barring the Use or Occupancy;  Violations and Punishment. –||Any municipality may (by ordinance adopted by its governing body):||I. Prescribe minimum standards for the use and occupancy of dwellings throughout the municipality;||II. Prevent the use or occupancy of any dwelling which is injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare.||III. Enact, in the sections of their housing codes dealing with infestations of insects, provisions directed at the unique problems posed by infestations of bed bugs, provided that such provisions are no less protective of the residents of dwelling units in which bed bug infestations are found than are the provisions dealing with infestations of other kinds of insects.|||Source. 1959, 293:1, eff. Nov. 16, 1959. 2013, 48:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-A:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-A - Housing Standards|Section 48-A:12 - Exceptions.

    48-A:12 Exceptions. –||An ordinance, code or bylaw adopted pursuant to the authority of this chapter may provide that any dwelling, building or structure situated within an historic district that is established under RSA 31:89-b, or within such other classes of dwellings, building or structure as the governing body shall determine to have special significance to the public interest and shall expressly define in such ordinance, code or bylaw, may be approved by the board of aldermen as a special exception, after public hearing, and the provisions of such ordinance, code or bylaw may be waived in their application to such dwelling, building or structure, in whole or in part or otherwise so modified as the housing board of appeals may determine.|||Source. 1959, 293:1. 1965, 341:3, eff. Aug. 7, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-A:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-A - Housing Standards|Section 48-A:13 - Conflicting Provisions.

    48-A:13 Conflicting Provisions. –||Whenever the regulations made under the authority hereof differ from those prescribed by any statute, ordinance or other regulation, that provision which imposes the higher standard shall govern.|||Source. 1965, 341:4, eff. Aug. 7, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-A:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-A - Housing Standards|Section 48-A:14 - Minimum Standards Established.

    48-A:14 Minimum Standards Established. –||No landlord, as defined by RSA 540-A:1, I, renting or leasing a residential dwelling in a municipality which has not adopted ordinances, codes or bylaws pursuant to this chapter shall maintain those rented premises in a condition in which:||I. The premises are infested by insects and rodents where the landlord is not conducting a periodic inspection and eradication program;||I-a. The premises are infested by bed bugs and the landlord is not conducting a periodic inspection and remediation program. In this paragraph "remediation" means action taken by the landlord that substantially reduces the presence of bed bugs in a dwelling unit for a period of at least 60 days;||II. There is defective internal plumbing or a back-up of sewage caused by a faulty septic or sewage system;||III. There are exposed wires, improper connectors, defective switches or outlets or other conditions which create a danger of electrical shock or fire;||IV. The roof or walls leak consistently;||V. The plaster is falling or has fallen from the walls or ceilings;||VI. The floors, walls or ceilings contain substantial holes that seriously reduce their function or render them dangerous to the inhabitants;||VII. The porches, stairs or railings are not structurally sound;||VIII. There is an accumulation of garbage or rubbish in common areas resulting from the failure of the landlord to remove or provide a sufficient number of receptacles for storage prior to removal unless the tenant has agreed to be responsible for removal under the rental agreement and the landlord has removed all garbage at the beginning of the tenancy;||IX. There is an inadequate supply of water or whatever equipment that is available to heat water is not properly operating;||X. There are leaks in any gas lines or leaks or defective pilot lights in any appliances furnished by the landlord; or||XI. The premises do not have heating facilities that are properly installed, safely maintained and in good working condition, or are not capable of safely and adequately heating all habitable rooms, bathrooms and toilet rooms located therein, to a temperature of at least an average of 65 degrees F.; or, when the landlord supplies heat in consideration for the rent, the premises are not actually maintained at a minimum average room temperature of 65 degrees F. in all habitable rooms.|||Source. 1979, 305:7, eff. Aug. 21, 1979. 2013, 48:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-A:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-A - Housing Standards|Section 48-A:15 - Enforcement of Minimum Standards.

    48-A:15 Enforcement of Minimum Standards. –||In municipalities which have not established a public agency as described in RSA 48-A:3, a violation of the minimum standards set forth in RSA 48-A:14 shall be a violation, and each continuing day of violation after notice shall be a separate offense.|||Source. 2001, 274:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-B - Leasing of Air Rights|Section 48-B:1 - Definitions.

    48-B:1 Definitions. –||Terms used in this chapter shall have the meanings set forth below, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, or is otherwise inconsistent with the manifest intention of this chapter:||I. "Municipality" shall mean any city or town in the state;||II. "Legislative body" shall mean the town meeting in towns and the mayor and aldermen in cities;||III. "Governing board" shall mean the selectmen in towns and the mayor and aldermen in cities.|||Source. 1969, 493:2, eff. Sept. 1, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-B - Leasing of Air Rights|Section 48-B:2 - Air Rights.

    48-B:2 Air Rights. –||The governing board of a municipality, when authorized to do so by its legislative body, may lease, at one time or from time to time for a term or terms not to exceed 99 years, upon such terms and conditions as the governing board thereof in its discretion deems advisable, air rights over public streets and ways, public parking facilities and other public buildings, land and waters, owned by such municipality, or in which the public has a right to travel or in which such municipality holds less than a fee interest, excluding any dedicated park land, but including rights for support, access, utilities, light and air, for such nonmunicipal purposes as, in the opinion of the governing board thereof, will not impair the construction, use, safety, maintenance or repair of such streets and ways, facilities, buildings, land and waters; provided, however, such municipality shall not execute any leases which would either impair the use and safety of any highway, be solely for outdoor advertising structures or which would violate any provision of those regulations promulgated by the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Any lease granted hereunder may, with the consent of the legislative body of the municipality, be assigned, pledged or mortgaged and the lien of such pledge or mortgage may be foreclosed by appropriate action. The proceeds from any such lease shall be paid into the treasury of such municipality. Any lease granted hereunder may be granted over public streets and ways in which the municipality owns the easement, but not a fee interest, without thereby disturbing the reversionary rights, if any, of the holder of the fee in such public street or way. Nothing herein shall derogate from the right of the municipality holding a fee interest in such streets, ways, facilities, buildings, land or water from conveying air rights in fee or by lease. Any lease promulgated under the authority of this chapter for air rights over state and state aid highways shall have the approval of the commissioner of transportation.|||Source. 1969, 493:2. 2004, 257:33, eff. June 15, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-B - Leasing of Air Rights|Section 48-B:3 - Applicability of Other Provisions of Law.

    48-B:3 Applicability of Other Provisions of Law. –||The construction or occupancy of any building or other thing erected or affixed under any lease hereunder shall be subject to the building, fire, health and zoning ordinances of the municipality to the extent applicable. Any building, or other thing, erected over or affixed to any public street or way under this chapter are valid and declared legal and the same shall henceforth be legal structures over and in said streets and ways.|||Source. 1969, 493:2, eff. Sept. 1, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-B:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-B - Leasing of Air Rights|Section 48-B:4 - Taxability.

    48-B:4 Taxability. –||Any building, or other thing, erected or affixed under any such lease shall be taxed to the lessee thereof or his assigns in the same manner and to the same extent as if such lessee or his assigns were the owners of the land in fee; provided that no part of the value of the land shall be included in any such assessment. The municipality may exercise all remedies provided generally for the collection of taxes and any such lease-hold estate may be sold or taken by the municipality for the nonpayment of any taxes assessed as aforesaid in the manner provided by law for the sale or taking of real estate for nonpayment of local taxes. The municipality shall include in any lease of such air rights a provision whereby the lessee agrees, in the event that the foregoing tax provision is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be inapplicable, to pay annually to the municipality a sum of money in lieu of such taxes which would otherwise be assessed thereon in such year.|||Source. 1969, 493:2, eff. Sept. 1, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 48-B:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 48-B - Leasing of Air Rights|Section 48-B:5 - Public Records.

    48-B:5 Public Records. –||Each lease hereunder shall require that the lessee file with the clerk of the municipality, and amend as changes may occur, a statement under oath containing the names and addresses of the officers and directors, in the case of a corporation, and in the case of partnership or other voluntary association, the name and address of all persons having a financial interest in said lease. A copy of all leases granted by any municipality shall be kept on file and such leases shall be open to public inspection.|||Source. 1969, 493:2, eff. Sept. 1, 1969.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:1 - Purpose and Intent.

    49-B:1 Purpose and Intent. –||It is the purpose of this chapter to implement the home rule powers recognized by article 39, part first, of the constitution of the state of New Hampshire. To that end, the general court hereby provides a vehicle whereby a municipality may adopt a form of government that best addresses local needs. At the same time, however, the general court recognizes a need to require uniform procedures and practices when there is a corresponding state interest. Therefore, this chapter is intended only to provide a procedural framework by which a city or town may amend its actual form of government. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to create any power in, or confer any power upon, any city or town beyond that necessary to carry out the amendment of a charter or form of government as set forth in this chapter. The general laws of this state shall remain in full force and effect, and they shall be construed to be consistent with this chapter to the greatest extent possible in the effectuation of this chapter's stated purpose. Accordingly, this chapter shall be strictly interpreted to allow towns and cities to adopt, amend, or revise a municipal charter relative to their form of government so long as the resulting charter is neither in conflict with nor inconsistent with the general laws or the constitution of this state.|||Source. 1979, 241:1. 1988, 223:1, eff. June 29, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:2 - Scope of Authorization; Definitions.

    49-B:2 Scope of Authorization;  Definitions. –||I. Any incorporated town or city, regardless of population, shall be entitled to exercise the home rule powers recognized by article 39, part first, of the New Hampshire constitution, and implemented through this chapter, to create a charter commission and to present to its voters by referendum a municipal charter, in which they may establish either a town or city government.||II. If the proposed charter denominates the municipality as a town, the charter shall be prepared pursuant to RSA 49-D.||III. If the proposed charter denominates the municipality as a city, the charter shall be prepared pursuant to RSA 49-C.||IV. In this chapter:||(a) "Elected body" means the mayor and board of aldermen, mayor and council, and city council in a city adopting a charter under RSA 49-C and a town council or representative town meeting in a town adopting a charter under RSA 49-D.||(b) "Governing body" means the board of selectmen, the board of aldermen, or the council in a city or in a town with a town council.||(c) "Legislative body" means a town meeting, representative town meeting, city or town council, mayor and council, and mayor and board of aldermen.||(d) "Municipality" means a city or a town.||(e) "Municipal officers" means the mayor and board of aldermen, mayor and council, and city council in a city, and board of selectmen and town council in a town.||(f) "Municipal year" means the fiscal year of the municipality.||(g) "Operating budget" means total appropriations, as determined by the department of revenue administration, exclusive of county and school taxes; principal and interest payments on bonds and notes; and amounts in satisfaction of court judgments.||(h) "Revocation" means the repeal of an entire charter such that the resultant form of government is the form in existence immediately prior to the adoption of the charter being repealed.|||Source. 1979, 241:1. 1988, 223:2. 1991, 162:1; 304:3, 4. 2003, 289:9, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. 2014, 292:1, eff. Sept. 30, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:4-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:4-b - Final Report.

    49-B:4-b Final Report. –||I. Upon approval from the secretary of state, attorney general, and commissioner of the department of revenue administration under RSA 49-B:4-a, the charter commission shall submit to the municipal officers its final report, which shall include the full text and explanation of the proposed new charter, such comments as the commission deems desirable, an indication of the major differences between the current form of government and the proposed charter, and a written opinion by an attorney admitted to the bar of this state that the proposed charter is not in conflict with the constitution or the general laws. Minority reports, if filed, shall not exceed 1,000 words. The submission of the final report and minority reports, if any, shall be accomplished by the date indicated below:||(a) If the charter commission was elected in a town with its annual meeting in March, on or before January 15 of the following year.||(b) If the charter commission was elected in a town with its annual meeting in April, on or before February 15 of the following year.||(c) If the charter commission was elected in a town with its annual meeting in May, on or before March 15 of the following year.||(d) If the charter commission was elected at a biennial municipal election, on or before September 15 of the following year.||(e) If the charter commission was elected in a municipality not described in subparagraph (a), (b), (c), or (d), within 245 days after its election.||II. Upon the submission of the final report, the municipal officers shall order the proposed new charter to be submitted to the voters at the next municipal election after the filing of the final report, unless the final report recommends that no charter be adopted, as provided in RSA 49-B:4, VII. In the case of municipalities with biennial elections, the charter shall be submitted to the voters at the next regular municipal election or at a special municipal election so long as such election is held at least 45 days after the filing of the final report. If the next regular election is less than 45 days after the filing of the report, the charter shall be submitted at the following regular election.||III. Except as provided in RSA 49-B:4-c, the charter commission shall continue in existence for 60 days after submission of its final report to the municipal officers, or until the date of the election at which the charter is voted upon, whichever is later, for the purpose of winding up its affairs.|||Source. 2014, 292:2, eff. Sept. 30, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:4-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:4-c - Continuation of Charter Commission.

    49-B:4-c Continuation of Charter Commission. –||I. If the charter commission is unable to obtain approval pursuant to RSA 49-B:4-a in time to submit its final report by the date established in RSA 49-B:4-b, or otherwise does not complete its preliminary or final report in accordance with the schedule established in this subdivision, it shall continue in existence for another year. Subject to paragraph II, if the commission's existence continues, any requirements of RSA 49-B:4, V and VI, RSA 49-B:4-a, and RSA 49-B:4-b that have not previously been satisfied shall apply as if the commission had been elected in the second year.||II. A charter commission shall not be extended beyond a second year of existence.|||Source. 2014, 292:2, eff. Sept. 30, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:4-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:4-d - Definition of Revision.

    49-B:4-d Definition of Revision. –||For purposes of this chapter, a "revision" to a municipal charter shall mean any change to an existing charter that results in a change in the municipality's form of government to any of the following forms:||I. Traditional town meeting.||II. Official ballot town meeting.||III. Town council.||IV. Official ballot town council.||V. Budgetary town meeting.||VI. Representative town meeting.||VII. City under mayor-alderman plan.||VIII. City under council-manager plan.||IX. Any other form hereafter expressly authorized by statute.|||Source. 2014, 292:2, eff. Sept. 30, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:4-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:4-e - Procedure for Revising Charter.

    49-B:4-e Procedure for Revising Charter. –||I. The municipal officers may determine that a revision of the municipal charter is necessary and, by order, submit the question of establishment of a commission to revise the charter to the voters, in the same manner as provided for the establishment of a charter commission under RSA 49-B:3; or||II. On the written petition of a number of voters equal to 20 percent of the number of ballots cast in the municipality at the last regular municipal election, but in no event fewer than 10 registered voters, the municipal officers shall, by order, submit the question of establishment of a commission to revise the charter to the voters as provided in this section. The petition shall read substantially as follows: "Each of the undersigned voters requests the municipal officers to submit to the voters, at the next municipal election, the question of establishment of a charter commission to draft a revision to the municipal charter." The petition shall be submitted on or before the date indicated for a petition under RSA 49-B:3, II.||III. The establishment of a commission to revise the charter, the membership of the commission, and the procedures of the commission shall in all respects be the same as for a commission to draft a new charter under RSA 49-B:3, RSA 49-B:4, RSA 49-B:4-a, and RSA 49-B:4-b, including all dates and time periods thereunder, except that the following question shall be substituted for the question specified in RSA 49-B:3, IV:||"Shall a charter commission be established for the purpose of revising or amending the municipal charter?"||IV. If a commission that has been elected to revise the charter determines that one or more amendments to the charter are required, it may propose such amendments.||V. A commission to revise the charter shall not be continued under RSA 49-B:4-c.|||Source. 2014, 292:2, eff. Sept. 30, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:4-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:4-f - Definition of Amendment.

    49-B:4-f Definition of Amendment. –||For purposes of this chapter, an "amendment" to a municipal charter shall mean any change to an existing charter that does not constitute a revision under RSA 49-B:4-d.|||Source. 2014, 292:2, eff. Sept. 30, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:7 - Recording.

    49-B:7 Recording. –||Within 3 days after the results of the election have been declared, the municipal clerk shall prepare and sign duplicate certificates setting forth any charter that has been adopted or revised and any charter amendment approved. One certificate shall be recorded in the office of the secretary of state and one certificate shall be deposited in the office of the municipal clerk.|||Source. 1979, 241:1, eff. Aug. 14, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 49-B:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 49-B - Home Rule-Municipal Charters|Section 49-B:8 - Ordinance, Power Limited.

    49-B:8 Ordinance, Power Limited. –||Any municipality may, by the adoption, amendment or repeal of ordinances or bylaws, exercise any power or function granted to a municipality by the constitution or general law. No change in the composition, mode of election or terms of office of the legislative body, the mayor or the manager of any municipality may be accomplished by bylaw or ordinance.|||Source. 1979, 241:1. 1988, 223:8, eff. June 29, 1988.|