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NH Rev Stat § 154:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:22 - Provision of Ladders and Buckets.

    154:22 Provision of Ladders and Buckets. –||Every town may, by vote or bylaw, provide that any buildings or structures in the town, or in a definite part thereof, shall be provided with such ladders and buckets as may be deemed necessary for use in case of fire.|||Source. RS 111:11. CS 114:12. GS 96:16. GL 106:16, 17. PS 115:16. PL 146:20. RL 175:20. RSA 154:22. 1973, 531:37. 1992, 154:13, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:23 - Payment of Penalty.

    154:23 Payment of Penalty. –||Any penalty resulting from a violation of this subdivision shall be paid by the owner, if known and resident in the town, otherwise by the occupant; and any tenant who may be compelled to pay the penalty may deduct and retain the amount thereof, and of the costs, from the tenant's rent, or may recover the same of the lessor in an action for money paid to the tenant's use.|||Source. RS 111:12, 13. CS 114:13, 14. GS 96:18. GL 106:18. PS 115:17. PL 146:21. RL 175:21. RSA 154:23. 1992, 154:14. 1998, 318:28, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:24 - Outside Service by Local Fire Department.

    154:24 Outside Service by Local Fire Department. –||Any city, town, village or fire district may authorize their respective fire department to go to the aid of another city, town, village or fire district within or without the state, for the purpose of extinguishing a fire, rendering other emergency assistance, or performing any detail as requested.|||Source. 1949, 267:1. RSA 154:24. 1992, 154:15, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:25 - Rights, Privileges, Immunities.

    154:25 Rights, Privileges, Immunities. –||While in the performance of their duties in extending such aid, firefighters shall be subject to the control and direction of the chief fire official of the municipality within which the fire or other emergency occurs, and they shall have the same immunities and privileges as if performing the same duties within their respective city, town, village or fire district.|||Source. 1949, 267:1. RSA 154:25. 1992, 154:16, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:26 - Loss or Damage.

    154:26 Loss or Damage. –||Any expenses incurred by any fire department, in rendering such aid outside the limits of its jurisdiction as provided hereunder, including loss or damage to equipment may be charged to the city, town, village or fire district whose officials requested such aid.|||Source. 1949, 267:1, eff. June 22, 1949.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:27 - Donation of Services.

    154:27 Donation of Services. –||Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit any city, town, village or fire district extending such aid from donating their equipment and services and assuming the damage or loss to their equipment.|||Source. 1949, 267:1, eff. June 22, 1949.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:28 - Conditions and Restrictions.

    154:28 Conditions and Restrictions. –||The fire department may extend such aid outside the district, under this subdivision, subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed.|||Source. 1949, 267:1. RSA 154:28. 1992, 154:17, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:29 - Compensation.

    154:29 Compensation. –||Any city, town, village or fire district aided under and in accordance with RSA 154:24-28 may compensate any city, town, village or fire district rendering aid to (a) employees for compensation during the time in which the rendering of their services prevented them from performing their regular duties at their place of employment, and (b) may reimburse in part or in whole for any payments lawfully made to any member of its fire department or to a spouse or other dependents on account of injuries or death suffered by the fire department member in the course of rendering aid outside the district or of death resulting from such injuries.|||Source. 1949, 267:1. RSA 154:29. 1992, 154:18. 1998, 318:29, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30 - Duties of the State Fire Marshal.

    154:30 Duties of the State Fire Marshal. –||At the request of any chief of an organized fire department within the state, the fire marshal shall provide help and assistance in coordinating the services of fire departments giving the mutual aid in the extinguishment of fires and other emergencies.|||Source. 1949, 267:1. RSA 154:30. 1992, 154:19, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-a - Formation.

    154:30-a Formation. –||I. Whenever 10 or more municipalities within the state shall have voted to authorize their respective fire departments to render outside aid as provided in RSA 154:24-30, they may, if they so desire, form a district fire mutual aid system, which shall be a public municipal corporation. They may petition the state fire marshal in writing to call the organizational meeting of the system.||II. Fewer than 10 municipalities which have complied with paragraph I of this section may petition the state fire marshal who may accept or reject the petition. The state fire marshal shall consider the fire protection needs of the applicants and the effect of the proposed system upon the fire protection of other municipalities.|||Source. 1957, 277:1. 1992, 154:20, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-b - Organization.

    154:30-b Organization. –||I. Upon receipt of a petition under RSA 154:30-a, I, the state fire marshal shall call the first or organizational meeting of the system. Upon receipt of a petition under RSA 154:30-a, II, the state fire marshal may call such a meeting. The state fire marshal shall give written notice to the chief of each fire department in the system and may invite private fire departments within the designated area to join in the meeting by giving similar notice to them. Each fire department shall send one delegate to the organizational and subsequent meetings and shall be entitled to one vote in all proceedings. The delegate shall be the chief of each fire department or such alternate as the chief may designate. At the organizational meeting, the members of the system shall adopt articles of association and bylaws and regulations for the future government and operation of the system which shall be effective upon submission to and approval by the attorney general, who shall cause the same to be recorded by the secretary of state. The system shall be deemed to have been formally established upon such recording. The organizational meeting shall also elect a board of directors consisting of such number as they may determine. Delegates and directors need not be residents. The board of directors shall be the governing body of the system and shall serve for terms of one year and until their successors are elected and qualify, provided that the organizational meeting, or any subsequent meeting, may vote to elect its directors for varying terms. If a meeting shall so vote for the first election under said vote one director shall be elected for a term of one year, one for a term of 2 years, one for a term of 3 years, one for a term of 4 years, and one for a term of 5 years, and thereafter there shall be elected at each annual meeting one director for a term of 5 years and until a successor is elected and qualified.||II. The directors shall choose from their number the officers of the system, who shall have such duties and powers as the bylaws provide. Within the limits of available funds, the directors may employ and fix the compensation of agents and other necessary personnel, who shall serve at their pleasure and have and exercise such powers and authority as they may delegate to them.|||Source. 1957, 277:1. 1959, 198:1. 1992, 154:21. 1998, 318:30, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-c - Powers and Duties.

    154:30-c Powers and Duties. –||I. A district fire mutual aid system shall coordinate the services of all municipalities and fire departments belonging to it so as to provide better and more efficient cooperation in the protection of life and property within the area which it comprises and toward this end shall cooperate with other state agencies including the division of homeland security and emergency management and local emergency management offices.||II. A district fire mutual aid system may:||(a) Establish plans for the coordination of all municipal services performed by it;||(b) Within the limits of available funds, acquire and operate property and equipment, including a dispatch center;||(c) Provide communications service, radio repair, and maintenance service to its member municipalities and fire departments or persons and firms under contract with a member municipality or fire department;||(d) Provide private fire, burglary, and supervisory alarm service;||(e) Provide dispatch and communications service for police and emergency medical services of member municipalities and fire departments or for such services as are under contract with member municipalities and fire departments;||(f) Extend the advantages of group purchasing for services performed by it to municipalities and fire departments in the system; and||(g) Provide and operate training programs for firefighters and emergency medical technicians.||III. The state fire marshal may render advice, recommendations and assistance to any district fire mutual aid system.|||Source. 1957, 277:1. 1981, 393:1. 1992, 154:22. 1993, 28:7. 2003, 319:126. 2004, 171:18. 2008, 361:15, eff. July 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-d - Joining and Withdrawal.

    154:30-d Joining and Withdrawal. –||Additional municipalities within or outside the state may join the system, as provided in RSA 154:30-a through RSA 154:30-h, and shall be received as members subject to the approval of the board of directors. Municipalities which do not have active fire departments may be admitted as members upon such conditions as the board of directors may fix. Private fire departments within or outside the state may also be accepted as members, with equal voting rights, by the board of directors, under such arrangements as are mutually agreed upon. A municipality or private fire department may, by vote of its governing board, withdraw from the system but such withdrawal shall not be effective until 90 days after written notice of such withdrawal shall have been delivered to one of the officers of the system.|||Source. 1957, 277:1. 1977, 321:1. 1992, 154:23, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-e - Limitation of Liability.

    154:30-e Limitation of Liability. –||There shall be no liability imposed by law on the system or on any municipality, on the personnel of its fire department, nor on any private fire department or its personnel, belonging to such a system, for failure to respond or to respond reasonably for the purpose of extinguishing any fire. This immunity is not intended to be exclusive of other immunities existing by statute or at common law.|||Source. 1957, 277:1, eff. Oct. 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-f - Appropriations.

    154:30-f Appropriations. –||Municipalities belonging to such a system may raise and appropriate money for the purpose of the system. Counties in which a system is established may raise and appropriate money for the purposes of the system; provided however that where all the municipalities in the county do not belong to the system, such county appropriations may only be made by the affirmative vote of 2/3 majority of the county convention present and voting.|||Source. 1957, 277:1, eff. Oct. 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-g (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-g - Definition.

    154:30-g Definition. –||The term "private fire department" as used in this subdivision shall include fire organizations operated by industries and establishments for self-protection and also nonprofit volunteer fire associations. Nothing contained in this subdivision shall be construed to interfere with the exclusive jurisdiction vested by law in the director, division of forests and lands, department of natural and cultural resources, and the director's subordinates over forest fires as provided in RSA 227-L, nor to affect the laws governing prevention or extinguishment of forest fires.|||Source. 1957, 277:1. 1995, 299:9, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. 2017, 156:14, I, eff. July 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:30-h (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:30-h - Gifts.

    154:30-h Gifts. –||A district fire mutual aid system may receive, hold and use gifts, bequests and devises, either outright or in trust, for purposes consistent with this subdivision.|||Source. 1959, 198:2, eff. Sept. 20, 1959.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:31 - Appropriations.

    154:31 Appropriations. –||Any town at a legal meeting, or city by its city council, may appropriate money for the relief of any member of the fire department of such town or city who shall become disabled by accident in the discharge of such fire department member's duty.|||Source. 1897, 52:1. PL 146:29. RL 175:29. RSA 154:31. 1992, 154:24. 1998, 318:31, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:32 - Relief for Permanently Disabled Firefighters.

    154:32 Relief for Permanently Disabled Firefighters. –||In case any member of the fire department shall, by accident as set forth in RSA 154:31, become permanently disabled, the town or city may grant the fire department member relief.|||Source. 1897, 52:2. PL 146:30. RL 175:30. RSA 154:32. 1992, 154:25. 1998, 318:32, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:33 - Burial.

    154:33 Burial. –||In case any such member shall be accidentally killed in the discharge of such member's duty, or receive injuries which shall result in death within 60 days from the date of the accident, the town or city, by its selectmen or mayor, may assume all or part of the burial expenses of such deceased member.|||Source. 1897, 52:3. PL 146:31. RL 175:31. RSA 154:33. 1992, 154:26. 1998, 318:33, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:34 - Where Applicable.

    154:34 Where Applicable. –||The provisions of this subdivision shall apply in all cases where members of the fire department are acting under the authority and direction of the chief or other legally authorized officer of the fire department of the town or city.|||Source. 1897, 52:4. PL 146:32. RL 175:32.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:1 - Bylaws.

    155:1 Bylaws. –||Town and village districts may make bylaws requiring factories, hotels, tenement houses, public buildings, schoolhouses, places of assembly as defined in RSA 155:17, I, and other buildings used as places of public resort in their towns, to be so erected as not to endanger the health and safety of persons who may occupy them; however, any bylaw relative to safety from fire in buildings and structures adopted by a town or village district of the state shall conform to the life safety code, which is in effect at the time the bylaw is adopted and as promulgated by the state fire marshal; such bylaw may provide for local inspections and enforcement and shall include assistance of the state fire marshal where required.|||Source. 1883, 94:1. PS 116:1. 1925, 151:1. PL 147:1. RL 176:1. RSA 155:1. 1973, 107:1, eff. July 7, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:2 - Regulations.

    155:2 Regulations. –||In the absence of such bylaws the selectmen shall make regulations for the purposes named in the preceding section.|||Source. 1883, 94:1. PS 116:2. PL 147:2. RL 176:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:2-a - Double Door Safety.

    155:2-a Double Door Safety. –||In addition to any bylaws or regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, the town or village district or selectmen shall require that no double door in any building open to the public, where 2 doors are in one doorway, be locked, bolted or otherwise fastened so that both doors cannot be opened from the inside by the use of the ordinary door knob or by pressure on the door or on a panic release device.|||Source. 1977, 159:1, eff. Aug. 6, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:3 - Inspection.

    155:3 Inspection. –||The firewards and engineers, if any, otherwise the selectmen of the town or the commissioners of the village district, as the case may be, shall constitute a board for the inspection of the buildings and halls mentioned in RSA 155:1, and shall inspect the same from time to time.|||Source. 1883, 94:4. PS 116:3. PL 147:3. RL 176:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:4 - Procedure; Orders.

    155:4 Procedure;  Orders. –||They shall notify and hear all parties interested, and may thereupon direct such alterations as may be necessary in any building or hall in accordance with such bylaws or regulations, and may order such building or hall to be closed until the alterations are made. The proceedings of such hearing shall be recorded in the records of the town or district.|||Source. 1883, 94:2. PS 116:4. PL 147:4. RL 176:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:5 - Appeal From Orders.

    155:5 Appeal From Orders. –||Every person aggrieved by any decision of such inspectors may appeal therefrom to the superior court. The court, upon reasonable notice, may inquire into the facts by a committee or otherwise and affirm or overrule the order appealed from, and may make such further orders as justice may require.|||Source. 1883, 94:6. PS 116:5. PL 147:5. RL 176:5. RSA 155:5. 1967, 132:8, eff. July 18, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:6 - Penalty for Violation of Orders.

    155:6 Penalty for Violation of Orders. –||Every person who shall let or use any building for the purposes specified in this subdivision, after such building shall have been ordered to be closed or altered as provided in the preceding sections until the order has been complied with or reversed, shall be fined not more than $100, for the use of the town or district where the building is situated.|||Source. 1883, 94:3. PS 116:6. PL 147:6. RL 176:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 155:7, 155:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:7, 155:8 - Repealed by 1973, 107:2, I, eff. July 7, 1973.

    155:7, 155:8 Repealed by 1973, 107:2, I, eff. July 7, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 155:8-a, 155:8-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:8-a, 155:8-b - Repealed by 1977, 269:2, eff. Aug. 21, 1977.

    155:8-a, 155:8-b Repealed by 1977, 269:2, eff. Aug. 21, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 155:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 155 - Factories, Tenements, Schoolhouses, and Places of Public Accommodation, Resort or Assembly|Section 155:9 - to 155:16 Repealed by 1973, 107:2, I, eff. July 7, 1973.

    155:9 to 155:16 Repealed by 1973, 107:2, I, eff. July 7, 1973. –|