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NH Rev Stat § 52-A:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 52-A - Special Assessment Districts|Section 52-A:9 - Issuance of Bonds and Other Indebtedness.

    52-A:9 Issuance of Bonds and Other Indebtedness. –||I. A municipality may borrow money and issue bonds or notes to finance the public facilities and services of a special assessment district, provided that bonds or notes may be issued only for the purposes authorized under RSA 33:3 or RSA 33:3-c. All bonds or notes authorized in accordance with this section shall be issued under the procedures in RSA 33, provided that the payments on the bond and note shall be made only from special assessment district revenues.||II. Any such debt shall at no time be included in the net indebtedness of the municipality for the purpose of ascertaining its borrowing capacity under RSA 33.|||Source. 2015, 240:2, eff. Sept. 11, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 52-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 52-A - Special Assessment Districts|Section 52-A:10 - Priority of Lien.

    52-A:10 Priority of Lien. –||A special assessment shall be payable at the same time and in the same manner as property taxes assessed under RSA 76 and shall remain a lien, co-equal with the lien of all state, county, district, and municipal taxes, superior in dignity to all other liens, titles, and claims until paid.|||Source. 2015, 240:2, eff. Sept. 11, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 52-A:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 52-A - Special Assessment Districts|Section 52-A:11 - Assessment Funds.

    52-A:11 Assessment Funds. –||I. The funds received from the collection of special assessments shall be kept as a separate fund to be known as the special assessment fund. The fund shall be allowed to accumulate from year to year, shall not be commingled with municipal tax revenues, and shall not be deemed part of the municipality's general fund accumulated surplus. The fund shall be expended only for the purposes of this chapter.||II. Except when a capital reserve fund is established pursuant to paragraph III, all special assessment funds shall be held in the custody of the municipal treasurer. Estimates of anticipated assessments and anticipated expenditures from the assessment funds shall be submitted to the governing body under RSA 32:6 if applicable, and shall be included as part of the municipal budget submitted to the legislative body for approval. The treasurer shall pay out amounts from the assessment funds only upon order of the governing body. Expenditures shall be within amounts appropriated by the legislative body.||III. All or part of any surplus in the special assessment fund may be placed in one or more capital reserve funds under RSA 35 and placed in the custody of the trustees of trust funds. If such a reserve fund is created, the governing body may expend such funds pursuant to RSA 35:15 without prior approval or appropriation by the local legislative body.|||Source. 2015, 240:2, eff. Sept. 11, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 52-A:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 52-A - Special Assessment Districts|Section 52-A:12 - Dissolution of District.

    52-A:12 Dissolution of District. –||A special assessment district created under this chapter may not be dissolved until all debt incurred with respect to the district is finally discharged and all special assessments levied for the purpose of paying the debt have been paid or otherwise satisfied. Upon satisfaction of those conditions, the municipality's governing body may dissolve the district, and it shall dissolve the district upon receipt of a petition signed by the number of property owners specified in RSA 52-A:4, I(c). Upon dissolution of the district, all amounts remaining in the special assessment fund shall become part of the municipality's general fund accumulated surplus.|||Source. 2015, 240:2, eff. Sept. 11, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 53:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53 - Unincorporated Places|Section 53:1 - Powers.

    53:1 Powers. –||I. All places, not incorporated as towns, which shall be required to pay any public tax are invested with the powers of towns relating to the choice of moderator, clerk, supervisors of the check list, and selectmen; and all provisions of law applicable to towns and town officers are extended to such places and their officers so far as they relate to meetings for the choice of such officers and to their election, and so far as they relate to the election of county, state and national officers.||II. No unorganized town or unincorporated place, including any such town or place which was previously organized and the organization of which has since been abandoned, shall hereafter become incorporated so as to become vested with the powers of towns, except for the purposes of election of local officers or state, national or county officers, unless such incorporation shall be granted by the general court.|||Source. RS 38:1. CS 40:1. GS 48:1. GL 52:1. 1885, 26:1. PS 54:1. PL 58:1. RL 71:1. RSA 53:1. 1965, 72:1, eff. July 29, 1965.|
NH Rev Stat § 53:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53 - Unincorporated Places|Section 53:2 - Appointment; Tenure.

    53:2 Appointment;  Tenure. –||The commissioners of any county in which there may be any unincorporated place may, upon petition of 5 or more reputable persons resident in such place, appoint such persons as they may deem proper as police officers, for the purposes and with the powers herein set forth. Such police officers shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the county commissioners by whom they have been appointed, not exceeding a term of 3 years.|||Source. 1881, 68:1. PS 54:2. PL 58:2. RL 71:2.|
NH Rev Stat § 53:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53 - Unincorporated Places|Section 53:3 - Record.

    53:3 Record. –||A copy of the record of the appointment of such police officers shall be filed with the clerk of the superior court for the county in which the place where they may act as such officers is situated; and the filing of such record with their oath of office shall constitute the persons named therein police officers within and for the unincorporated place specified in such record.|||Source. 1881, 68:2. PS 54:3. PL 58:3. RL 71:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 53:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53 - Unincorporated Places|Section 53:4 - Badge.

    53:4 Badge. –||Every such officer when on duty, except as a detective, shall wear some badge in plain view with the word "Police" inscribed thereon.|||Source. 1881, 68:3. PS 54:4. PL 58:4. RL 71:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 53:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53 - Unincorporated Places|Section 53:5 - Powers.

    53:5 Powers. –||The powers and duties of such officers shall be the same as those of police officers of towns.|||Source. 1881, 68:4. PS 54:5. PL 58:5. RL 71:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 53:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53 - Unincorporated Places|Section 53:6 - Compensation; Discharge.

    53:6 Compensation;  Discharge. –||The compensation of such police officers shall be provided by the persons petitioning for their appointment. Their duties shall cease upon notice to that effect, filed by the county commissioners in like manner as the record of appointment, and upon due notice thereof to such officers.|||Source. 1881, 68:5. PS 54:6. PL 58:6. RL 71:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 53:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53 - Unincorporated Places|Section 53:7 - Recording When No Clerk.

    53:7 Recording When No Clerk. –||Any instrument, paper or act which is required by law to be recorded in the office of the clerk of a town, the identity of which town is determinable by the location of a person's residence or place of business, the location where personal property is kept, or any similar standard of location, may, if such location is in an unincorporated or unorganized place having no clerk, be recorded in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which such unincorporated or unorganized place is situated; and any such recording shall be valid and lawful to the same extent as if it had been recorded in the office of the proper town clerk.|||Source. 1961, 187:1, eff. July 1, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:1 - Purpose.

    53-A:1 Purpose. –||It is the purpose of this chapter to permit municipalities and counties to make the most efficient use of their powers by enabling them to cooperate with other municipalities and counties on a basis of mutual advantage and thereby to provide services and facilities in a manner and pursuant to forms of governmental organization that will accord best with geographic, economic, population and other factors influencing the needs and development of local communities.|||Source. 1963, 275:14. 1974, 15:1. 1977, 238:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:2 - Public Agency Defined.

    53-A:2 Public Agency Defined. –||For the purposes of this chapter, the term "public agency" shall mean any political subdivision of this state or of any adjoining state and any quasi-municipal corporation, including but not limited to school districts, school administrative units, village districts, regional water districts, and special districts.|||Source. 1963, 275:14. 1977, 238:1. 2003, 281:11, eff. July 18, 2003. 2016, 46:1, eff. July 2, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:3-a - Public Works Mutual Aid Agreements.

    53-A:3-a Public Works Mutual Aid Agreements. –||Public agencies may enter into agreements under this chapter for reciprocal emergency management aid and assistance and other public works programs, including provisions for the furnishing and exchanging of supplies, equipment, facilities, personnel, and services. Any such agreement shall be subject to the provisions of this section and to all provisions of this chapter that are not inconsistent with this section.||I. Such an agreement may provide for the manner in which the agreement may be amended and that additional entities may become parties to the agreement.||II. Unless otherwise prohibited or restricted by such an agreement, a private entity providing public services that would otherwise be provided by a public agency, including but not limited to a privately owned water or wastewater utility, may become a party to the agreement and participate in the implementation of it in the same manner as a public agency.||III. The agreement may create a board of directors or other body to govern and administer the agreement and the program of mutual aid established thereby. The membership, powers, and duties of any governing body so established shall be as set forth in the agreement. Except as provided in the agreement, there shall be no requirement that all parties to the agreement be represented on such body.||IV. The agreement may include provisions by which each municipality or private entity indemnifies the other municipality or private entity and its officers, employees, and agents against any liability arising out of the indemnifying municipality's or private entity's negligent or otherwise wrongful conduct. No agreement shall be written or construed to require the state or any state agency to defend or indemnify any other entity.||V. All functions performed under such an agreement are governmental functions, and the parties performing such functions shall be entitled to the same immunities and exemptions provided in RSA 21-P:41.|||Source. 2010, 159:1, eff. Aug. 16, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:4 - Filing of Agreement.

    53-A:4 Filing of Agreement. –||Prior to its entry into force, an agreement made pursuant to this chapter shall be filed with the clerk of each municipality and with the secretary of state. An action shall be maintainable against any public agency whose default, failure of performance, or other conduct caused or contributed to the incurring of damage or liability by the other public agencies jointly.|||Source. 1963, 275:14. 1977, 238:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:5 - Approval by State Officers.

    53-A:5 Approval by State Officers. –||In the event that an agreement made pursuant to this chapter shall deal in whole or in part with the provision of services or facilities with regard to which an officer or agency of the state government has constitutional or statutory powers of control, the agreement shall, as a condition precedent to its entry into force, be submitted to the state officer or agency having such power of control and shall be approved or disapproved by him or it as to all matters within his or its jurisdiction in the same manner and subject to the same requirements governing the action of the attorney general pursuant to RSA 53-A:3, V. This requirement of submission and approval shall be in addition to and not in substitution for the requirement of submission to and approval by the attorney general.|||Source. 1977, 238:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:6 - Funds Issuance of Bonds or Notes.

    53-A:6 Funds Issuance of Bonds or Notes. –||I. The respective counties, towns, cities and other governmental units involved in any agreements as set forth in this chapter are hereby authorized to appropriate the funds necessary to carry out their contractual obligations thus incurred. In cases involving the expenditure of capital funds they are authorized to borrow such funds under the terms of the municipal finance act, RSA 33, as amended, and to issue bonds in accordance with the provisions of such act or to set up a capital reserve fund for such purposes under the provisions of RSA chapters 34 or 35.||II. Any 2 or more public agencies participating in such an agreement may jointly issue bonds or notes under RSA 33 for any purpose for which they may be issued under that chapter.||(a) Any agreement entered into under RSA 53-A:3 shall specify each participating public agency's proportionate share of the debt represented by any jointly issued bond or note.||(b) Each public agency participating in the joint issuance of a bond or note shall comply separately with the requirements of RSA 33:8 through 33:10 applicable to that public agency, and the bond or note shall not be issued until authorized by each participating public agency as provided in the applicable section or sections.||(c) Each participating public agency's proportionate share of the debt represented by the bond or note shall be counted toward its debt limit under RSA 33:4 or 33:4-a unless excluded by other provisions of RSA 33.||(d) All other applicable provisions of RSA 33 shall apply to the participating public agencies jointly as if the bond or note were issued by a single political subdivision.|||Source. 1977, 238:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1977. 2019, 231:1, eff. Sept. 10, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:7 - Former Districts Unaffected.

    53-A:7 Former Districts Unaffected. –||In municipalities which acted under the prior law, the agreement formed remains effective so far as it conforms with the chapter and may be continued accordingly without requiring review or approval by the attorney general.|||Source. 1977, 238:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-A - Agreements Between Government Units|Section 53-A:8 - Severability.

    53-A:8 Severability. –||If any portion of this chapter shall be held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this chapter.|||Source. 1977, 238:1, eff. Aug. 19, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-B - Solid Waste Management Districts|Section 53-B:1 - Repealed by 1994, 367:17, I, eff. Aug. 8, 1994.

    53-B:1 Repealed by 1994, 367:17, I, eff. Aug. 8, 1994. –|
NH Rev Stat § 53-B:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-B - Solid Waste Management Districts|Section 53-B:1-a - Purpose.

    53-B:1-a Purpose. –||A solid waste management district shall be a means by which municipalities may join together by formal agreement under this chapter to create a separate authority for the management of solid waste. A district may be established for the purposes of providing one or more solid waste facilities, closing any existing facilities, or creating a system of solid waste management within the district.|||Source. 1994, 367:2, eff. Aug. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-B - Solid Waste Management Districts|Section 53-B:2 - Definitions.

    53-B:2 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "District" means a solid waste management district established under this chapter.||II. "Facility" means a location, system or physical structure for the collection, separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste.||III. "Governing body" means "governing body" as defined in RSA 21:48.||IV. "Legislative body" means "legislative body" as defined in RSA 21:47.||V. "Long-term contract" means a contract for solid waste management services for a term of 5 or more years between a district and an owner or operator of a solid waste management facility, unless the district agreement adopted by member municipalities stipulates a different term.||VI. "Municipality" means any city, town, unincorporated town or unorganized place.||VII. "Person" means any individual, partnership, company, corporation, firm, governmental unit or agency, or any other legal entity.||VIII. "Solid waste" means "solid waste" as defined in RSA 149-M:4, XXIV.||IX. "Solid waste management" or "management" means an activity or any combination of activities relative to the collection, separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste.|||Source. 1967, 331:1. 1994, 367:3. 1996, 251:7, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-B:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-B - Solid Waste Management Districts|Section 53-B:4 - Repealed by 1994, 367:17, II, eff. Aug. 8, 1994.

    53-B:4 Repealed by 1994, 367:17, II, eff. Aug. 8, 1994. –|
NH Rev Stat § 53-B:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-B - Solid Waste Management Districts|Section 53-B:5 - Repealed by 1994, 367:17, III, eff. Aug. 8, 1994.

    53-B:5 Repealed by 1994, 367:17, III, eff. Aug. 8, 1994. –|
NH Rev Stat § 53-B:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-B - Solid Waste Management Districts|Section 53-B:6 - Vote on Establishing District.

    53-B:6 Vote on Establishing District. –||I. The governing bodies shall cause the question of accepting any proposed agreement to be presented for determination by vote of the respective legislative bodies. In municipalities that hold town meetings, the proposed agreement shall be voted on, in accordance with proper notice and procedure requirements, at the next annual town meeting or at a special town meeting called for this purpose. Voting at a town meeting may be by printed ballot or official ballot. In all other municipalities, the legislative bodies shall vote on the proposed agreement within 60 days of the governing bodies' receiving the proposed agreement. The question to be voted on shall be: "Shall the (insert name of municipality) accept the provisions of RSA 53-B:1-RSA 53-B:14 providing for the establishment of a solid waste management district, together with the municipalities of _________________ in accordance with the provisions of the proposed agreement filed with the (insert appropriate office for governing body)?" Approval by a legislative body shall be by simple majority unless the agreement waives the 120-day debt rejection period and authority set forth in RSA 53-B:7, VI, in which case approval must be by 2/3 vote. If all of the legislative bodies vote in the affirmative, the proposed solid waste management district shall thereby be established in accordance with the terms of the proposed agreement. Otherwise, the district shall not be established, except as specified in paragraph II.||II. The proposed agreement may contain a provision for the establishment of the district when more than one but not all of the legislative bodies vote in the affirmative. Such provision need not require any additional votes by the legislative bodies in order to establish the district, but it may not include in the district any municipality, the legislative body of which did not approve the proposed agreement.|||Source. 1967, 333:1. 1982, 23:1. 1994, 367:5, eff. Aug. 8, 1994. 2013, 117:1, eff. Aug. 24, 2013.|