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NH Rev Stat § 674:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:32 - Manufactured Housing.

    674:32 Manufactured Housing. –||I. Municipalities shall afford reasonable opportunities for the siting of manufactured housing, and a municipality shall not exclude manufactured housing completely from the municipality by regulation, zoning ordinance or by any other police power. A municipality which adopts land use control measures shall allow, in its sole discretion, manufactured housing to be located on individual lots in most, but not necessarily all, land areas in districts zoned to permit residential uses within the municipality, or in manufactured housing parks and subdivisions created for the placement of manufactured housing on individually owned lots in most, but not necessarily all, land areas in districts zoned to permit residential uses within the municipality, or in all 3 types of locations. Manufactured housing located on individual lots shall comply with lot size, frontage requirements, space limitations and other reasonable controls that conventional single family housing in the same district must meet. No special exception or special permit shall be required for manufactured housing located on individual lots or manufactured housing subdivisions unless such special exception or permit is required by the municipality for single family housing located on individual lots or in subdivisions. Municipalities permitting manufactured housing parks shall afford realistic opportunities for the development and expansion of manufactured housing parks. In order to provide such realistic opportunities, lot size and overall density requirements for manufactured housing parks shall be reasonable.||II. Notwithstanding paragraph I or any law or rule to the contrary, no zoning ordinance or bylaw shall prohibit an owner and occupier of a residence which has been damaged by fire or other disaster from placing a manufactured home on the lot of such residence and residing in such structure while the residence is being rebuilt. The period of such occupancy shall expire in 12 months from the placement of such structure or upon the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, whichever occurs first. Any such manufactured home shall be subject to state and local requirements relating to water supply and sewerage disposal. A manufactured home that is placed on a lot under this paragraph shall not attain the status of a vested nonconforming use.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1986, 91:2. 1987, 378:1. 1993, 158:1, eff. July 23, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:32-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:32-a - Presumption.

    674:32-a Presumption. –||In accordance with RSA 672:1, III-d, whenever agricultural operations or activities as defined in RSA 21:34-a are not explicitly addressed with respect to any zoning district or location, such operations or activities shall be deemed to be permitted there, as either a primary or accessory use, so long as conducted in accordance with best management practices guidelines adopted by the commissioner of the department of agriculture, markets, and food and with applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and rules.|||Source. 2000, 279:3, eff. July 1, 2001. 2019, 338:5, eff. Sept. 5, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:32-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:32-b - Existing Agricultural Uses and Activities.

    674:32-b Existing Agricultural Uses and Activities. –||Any agricultural use or activity which exists pursuant to RSA 674:32-a may without restriction be expanded, altered to meet changing technology or markets, or changed to another agricultural use or activity, as set forth in RSA 21:34-a, so long as any such expansion, alteration, or change complies with all federal and state laws, regulations, and rules, including agricultural best management practices guidelines adopted by the commissioner of the department of agriculture, markets, and food; subject, however, to the following limitations:||I. Any new establishment, re-establishment after abandonment, or significant expansion of an operation involving the keeping of livestock, poultry, or other animals may be made subject to special exception, building permit, site plan review, or other local land use board approval in accordance with the provisions of RSA 674:32-c, II and III.||II. Any new establishment, re-establishment after abandonment, or significant expansion of a farm stand, retail operation, or other use or activity involving on-site transactions with the public, including agritourism as defined in RSA 21:34-a, may be made subject to applicable special exception, building permit, site plan review, or other local land use board approval in accordance with the provisions of RSA 674:32-c, II and III, and may be regulated to prevent traffic and parking from adversely impacting adjacent property, streets and sidewalks, or public safety. No municipality shall adopt an ordinance, bylaw, definition, or policy regarding agritourism activities that conflicts with the definition of agritourism in RSA 21:34-a.|||Source. 2000, 279:3, eff. July 1, 2001. 2016, 86:1, eff. July 18, 2016; 267:4, eff. June 16, 2016; 267:7, eff. July 18, 2016 at 12:01 a.m. 2018, 56:1, eff. July 15, 2018. 2019, 338:6, eff. Sept. 5, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:32-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:32-c - Other General Provisions.

    674:32-c Other General Provisions. –||I. The tilling of soil and the growing and harvesting of crops and horticultural commodities, as a primary or accessory use, shall not be prohibited in any district.||II. Nothing in this subdivision, or in RSA 674:32-b, shall exempt new, re-established, or expanded agricultural operations or activities from generally applicable building and site requirements such as dimensional standards, setbacks, driveway and traffic regulations, parking requirements, noise, odor, or vibration restrictions or sign regulations; provided, however, that in circumstances where their literal application would effectively prohibit an agricultural use or activity allowed by this subdivision, or would otherwise be unreasonable in the context of an agricultural use or activity, in accordance with the provisions of RSA 672:1, III-b, the board of adjustment, building code board of appeals, or other applicable local board, after due notice and hearing, shall grant a waiver from such requirement to the extent necessary to reasonably permit the agricultural use or activity, unless such waiver would have a demonstrated adverse effect on public health or safety, or on the value of adjacent property. Such waiver shall continue only as long as utilized for the permitted agricultural use or activity.||III. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to any aspect of an agricultural operation determined to be injurious to public health or safety under RSA 147. Nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to modify or limit the duties and authority of the department of environmental services under RSA 485 or RSA 485-A or the commissioner of the department of agriculture, markets, and food under title XL.||IV. Nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to affect the regulation of sludge or septage.|||Source. 2000, 279:3, eff. July 1, 2001. 2019, 338:7, eff. Sept. 5, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:32-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:32-d - Agritourism Permitted.

    674:32-d Agritourism Permitted. –||Agritourism, as defined in RSA 21:34-a, shall not be prohibited on any property where the primary use is for agriculture, subject to RSA 674:32-b, II.|||Source. 2016, 267:5, eff. June 16, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:34 - Powers of Building Code Board of Appeals.

    674:34 Powers of Building Code Board of Appeals. –||I. The building code board of appeals shall hear and decide appeals of orders, decisions, or determinations made by the building official or fire official relative to the application and interpretation of the state building code or state fire code as defined in RSA 155-A:1. An application for appeal shall be based on a claim that the true intent of the code or the rules adopted thereunder have been incorrectly interpreted, the provisions of the code do not fully apply, or an equally good or better form of construction is proposed. The board shall have no authority to waive requirements of the state building code or the state fire code.||II. Appeals of decisions of any local building code board of appeals shall be made within 30 days of the board's decision to the state building code review board as outlined under RSA 155-A:10, IV(c).|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 2012, 242:17, eff. June 18, 2012. 2019, 219:5, eff. Aug. 11, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:35 - Power to Regulate Subdivisions.

    674:35 Power to Regulate Subdivisions. –||I. A municipality may by ordinance or resolution authorize the planning board to require preliminary review of subdivisions, and to approve or disapprove, in its discretion, plats, and to approve or disapprove plans showing the extent to which and the manner in which streets within subdivisions shall be graded and improved and to which streets water, sewer, and other utility mains, piping, connections, or facilities within subdivisions shall be installed. A municipality may by ordinance or resolution transfer authority to approve or disapprove plans showing the extent to which and the manner in which streets within subdivisions shall be graded and improved from the planning board to the governing body.||II. The planning board of a municipality shall have the authority to regulate the subdivision of land under the enactment procedures of RSA 675:6. The ordinance or resolution which authorizes the planning board to regulate the subdivision of land shall make it the duty of the city clerk, town clerk, clerk of district commissioners or other appropriate recording official to file with the register of deeds of the county in which the municipality is located a certificate of notice showing that the planning board has been so authorized, giving the date of such authorization.||III. The planning board shall not limit the number of building permits that may be issued except in accordance with an innovative land use control ordinance addressing timing incentives and phased development under RSA 674:21 and adopted under RSA 674:16; or an ordinance to regulate and control the timing of development, adopted under RSA 674:22; or an ordinance establishing a temporary moratorium or limitation on the issuance of building permits, adopted under RSA 674:23. This paragraph shall not be construed to limit the planning board's authority to deny a subdivision application on the basis that it is scattered or premature.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 2004, 71:3. 2005, 51:1. 2009, 200:2. 2014, 125:2, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:37 - Recording of Plats.

    674:37 Recording of Plats. –||After the certificate of notice referred to in RSA 674:35, II and the regulations referred to in RSA 674:36 have been filed with the appropriate recording officials, no plat shall be filed or recorded unless it is prepared and certified by a licensed land surveyor since July 1, 1981, or by a registered land surveyor between January 1, 1970 and June 30, 1981, and until it has been approved by the planning board and such approval has been endorsed in writing on the plat in such manner as the planning board may designate, except as provided in RSA 676:18, II and III and RSA 676:4, I(c). The filing or recording of a plat of a subdivision without the requisite approval of the planning board, or which has not been prepared and certified by a licensed land surveyor or by a registered land surveyor as provided in this section, shall be void.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1988, 233:1. 1990, 275:2. 1995, 303:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:38 - Status of Plats Approved.

    674:38 Status of Plats Approved. –||Every plat approved by the planning board shall, by virtue of the board's approval, be deemed to be an amendment of or an addition to or a detail of the official map. Every approved plat shall be a part of the official map. Approval of a plat shall not be deemed to constitute or result in an acceptance by the municipality or the public of the dedication of any street or other ground or open space shown upon the plat.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:39-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:39-a - Voluntary Merger.

    674:39-a Voluntary Merger. –||I. Any owner of 2 or more contiguous preexisting approved or subdivided lots or parcels who wishes to merge them for municipal regulation and taxation purposes may do so by applying to the planning board or its designee. Except as set forth in paragraphs II and III, all such requests shall be approved, and no public hearing or notice shall be required. No new survey plat need be recorded, but a notice of the merger, sufficient to identify the relevant parcels and endorsed in writing by the planning board or its designee, shall be filed for recording in the registry of deeds, and a copy mailed to the municipality's assessing officials. No such merged parcel shall thereafter be separately transferred without subdivision approval. No city, town, county, or village district may merge preexisting subdivided lots or parcels except upon the consent of the owner.||II. If there is any mortgage on any of the lots, the applicant shall give written notice to each mortgage holder at the time of the submission of the application. The written consent of each mortgage holder shall be required as a condition of approval of the merger, and shall be recorded with the notice of the merger pursuant to paragraph I. Upon recordation of the notice and each consent, the mortgage or mortgages shall be deemed by operation of law to apply to all lots involved in the merger. The municipality shall not be liable for any deficiency in the notice to mortgage holders.||III. No merger shall be approved that would create a violation of then-current ordinances or regulations.|||Source. 1995, 291:9. 2010, 345:1, eff. Sept. 18, 2010. 2016, 327:1, eff. Aug. 23, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:39-aa (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:39-aa - Restoration of Involuntarily Merged Lots.

    674:39-aa Restoration of Involuntarily Merged Lots. –||I. In this section:||(a) "Involuntary merger" and "involuntarily merged" mean lots merged by municipal action for zoning, assessing, or taxation purposes without the consent of the owner.||(b) "Owner" means the person or entity that holds legal title to the lots in question, even if such person or entity did not hold legal title at the time of the involuntary merger.||(c) "Voluntary merger" and "voluntarily merged" mean a merger under RSA 674:39-a, or any overt action or conduct that indicates an owner regarded said lots as merged such as, but not limited to, abandoning a lot line.||II. Lots or parcels that were involuntarily merged prior to September 18, 2010 by a city, town, county, village district, or any other municipality, shall at the request of the owner, be restored to their premerger status and all zoning and tax maps shall be updated to identify the premerger boundaries of said lots or parcels as recorded at the appropriate registry of deeds, provided:||(a) The request is submitted to the governing body.||(b) No owner in the chain of title voluntarily merged his or her lots. If any owner in the chain of title voluntarily merged his or her lots, then all subsequent owners shall be estopped from requesting restoration. The municipality shall have the burden of proof to show that any previous owner voluntarily merged his or her lots.||III. All decisions of the governing body may be appealed in accordance with the provisions of RSA 676.||IV. Any municipality may adopt local ordinances, including ordinances enacted prior to the effective date of this section, to restore previously merged properties that are less restrictive than the provisions in paragraph I and II.||V. The restoration of the lots to their premerger status shall not be deemed to cure any non-conformity with existing local land use ordinances.||VI. Municipalities shall post a notice informing residents that any involuntarily merged lots may be restored to premerger status upon the owner's request. Such notice shall be posted in a public place no later than January 1, 2012 and shall remain posted through December 31, 2016. Each municipality shall also publish the same or similar notice in its 2011 through 2015 annual reports.|||Source. 2011, 206:4, eff. July 24, 2011. 2016, 327:2, eff. Aug. 23, 2016. 2021, 136:1, eff. Sept. 21, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:40 - Improvements in Unapproved Streets.

    674:40 Improvements in Unapproved Streets. –||I. A municipality which has established and recorded an official map, as provided in RSA 674:10, or has conferred upon a planning board platting jurisdiction in accordance with RSA 674:35 shall not thereafter accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave, or light any street or lay or authorize the laying of water mains, sewers, connections, or other facilities or utilities in any street, within any portion of the municipality unless such street:||(a) Has been accepted or opened as, or has otherwise received the legal status of, a public street prior to the conferring of platting jurisdiction upon the planning board; or||(b) Corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on the official map, or with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the planning board, or with a street on a street plat made by and adopted by the board.||II. For the purposes of this section, the word "street" shall not mean or include a discontinued highway.||III. The local legislative body may, however, accept, locate and construct any street not shown on or not corresponding with a street on the official map or on an approved subdivision plat or an approved street plat, provided the ordinance or other measure for the accepting, locating, and construction of such street is first submitted to the planning board for its approval and:||(a) If approved by the board, be approved by a majority vote of those present and voting at a regular or special meeting of the local legislative body; or||(b) If disapproved by the planning board, be approved by not less than 2/3 of those present and voting at a regular or special meeting of the local legislative body.||IV. A street approved under paragraph III shall have the status of an approved street as though it had been originally shown on the official map or on a subdivision plat approved by the planning board or as though it had been originally platted by the planning board.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:19. 1998, 344:5, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:40-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:40-a - Delegation of Authority to Accept Dedicated Streets.

    674:40-a Delegation of Authority to Accept Dedicated Streets. –||I. Notwithstanding RSA 674:40, a municipality with the town meeting form of government, which has conferred upon a planning board platting jurisdiction in accordance with RSA 674:35, may, by majority vote at an annual or special meeting, under an article in the warrant inserted by the local governing body, or by petition, delegate to the local governing body the authority to accept dedicated streets. Such a delegation may be rescinded by the municipality in the same manner.||II. If such a delegation is made, the local governing body may vote to accept any dedicated street only if the street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat or site plan approved by the planning board, or on the official map, or on a street plat made and adopted by the board. A street which has not received such prior planning board approval shall not be accepted without a vote of the local legislative body pursuant to RSA 674:40, III.||III. The local governing body shall hold a public hearing on the proposed acceptance prior to taking action.||IV. A street accepted under this section shall have the status of a public highway under RSA 229:1. Such street shall be deemed a class V highway, subject to the municipality's duty of regular maintenance as set forth in RSA 231, unless otherwise designated pursuant to statute.||V. In this section, "dedicated street" means a street which has been dedicated to public use under the New Hampshire common law of dedication.|||Source. 1993, 80:1, eff. June 22, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:42 - Status of Existing Platting Statutes.

    674:42 Status of Existing Platting Statutes. –||After a planning board is granted platting jurisdiction by a municipality under RSA 674:35, the planning board's jurisdiction shall be exclusive, except to the extent that the municipality has transferred authority to approve or disapprove plans showing the extent to which and the manner in which streets within subdivisions shall be graded and improved from the planning board to the governing body pursuant to RSA 674:35, I. All statutory control over plats or subdivisions of land granted by other statutes shall be given effect to the extent that they are in harmony with the provisions of this title. The planning board shall have all statutory control over plats or subdivisions of land. Prior laws which are inconsistent with the powers granted to the planning board and the municipality under this title, and which have expressly by ordinance been adopted by a municipality and made available to a planning board according to the provisions of this title, are hereby declared to have no application, force or effect so long as the powers conferred by this title shall continue to be exercised by a municipality.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 2014, 125:3, eff. Aug. 15, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:44-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:44-a - Heritage Commission.

    674:44-a Heritage Commission. –||A heritage commission may be established in accordance with RSA 673 for the proper recognition, use, and protection of resources, tangible or intangible, primarily man-made, that are valued for their historic, cultural, aesthetic, or community significance within their natural, built, or cultural contexts.|||Source. 1992, 64:2, eff. June 19, 1992.|