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NH Rev Stat § 33:8-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:8-e - Town Council Authority to Issue Bonds and Notes.

    33:8-e Town Council Authority to Issue Bonds and Notes. –||Any town which has adopted a charter pursuant to RSA 49-B and which does not have a budgetary town meeting, may choose in its charter to allow the town council to follow the procedures set out in RSA 33:8-d or RSA 33:9 for the issuance of bonds and notes.|||Source. 1994, 87:2, eff. July 5, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:8-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:8-f - Procedures to Limit or Rescind Bonding Authority for Bonds or Notes.

    33:8-f Procedures to Limit or Rescind Bonding Authority for Bonds or Notes. –||I. In any vote to approve bonding authority, a town may limit the length of time the bond authorization remains valid. If, after the expiration of any such period, no bond or note has been issued, the bonding authority shall be considered for all purposes as rescinded.||II. A town may vote at an annual meeting to rescind an authorized but unissued bond or note following the same procedures as would be required to adopt such bond or note, provided that:||(a) A vote to rescind shall not take place less than 5 years after the vote to authorize the bond or note;||(b) The vote to rescind must pass by the same majority required, at the time of the rescission vote, to adopt a bond or note; and||(c) Notwithstanding RSA 33:8-a, II, a warrant article proposing the rescission of a bond or note in excess of $100,000 need not be acted upon prior to other business.|||Source. 2009, 229:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:9 - City Bonds.

    33:9 City Bonds. –||The issue of bonds or tax anticipation notes by a city shall be authorized by a resolution of the city councils, passed by at least 2/3 of all the members of each branch thereof. All such bonds and notes shall be signed by a mayor and countersigned by the city treasurer, and shall have the city seal affixed thereto. The discretion of fixing the date, maturities, denominations, place of payment, interest rate, or discount rate in the case of notes, the form and other details of said bonds or notes, and of providing for the sale thereof, may be delegated to the city treasurer and shall, to the extent provision therefor shall not have been made in the vote authorizing the same, be deemed to have been delegated to the treasurer with approval of the mayor.|||Source. 1895, 43:4. PL 59:11. RL 72:11. 1953, 258:1, par. 9, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:10 - County Bonds.

    33:10 County Bonds. –||County bonds shall be authorized and issued as provided in RSA 25and 28, provided that a public hearing is held which shall be advertised at least 7 days before said public hearing, in some daily newspaper having a wide circulation in the county, giving the time and place of the hearing; and provided that not more than 14 days after said public hearing the county convention shall approve such bond issue by at least 2/3 of the county convention present and voting and provided further that a majority of the whole convention shall be present.|||Source. PL 59:12. RL 72:12. 1953, 258:1, par. 10. RSA 33:10. 1957, 109:1, eff. July 7, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:11 - Authentication of Bonds.

    33:11 Authentication of Bonds. –||All bonds issued under authority of this chapter shall bear an authenticating certificate signed by an authorized officer of a bank or trust company doing business in the state of New Hampshire or in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, or by the commissioner of revenue administration, or by a notary public or justice of the peace. The authenticating certificate endorsed upon such bond shall identify such bond as being one of the particular issues described therein, shall certify the genuineness of the signatures and the seal, if any, thereto affixed and shall state the name of the attorney or attorneys who rendered an opinion approving the legality of such issue. A signed copy of such legal opinion shall be furnished to the commissioner of revenue administration within 10 days after the bonds are delivered to the purchaser thereof. The provisions of this section shall not apply to bonds or notes issued to secure a principal sum of $17,000 or less when the bonds or notes are payable over a period not exceeding 5 years from the date of issue.|||Source. 1953, 258:1, par. 11. RSA 33:11. 1973, 544:11, II. 1994, 167:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:11-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:11-a - Agreements Relating to Registered Bonds and Notes.

    33:11-a Agreements Relating to Registered Bonds and Notes. –||In connection with the issuance by a municipality or county of original or replacement bonds or notes in registered form, the treasurer of the municipality or county, with the approval of the officer or officers authorized to sign such bonds or notes, is authorized to contract for and engage the services of any bank, trust company, banking institution or financial institution within or without the state to perform authentication, registration, transfer, exchange, record and paying agent functions, including, without limitation, the preparation, signing and issuance of checks in payment of such bonds or notes, the preparation and maintenance of records, reports and accounts and the performance of such related duties as may be necessary or desirable in connection with such bonds or notes. The treasurer, with such approval, may also enter into agreements with banks, trust companies, banking institutions and financial institutions to act as custodian or financial intermediary in connection with the establishment and maintenance by others of a central depository system for the transfer of interests in such bonds or notes. Any agreement entered into under this section shall include provisions for indemnifying the municipality or county for losses sustained by it on account of the negligence of a designated bank, trust company, banking institution or financial institution or on account of the failure of such designated bank, trust company, banking institution or financial institution to perform faithfully its duties and obligations under the agreement. Such agreement may include additional provisions necessary or desirable to protect the municipality or county and may provide for the limitation of liabilities of the parties, indemnification or payment of liquidated damages.|||Source. 1983, 365:1, eff. June 19, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:12 - Register.

    33:12 Register. –||The treasurer of every municipal corporation shall keep a register, in such form as may be prescribed by the commissioner of revenue administration, which shall state the denomination, number and date of every bond or note issued by the municipality, the time when and the place where the principal thereof and interest, if any, thereon are payable and such other information as the commissioner of revenue administration may prescribe. The commissioner of revenue administration shall inspect the register provided for herein whenever it shall make any audit of the accounts of a municipal corporation.|||Source. 1895, 43:6. PL 59:19. RL 72:19. 1953, 258:1, par. 12. RSA 33:12. 1973, 544:8, eff. Sept. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:13 - Repealed by 1957, 95:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1958.

    33:13 Repealed by 1957, 95:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1958. –|
NH Rev Stat § 33:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:14 - Report of Borrowing.

    33:14 Report of Borrowing. –||The treasurer of any municipal corporation, within 10 days after the delivery of an issue of bonds or notes authorized by this chapter to the purchaser thereof, shall submit to the commissioner of revenue administration a report setting forth the details of the issue in such form as the commissioner may prescribe. Failure to make said report, however, shall not affect the validity of any issue of bonds or notes.|||Source. 1953, 258:1, par. 14. RSA 33:14. 1973, 544:8, eff. Sept. 1, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:15 - Regularity Presumed.

    33:15 Regularity Presumed. –||All bonds or notes purporting to be issued under authority of this chapter, and executed as hereinbefore provided, shall, in favor of bona fide holders, be conclusively presumed to have been duly and regularly authorized and issued in accordance with the provisions herein contained, and no such holder thereof shall be obliged to see the propriety of the purpose of the issue, to the regularity of any of the proceedings relating thereto, or to the application of the proceeds thereof. Said bonds or notes shall be negotiable in all respects and to the same extent as other securities negotiable by the law merchant except as herein otherwise provided. Any of such bonds or notes, if properly executed by officers of the municipality in office on the date of execution, shall be valid and binding according to their terms notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor such officers shall have ceased to be officers of the municipality.|||Source. 1895, 43:7. PL 59:21. RL 72:21. 1953, 258:1, par. 15, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:16 - Tax Exemption.

    33:16 Tax Exemption. –||All bonds and notes, and the interest thereon, heretofore or hereafter issued by municipal corporations and counties under the provisions of this chapter or of any general or special act, heretofore or hereafter enacted, shall be exempt from taxation in the state of New Hampshire. For the purpose of this section the amount of the discount on any notes which are sold at discount shall be deemed to be interest paid in advance.|||Source. 1953, 258:1, par. 16, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:17 - Construction of Other Legislation.

    33:17 Construction of Other Legislation. –||Any special act, heretofore or hereafter enacted shall be construed so as not to lessen the amount of indebtedness which the municipality affected would be authorized to incur under the terms of this chapter, unless such act expressly provides for such limitation.|||Source. 1931, 115:1. RL 72:22. 1953, 258:1, par. 17, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:18 - Saving Clause.

    33:18 Saving Clause. –||I. Nothing contained herein shall impair the validity of any debt properly issued by a municipality or county under authority of any general or special act so repealed hereby.||II. Chapter 9, Laws of 1953, [RSA ch. 204 ], shall not be deemed repealed by this act.|||Source. 1953, 258:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:19 - Validity and Enforceability of Certain Obligations and Indebtedness.

    33:19 Validity and Enforceability of Certain Obligations and Indebtedness. –||Any obligation and indebtedness incurred under this chapter prior to January 1, 1999 and any obligation and indebtedness incurred under this chapter on or after January 1, 1999 which mature on or before March 31, 2000 shall be a valid and enforceable obligation and debt of the municipality that approved such obligation and indebtedness in the manner required by this chapter, notwithstanding the fact that all or any portion of the tax revenues that the municipality expects to use to repay such indebtedness or obligation is, or can reasonably be expected, to be derived from tax revenues from levies for the school portion of the municipality's tax rate. No member of any municipal legislative body or governing body, and no officer of any municipality, shall have any official or personal liability as a result of executing and delivering, on behalf of such municipality, any such obligation or debt authorized in said manner.|||Source. 1999, 2:1, eff. Feb. 3, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:1 - Definition of Terms.

    33-A:1 Definition of Terms. –||In this chapter:||I. "Board" means the municipal records board.||II. "Municipal" refers to a city or town, county or precinct.||III. "Municipal officers" means:||(a) In the case of a town, the board of selectmen.||(b) In the case of a city which has adopted the council manager plan under RSA 49-A, the city manager.||(c) In the case of any other city, the mayor.||(d) In the case of a county, the county commissioners.||(e) In the case of a precinct, the precinct commissioners.||IV. "Municipal records" means all municipal records, reports, minutes, tax records, ledgers, journals, checks, bills, receipts, warrants, payrolls, deeds and any other written or computerized material that may be designated by the board.||V. "Active" means until termination or expiration of obligations or services, cessation of need for further attention, and completion or release of any pending legal processes.|||Source. 1967, 105:1. 1977, 358:1, eff. July 1, 1977. 2005, 187:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:2 - Repealed by 1957, 95:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1958.

    33-A:2 Repealed by 1957, 95:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1958. –|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:3 - Municipal Committees.

    33-A:3 Municipal Committees. –||The municipal officers or their designee together with the clerk, treasurer, an assessor, and tax collector of each city or town shall constitute a committee to govern the disposition of municipal records pursuant to this chapter. Unless otherwise provided by a municipal ordinance, the committee shall designate the office responsible for the retention of each type of record created for the municipality.|||Source. 1967, 105:1. 1977, 358:2, eff. July 1, 1977. 2005, 187:2, eff. Aug. 29, 2005. 2006, 119:1, eff. May 12, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:4 - Repealed by 1977, 358:7, II, eff. July 1, 1977.

    33-A:4 Repealed by 1977, 358:7, II, eff. July 1, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:4-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:4-a - Municipal Records Board.

    33-A:4-a Municipal Records Board. –||I. There is hereby established a municipal records board consisting of the following persons or their designees:||(a) The director of the division of archives and records management.||(b) The director of the New Hampshire Historical Society.||(c) The state librarian.||(d) The presidents of the New Hampshire Tax Collectors' Association, the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks' Association and the Association of New Hampshire Assessors.||(e) The registrar of vital records.||(f) The secretary of state.||(g) A municipal treasurer or finance director appointed by the president of the New Hampshire Municipal Association for a 3-year term.||(h) A professional historian appointed by the governor and council for a 3-year term.||(i) A representative of the Association of New Hampshire Historical Societies appointed by its president for a 3-year term.||(j) A representative of the department of revenue administration.||(k) The state records manager.||II. The board shall elect its own chairman and vice-chairman. The board shall meet at the call of the chairman, but not less than once every 2 calendar years. Five members of the board shall constitute a quorum for all purposes. Board members shall serve without compensation. Administrative services for the board shall be provided by the director of the division of archives and records management who shall serve as secretary of the board.|||Source. 1977, 358:3. 1985, 102:1. 1991, 197:1, eff. July 27, 1991. 2003, 97:4, eff. Aug. 5, 2003; 319:56, eff. July 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:4-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:4-b - Powers and Duties of Board.

    33-A:4-b Powers and Duties of Board. –||The board shall advise the secretary of state on standards and procedures for the effective and efficient management of municipal records. Such standards and procedures shall govern the retention, preservation and disposition of municipal records. The board shall oversee the local government records management improvement program as provided in RSA 5:47-5:51.|||Source. 1977, 358:3, eff. July 1, 1977. 2002, 145:3, eff. July 12, 2002. 2005, 187:4, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:5 - Microfilming.

    33-A:5 Microfilming. –||If municipal records are disposed of by microfilming, 2 films shall be produced. One film shall be retained by the municipality in a fireproof container and properly labeled. One shall be transferred to a suitable location for permanent storage.|||Source. 1967, 105:1. 1977, 358:4, eff. July 1, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:5-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:5-a - Electronic Records.

    33-A:5-a Electronic Records. –||I. Paper municipal records listed in the disposition and retention schedule of RSA 33-A:3-a may be transferred to electronic records, as defined in RSA 5:29, VI, and the original paper records may be disposed of as the municipality chooses, subject to the requirements of other state or federal laws. Such records shall be stored in portable document format/archival (PDF/A) or another file format approved by the secretary of state and the municipal records board.||II. Electronic municipal records listed on the disposition and retention schedule of RSA 33-A:3-a that are to be retained for 10 years or less may be retained solely electronically in their original format if so approved by the municipal committee responsible for the records. The municipality is responsible for assuring the accessibility of the records for the retention period. If the records retention period exceeds 10 years or the municipal committee does not approve retention of the record solely electronically in an approved format, the records shall be transferred to paper, microfilmed, or stored in portable document format/archival (PDF/A) or another approved file format on a medium from which it is readily retrievable. At least once every 5 years from date of creation, the municipal committee shall review documents and procedures for compliance with guidelines issued by the secretary of state and the municipal records board.|||Source. 2005, 187:5, eff. Aug. 29, 2005. 2006, 275:6, eff. June 15, 2006. 2016, 226:1, eff. Aug. 8, 2016. 2017, 96:1, eff. Aug. 7, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-A - Disposition of Municipal Records|Section 33-A:6 - Exception.

    33-A:6 Exception. –||Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, original town meeting and city council records shall not be disposed of but shall be permanently preserved. Such records prior to 1900 need not be microfilmed unless legible.|||Source. 1967, 105:1, eff. July 10, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 33-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33-B - Municipal Revenue Bonds|Section 33-B:2 - Issuance of Revenue Bonds.

    33-B:2 Issuance of Revenue Bonds. –||A municipality or regional water district may issue bonds or notes under this chapter for construction of revenue-producing facilities. Bonds issued by a municipality or regional water district under this chapter shall not be deemed to be a pledge of the faith and credit of the state or of the municipality or municipalities that are members of a regional water district. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all bonds shall be payable solely from the particular funds provided therefor under this chapter. Bonds issued by a municipality shall be issued in such amounts as the legislative body may authorize by a vote as required under RSA 33:8 or 9, as applicable. Bonds issued by regional water districts shall be issued in such amounts as the governing body may authorize pursuant to the regional water district's charter. Bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates, including rates variable from time to time as determined by such index, banker's loan rate or other method as may be determined by the authorized officers, and shall mature at such time or times as may be determined by the authorized officers, except that no bond shall mature more than 40 years from the date of its issue or beyond the expiration of the expected useful life of the facilities being financed by the bonds as determined by the authorized officers. Bonds may be made redeemable before maturity at the option of the municipality or regional water district at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the authorized officers prior to the issue of bonds. The authorized officers shall determine the form and details and the manner of execution of bonds. The municipality or regional water district may sell its bonds in such manner, either at public or private sale, for such price, at such rate or rates of interest, or at such discount in lieu of interest, as the authorized officers may determine. The provisions of RSA 33:11-a, 14 and 15 shall apply to bonds issued under this chapter.|||Source. 1988, 90:1, eff. June 17, 1988. 2003, 281:6, eff. July 18, 2003.|