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NH Rev Stat § 53-F:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-F - Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Districts|Section 53-F:5 - Eligibility of Property Owners.

    53-F:5 Eligibility of Property Owners. –||I. A municipality may enter into an agreement under this chapter only with the legal owner of eligible property.||II. Prior to entering into an agreement with an owner of eligible property, the municipality shall determine that all property taxes and any other assessments levied with property taxes are current and have been current for 3 years or the owner's period of ownership, whichever is less; that there are no involuntary liens such as mechanic's liens on the property; and that no notices of default or other evidence of property-based debt delinquency have been recorded during the past 3 years or the property owner's period of ownership, whichever is less. The municipality shall adopt additional criteria, appropriate to property-assessed clean energy finance programs. The municipality shall determine whether any mortgages or liens of record exist in the registry of deeds on the property, whether they are current in the obligations, and whether the total debt to equity ratio specified by the private lender will be met. If any such mortgage or lien exists, the municipality shall notify each such mortgagee or lienholder in writing that a private lender is considering making a loan secured by a municipal lien pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and request the consent of each such mortgagee or lienholder to the making of such loan. Each mortgagee or lienholder shall have the right to determine in its sole discretion whether or not it will consent to such loan. If all of the mortgagees or lienholders of record elect to consent, the consents shall be in writing and recorded with the municipal lien in the registry of deeds. The legal effect of having all consents shall be that the municipal lien shall not be extinguished in the event of a foreclosure or sheriff's sale by the mortgagee or lienholder as provided in RSA 53-F:8. If all of the mortgagees or lienholders of record do not consent, but the private lender determines that it will proceed in making such loan, then in the event of a foreclosure or sheriff's sale by a mortgagee or lienholder, the municipal lien shall be extinguished.|||Source. 2010, 215:2, eff. Aug. 27, 2010. 2014, 294:4, eff. Sept. 30, 2014. 2015, 121:4, eff. June 8, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-F:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-F - Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Districts|Section 53-F:6 - Qualifying Improvements.

    53-F:6 Qualifying Improvements. –||I. Improvements financed pursuant to an agreement under this chapter shall be based upon an audit performed by a person who has been certified as a building analyst by the Building Performance Institute or who has obtained other appropriate certification as determined by the department of energy or another appropriate New Hampshire-based entity. The audit shall identify recommended energy conservation and efficiency and clean energy improvements; provide the estimated energy cost savings, useful life, benefit-cost ratio, and simple payback or return on investment for each improvement; and provide the estimated overall difference in annual energy costs with and without recommended improvements. Financed improvements shall be consistent with the audit recommendations. The cost of the audit may be included in the total amount financed under this chapter.||II. Improvements shall be permanently affixed to an existing building or facility that is part of the eligible property. The owner of the property may not finance projects in buildings or facilities under new construction.||III. Improvements shall be made by a contractor or contractors, which may include a cooperative or not-for-profit organization, determined by the municipality to be qualified to make the energy efficiency or clean energy improvements in the agreement. Contractors may be designated as qualified by an electric or gas utility program or another appropriate New Hampshire-based entity. Any work requiring a license under any applicable law shall be performed by an individual holding such license. A municipality may elect to permit the financing pursuant to an agreement under this chapter of improvements made by the owner of the property, but shall not permit the value of the owner's labor to be included in the amount financed.||IV. Prior to disbursement of final payments to any contractor or vendor pursuant to an agreement with a property owner, submission is required by the property owner in a form acceptable to the municipality of:||(a) A post-installation report, based on an independent inspection acceptable to the municipality, certifying that improvements have been installed properly and verifying that they are performing satisfactorily; and||(b) Documentation of all costs to be financed and copies of any required permits.|||Source. 2010, 215:2, eff. Aug. 27, 2010. 2015, 121:5, eff. June 8, 2015. 2021, 91:218, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-F:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-F - Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Districts|Section 53-F:7 - Financing Terms.

    53-F:7 Financing Terms. –||I. Improvements shall be financed pursuant to an agreement under this chapter only on terms such that the total energy cost savings realized by the property owner and the property owner's successors during the useful lives of the improvements are expected to exceed the total cost to the property owner and the property owner's successors of the improvements.||II. A property owner who escrows property taxes with the holder of a mortgage on a property subject to an agreement under this chapter may be required by the holder to escrow amounts due on the special assessment under this chapter and the mortgage holder shall remit such amounts to the municipality in the manner that property taxes are escrowed and remitted.||III. The maximum term of finance provided pursuant to an agreement under this chapter shall be 30 years.|||Source. 2010, 215:2. 2011, 68:3, eff. July 15, 2011. 2014, 294:5, eff. Sept. 30, 2014. 2015, 121:6, eff. June 8, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-F:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-F - Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Districts|Section 53-F:8 - Priority; Collection and Enforcement.

    53-F:8 Priority;  Collection and Enforcement. –||Collection of special assessments under this chapter shall be made by the tax collector or other official responsible for property tax or municipal service charge collection. A municipality shall commit bills for amounts due on the special assessments, including interest and any charges, to the tax collector with a warrant signed by the appropriate municipal officials requiring the tax collector to collect them. Each year bills for amounts due on the special assessments shall coincide with bills for property taxes or municipal service charges. Each special assessment on the property of a participating property owner shall create a lien on the property pursuant to RSA 80:19, except that the lien shall be junior to existing liens of record at the time the bill for the assessment is mailed to the participating property owner. Enforcement powers for nonpayment shall be those provided under RSA 80 relative to property tax collection, including RSA 80:19; provided, however, a tax sale of the property shall not extinguish prior liens of record. At the time of enforcement, only the past due balances of the special assessment under this chapter, including all interest, charges, and penalties, shall be due for payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event of a transfer of property ownership through foreclosure or a sheriff's sale by a senior mortgagee or lienholder which has consented to the making of a loan by a private lender under the provisions of this chapter, the lien of the municipality shall not be extinguished, and the net proceeds of the sale, if any, after payment of all prior obligations to mortgagees and lienholders, costs and expenses of foreclosure or sheriff's sale, shall be first applied to the payment of any past due balances of the loan and then any excess shall be applied against the remaining balance of the loan. If a senior mortgagee or lienholder has not given its consent to the loan, a foreclosure or sheriff's sale by the mortgagee or lienholder shall extinguish all junior mortgages and liens.|||Source. 2010, 215:2. 2011, 68:6, eff. July 15, 2011. 2014, 294:6, eff. Sept. 30, 2014. 2015, 121:7, eff. June 8, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:1 - Definitions.

    53-G:1 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Board" means the governing board of the district.||II. "District" means a communications district of 2 or more municipalities established under this chapter.||III. "Equipment and infrastructure" means any and all parts of any communications system, owned, leased, or otherwise contracted by the district, whether using wires, cables, fiber optics, wireless, other technologies, or a combination thereof, and used for the purpose of transporting or storing information, in whatever forms, directions, and media, together with any improvements thereto constructed or acquired after the effective date of this chapter, and all other facilities, equipment, and appurtenances necessary or appropriate to such system. "Equipment and infrastructure" shall not apply to communications facilities, or portions of any communications facilities, intended for use by, and solely used by, a district member and its own officers and employees in the operation of municipal departments or systems of which such communications are merely an ancillary component.||IV. "Governing body" means "governing body" as defined in RSA 21:48.||V. "Legislative body" means "legislative body" as defined in RSA 21:47.||VI. "Long-term contract" means a contract for communications services, or an equipment or infrastructure lease for 5 years or more.||VII. "Member" means any city, town, unincorporated town, or unorganized place that elects to form or join a communications district under this chapter.||VIII. "Municipality" means any city, town, unincorporated town, or unorganized place.||IX. "Person" means any individual, partnership, company, corporation, firm, governmental unit or agency, or any other legal entity.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:3 - Communications District Agreements.

    53-G:3 Communications District Agreements. –||The business affairs and actions of a district shall be conducted and governed pursuant to the terms, conditions, and provisions of its district agreement. The agreement shall include but not be limited to the following:||I. A list of the municipalities included in the district.||II. Provisions for the sharing of planning, construction, operating, and maintenance of equipment, infrastructure, and services, if any.||III. The method of selection and method of removal of representatives to the district governing board, whether by legislative or governing bodies; the number of representatives; the terms of office of the representatives; rules of procedure concerning the method of conducting the board's business; and, except as provided otherwise by law, the powers, duties, and authorities of the district governing board officers.||IV. A description of equipment, infrastructure, and sites, if applicable.||V. The terms by which other municipalities may be admitted to the district or a member municipality may withdraw from the district before or after debt has been incurred.||VI. The method by which the district agreement may be amended including conditions under which an amendment shall be approved by the governing or legislative bodies of member municipalities.||VII. The procedure for dissolution of the communications district before or after debt has been incurred.||VIII. Provisions for varied levels of participation by member municipalities in equipment and infrastructure, if applicable.||IX. The procedure for the preparation and adoption of the annual budget, including the apportionment of district expenses and a schedule of payments, if applicable, and other procedures relative to governing the district's fiscal affairs in accordance with RSA 53-G:9.||X. The procedure, if any, for establishing the district when not all of the legislative bodies vote to approve the district agreement, as provided in RSA 53-G:4, II.||XI. The funding sources that are acceptable to the district such as: federal, state, regional broadband and economic development grants or loans, general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, private investment or loans, subscriber fees, and member contributions.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:4 - Vote on Establishing District.

    53-G:4 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 at the next annual town meeting or at a special town meeting called for such purpose. In all other municipalities, the legislative bodies shall vote on the proposed agreement within 60 days of the governing bodies' receipt of the proposed agreement, as approved by the attorney general under RSA 53-G:2, V. The question to be voted on shall be: "Shall the (insert name of municipality) accept the provisions of RSA 53-G:1-RSA 53-G:11 providing for the establishment of a communications 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. If all of the legislative bodies vote in the affirmative, the proposed communications 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. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:6 - Governing Board.

    53-G:6 Governing Board. –||I. The powers, duties, and liabilities of a district shall be vested in and exercised by a governing board organized in accordance with the district agreement. The governing board shall authorize and govern all actions of a district, and the governing board's actions which are consistent with the district agreement and this chapter are binding on member municipalities without any additional action by the governing or legislative bodies of those municipalities. A majority of governing board members shall constitute a quorum. A simple majority of the voting authority present shall be sufficient to approve an action by the committee except as otherwise provided in the district agreement.||II. The board shall choose a chairperson by ballot from its membership. It shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who may be the same person, but who need not be members of the committee, and such other officers as may be provided for in the district agreement. The treasurer shall receive and take charge of all money belonging to the district and shall pay any debt of the district which has been approved by the committee. The treasurer may, by vote of the committee, be compensated for his or her services. Proceedings of the committee shall be held in accordance with RSA 91-A.||III. The committee shall send to the member municipalities, by January 31 of each year, a report on the general activities and affairs of the district, including a detailed financial report.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:7 - Admission of Additional District Members.

    53-G:7 Admission of Additional District Members. –||The board may authorize the inclusion of additional district members in the multi-town communications district upon such terms and conditions as it in its sole discretion shall deem to be fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the district. The legislative body of any nonmember municipality which desires to be admitted to the district shall make application for admission to the board. The board shall determine the financial and operational effects that are likely to occur if such municipality is admitted and thereafter either grant or deny authority for admission of the petitioning municipality. If the board grants such authority, it shall also specify any terms and conditions, including financial obligations, upon which such admission is predicated. Upon resolution of the board, such applicant municipality shall become a district member.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:8 - Member Withdrawal.

    53-G:8 Member Withdrawal. –||A district member may vote to withdraw in the same manner as the vote for admission to the district. If a majority of the voters of a district member present and voting at a meeting duly warned for such purpose votes to withdraw from the district, the vote shall be certified by the clerk of that municipality and presented to the board. Thereafter, the board shall give notice to the remaining district members of the vote to withdraw and shall hold a meeting to determine if it is in the best interest of the district to continue to exist. Representatives of the district members shall be given an opportunity to be heard at such meeting together with any other interested persons. After such a meeting, the board may declare the district dissolved or it may declare that the district shall continue to exist despite the withdrawal of such member. The membership of the withdrawing municipality shall terminate after the vote to withdraw.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:9 - Adoption of Budget.

    53-G:9 Adoption of Budget. –||Annually, the governing board shall determine the amounts necessary to be raised to maintain and operate the district during the next calendar year, and the amounts required for payment of debt and interest incurred by the district that will be due in the next year. The committee shall prepare a budget no later than December 31. The committee shall give at least 7 days' notice of the budget hearing by publication of the budget in a newspaper of general circulation within the district, and by posting a copy of the budget in a public place in each municipality in the district. After the hearing the committee shall adopt a budget.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:10 - Audits.

    53-G:10 Audits. –||The governing board shall hire a certified public accountant or a public accountant licensed by the state under RSA 309-B:5 to conduct a financial audit, in accordance with generally accepted governmental auditing standards as adopted by the United States General Accounting Office and applicable state statutes, to be completed within 6 months after the close of each fiscal year. Upon completion of an audit, the governing board shall review and vote on acceptance of the audit and send a copy of the audited financial statements, the auditor's opinion on those statements, a report on internal control, a report on compliance, and any other auditor reports to the governing body of each of the member municipalities and to the department of revenue administration. At least every 2 years, the governing board shall vote on whether to contract for a performance audit of the district in accordance with the generally accepted governmental auditing standards. Upon completion of a performance audit, the committee shall review and vote on acceptance of the audit and send a copy of the resulting materials to the governing body of each of the member municipalities and to the department of revenue administration.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 53-G:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 53-G - Communications Districts|Section 53-G:11 - Severability.

    53-G:11 Severability. –||If any portion of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 2020, 28:7, eff. July 22, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 71-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title V - Taxation|Title 71-B - Board of Tax and Land Appeals|Section 71-B:1 - Board Established.

    71-B:1 Board Established. –||There is hereby established a board of tax and land appeals, hereinafter referred to as the board, which shall be composed of 3 members who shall be learned and experienced in questions of taxation or of real estate valuation and appraisal or of both. The members of the board shall be full-time employees and shall not engage in any other employment during their terms that is in conflict with their duties as members of the board.|||Source. 1973, 544:2. 1982, 42:72. 1994, 393:1. 2011, 224:336, eff. July 15, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 71-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title V - Taxation|Title 71-B - Board of Tax and Land Appeals|Section 71-B:2 - Appointment; Term; Chairman.

    71-B:2 Appointment;  Term;  Chairman. –||The members of the board shall be appointed by the supreme court and commissioned by the governor for a term of 3 years and until their successors are appointed and qualified; provided, however, that any vacancy on the board shall be filled for the unexpired term. The supreme court shall designate one member as chairman to serve in that capacity for the duration of his or her term.|||Source. 1973, 544:2. 1982, 42:73. 2011, 224:337, eff. July 15, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 71-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title V - Taxation|Title 71-B - Board of Tax and Land Appeals|Section 71-B:3 - Removal.

    71-B:3 Removal. –||Any member may be removed by the same authority for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office; but, before removal, he shall be furnished with a copy of the charges against him, and have an opportunity to be heard in defense.|||Source. 1973, 544:2, eff. Sept. 1, 1973.|