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NH Rev Stat § 671:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:22 - Election at Town Meeting.

    671:22 Election at Town Meeting. –||I. As used in this section, the words, "any school district" shall mean (a) a school district which is coextensive with the town in which it is located, or (b) a cooperative school district composed of preexisting districts which were each coextensive with the towns in which they are located, or (c) a cooperative school district which is composed of a preexisting cooperative district as defined in (b) and other school districts as defined in (a).||II. Any school district as defined in paragraph I may at any annual or special meeting under an article in the warrant for such meeting vote to elect its district officers by separate ballot at the town election in such town, and may rescind such action in like manner. Such action shall not take effect until the calendar year next following the year in which such vote is taken. The newly elected officers shall take office at the close of the town meeting at which they are elected; provided, however, that if the annual school district meeting is held subsequent to this town meeting, they shall take office at the close of the annual school district meeting and that the treasurer shall take office at the close of the fiscal year of the school district.||III. Nothing herein shall preclude other appropriate coordination of school district and town elections consistent with all the applicable requirements of law where school district and town meetings are simultaneously in session and school districts have duly voted to adopt as official for school district purposes the town checklist, polling place, and election machinery.||IV. Nothing in the provisions for election of school district officers at town meetings shall be construed as affecting any city charter, nor is a city authorized to adopt the provisions hereof.|||Source. 1979, 321:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:22-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:22-a - Rescheduling Elections.

    671:22-a Rescheduling Elections. –||In the case of a school district that comprises one or more preexisting districts and holds its elections in conjunction with the town elections in the component towns as provided in this subdivision, in the event of a weather or other emergency as described in RSA 669:1, V, the town moderators in each town shall, as described in RSA 669:1, coordinate to reschedule the town and school district elections.|||Source. 2019, 192:10, eff. July 10, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:23 - Warrant.

    671:23 Warrant. –||Where a school district has voted to elect its district officers at the town election, the school board shall post a special warrant for the election of such officers, as provided in RSA 671:27.|||Source. 1979, 321:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:24 - Repealed by 2017, 64:2, II, eff. Aug. 1, 2017.

    671:24 Repealed by 2017, 64:2, II, eff. Aug. 1, 2017. –|
NH Rev Stat § 671:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:25 - Duties of Clerk of School District.

    671:25 Duties of Clerk of School District. –||The clerk of the school district shall prepare the official ballots for the school district as provided in RSA 671:20 and shall deliver the same to the town moderator before the opening of the polls at the town election. The ballots shall be of a color different from that of any other ballot being used at the town election.|||Source. 1979, 321:1. 1997, 176:7, eff. Aug. 11, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:26 - Counting Ballots.

    671:26 Counting Ballots. –||The town election officials shall act in like capacity for the school district in conducting the school district election. After the close of the polls, the town election officials shall turn all school district ballots over to the moderator of the school district, who shall then proceed to count the ballots publicly with the assistance of such legal voters of the district as the moderator of the school district shall appoint. Provided, however, that, in the case of cooperative school districts, the town election officials, immediately after the close of the polls, shall count the ballots for school district officers and, within 24 hours, forward to the school district clerk a list of the number of votes received by each candidate for school district office. The list shall be signed by the town clerk and witnessed by the town moderator. Upon receipt of the list, the cooperative school district clerk shall record the results from each town and shall, when the results from all towns within the district have been recorded, determine and announce the names of the winning candidates.|||Source. 1979, 321:1. 1997, 176:8, eff. Aug. 11, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:26-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:26-a - Coordinating Certain Town and School District Elections.

    671:26-a Coordinating Certain Town and School District Elections. –||To facilitate voting for future annual meetings, to reduce costs, and to best accommodate the voters of the town, the legislative body of a town, which has not adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting, although the school district has adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting, may authorize coordination of future town elections with the school district elections. The joint elections shall be held at a time and place determined by, and shall be supervised by, the election officials of the town, as provided in RSA 671:26. The town and the school board shall allocate the costs of the joint elections in the same manner as in previous years, or as mutually agreed upon by the governing body of the town and the school board.|||Source. 1997, 330:4, eff. June 23, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:27 - Posting Warrant.

    671:27 Posting Warrant. –||A warrant for the school district election shall be posted by the school board, in the same manner as the selectmen for town elections as provided in RSA 669:2; provided that, in a cooperative school district, a copy of the warrant shall be posted in at least one public place in each preexisting district, as well as at the place of meeting. If a school board shall unreasonably neglect or refuse to warn an election, a justice of superior court, upon petition of 10 or more voters, or 1/10 of the voters of the district, whichever is less, may issue such warrant and cause it to be posted.|||Source. 1979, 321:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:28 - Inspectors.

    671:28 Inspectors. –||The school board of each school district, at some time prior to the school district election each year, may appoint 4 inspectors of election as additional election officers to act with the clerk, moderator and school board. If the number of voters qualified to vote at an election shall exceed 2,000, the school board may appoint for such election 2 additional inspectors for each additional 2,000 qualified voters or fraction thereof. If the number of voters qualified to vote at any school district election shall exceed 4,000, the school board may appoint such additional inspectors as they may deem necessary for the efficient conduct of the election, so long as the total number of election officials shall not exceed 24. The inspectors shall be qualified voters at said election. They shall assist the school district moderator in counting votes for school district officers and questions.|||Source. 1979, 321:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:28-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:28-a - School Board Member Pro Tem.

    671:28-a School Board Member Pro Tem. –||If a school board member is absent from or unable to perform his or her duties for all or any part of the day at any school district election, the school board member is authorized to appoint a school board member pro tem to perform his or her duties. If one or more school board members are absent or unable to perform their duties and have not appointed school board members pro tem, or if a school board member pro tem is absent or unable to perform his or her duties for all or any part of the day, the moderator is authorized to appoint school board members pro tem to perform their duties.|||Source. 2018, 178:1, eff. Aug. 7, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:29 - Additional Polling Places for Cooperative School Districts.

    671:29 Additional Polling Places for Cooperative School Districts. –||The board of a cooperative school district may authorize the establishment of additional polling places within the building wherein the annual meeting is held. Said additional polling places shall be equipped and laid out in the same manner as the central polling place, and shall be supervised by the election officials of the several towns as provided in RSA 671:26.|||Source. 1979, 321:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:30 - Non-Partisan Ballot System.

    671:30 Non-Partisan Ballot System. –||Every school district in the state, except one having a special statute relative to election of its district offices, shall use the non-partisan ballot system for the election of district officers, in the same manner as in towns as provided in RSA 669:19-669:25, except that all references to towns or town clerks shall be read to refer to school districts or school district clerks.|||Source. 1979, 321:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:31 - Reports by Clerk.

    671:31 Reports by Clerk. –||The clerk of every school district, after the annual meeting, shall forthwith report the names and post office addresses of all school district officers to the commissioner of revenue administration and to the commissioner of education. If any school district officer has not been chosen or appointed at that time, the school district clerk shall promptly make like reports when such officer is chosen or appointed so that the commissioner of revenue administration and the commissioner of education shall at all times be informed of the names and mailing addresses of all school district officers.|||Source. 1979, 321:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 671:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIII - Elections|Title 671 - School District Elections|Section 671:32 - Recount; Tie Vote.

    671:32 Recount;  Tie Vote. –||Tie votes and recounts in school district elections shall be handled in the same manner as in town elections as provided in RSA 40:4-c and 40:4-d and in RSA 669:30-669:36, except as specified herein:||I. The school district clerk shall have all the duties and powers of the town clerk;||II. The board of recount shall be composed of the school district clerk, the school district moderator, and the members of the school board. The school district moderator shall be the chairperson of the board of recount; and||III. The fee for the recount shall be paid to the school district clerk for conducting the recount.|||Source. 1979, 321:1. 1999, 5:1. 2002, 95:1. 2015, 159:2, eff. Aug. 25, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:2 - Definition of Words and Phrases.

    672:2 Definition of Words and Phrases. –||The following words and phrases when used in Title LXIV shall have the meanings given to them in this chapter.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:3 - Abutter.

    672:3 Abutter. –||"Abutter" means any person whose property is located in New Hampshire and adjoins or is directly across the street or stream from the land under consideration by the local land use board. For purposes of receiving testimony only, and not for purposes of notification, the term "abutter" shall include any person who is able to demonstrate that his land will be directly affected by the proposal under consideration. For purposes of receipt of notification by a municipality of a local land use board hearing, in the case of an abutting property being under a condominium or other collective form of ownership, the term abutter means the officers of the collective or association, as defined in RSA 356-B:3, XXIII. For purposes of receipt of notification by a municipality of a local land use board hearing, in the case of an abutting property being under a manufactured housing park form of ownership as defined in RSA 205-A:1, II, the term "abutter" includes the manufactured housing park owner and the tenants who own manufactured housing which adjoins or is directly across the street or stream from the land under consideration by the local land use board.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1986, 33:2. 2002, 216:1, eff. July 15, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:4 - District Commissioners.

    672:4 District Commissioners. –||"District commissioners" means the board of commissioners of a village district or precinct.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:5 - Ex Officio Member.

    672:5 Ex Officio Member. –||"Ex Officio member" means any member who holds office by virtue of an official position and who shall exercise all the powers of regular members of a local land use board.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:6 - Local Governing Body.

    672:6 Local Governing Body. –||"Local governing body" means, in addition to any other appropriate title:||I. Board of selectmen in a town;||II. City council or board of aldermen in a city;||III. Village district commissioners in a village district; or||IV. County commissioners in a county in which there are located unincorporated towns or unorganized places.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:7, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:7 - Local Land Use Board.

    672:7 Local Land Use Board. –||"Local land use board" means a planning board, historic district commission, inspector of buildings, building code board of appeals, zoning board of adjustment, or other board or commission authorized under RSA 673 established by a local legislative body.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 2010, 226:4, eff. Aug. 27, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:8 - Local Legislative Body.

    672:8 Local Legislative Body. –||"Local legislative body" means one of the following basic forms of government utilized by a municipality:||I. Council, whether city or town;||II. Mayor-council;||III. Mayor-board of aldermen;||IV. Village district or precinct;||V. Town meeting; or||VI. County convention.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1985, 103:18. 1989, 266:8, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:9 - Mayor.

    672:9 Mayor. –||"Mayor" means the chief executive officer of the municipality, whether the official designation of the office is mayor of a city, city or town manager, the board of selectmen of a town, the board of commissioners of a village district, the county commissioners of a county in which there are located unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or any other title or any official designated in the municipal charter to perform the duties of "mayor."|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:8. 1991, 377:3, eff. Aug. 31, 1991.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:10 - Municipality.

    672:10 Municipality. –||"Municipality" or "municipal" means, includes and relates to cities, towns, village districts, and counties in which there are located unincorporated towns or unorganized places.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:8, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:11 - Planning Board.

    672:11 Planning Board. –||"Planning board" means and includes city, town, village district, and county planning boards, in counties which contain unincorporated towns or unorganized places, established under the provisions of RSA 673.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:8, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:12 - Selectmen.

    672:12 Selectmen. –||"Selectmen" means the board of selectmen of a town and the county commissioners of a county in which there are located unincorporated towns or unorganized places.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:8, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:13 - Street.

    672:13 Street. –||"Street" means, relates to and includes street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, alley, viaduct, highway, freeway and other ways.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 672:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 672 - General Provisions|Section 672:14 - Subdivision.

    672:14 Subdivision. –||I. "Subdivision" means the division of the lot, tract, or parcel of land into 2 or more lots, plats, sites, or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale, rent, lease, condominium conveyance or building development. It includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or territory subdivided.||II. The division of a parcel of land held in common and subsequently divided into parts among the several owners shall be deemed a subdivision under this title.||III. The grant of an easement in gross to a public utility for the purpose of placing and maintaining overhead and underground facilities necessary for its transmission or distribution network such as poles, wires, cable, conduit, manholes, repeaters and supporting apparatus, including any unstaffed structure which is less than 500 square feet, shall not be construed as a subdivision under this title, and shall not be deemed to create any new division of land for any other purpose.||IV. The rent, lease, development, or grant of an easement to a person for the purpose of placing and maintaining a wireless communications facility shall not be construed as a subdivision under this title, and shall not be deemed to create any new division of land for any other purpose. For purposes of this paragraph, "wireless communications facilities" means any towers, poles, antennas, or other unstaffed structure of less than 500 square feet intended for use in connection with licensed transmission or receipt of radio or television signals, or any other licensed spectrum-based transmissions or receptions. This paragraph shall not be deemed to affect other local zoning, site plan, or regulatory authority over wireless communications facilities.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1988, 75:1. 1998, 299:1, 2, eff. June 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 673:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 673 - Local Land Use Boards|Section 673:1 - Establishment of Local Land Use Boards.

    673:1 Establishment of Local Land Use Boards. –||I. Any local legislative body may establish a planning board, the members of which shall be residents of the municipality.||II. Any local legislative body may establish any or all of the following: a heritage commission, a historic district commission, an agricultural commission, and a housing commission.||III. Any local legislative body may provide for the appointment of an inspector of buildings. The local legislative body may fix the compensation for any inspector who is so appointed.||IV. Every zoning ordinance adopted by a local legislative body shall include provisions for the establishment of a zoning board of adjustment. Members of the zoning board of adjustment shall be either elected or appointed, subject to the provisions of RSA 673:3.||V. Every building code adopted by a local legislative body shall include provisions for the establishment of the position of a building inspector, who shall issue building permits, and for the establishment of a building code board of appeals. If no provision is made to establish a separate building code board of appeals, the ordinance shall designate the zoning board of adjustment to act as the building code board of appeals. If there is no zoning board of adjustment, the board of selectmen shall serve as the building code board of appeals.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1992, 64:5. 2007, 266:2. 2008, 391:2. 2009, 286:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.|