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NH Rev Stat § 231:116 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:116 - Plan.

    231:116 Plan. –||I. When the legislative body of any municipality finds that the public health, safety, morals and general welfare so requires, it may undertake to study the question of providing public parking facilities. For the purpose of such study said legislative body may appoint or authorize its governing board to appoint an investigative and planning board or may contract with private planners or developers which investigative and planning board or private party shall study the parking needs and conditions in said municipality and shall propose a plan for providing one or more public parking facilities; and said legislative body may appropriate such sums of money as are reasonably necessary therefor.||II. The plan referred to in paragraph I of this section, in addition to providing a detailed proposal for the construction of one or more public parking facilities shall show that there is a need for public parking facilities, that the facilities proposed therein are proposed with respect to that need, and shall include an estimate of construction costs and operating expenses and the method of financing and paying the same. Any such plan shall provide that construction costs or operating expenses shall be raised by assessments as provided in RSA 231:120 and the plan shall so indicate and shall determine the boundaries of any prescribed area within which special benefit assessments shall be levied, which area may but need not be coterminous with the municipality. No such plan shall be adopted unless it provides that at least 50 percent of the construction costs and operating expenses shall be raised by assessments upon the owners or lessees of leasehold interests whose lands receive special benefits therefrom and such plan shall also provide that no more than 25 percent of such construction costs and operating expenses shall be raised from general revenues and no more than 25 percent of such construction costs and operating expenses shall be raised from motor vehicle permit fees as provided in RSA 261:154.||III. The legislative body of a municipality may adopt the proposed plan with or without amendment and proceed with the construction of the public parking facilities. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the municipality from thereafter changing or amending the plan upon a finding by the legislative body that the public interest requires such change or amendment.|||Source. RSA 252-A:3. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981; 146:5, XIII, eff. Jan. 1, 1982; 146:7, V, eff. May 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:117 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:117 - Construction and Operation.

    231:117 Construction and Operation. –||Pursuant to a plan adopted under RSA 231:116 a municipality is empowered, subject to the fiscal and other pertinent requirements of law:||I. To construct or contract for the construction of public parking facilities and shall have the right to acquire or agree to acquire when completed in the name and on behalf of the municipality, public parking facilities being constructed or to be constructed as part of a structure which when completed may include facilities to be used for other than municipal purposes and to participate or agree to participate in the construction of such public parking facilities and to make payments on account of such construction; provided, however, that no such acquisition or agreement to acquire or participation or agreement to participate in such construction shall be permitted except with respect to public parking facilities to be constructed on land or air rights owned by or under lease to the municipality for a period of not less than 40 years from the date on which such facilities are to be constructed or acquired. Subject as aforesaid, municipality is empowered to equip, maintain and operate such facilities;||II. To establish and collect reasonable off-street parking fees; to control, manage and operate such other facilities as are contained in any building or upon any property in or upon which public parking facilities are provided;||III. To adopt rules and regulations governing the operation of public parking facilities;||IV. To lease the operation of public parking facilities to any individual, firm or corporation as the public interest may warrant.|||Source. RSA 252-A:4. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:118 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:118 - Eminent Domain.

    231:118 Eminent Domain. –||If the legislative body of a municipality which has adopted a plan as described shall determine to acquire pursuant to said plan any real property or interest therein, including air rights, necessary for or incidental to the construction, maintenance or operation of public parking facilities, it may proceed to take such real property or interest therein by an exercise of the power of eminent domain in the same manner as provided in this chapter, or it may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by any other applicable statutory provisions for the exercise thereof.|||Source. RSA 252-A:5. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:119 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:119 - Borrowing Power.

    231:119 Borrowing Power. –||Municipalities may finance the construction of public parking facilities by issuing bonds or notes, which bonds or notes shall conform to and be issued in accordance with the provisions of RSA 33 insofar as the same may be applicable. All such bonds or notes shall be issued for public parking facilities pursuant to a plan as provided in this subdivision which provides that an amount equal to at least 50 percent of the principal of such bonds or notes are to be assessed as provided in this subdivision, raised by motor vehicle permit fees as provided in RSA 261:154, or funded from the revenues of the parking system, or any combination thereof, shall at no time be included in the net indebtedness of the municipality for the purpose of ascertaining its borrowing capacity.|||Source. RSA 252-A:6. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981; 146:5, XIV, eff. Jan. 1, 1982; 146:7, V, eff. May 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:120 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:120 - Levying Assessments for Public Parking Facilities.

    231:120 Levying Assessments for Public Parking Facilities. –||I. The assessors of any municipality which has constructed public parking facilities, upon direction from the legislative body and in accordance with the plan adopted, shall assess in the manner provided in paragraph II of this section upon the owners or lessees of leasehold interests, whose lands receive special benefits therefrom, their just share of the cost of construction of the same. All assessments thus made shall be valid and binding upon the owners or lessees of such land. The funds collected from assessments shall be used solely for the construction of public parking facilities or for the redemption of bonds or notes issued by the municipality to obtain funds for the construction of public parking facilities, including funds paid to a housing authority for the construction of public parking facilities.||II. The plan may provide that assessments shall be made:||(a) At one time and assessments so made may be prorated over a period not exceeding the number of years which the plan shall provide to defray the construction costs of the public parking facilities; or||(b) From year to year upon the owners or lessees of leasehold interests at the time such assessment is made, their just proportion of the construction costs which shall become due in that year, including the amount of principal and interest due during the year on any bonds or notes issued to provide funds to pay such construction costs.|||Source. RSA 252-A:7. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:121 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:121 - Basis of Assessment.

    231:121 Basis of Assessment. –||Assessments shall be levied according to a formula which shall be set forth in the plan and which shall be reasonable and proportional to the benefits conferred upon the land or leasehold interest upon which such assessment is laid. Such formula may, but need not necessarily, be based on the number of off-street parking spaces required to be furnished by owners of land under any lawful zoning ordinances or bylaw in effect or which may be adopted by the municipality. If the formula based on a zoning ordinance requirement of off-street parking is used, the plan may provide for credit to those owners or lessees who have erected or constructed private parking structures, but need not provide credit for private parking lots.|||Source. RSA 252-A:8. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:122 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:122 - Assessment for Operating Expenses.

    231:122 Assessment for Operating Expenses. –||In order to defray the costs of the operation and maintenance of such public facilities, the assessors may assess upon the owners and lessees whose land is benefited by such public parking facilities their just share of the annual operating expenses of the same. The assessors may establish a scale of assessments and prescribe the manner in which and the time at which such assessments are to be paid and to change such scale from time to time as may be deemed advisable.|||Source. RSA 252-A:9. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:123 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:123 - Special Account.

    231:123 Special Account. –||The funds received from the collection of assessments provided in RSA 231:122 shall be deposited by the treasurer of the municipality in a special account which in any fiscal year shall be used only to pay the operating expenses of the public parking facilities. Any surplus in such account at the end of the fiscal year may be used for the enlargement or replacement of the public parking facilities but shall not be used for any other purpose than those above specified.|||Source. RSA 252-A:10. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:124 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:124 - Lien for Assessment or Rentals.

    231:124 Lien for Assessment or Rentals. –||All assessments under the provisions of RSA 231:120 and 122 shall create a lien upon the lands on account of which they are made, which shall continue until one year from October 1 following the assessment, and, in case an appeal has been taken and the assessment has been sustained in whole or in part upon such appeal, until the expiration of one year from such decision, whichever is later. Such assessments shall be subject to the interest and such other charges as are applicable to delinquent taxes. In the event that the assessments are payable over a period of years, then the assessment shall be prorated on an annual basis and the lien on said lands shall attach annually.|||Source. RSA 252-A:11. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:125 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:125 - Collection of Assessments.

    231:125 Collection of Assessments. –||Assessments provided in RSA 231:120 and 122 shall be committed to the collector of taxes, with a warrant under the hands and seal of the assessors requiring him to collect them; and he shall have the same rights and remedies and be subject to the same liabilities in relation thereto as in the collection of taxes.|||Source. RSA 252-A:12. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:126 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:126 - Abatement of Assessments.

    231:126 Abatement of Assessments. –||For good cause shown, the assessors may abate any such assessment made by them or by their predecessors.|||Source. RSA 252-A:13. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:127 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:127 - Petition to Court.

    231:127 Petition to Court. –||If the assessors neglect or refuse to abate any such assessments, any person aggrieved may apply by petition to the superior court for relief at any time within 90 days after notice of the assessment, and not afterwards; and the court shall make such order thereon as justice may require.|||Source. RSA 252-A:14. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:128 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:128 - Correction of Assessments.

    231:128 Correction of Assessments. –||If any error is made in any such assessment it may be corrected by the assessors by making an abatement and a new assessment, or either, as the case may require; and the same lien, rights, liabilities and remedies shall attach to the new assessment as to the original.|||Source. RSA 252-A:15. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:129 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:129 - Optional Referendum; Two-Thirds Vote of Legislative Body.

    231:129 Optional Referendum;  Two-Thirds Vote of Legislative Body. –||I. Referendum. If the legislative body of a municipality affected by this subdivision desires to place the question of approving a plan formulated pursuant to this subdivision on a referendum, they may do so at any regular municipal election or at a special election called for the purpose. Should a referendum be held, the following question shall be submitted "Shall the legislative body of the city of ( ) be instructed to approve the plan submitted to it concerning the construction of parking facilities?" The legislative body shall be bound by the outcome of the referendum.||II. Two-Thirds Vote. If the legislative body should decide not to place the question of approving a plan formulated pursuant to this subdivision on a referendum, a 2/3 vote of the entire membership of the legislative body shall be necessary in order to approve such plan.|||Source. RSA 252-A:16. 1969, 493:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:130 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:130 - Power to Install.

    231:130 Power to Install. –||The city council of any city shall have the power to authorize the installation of parking meters on any street or public parking area and the power to establish reasonable charges for parking to be paid through such meters and the powers to make any incidental use of such meters for advertising as may be desirable, provided such use does not interfere with the regulation and control of traffic. Towns likewise may at any legal meeting vote to authorize the installation of parking meters and establish reasonable charges for parking to be paid through such meters and shall have the power to make any incidental use of such meters for advertising as may be desirable, provided such use does not interfere with the regulation and control of traffic.|||Source. 1947, 74:1. 1951, 172:1. RSA 249:1. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:130-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:130-a - Notification of Unpaid Fines.

    231:130-a Notification of Unpaid Fines. –||I. The legislative body of any municipality may adopt the provisions of this section. Each municipality which does so shall:||(a) Maintain a record in the office of the town or city clerk which shall contain a listing of all residents of such municipality who have outstanding parking violations incurred in municipalities which have adopted the provisions of this section.||(b) Notify the town or city clerk of any other municipality which has adopted the provisions of this section of any outstanding parking violations incurred by residents of such municipality within the limits of the notifying municipality.||(c) Notify the town or city clerk of any municipality which has adopted the provisions of this section of the payment of any outstanding parking violations incurred by residents of such municipality within the limits of the notifying municipality. Such action shall be taken within 10 days of the payment of the outstanding violation.||II. The town or city clerk of each municipality which has adopted the provisions of this section shall update and keep readily available the records required by RSA 231:130-a, I(a), in order that such records may be consulted at such time as residents of such municipalities apply for permits for the registration of motor vehicles pursuant to RSA 261:148.||III. The town or city clerk may provide the notifications permitted by subparagraphs I(b) and I(c) to electronic vehicle registration integrators operating under an agreement with the department of safety pursuant to RSA 261:74-s.|||Source. 1987, 253:2, eff. July 17, 1987. 2011, 198:2, eff. June 15, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:131 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:131 - Revenue.

    231:131 Revenue. –||The revenue derived from the use of such meters shall be expended to finance the purchase, maintenance and policing of such meters or to maintain and improve streets and highways, or to acquire, construct, improve, maintain and manage public parking areas and public transportation systems, or for any combination of the foregoing purposes, but for no purpose not expressly authorized in this section.|||Source. 1947, 74:2. RSA 249:2. 1981, 87:1. 1993, 14:1, eff. May 25, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:132 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:132 - Exeter Police Commission.

    231:132 Exeter Police Commission. –||The police commission of the town of Exeter shall have the same powers as are granted to city councils of cities under the provisions of RSA 231:130. The provisions of RSA 231:130 requiring authorization of the installation of parking meters and of the fixing of reasonable charges by vote at a legal town meeting shall not apply to the town of Exeter. The provisions of RSA 231:131 shall apply to the town of Exeter.|||Source. 1947, 74:3. RSA 249:3. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:133 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:133 - Names; Changes; Signs.

    231:133 Names;  Changes;  Signs. –||I. In all towns, cities, and those village districts which maintain public highways, every highway and street under the control of the town, city, or village district shall have a name which shall be given it by the governing body. Said name shall be legibly marked on a suitable signboard or other marker and placed in at least 2 conspicuous places on said street. The governing body may change the name of any such street or highway at any time when in its judgment there is occasion for so doing. The governing body may change the name of a private street or highway when the name change is necessary to conform to the requirements of the enhanced 911 telecommunications system. In towns and village districts the governing body may at its discretion provide for public hearing and submit such names for approval at any meeting of the legislative body, and voters may submit a petitioned warrant article for such a name change under the procedure of RSA 39:3.||II. The naming of any new street or highway shall form a part of the return of the layout of the street or highway, or of the acceptance of any dedicated way. The municipality shall not be bound by any name previously assigned to the street or highway by any private owner, developer, or dedicator. No name for a highway or street shall be selected which is already in use, or which is confusingly similar to any such existing name, or which otherwise might delay the locating of any address in an emergency.||III. Whenever a name is assigned to any new street or highway, or a change is made in the name of any street or highway, the governing body shall make a return of the same to the town, city, or village district clerk, who shall make a record of the new name or name change, and shall forward a copy of such record to the commissioner of transportation.|||Source. 1911, 79:1. PL 93:5. RL 109:5. 1945, 188:1, part 21:1. RSA 251:1. 1981, 87:1. 1991, 53:1. 2005, 113:1, eff. Aug. 14, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:133-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:133-a - Address Numbers on Streets and Highways.

    231:133-a Address Numbers on Streets and Highways. –||The governing body may adopt a system for assigning or altering address numbers of buildings and other property along any public or private way in the municipality. Prior to the actual assignation or alteration of numbers along any way or portion of any way the governing body or planning board shall hold a public hearing for which 10 days' notice has been given by posting in 2 public places in the municipality, by publication in a newspaper in circulation in the municipality, and by first class mail to all owners of property being numbered or renumbered, as indicated by town records. No public hearing shall be required where the property owner or owners voluntarily consent to their property being numbered or renumbered, as indicated by town records. Each municipality addressing numbers on streets and highways pursuant to this section is encouraged to notify the bureau of emergency communications of the changes in accordance with RSA 106-H:10.|||Source. 1991, 53:2. 1997, 92:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:134 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:134 - Corners and Angles.

    231:134 Corners and Angles. –||The corners and angles of all streets shall be marked by a durable marker of stone, metal or other material, of such size and construction that it can be readily found.|||Source. 1911, 79:2. PL 93:6. RL 109:6. 1945, 188:1, part 21:2. RSA 251:2. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 231:135 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XX - Transportation|Title 231 - Cities, Towns and Village District Highways|Section 231:135 - Lost Bounds; Exceptions.

    231:135 Lost Bounds;  Exceptions. –||All streets affected by this subdivision, the bounds of which have been lost, shall be resurveyed so that the provisions of this subdivision may be carried out. Principal streets which have curbings and corners of stone or other similar material, or permanent, durable sidewalks on both sides thereof, shall not be subject to the provisions of this section; but all streets hereafter laid out shall be constructed in accordance with this subdivision.|||Source. 1911, 79:3. PL 93:7. RL 109:7. 1945, 188:1, part 21:3. RSA 251:3. 1981, 87:1. 1991, 53:3, eff. July 5, 1991.|