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NH Rev Stat § 32:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:13 - Contracts; Expenditures Prior to Meeting.

    32:13 Contracts;  Expenditures Prior to Meeting. –||I. This subdivision shall not be construed to imply that a local legislative body, through its actions on appropriations, has the authority to nullify a prior contractual obligation of the municipality, when such obligation is not contingent upon such appropriations and is otherwise valid under the New Hampshire law of municipal contracts, or to nullify any other binding state or federal legal obligation which supersedes the authority of the local legislative body.||II. This subdivision shall not be construed to affect the authority of the local governing body, in towns with a March annual meeting and a January through December fiscal year, to make expenditures between January 1 and the date a budget is adopted which are reasonable in light of prior year's appropriations and expenditures for the same purposes during the same time period.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 1997, 318:2, eff. Aug. 22, 1997. 2001, 71:3, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:14 - Adoption.

    32:14 Adoption. –||I. This subdivision may be adopted:||(a) By any town with a town meeting form of government, including those with a budgetary town meeting, official ballot town meeting, or representative town meeting pursuant to RSA 49-D:3, II, II-a, and III, or by a town with an official ballot town council form of government under which part or all of the annual town operating budget is voted upon by official ballot;||(b) By a cooperative school district, in accordance with RSA 195:12-a;||(c) By any village district, or district created under RSA 53-A or 53-B, which adopts its budget at an annual meeting of its voters, and which is located in more than one municipality; or||(d) By any school district or village district which adopts its budget at an annual meeting of its voters, but which lies wholly within a municipality that lacks authority to adopt this subdivision.||II. This subdivision may be adopted by a majority vote of those present and voting, under an article in the warrant for the annual meeting, inserted by the governing body or by petition.||III. Voting shall be by ballot, but the question shall not be placed on the official ballot used to elect officers. Polls shall remain open and ballots shall be accepted by the moderator for a period of not less than one hour following the completion of discussion on the question.||IV. If the vote is favorable, the town or district shall at that same meeting vote, by ballot or other means, determine the number of members-at-large, as provided in RSA 32:15, I, and whether they shall be elected or appointed by the moderator.||V. A town or district which has adopted this subdivision may rescind its adoption in the manner described in paragraphs II and III.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 2008, 243:3, eff. Aug. 23, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:16 - Duties and Authority of the Budget Committee.

    32:16 Duties and Authority of the Budget Committee. –||In any town which has adopted the provisions of this subdivision, the budget committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities:||I. To prepare the budget as provided in RSA 32:5, and if authorized under RSA 40:14-b, a default budget under RSA 40:13, IX(b) for submission to each annual or special meeting of the voters of the municipality, and, if the municipality is a town, the budgets of any school district or village district wholly within the town, unless the warrant for such meeting does not propose any appropriation.||II. To confer with the governing body or bodies and with other officers, department heads and other officials, relative to estimated costs, revenues anticipated, and services performed to the extent deemed necessary by the budget committee. It shall be the duty of all such officers and other persons to furnish such pertinent information to the budget committee.||III. To conduct the public hearings required under RSA 32:5, I.||IV. To forward copies of the final budgets to the clerk or clerks, as required by RSA 32:5, VI, and, in addition, to deliver 2 copies of such budgets and recommendations upon special warrant articles to the respective governing body or bodies at least 20 days before the date set for the annual or special meeting, to be posted with the warrant.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 2004, 219:4, eff. Aug. 10, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:17 - Duties of Governing Body and Other Officials.

    32:17 Duties of Governing Body and Other Officials. –||I. The governing bodies of municipalities adopting this subdivision, or of districts which are wholly within towns adopting this subdivision, shall review the statements submitted to them under RSA 32:4 and shall submit their own recommendations to the budget committee, together with all information necessary for the preparation of the annual budget, including each purpose for which an appropriation is sought and each item of anticipated revenue, including all sub-accounts used by the governing body, at such time as the budget committee shall fix. In the case of a special meeting calling for the appropriation of money, the governing body shall submit such information not later than 5 days prior to the required public hearing. Department heads and other officers shall submit their departmental statements of estimated expenditures and receipts to the budget committee, if requested.||II. The information provided to the budget committee as required by this chapter shall be in a format acceptable to the budget committee. This requirement may be satisfied by the municipality by providing the assistance of a knowledgeable staff person who will attend the budget committee meetings with access to and the ability to provide the required information.||III. The governing body shall incorporate any sub-accounts created by the budget committee into the software used to budget or track financial data.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 2021, 134:5, eff. Sept. 21, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:18 - Limitation of Appropriations.

    32:18 Limitation of Appropriations. –||In any municipality electing this subdivision, or any district wholly within a town electing this subdivision, the total amount appropriated at any annual meeting shall not exceed by more than 10 percent the total amount recommended by the budget committee for such meeting. In official ballot referendum municipalities, the recommendation of the budget committee made for the first session of the meeting shall be used for determining the 10 percent limitation. These totals shall include appropriations contained in special warrant articles. Money may be raised and appropriated for purposes included in the budget or in the warrant and not recommended by the budget committee, but not to an amount which would increase the total appropriations by more than the 10 percent allowed under this paragraph. The 10 percent increase allowable under this paragraph shall be computed on the total amount recommended by the budget committee less that part of any appropriation item which constitutes fixed charges. Fixed charges shall include appropriations for:||I. Bonds, and all interest and principal payments thereon.||II. Notes, except tax anticipation notes, and all interest and principal payments thereon.||III. Mandatory assessments imposed on towns by the county, state or federal governments.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 2004, 68:2, eff. July 6, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:18-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:18-a - Legislative Body Override of Limitation of Appropriations.

    32:18-a Legislative Body Override of Limitation of Appropriations. –||I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any municipality electing this subdivision, or any district wholly within a town electing this subdivision, if a bond request is not recommended in its entirety by the budget committee, the governing body of such municipality, after a majority vote by the governing body of the municipality in favor of the bond request at a duly posted meeting, shall place the bond request on the warrant.||II. The legislative body of any municipality described in RSA 32:18-a, I, may approve a bond request despite the 10 percent limitation provided in RSA 32:18 in the following manner:||(a) The governing body shall place the following statement at the beginning of the warrant article for such bond request: "Passage of this article shall override the 10 percent limitation imposed on this appropriation due to the non-recommendation of the budget committee." Immediately below the bond request on the warrant shall be displayed (1) the recommendation of the governing body and (2) the recommendation of the budget committee, as included in the budget forms for the annual meeting pursuant to RSA 32:5, IV.||(b) If those voting "Yes" on the bond request satisfy the requirements of RSA 33:8, the bond request is thereby approved.||III. If the bond request is approved pursuant to RSA 32:18-a, the governing body of such municipality shall forward a copy of the minutes of the duly posted meeting described in RSA 32:18-a, I to the commissioner of the department of revenue administration.|||Source. 2000, 193:1, eff. July 29, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:19 - Collective Bargaining Agreements.

    32:19 Collective Bargaining Agreements. –||Whenever items or portions of items in a proposed budget constitute appropriations, the purpose of which is to implement cost items of a collective bargaining agreement negotiated pursuant to RSA 273-A, either previously ratified or concurrently being submitted for ratification by the legislative body, or the purpose of which is to implement the recommendations of a neutral party in the case of a dispute, as provided in RSA 273-A:12, such items shall be submitted to the budget committee and considered in its budget preparation. Such appropriations shall be submitted to the legislative body and shall include a statement of the governing body's recommendation and a separate statement of the budget committee's recommendation. If such appropriations were not recommended by the budget committee, then such appropriations shall be exempt from the 10 percent limitation set forth in RSA 32:18. The failure of the budget committee to recommend any portion of such appropriations shall not be deemed an unfair labor practice under RSA 273-A.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 2001, 71:4, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:19-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:19-a - Presentation of Negotiated Cost Items at the Annual Meeting.

    32:19-a Presentation of Negotiated Cost Items at the Annual Meeting. –||Cost items, as defined under RSA 273-A:1, IV, shall be presented to the annual town or district meeting in accordance with the procedures established under RSA 32:5. For submission to the legislative body of the annual meeting, cost items must be finalized by the date prescribed in RSA 39:3 for towns and by the date prescribed in RSA 197:6 for school districts. Cost items not negotiated in time to meet these dates may be submitted to the legislative body pursuant to the provisions of RSA 31:5 for towns and RSA 197:3 for school districts.|||Source. 1996, 214:6, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:20 - At Special Meetings.

    32:20 At Special Meetings. –|| So long as the provisions of this subdivision remain in force in any municipality, no appropriation shall be made at any special meeting for any purpose not approved by the budget committee, unless it is within the allowable 10 percent increase if RSA 32:18 has been adopted, except as provided in RSA 32:19 or 32:18-a.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 2000, 193:3, eff. July 29, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:21 - Exceptions.

    32:21 Exceptions. –||In cases where the town or a district wholly within the town has been ordered by the department of environmental services, under the provisions of RSA 147, 485 or 485-A, to install, enlarge or improve waterworks or to install, enlarge or improve sewerage, sewage, or waste treatment facilities, the 10 percent limitation of RSA 32:18 and 20, shall not apply.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 1996, 228:108, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:22 - Review of Expenditures.

    32:22 Review of Expenditures. –||Upon request by the budget committee, the governing body of the town or district, or the town manager or other administrative official, shall forthwith submit to the budget committee a comparative statement of all appropriations and all expenditures, including all sub-accounts used by the governing body, by them made in such additional detail as the budget committee may require. The budget committee shall meet periodically to review such statements. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to mean that the budget committee, or any member of the committee, shall have any authority to dispute or challenge the discretion of other officials over current town or district expenditures, except as provided in RSA 32:23.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 2021, 134:6, eff. Sept. 21, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:23 - Initiation of Removal Proceedings.

    32:23 Initiation of Removal Proceedings. –||Upon receipt of the reports provided for by RSA 32:22, the budget committee shall examine the same promptly, and if it shall be found that the governing body or town manager have failed to comply with the provisions of this chapter concerning expenditures, a majority of the committee, at the expense of the municipality, may petition the superior court for removal as provided in RSA 32:12.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:24 - Other Committees.

    32:24 Other Committees. –||Nothing in this subdivision shall prevent a municipality or school administrative unit from establishing advisory budget or finance committees, with such duties and powers as the municipality or school administrative unit sees fit, but no such committee's recommendations shall have any limiting effect on appropriations, as set forth in RSA 32:18, unless all the procedures in this subdivision are followed.|||Source. 1993, 332:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993. 1996, 98:1, eff. July 1, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:25 - Biennial Budget; Authorization.

    32:25 Biennial Budget;  Authorization. –||Any city, town, unincorporated town, unorganized place, school district, village district, or county may budget receipts and expenditures, raise and appropriate revenues, and assess taxes on a biennial budget basis consisting of one distinct 24-month fiscal year or 2 distinct 12-month fiscal years. The governing body may allow for the carry over of funds from the first fiscal year of the biennium to the second.|||Source. 1998, 54:1, eff. April 1, 1998. 2006, 148:1, eff. July 21, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 32:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 32 - Municipal Budget Law|Section 32:26 - Procedure for Adoption.

    32:26 Procedure for Adoption. –||Any city, town, unincorporated town, unorganized place, school district, village district, or county may adopt the provisions of RSA 32:25 relative to a biennial budget in the normal manner used in the political subdivision for acts of the local legislative body.|||Source. 1998, 54:1, eff. April 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:1 - Definitions.

    33:1 Definitions. –||This chapter may be referred to as the "Municipal Finance Act." The following terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings set forth below, except when the context in which they are used requires a different meaning:||I. "Municipality" or "municipal corporation," town, city, school district or village district;||II. "Governing board," the selectmen of a town, the commissioners or comparable officers of a village district, and the school board of a school district;||III. "Net indebtedness," all outstanding and authorized indebtedness, heretofore or hereafter incurred by a municipality, exclusive of the following: unmatured tax anticipation notes issued according to law; or notes issued in anticipation of grants of federal or state aid or both; debts incurred for supplying the inhabitants with water or for the construction, enlargement, improvement or maintenance of water works; debts incurred to finance the cost of sewerage systems or enlargements or improvements thereof, or sewage or waste disposal works when the cost thereof is to be financed by sewer rents or sewer assessment; debt incurred pursuant to RSA 31:10; debts incurred to finance energy production projects, the reconstruction or enlargement of a municipally owned utility, or the manufacture or furnishing of light, heat, power or water for the public, or the generation, transmission or sale of energy ultimately sold to the public; debts incurred to finance small scale power facilities under RSA 374-D; debts incurred outside the statutory debt limit of the municipality under any general law or special act heretofore or hereafter enacted (unless otherwise provided in such legislation); and sinking funds and cash applicable solely to the payment of the principal of debts incurred within the debt limit;||IV. "Location," property, parcel, or address where broadband could be purchased by a customer.|||Source. 1895, 43:1. PL 59:1. RL 72:1. 1953, 258:1, par. 1, eff. as of Jan. 1, 1954. RSA 33:1. 1955, 329:3. 1957, 142:3. 1961, 120:1. 1967, 38:1. 1981, 161:1, eff. Aug. 1, 1981; 545:1, eff. Aug. 29, 1981. 2018, 118:1, eff. July 29, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:2 - Repayment of Loans.

    33:2 Repayment of Loans. –||Municipalities and counties shall not issue any bonds or notes payable on demand. They shall provide for the payment of all loans issued under authority of this chapter except notes issued under authority of RSA 33:7, in annual payments which shall be so arranged that the amount of the annual payment of principal and interest in any year on account of any loan shall not be less than the amount of principal and interest payable in any subsequent year by more than 2 percent of the principal of the entire loan. The total amount of such payments shall be sufficient to extinguish the entire loan on account of which they are made at maturity. The first payment of principal on any loan shall be made not later than 2 years and the last payment not later than 30 years after the date thereof, provided, however, that no loan issued to pay for public work or improvement shall exceed the expected useful life of said public work or improvement as determined by the governing board or the city councils in the case of cities, or the county commissioners in the case of counties. Each authorized issue of notes or bonds shall be a separate loan. The amount of each payment of principal and interest on all loans shall, without vote of the municipality or county, be annually assessed and collected. Sinking funds and debt retirement funds for the payment of debt shall not hereafter be established.|||Source. 1917, 129:2, 3. PL 59:3, 4. RL 72:3. 1947, 5:1. 1949, 120:1. 1953, 258:1, par. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1954.|
NH Rev Stat § 33:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title III - Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places|Title 33 - Municipal Finance Act|Section 33:2-a - Call Bonds.

    33:2-a Call Bonds. –||The issuance of bonds or notes hereunder which are subject to call, at the election of the municipality, before the date fixed for final payment thereof, is authorized. The bonds or notes, in such cases, shall contain provisions setting forth the method or methods by which the option to call may be exercised, the procedure for payment in the event of call, and the legal effect of the making of the call. If such call bonds or notes are payable to bearer, they may be called, at the election of the municipality, on any date when interest thereon shall become payable, written notice of such election first having been given to the bank, banks or other institutions, if any, at which they are stated on their face to be payable, and published for 4 consecutive weeks at least once a week in one or more newspapers printed and published in Boston, Massachusetts, and in one newspaper printed and published in the state of New Hampshire and circulating in said municipality, the last such publications being at least 14 days before the date specified for payment; and thereupon, after the date so specified, interest thereon shall cease. If such call bonds or notes are payable to the registered holder, they may be called, at the election of the municipality, on any date when interest thereon shall become payable, written notice of such election first having been given to the registered holder by registered mail, postage prepaid, to such holder at his last address, as registered in the books of the municipal treasurer; and thereupon, after the date so specified, interest thereon shall cease.|||Source. 1957, 103:1, eff. July 1, 1957.|