HB 45 – AS INTRODUCED
2005 SESSION
08/10
HOUSE BILL 45
AN ACT relative to combining water department funds and sewer department funds.
SPONSORS: Rep. B. Williams, Graf 8; Rep. Maybeck, Graf 8; Rep. Dorsett, Graf 8; Sen. Johnson, Dist 2
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill allows a municipality to combine water department funds and sewer department funds.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
05-0050
08/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five
AN ACT relative to combining water department funds and sewer department funds.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Water and Sewer Departments; Combined Capital Reserve Accounts. Amend RSA 35:7 to read as follows:
35:7 Water Departments. Any water works or sewer department, or a combination of water and sewer funds as provided in RSA 38:29, IV and RSA 149-I:10, IV, of a city or town, organized by general law or special act of the legislature and financed principally by water or sewer rentals, may, by unanimous vote of the body charged with the administration thereof, whether the local governing body, water board, or a board of water or sewer commissioners, establish a capital reserve fund for said department for the purposes as provided in RSA 35:1. Such reserve shall be established only from surplus from water or sewer rentals and no part thereof shall be made from appropriations by said city or town.
2 Combined Water and Sewer Funds. Amend RSA 38:29, I to read as follows:
I. Except as provided in paragraph IV, the funds received from the collection of water rates shall be kept as a separate and distinct fund to be known as the water fund. Such fund shall be allowed to accumulate from year to year, shall not be commingled with town or city tax revenues, and shall not be deemed part of the municipality's general fund accumulated surplus. Such fund may be expended only for the purposes specified in RSA 38:28, or for the previous expansion or replacement of water lines or water systems.
3 New Paragraph; Combined Water and Sewer Funds. Amend RSA 38:29 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
IV. At the option of the local governing body, the board of water commissioners, and the board of sewer commissioners, as applicable, funds collected from water rates may be combined with funds collected from sewer rates under RSA 149-I:10.
4 Combined Water and Sewer Funds. Amend RSA 149-I:10, I to read as follows:
I. Except as provided in paragraph IV, the funds received from the collection of sewer rentals shall be kept as a separate and distinct fund to be known as the sewer fund. Such fund shall be allowed to accumulate from year to year, shall not be commingled with town or city tax revenues, and shall not be deemed part of the municipality's general fund accumulated surplus. Such fund may be expended only for the purposes specified in RSA 149-I:8, or for the previous expansion or replacement of sewage lines or sewage treatment facilities.
5 New Paragraph; Combined Water and Sewer Funds. Amend RSA 149-I10 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
IV. At the option of the local governing body, the board of water commissioners, and the board of sewer commissioners, as applicable, funds collected from sewer rates may be combined with funds collected from water rates under RSA 38:29.
6 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.