SB 13 – AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
03/17/05 0565s
2005 SESSION
03/01
SENATE BILL 13
COMMITTEE: Transportation and Interstate Cooperation
This bill eliminates the date requirements for placement of political advertising and changes the requirements for advertising removal. This bill also permits the placement of political advertising in state-owned rights-of-way under certain circumstances.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/17/05 0565s
05-0410
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five
AN ACT relative to placement and removal of political advertising.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Placement and Removal of Political Advertising. Amend RSA 664:17 to read as follows:
664:17 Placement and Removal of Political Advertising. No political advertising shall be placed on or affixed to any public property including highway rights-of-way or private property without the owner's consent. [The earliest date on which political advertising may be placed or affixed shall be the last Friday in July prior to a state primary.] Political advertising may be placed within state-owned rights-of-way as long as the advertising does not obstruct the safe flow of traffic and the advertising is placed with the consent of the owner of the land over which the right-of-way passes. All political advertising shall be removed by the candidate no later than the second Friday following the election unless the election is a primary and the advertising concerns a candidate who is a winner in the primary. No person shall remove, deface, or knowingly destroy any political advertising which is placed on or affixed to any private property except the owner of the property [or a law enforcement officer removing improper advertising]. Political advertising placed contrary to the requirements of this section shall be removed by law enforcement officers or employees of the department of transportation; provided, however, that, before a law enforcement officer removes any advertisement, [he] the officer shall notify the candidate and the owner of the advertisement that it is improper, and allow the candidate or the owner of the advertisement 24 hours to remove the advertisement [himself].
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2006.