HB 317 – AS INTRODUCED
2007 SESSION
06/01
HOUSE BILL 317
AN ACT requiring improvements to state highways by developers to meet the same standards as federally or state funded improvements.
SPONSORS: Rep. Shattuck, Hills 1
COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways
This bill requires improvements to state highways by developers to meet the same design and permitting standards as improvements that are financed federally or by the state.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0781
06/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT requiring improvements to state highways by developers to meet the same standards as federally or state funded improvements.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Off-Site Improvements to State Highway Funded by Developer. Amend RSA 230:13, I to read as follows:
I.(a) The governor, with advice of the council, may determine upon hearing whether there is occasion for the laying out or alteration of a class I or class II highway or a highway within the state included in the national system of interstate highways as proposed by the commissioner of transportation, and, if so, shall appoint a commission of 3 persons who may purchase land or other property that is reasonably necessary for the construction, reconstruction, or alteration and who shall lay out the remainder of such highway or alteration. Any such land or property which cannot be acquired by agreement with the owner or owners thereof may be acquired in accordance with RSA 498-A and all issues that are appealed relating to necessity, public use, and net public benefit shall be determined in accordance with RSA 230:19. Property rights acquired under the provisions of this section shall be in fee simple or in the form of easements, including property acquired by condemnation proceedings.
(b) Any improvements to a state highway funded by a developer shall meet the same permitting and design standards as state and federally-funded improvements and shall be administered by the department of transportation.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.