HB 541 – AS INTRODUCED
2007 SESSION
03/01
HOUSE BILL 541
AN ACT relative to polling places for wards.
SPONSORS: Rep. Hilliard, Straf 2; Rep. Splaine, Rock 16
This bill eliminates the requirement that a polling place for a ward be located in the ward.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0768
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to polling places for wards.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 City Charters; Conduct of Elections. Amend RSA 49-C:4 to read as follows:
49-C:4 Conduct of Elections. The election officers in each ward whose duty it is to conduct regular biennial elections shall conduct a municipal election at city expense in the same manner as a regular biennial election on a date permitted for city elections in RSA 44:11 and specified in the charter to elect all elected officials provided for in the charter. The supervisors of the checklist in each ward shall fix the polling place [in] for each ward and give notice of the polling place when the checklist for the municipal election is first posted.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.