HB 1221 – AS INTRODUCED
2008 SESSION
08/04
HOUSE BILL 1221
AN ACT relative to the rights and powers of cemetery trustees.
SPONSORS: Rep. L. Brown, Straf 3
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill gives cemetery trustees control over the shrubs, trees, and greenery which grow in and about the cemetery.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08-2322
08/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT relative to the rights and powers of cemetery trustees.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Powers and Duties; Trees. Amend RSA 289:7 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
III. Cemetery trustees shall have the power to control and preserve all shrubs, trees, and other greenery within the cemetery, within the right of way of the cemetery, and which extend over the border of the cemetery. No one shall remove or otherwise damage shrubs, trees, and other greenery which is on cemetery property, within the right of way of the cemetery, or which extends over the border of the cemetery without the written permission of a majority of the board of cemetery trustees or municipal equivalent.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.