CHAPTER 243
HB 1226 – FINAL VERSION
05Mar2008… 0460h
05/01/08 1473s
05/01/08 1625s
2008 SESSION
08/03
HOUSE BILL 1226
AN ACT allowing the town of Bristol to establish a capital reserve fund for use of the water works and sewer department, and relative to applying municipal budget law to municipalities adopting, revising, or amending a charter by official ballot town meeting or town council.
SPONSORS: Rep. B. Williams, Graf 8; Rep. Lovett, Graf 8; Rep. P. Preston, Graf 8; Sen. Reynolds, Dist 2
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill allows the town of Bristol to establish a capital reserve fund for use of the water works and sewer department.
This bill applies municipal budget law to municipalities adopting, revising, or amending a charter by official ballot town meeting or town council.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
05Mar2008… 0460h
05/01/08 1473s
05/01/08 1625s
08-2334
08/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT allowing the town of Bristol to establish a capital reserve fund for use of the water works and sewer department, and relative to applying municipal budget law to municipalities adopting, revising, or amending a charter by official ballot town meeting or town council.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
243:1 Authorization of Combination of Funds. The water works and sewer department of the town of Bristol may establish a joint capital reserve fund for the purposes as provided in RSA 35:1. Such reserve fund shall be established only from surplus from water or sewer rentals and no part thereof shall be made from appropriations by the town of Bristol.
243:2 Municipal Charters; Severability. Amend RSA 49-B:13, III to read as follows:
III. RSA 32 shall not apply to a municipality adopting, revising, or amending a charter under RSA 49-C or RSA 49-D unless that municipality adopts a budgetary town meeting, official ballot town meeting, an official ballot town council, or representative town meeting pursuant to RSA 49-D:3, I-a, II, II-a and III.
243:3 Budget Committee; Adoption. Amend RSA 32:14, I(a) to read as follows:
(a) By any town with a town meeting form of government, including those with a budgetary town meeting, official ballot town meeting, or representative town meeting pursuant to RSA 49-D:3, II, II-a, and III, or by a town with an official ballot town council form of government under which part or all of the annual town operating budget is voted upon by official ballot;
243:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 24, 2008
Effective Date: August 23, 2008