HB 1329 – AS INTRODUCED
2008 SESSION
06/04
HOUSE BILL 1329
AN ACT relative to the authority of elected municipal authorities in dealing with municipal utilities.
SPONSORS: Rep. Wendelboe, Belk 1
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill expands the duties and powers of the board of commissioners of a municipality in dealing with municipal utilities.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08-2543
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT relative to the authority of elected municipal authorities in dealing with municipal utilities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Powers of Commissioners. Amend RSA 38:18 to read as follows:
38:18 Commissioners. For the more convenient management of any such electric, gas, or water works system, any such municipality may vest the construction, management, control, and direction of the same in a board of commissioners to consist of 3 or more citizens of such municipality, the commissioners to have such powers and duties as the municipality may prescribe. If such powers and duties are not limited by the municipality, the commissioners shall perform all the duties and possess all the powers in the municipality with respect to the construction, management, control, and direction of the electric, gas, and water works system otherwise conferred upon the governing body of the municipality. Their term of office shall be for 3 years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The first board of commissioners may be chosen for terms of one, 2, and 3 years, respectively, by the legal voters of the municipality at any legal meeting or election at which the provisions of this chapter are accepted, or at any special meeting or election thereafter called for that purpose, and their successors shall be elected at each annual meeting or election thereafter in the manner or form as the municipality may determine.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.