CHAPTER 187
HB 502 – FINAL VERSION
2009 SESSION
06/09
HOUSE BILL 502
AN ACT modifying the definition of “dam.”
SPONSORS: Rep. Hinkle, Hills 19
COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development
This bill modifies the definition of “dam” to exclude certain ponds and small dams from the requirement to pay dam registration fees.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0661
06/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT modifying the definition of “dam.”
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
187:1 Dams, Mills, and Flowage; Definitions. Amend RSA 482:2, II(a) to read as follows:
II.(a) “Dam” means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, which impounds or diverts water[,] and which has a height of [4] 6 feet or more, [or a storage capacity of 2 acre-feet or more,] or is located at the outlet of a great pond. A roadway culvert shall not be considered a dam if its invert is at the natural bed of the water course, it has adequate discharge capacity, and it does not impound water under normal circumstances. Artificial barriers which create surface impoundments for liquid industrial or liquid commercial wastes, septage, or sewage, regardless of height or storage capacity, shall be considered dams.
187:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 13, 2009
Effective Date: September 11, 2009