Revision: Jan. 25, 2011, midnight
HB 382 – AS INTRODUCED
2011 SESSION
05/10
HOUSE BILL 382
AN ACT allowing municipalities discretion to raise and appropriate funds for cemetery fences.
SPONSORS: Rep. Seaworth, Merr 7; Rep. McDonnell, Merr 7
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill grants municipalities discretion to raise money for fences around cemeteries.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
11-0466
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT allowing municipalities discretion to raise and appropriate funds for cemetery fences.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Maintenance of Cemetery Fences by Municipalities. Amend RSA 289:4 to read as follows:
289:4 Maintenance. Every municipality shall raise and appropriate sufficient funds, by taxation or otherwise, to provide for the suitable care and maintenance of the municipal public cemeteries within its boundaries which are not otherwise provided for, and may raise and appropriate funds to provide and maintain around all such cemeteries a good and sufficient fence, and to supply the fence with necessary gates. Every municipality may raise and appropriate annually a sufficient sum to provide for the suitable care and maintenance of deserted burial grounds and cemeteries which have been declared abandoned in accordance with RSA 289:19-21.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.