Bill Text - HB48 (2011)

Relative to incompatibility of town offices.


Revision: Dec. 30, 2010, midnight

HB 48 – AS INTRODUCED

2011 SESSION

11-0180

06/05

HOUSE BILL 48

AN ACT relative to incompatibility of town offices.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hoelzel, Rock 2

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill deletes “trustee of the trust fund” from those town offices that may not be held simultaneously.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

11-0180

06/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven

AN ACT relative to incompatibility of town offices.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Incompatibility of Town Offices. Amend RSA 669:7, I to read as follows:

I. No person shall at the same time hold any 2 of the following offices: selectman, treasurer, moderator, trustee of trust funds, collector of taxes, auditor and highway agent except that any person may at the same time hold the office of moderator and trustee of the trust funds. No person shall at the same time hold any 2 of the following offices: town treasurer, moderator, trustee of trust funds,]selectman and head of the town's police department on full-time duty except that any person may at the same time hold the office of moderator and trustee of the trust funds. No person shall at the same time hold the offices of town treasurer and town clerk. No full-time town employee shall at the same time hold the office of selectman. No official handling funds of a town shall at the same time hold the office of auditor. No selectman, moderator, town clerk or inspector of elections shall at the same time serve as a supervisor of the checklist. No selectman, town manager, school board member except a cooperative school board member, full-time town, village district, school district except a cooperative school district, or other associated agency employee or village district commissioner shall at the same time serve as a budget committee member-at-large under RSA 32.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.