HB 1278 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
06/05
HOUSE BILL 1278
AN ACT relative to obstructions on highways.
SPONSORS: Rep. Infantine, Hills 13
This bill exempts certain signs from being deemed obstructions to highways.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2340
06/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to obstructions on highways.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Obstructions and Encroachments; Exemption. Amend RSA 236:15 to read as follows:
236:15 Purprestures; Barbed Wire. If any building, structure or fence is erected or continued upon or over any highway, or if any fence, any part of which within 6 feet from the ground is barbed wire, is erected, maintained or continued adjoining or adjacent to any street or highway within the compact part of any town or within the limits of any village district or city, it shall be deemed a public nuisance. Cornices or other projections upon buildings, extending a reasonable distance into a highway, 12 feet or more above the surface of the highway, shall not be considered obstructions within the meaning of this section. Superstructures from one building to another, extending over a highway, not less than 16 feet above the surface of the highway, approved by the governing body of a municipality charged with the duty of inspection or supervision of buildings, shall not be considered obstructions within the meaning of this section. Signs which conform to all local regulations and project no further into the highway than the U.S. postal mailbox with which they are associated shall not be considered obstructions within the meaning of this section.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.