HB 1453 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
06/03
HOUSE BILL 1453
AN ACT relative to requiring planning boards to require a deeded right-of-way to a public road as a condition for approval of plans for certain developments.
SPONSORS: Rep. J. Belanger, Hills 5
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill requires planning boards to require developers to provide a deeded right-of-way to certain properties as a condition for approval of development plans.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2297
06/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to requiring planning boards to require a deeded right-of-way to a public road as a condition for approval of plans for certain developments.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Right-of-Way for Landlocked Property. Amend RSA 674:36 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
II-a. The subdivision regulations which the planning board adopts shall require that, if a property owner notifies the planning board that development of abutting property would block his or her access to a public road, the developer of such property shall, as a condition for approval of plans for the development of 2 or more lots, provide to the abutting property owner a 20-foot deeded right-of-way to the public road. The planning board may permit one house to be built along the deeded right-of-way.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.