HB 1711 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
08/01
HOUSE BILL 1711
AN ACT relative to the use of cooking fires.
SPONSORS: Rep. Newton, Straf 1
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill allows cooking fires without a permit under certain circumstances.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2657
08/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the use of cooking fires.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Cooking Fires; Permit Not Required. Amend RSA 227-L:17, IV to read as follows:
IV. Camp or cooking fires may be kindled only with written permission of the landowner or the landowner’s agent and written permission of the forest fire warden of the town in which the fire is to be kindled and only at suitable times and in suitable places when the fire will not endanger woodlands; except in such towns as have adopted bylaws or regulations equally as stringent as provided in this paragraph. Camp or cooking fires may be built without written permission on public camp or picnic grounds when such areas are open for public use or private camp and picnic places where suitable fireplaces approved by the forest fire warden are provided for such fires. Category one camp or cooking fires may be kindled on private property without a permit or written permission of the forest fire warden or acting agent of the town in which the fire is to be kindled if no fire drought warning has been issued and as long as such fires are kindled in suitable places where they will not endanger woodlands. For purposes of this paragraph, “category one fire” means a small controlled fire, such as a camp or cooking fire, no greater than 2 feet in diameter within a ring of fire resistant material or in a permanent or portable fireplace. As used in this paragraph, a camp or cooking fire shall be a small fire suitable for cooking purposes used in connection with camp, picnic or lunch purposes and does not include the burning of household rubbish, or large amounts of brush or other flammable material. Whoever shall kindle or cause to be kindled any such fire or use an abandoned fire in or near woodlands shall totally extinguish the same before leaving it and, upon failure to do so, such person or persons shall be subject to the same liabilities and penalties as prescribed in this section
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.