Revision: Jan. 25, 2013, midnight
HB 472 –AS INTRODUCED
2013 SESSION
05/01
HOUSE BILL 472
AN ACT relative to residential units in rooming houses.
COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs
This bill clarifies that the exclusion of rooming houses from the definition of tenancy cannot be extended by directing the occupant to move from one room to another within the 90-day exemption period.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
13-0825
05/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT relative to residential units in rooming houses.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Actions Against Tenants; Rooming House Exemption from Definition of Tenancy. Amend RSA 540:1-a, IV(a) to read as follows:
(a) Rooms in rooming or boarding houses which are rented to transient guests for fewer than 90 consecutive days. For purposes of this subparagraph, if the owner of the facility directs the occupant to move from one room to another in the same rooming or boarding house, the 90-day period for computing consecutive days of occupancy shall not be broken.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.