HB1479 (2014) Detail

Relative to membership in municipal organizations.


HB 1479-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

14-2297

06/01

HOUSE BILL 1479-LOCAL

AN ACT relative to membership in municipal organizations.

SPONSORS: Rep. Ulery, Hills 37; Rep. Comerford, Rock 33

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill permits a municipality to pay dues to municipal organizations.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14-2297

06/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to membership in municipal organizations.

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

1 Town Officers’ Associations; Municipal Payment of Dues. Amend RSA 31:8 to read as follows:

31:8 Town Officers’ Associations. For the encouragement of equitable taxation and the education of public officials in tax problems and other matters pertaining to the proper and efficient discharge of the duties of their respective offices, each town and city [shall] may pay annually to the New?Hampshire Association of Assessing Officials, the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks’ Association and the New Hampshire Tax Collectors’ Association, such amounts as shall be due for annual membership for its officials therein, providing that the amount paid for any one annual membership hereunder shall not exceed $20 per officer, provided that the appropriation of such dues has been approved by a vote of the annual town meeting within the last 2 years. Members of these several organizations in addition to the annual membership fee, [shall] may be entitled to receive their actual expenses incurred in attending the annual convention of their respective associations, the same to be audited by the selectmen of towns and the finance committee of cities and paid out of city and town funds, provided that an appropriation for such expenses has been approved by a vote of the annual town meeting within the last 2 years.

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