HB 204 – AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
06/09
HOUSE BILL 204
AN ACT relative to incompatibility of town offices.
This bill adds cemetery trustee to those offices that may not be held simultaneously.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0987
06/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT relative to incompatibility of town offices.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Incompatibility of Offices. Amend RSA 669:7, I to read as follows:
I. No person shall at the same time hold any 2 of the following offices: selectman, treasurer, moderator, trustee of trust funds, collector of taxes, auditor, cemetery trustee, and highway agent. No person shall at the same time hold any 2 of the following offices: town treasurer, moderator, trustee of trust funds, cemetery trustee, selectman and head of the town’s police department on full-time duty. No person shall at the same time hold the offices of town treasurer and town clerk. No full-time town employee shall at the same time hold the office of selectman. No official handling funds of a town shall at the same time hold the office of auditor. No selectman, moderator, town clerk or inspector of elections shall at the same time serve as a supervisor of the checklist. No selectman, town manager, school board member except a cooperative school board member, full-time town, village district, school district except a cooperative school district, or other associated agency employee or village district commissioner shall at the same time serve as a budget committee member-at-large under RSA 32.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.