HB1304 (2016) Detail

Relative to town maintenance of a road designated as a highway to summer cottages.


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HB 1304 - AS INTRODUCED

 

2016 SESSION

\t16-2330

\t06/09

 

HOUSE BILL\t1304

 

AN ACT\trelative to town maintenance of a road designated as a highway to summer cottages.

 

SPONSORS:\tRep. Sterling, Ches. 14; Rep. Cheney, Straf. 17

 

COMMITTEE:\tMunicipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

\tThis bill requires a town to maintain a highway to summer cottages if an abutter is a full-time resident.

 

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Explanation:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.

\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

\t16-2330

\t06/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT\trelative to town maintenance of a road designated as a highway to summer cottages.

 

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

 

\t1  Repair of Highways by Towns; Keeping Open Highways to Summer Cottages.  Amend RSA 231:81, III to read as follows:

\t\tIII.  The designation of a highway to summer cottages shall not be deemed altered by any change of use of land served by said highway, in the absence of action pursuant to paragraph II,  except for full-time residency by an abutter, in which case the town shall maintain such road.

\t2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.