Revision: March 8, 2016, midnight
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2016 SESSION
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SENATE BILL\t347
AN ACT\tenabling the state and municipalities to adopt laws and ordinances regulating attire on state and municipal property.
SPONSORS:\tSen. Stiles, Dist 24; Sen. Little, Dist 8; Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Rep. Hurt, Belk. 2
COMMITTEE:\tPublic And Municipal Affairs
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ANALYSIS
\tThis bill permits the state and municipalities to adopt rules and ordinances regulating attire on state and municipal property.
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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\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT\tenabling the state and municipalities to adopt laws and ordinances regulating attire on state and municipal property.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
\t1 New Subparagraph; Powers and Duties of Towns; Power to Make Bylaws. Amend RSA 31:39, I by inserting after subparagraph (p) the following new subparagraph:
\t\t\t(q) Regulating the times and places of bathing, sunbathing, and swimming in municipal parks, beaches, pools, or other municipal properties, and the clothing to be worn by users.
\t2 Powers of City Councils; Bylaws and Ordinances; Power to Make Bylaws. Amend RSA 47:17, XIII to read as follows:
\t\tXIII. Vagrants, Obscene Conduct. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars, strolling musicians, and common prostitutes, and all kinds of immoral and obscene conduct, and to regulate the times and places of bathing, sunbathing, and swimming in the canals, rivers and other waters of the city, or other city properties, and the clothing to be worn by [bathers and swimmers] users.
\t3 New Subparagraph; Department of Resources and Economic Development; Rulemaking. Amend RSA 12-A:2-c, II by inserting after subparagraph (f) the following new subparagraph:
\t\t\t(g) The times and places of bathing, sunbathing, and swimming in state waters or in state parks, forests, or other state recreational areas, and the clothing to be worn by users.
\t4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.