Bill Text - HB307 (2017)

Relative to parking at state liquor stores.


Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 10:31 a.m.

HB 307 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0346

03/09

 

HOUSE BILL 307

 

AN ACT relative to parking at state liquor stores.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Ohm, Hills. 36; Rep. Twombly, Hills. 34; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 28; Rep. Christensen, Hills. 21; Rep. Azarian, Rock. 8; Rep. R. Ober, Hills. 37

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits the liquor commission from marking or reserving public parking places at state liquor stores except for places reserved for persons who are disabled.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0346

03/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to parking at state liquor stores.

 

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

 

1  State Liquor Stores.  Amend RSA 177:1 to read as follows:

177:1  State Stores.  The commission may lease, purchase, and equip, in the name of the state, such stores, state-owned warehouses, supplies as defined in RSA 21-I:11, II(a), and other materials, goods, and services as are necessary for, incidental to, or related to the operation of the liquor commission retail and wholesale operations.  The commission may lease, in the name of the state, space in state stores for the purpose of installing automated teller machines.  No newly established state store shall be operated within 200 feet of any public or private school, church, chapel, or parish house.  The liquor commission shall not mark or reserve public parking places at state liquor stores except for places reserved for persons who are disabled.

2  Implementation.  The liquor commission shall comply with the parking lot requirements of RSA 177:1, as amended by section 1 of this act, within 30 days of the effective date of this section.  Compliance shall include the removal of all markings for reserved public parking places, including those for low emission vehicles, other than markings for places reserved for disabled persons.

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