Bill Text - HB1226 (2018)

Relative to restricting the watering of lawns through the use of private wells.


Revision: Nov. 7, 2017, 2:11 p.m.

HB 1226 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2157

06/03

 

HOUSE BILL HB 1226

 

AN ACT relative to restricting the watering of lawns through the use of private wells.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. True, Rock. 4; Rep. Itse, Rock. 10

 

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill deletes private wells from restrictions on the watering of lawns.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2157

06/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to restricting the watering of lawns through the use of private wells.

 

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

 

1  Restricting the Watering of Lawns.  Amend RSA 41:11-d, I to read as follows:

I.  The local governing body may establish regulations restricting the use of water from [private wells or] public water systems for residential outdoor lawn watering when administrative agencies of the state or federal government have designated the region as being under a declared state or condition of drought.

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