Bill Text - HB1289 (2018)

(New Title) relative to trespassing domestic fowl.


Revision: May 29, 2018, 1:26 p.m.

CHAPTER 60

HB 1289 - FINAL VERSION

 

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2018 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 1289

 

AN ACT relative to trespassing domestic fowl.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. M. Moffett, Merr. 9

 

COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill establishes a penalty for trespassing domestic fowl and requires enforcement by local law enforcement officials.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to trespassing domestic fowl.

 

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

 

60:1  Trespassing Stock; Addition of Trespassing Domestic Fowl.  Amend RSA 635:3 to read as follows:

635:3  Trespassing Stock or Domestic Fowl.  If any person having the charge or custody of any sheep, goats, cattle, horses, [or] swine, or domestic fowl shall knowingly, recklessly, or negligently suffer or permit the same to enter upon, pass over, or remain upon any improved or enclosed land of another without written permission of the owner, occupant, or his or her agent, and thereby injures [his] the owner's crops[,] or property, [he] the person shall be guilty of a violation.  Complaints shall be made to law enforcement officials or local animal control officers who shall enforce the provisions of this section.

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

 

Approved: May 25, 2018

Effective Date: July 24, 2018