Revision: May 15, 2019, 1:57 p.m.
HB 443 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
20Mar2019... 0397h
05/15/2019 1889s
2019 SESSION
19-0734
06/08
HOUSE BILL 443
AN ACT relative to municipal watering restrictions.
SPONSORS: Rep. McBeath, Rock. 26; Rep. Van Houten, Hills. 45
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill excludes certain types of turf from municipal restrictions on outdoor lawn watering.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20Mar2019... 0397h
05/15/2019 1889s 19-0734
06/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen
AN ACT relative to municipal watering restrictions.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Selectmen; 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. The grass playing turf of a recreational field, the grass playing surfaces of a golf course, and grass agricultural fields, including fields used for the production of sod, may be excluded from any restrictions pursuant to this paragraph. Nothing in this paragraph shall limit any public water system's authority to require a reduction in demand or implementation of conservation measures in accordance with rules of the department of environmental services.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.