Bill Text - HB443 (2019)

Relative to municipal watering restrictions.


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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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