Bill Text - SB614 (2020)

Exempting the department of transportation from the notice requirement for lessors of real or personal property owned by the state or its political subdivisions.


Revision: Jan. 6, 2020, 3:39 p.m.

SB 614  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2996

06/01

 

SENATE BILL 614

 

AN ACT exempting the department of transportation from the notice requirement for lessors of real or personal property owned by the state or its political subdivisions.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts the department of transportation, through January 1, 2021, from the requirement that notice must be given to a municipality when state-owned land is leased to others.

 

This bill is a request of the department of transportation.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2996

06/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT exempting the department of transportation from the notice requirement for lessors of real or personal property owned by the state or its political subdivisions.

 

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

 

1  Real Estate and Personal Property Tax Exemption.  Amend RSA 72:23, I(b)(1)(B) to read as follows:

(B)  Annually, on or before April 15, the lessors of all leases and other agreements, the terms of which provide for the use or occupation by others of real or personal property owned by the state or a county, city, town, school district, or village district, including those properties identified under subparagraph (d), shall provide written notice and a copy of the lease or other agreement to the assessing officials of the municipality in which the property is located.  The department of transportation is exempt from the notice requirement through January 1, 2021, after which the department shall provide municipalities with notice of all leases and other such agreements entered into after January 1, 2021.

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