Bill Text - HB1293 (2022)

(New Title) relative to the design of sewage or waste disposal systems for a person's own domicile, and relative to water well and sewage or waste disposal systems.


Revision: Nov. 19, 2021, 2:31 p.m.

HB 1293  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2667

12/11

 

HOUSE BILL 1293

 

AN ACT relative to the design of sewage or waste disposal systems for a person's own domicile.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. McConkey, Carr. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill repeals the exemption allowing any person who desires to submit plans and specifications for a sewage or waste disposal system for the person's own domicile to do so without a permit.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2667

12/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT relative to the design of sewage or waste disposal systems for a person's own domicile.

 

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

 

1  Subsurface Sewage or Waste Disposal Systems; Permit Requirements; Domicile Exemption.  Amend RSA 485-A:35, II to read as follows:

II. [Any person who desires to submit plans and specifications for a sewage or waste disposal system for the person's own domicile shall not be required to obtain a permit under this paragraph provided that the person attests to eligibility for this exemption in the application for construction approval.] The commissioner shall adopt rules, prepared under the supervision of a professional engineer licensed to practice engineering in the state of New Hampshire, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to requiring a permit holder to be a licensed professional engineer with a civil or sanitary designation in order to submit applications for construction approval in certain complex situations. All fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the subsurface systems fund established in RSA 485-A:30, I-b

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