Bill Text - HB1141 (2024)

Relative to requirements for approval to increase load on a sewage disposal system.


Revision: Nov. 28, 2023, 11:46 a.m.

HB 1141  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2809

08/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1141

 

AN ACT relative to requirements for approval to increase load on a sewage disposal system.  

 

SPONSORS: Rep. McConkey, Carr. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill makes provisions for obtaining approval to increase load on a sewage disposal system.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2809

08/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to requirements for approval to increase load on a sewage disposal system.  

 

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

 

1  Sewage Disposal Systems; Approval to Increase Load on a Sewage Disposal System.  Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 485-A:38, I to read as follows:

I. Prior to expanding any structure or [occupying any existing structure on a full-time basis] any change in use, which would increase the load on a sewage disposal system, the owner of such structure shall submit an application for approval of the sewage disposal system to the department. Application for approval shall include one of the following:

2  Approval to Increase Load on a Sewage Disposal System.  Amend RSA 485-A:38, II-a(a)(1)(B)-(C) to read as follows:

(B) The lot is 5 acres or more in size and is served by a sewage disposal system that received construction and operational approval from the department; or

(C)  The lot is served by a sewage disposal system with an off lot effluent disposal area that received construction and operational approval from the department.

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