Bill Text - SB91 (2025)

Allowing one-time special appraisals of residences located in commercial zones.


Revision: June 11, 2025, 11:31 a.m.

CHAPTER 87

SB 91-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-1127

07/05

 

SENATE BILL 91-FN

 

AN ACT allowing one-time special appraisals of residences located in commercial zones.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 2; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows owners of a residence in an industrial or commercial zone to file one application for a special appraisal of the residence based on its current use as a residence.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-1127

07/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT allowing one-time special appraisals of residences located in commercial zones.

 

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

 

87:1  Taxation; Appraisal of Taxable Property; Appraisal of Residences.  Amend RSA 75:11, I to read as follows:

I. The owner of record of any residence located in an industrial or commercial zone may apply on or before April 15 of any [each] year to the selectmen or assessors, on a form prepared by the selectmen or assessors, for a special appraisal of the residence [for that year], based upon its value at its current use as a residence. After the initial application, reapplication shall not be required [may be made on a form which shall be sent to the applicant by the assessing officials with the inventory blank]. If any owner shall satisfy the assessing officials that the owner was prevented by accident, mistake or misfortune from filing said application on or before April 15, the officials may receive the application at a later date and classify the residence under this section; but no such application shall be received after the local tax rate has been approved by the commissioner of revenue administration for that year.

87:2  Repeal.  RSA 75:11, VII, relative to reapplication for a current use assessment, is repealed.

87:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect April 1, 2026.

 

Approved: June 10, 2025

Effective Date: April 01, 2026