HB 1304 - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2330

06/09

HOUSE BILL 1304

AN ACT relative to town maintenance of a road designated as a highway to summer cottages.

SPONSORS: Rep. Sterling, Ches. 14; Rep. Cheney, Straf. 17

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires a town to maintain a highway to summer cottages if an abutter is a full-time resident.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2330

06/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to town maintenance of a road designated as a highway to summer cottages.

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

1  Repair of Highways by Towns; Keeping Open Highways to Summer Cottages.  Amend RSA 231:81, III to read as follows:

III.  The designation of a highway to summer cottages shall not be deemed altered by any change of use of land served by said highway, in the absence of action pursuant to paragraph II,  except for full-time residency by an abutter, in which case the town shall maintain such road.

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