CHAPTER 110
HB 1334-LOCAL - FINAL VERSION
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08/09
HOUSE BILL 1334-LOCAL
COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways
This bill provides that postings of maximum weight limits for class IV, V, or VI highways established by municipalities should be in accordance with currently acceptable practices and technology. This bill also requires the governing body of a municipality that establishes maximum weight limits for class IV, V, or VI highways, which restrict a commercial or industrial company operated or located in the municipality, to hold a hearing if requested by the impacted business, and if such hearing is not held within certain time limits, the maximum weight limits shall be suspended for the remainder of the year or until such hearing is held.
This bill is a request of the study committee established under 1999, 36.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to posting municipal roads.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
110:1 Maximum Weight Limits on Class IV, V, and VI Roads. Amend RSA 231:191, I to read as follows:
I. The governing body of a municipality may establish maximum weight limits, seasonal or otherwise, which are more restrictive than limits set forth in RSA 266:17-26, for any class IV, V, or VI highway or portion of such highway, when the highway agent determines that such highway requires postings to prevent unreasonable damage or extraordinary municipal maintenance expense. Such posting shall be in accordance with currently acceptable practices and technology.
110:2 New Paragraph; Maximum Weight Limits Which Restrict Commercial or Industrial Companies; Hearing. Amend RSA 231:191 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:
VII. The governing body of a municipality which establishes maximum weight limits more restrictive than the limits set forth in RSA 266:17-26, for any class IV, V, or VI highway or portion of such highway, seasonal or otherwise, which restricts a commercial or industrial company operated or located in that municipality, shall hold a hearing if requested by the impacted business. The hearing shall be held within 15 working days of receipt of a certified letter by the local governing body from the impacted business requesting a hearing, otherwise enforcement of the maximum weight limits established by that municipality shall be suspended for the remainder of the year or until such hearing is held.
110:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
(Approved: May 8, 2000)
(Effective Date: July 7, 2000)