CHAPTER 155
SB 305 - FINAL VERSION
2000 SESSION
09/01
SENATE BILL 305
This bill allows a tenant to defeat an eviction for nonpayment no more than 3 times within a 12-month period by paying the arrearages and liquidated damages before the expiration of the notice of a demand for rent or notice to quit.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2709
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to payments to defeat eviction for nonpayment of rent.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
155:1 Payment After Notice. Amend RSA 540:9 to read as follows:
540:9 Payment After Notice. No tenancy shall be terminated for nonpayment of rent, utility charges, or any other lawful charge contained in a lease or an oral or written rental agreement if the tenant, before the expiration of the notice, pays or tenders all arrearages plus $15.00 as liquidated damages; provided, however, that a tenant may not defeat an eviction for nonpayment by use of this section more than 3 times [in one calendar year] within a 12-month period.
155:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2001.
(Approved: May 23, 2000)
(Effective Date: January 1, 2001)