CHAPTER 66
SB 336- FINAL VERSION
2000 SESSION
SENATE BILL 336
AN ACT relative to the issuance of fire permits.
SPONSORS: Sen. Trombly, Dist 7; Rep. K. Marshall, Merr 4; Rep. Dyer, Hills 8; Rep. Chase, Merr 7
This bill eliminates the provision that persons may not kindle or maintain fires on snowless ground without a permit from the town's forest fire warden only if such fire is in or near woodlands or where fire may be communicated to such land.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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 the issuance of fire permits.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
66:1 Permits; Burning Fires on Ground not Covered With Snow. Amend RSA 227-L:17, II to read as follows:
II. No person, firm, or corporation shall kindle or cause to be kindled any fire or shall burn or cause to be burned any material, and no city or town shall kindle or maintain a fire on a public dump, [in or near woodlands or where fire may be communicated to such land,] except when the ground is covered with snow, without first obtaining a written permit from the forest fire warden of the town where the burning is to be done unless it is in the presence of the warden or the warden's agent.
66:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2001.
(Approved: April 17, 2000)
(Effective Date: January 1, 2001)