HB 527 - AS INTRODUCED

2001 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 527

AN ACT relative to limitations on membership of local land use boards.

SPONSORS: Rep. Splaine, Rock 34

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits the membership of more than one paid municipal employee on the planning board, the zoning board of adjustment, the building code board of appeals, the heritage commission, and the historic district commission.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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

AN ACT relative to limitations on membership of local land use boards.

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

1 New Section; Limitation on Local Land Use Board Membership. Amend RSA 673 by inserting after section 5 the following new section:

673:5-a Limitation on Local Land Use Board Membership. An elected or appointed local land use board established under this chapter, including alternate members under RSA 673:6, may include as voting members of the board not more than one member currently employed in a paid position as staff of the municipality where the position is paid from municipal funds.

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