HB 626 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
08/09
HOUSE BILL 626
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill allows the legislative body of a municipality operating with a budget committee to override the 10 percent limitation on a bond request from a petitioned article not recommended by the budget committee, without a majority vote in favor of the bond request by the local governing body.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0130
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to an override of the limitation on appropriations by a local legislative body.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Legislative Body Override of Limitation of Appropriations; Petitioned Articles. Amend RSA 32:18-a, I to read as follows:
I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any municipality electing this subdivision, or any district wholly within a town electing this subdivision, if a bond request is not recommended in its entirety by the budget committee, the governing body of such municipality, after a majority vote by the governing body of the municipality in favor of the bond request at a duly posted meeting, or after receiving a duly signed petition from voters pursuant to RSA 39:3, shall place the bond request on the warrant.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.