HB 636 - AS INTRODUCED
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2001 SESSION
08/01
HOUSE BILL 636
AN ACT enabling municipalities to enact "organic zones" that exclude commercial farmers that are not organic certified.
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill enables municipalities to enact "organic zones" that exclude commercial farmers that are not organic certified.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0493
08/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT enabling municipalities to enact "organic zones" that exclude commercial farmers that are not organic certified.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Towns; Bylaws and Ordinances; Organic Zones. Amend RSA 31 by inserting after section 41-e the following new section:
31:41-f Organic Zones. A town may adopt bylaws or ordinances establishing as an organic zone an area within the town that excludes commercial farmers who do not exclusively produce crops that are organically grown, as that term is defined in RSA 426:6, I.
2 New Paragraph; Cities; Bylaws and Ordinances; Organic Zones. Amend RSA 47:17 by inserting after paragraph XVIII the following new paragraph:
XIX. ORGANIC ZONES. To establish an area within the city that excludes commercial farmers who do not exclusively produce crops that are organically grown, as that term is defined in RSA 426:6, I.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.