HB 696 - AS INTRODUCED

2001 SESSION

01-0717

08/09

HOUSE BILL 696

AN ACT requiring certain waterfront property to have an approved septic system.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hager, Merr 18

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

ANALYSIS

This bill requires all lots within 250 feet of public waters on which one or more residential units are located to have a septic system approved by the department of environmental services prior to the sale or alteration of the lot.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-0717

08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

AN ACT requiring certain waterfront property to have an approved septic system.

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

1 New Subparagraph; Shoreland Protection Act; Minimum Shoreland Protection Standards; Approved Septic System Required. Amend RSA 483-B:9, II by inserting after subparagraph (d) the following new subparagraph:

(e) No lot on which one or more residential units are located shall be transferred or altered without a septic system approved by the department under RSA 485-A.

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