HB 1195 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
08/09
HOUSE BILL 1195
COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development
This bill changes the definition of rivers with regard to the comprehensive shoreland protection act.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-2080
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to the comprehensive shoreland protection act.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Definition. Amend RSA 483-B:4, XVI (c) to read as follows:
(c) Rivers, meaning all year-round flowing waters of fourth order or higher, as shown on the now current version of the U.S. Geological Survey 71/2' topographic maps or as determined by an on-site inspection of any given stream to ascertain its status. Stream order shall be determined using the Strahler method, whereby the highest year-round streams in a watershed are first order streams, their juncture yields second order streams, the juncture of second order streams yields third order streams, et seq. A listing of the streams of fourth order and higher shall be prepared and maintained by the office of state planning and delivered to the commissioner 30 days after the effective date of this act.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.