HB 78 - AS INTRODUCED
2003 SESSION
06/10
HOUSE BILL 78
This bill limits a landowner's liability for personal injury or property damage when a person is passing over the land on a sidewalk.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03-0176
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three
AN ACT relative to a landowner's liability for personal injury or property damage on sidewalks.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Landowner Liability Limited; Sidewalks. Amend RSA 508:14 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
III. An owner, occupant, or lessee of land who without charge permits any person to use the land for the purpose of passing over it upon a sidewalk shall not be liable for personal injury or property damage in the absence of intentionally caused injury or damage.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2004.