CHAPTER 290
HB 654-FN - FINAL VERSION
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2003 SESSION
04/09
HOUSE BILL 654-FN
AN ACT relative to criminal liability for the destruction or disconnection of a smoke detector by a tenant in a rental dwelling.
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill makes a tenant or a guest of such tenant criminally liable for destroying, disconnecting, or rendering inoperable a smoke detector in a rental dwelling and provides that the tenant or guest of such tenant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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03-0820
04/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three
AN ACT relative to criminal liability for the destruction or disconnection of a smoke detector by a tenant in a rental dwelling.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
290:1 New Paragraph; Criminal Mischief; Destruction or Disconnection of a Smoke Detector. Amend RSA 634:2 by inserting after paragraph VIII the following new paragraph:
IX. Any person who is found guilty of criminal mischief under this section because such person is a tenant, or a guest of such tenant, in a rental dwelling who has destroyed, disconnected, or otherwise rendered inoperable any smoke detector in the rental dwelling, or who has attempted the same in a rental dwelling, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
290:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2004.
(Approved: July 18, 2003)
(Effective Date: January 1, 2004)