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HOUSE BILL 703-FN

AN ACT permitting free day-use admission to the state park system for disabled veterans.

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill exempts disabled veterans, upon satisfactory proof of a service-connected disability, from the payment of day-use admission fees to the state park system.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

12mar03... 0407h

04/17/03 1223s

03-0073

04/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT permitting free day-use admission to the state park system for disabled veterans.

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

153:1 New Paragraph; Fees for Park System; Free Day-Use Admission for Disabled Veterans. Amend RSA 216-A:3-g by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV. No disabled veteran of this state, upon providing satisfactory proof of a service-connected disability, shall be charged a fee for day-use admission to the state park system. Special number plates issued to disabled veterans pursuant to RSA 261:86 or a letter issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs certifying that the veteran suffers from a service-connected disability shall constitute satisfactory proof under this section. Any fees for the use of enterprise activities as defined in paragraph II shall be charged.

153:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: June 17, 2003)

(Effective Date: August 16, 2003)