Bill Text: NH HB1374 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the membership of local land use boards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-16 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote House Journal 6 [HB1374 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1374-Introduced.html

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HB 1374  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2849

10/11

 

HOUSE BILL 1374

 

AN ACT relative to the membership of local land use boards.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Somssich, Rock. 27

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that all voting members of local land use boards shall be residents of the municipalities in which they serve.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2849

10/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT relative to the membership of local land use boards.

 

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

 

1  Establishment of Local Land Use Boards; Membership.  Amend RSA 673:1, I to read as follows:

I. Any local legislative body may establish a planning board[, the members of which shall be residents of the municipality].

2  New Paragraph; Establishment of Local Land Use Boards; Membership.  Amend RSA 673:1 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:

VI.  Voting members of any local land use board established pursuant to paragraphs I, II, or IV, and of a building code board of appeals established pursuant to paragraph V, including ex officio members, shall be residents of the municipality in which they serve.

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