Bill Text: NH HB1408 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to fraudulent documents purporting to create a lien or assert a claim against property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/08/2018 House Journal 3 P. 8 [HB1408 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2018-HB1408-Introduced.html

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HB 1408 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2605

10/04

 

HOUSE BILL 1408

 

AN ACT relative to fraudulent documents purporting to create a lien or assert a claim against property.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Brewster, Merr. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill removes filings with a register of deeds pursuant to an order to the general court from filings presumed fraudulent.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2605

10/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to fraudulent documents purporting to create a lien or assert a claim against property.

 

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

 

1  Register of Deeds; Fraudulent Filings.  Amend RSA 478:42, II to read as follows:

II.  For purposes of this section, a document or instrument that purports to create a lien on, assert a claim against, or assert an interest in, real or personal property, is presumed to be fraudulent if it:

(a)  Is not certified or ordered by a court or a judicial entity expressly created or established under the Constitution or the laws of this state or of the United States or by the general court; or

(b)  Is not a document or instrument provided for by the Constitution or the laws of this state or the United States.

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