Bill Text: NH HB1453 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to requiring planning boards to require a deeded right-of-way to a public road as a condition for approval of plans for certain developments.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-15 - House Lay On The Table (Rep L.Ober): Motion Adopted Voice Vote; House Journal 26, PG.1602 [HB1453 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1453-Introduced.html

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HB 1453 – AS INTRODUCED

2012 SESSION

12-2297

06/03

HOUSE BILL 1453

AN ACT relative to requiring planning boards to require a deeded right-of-way to a public road as a condition for approval of plans for certain developments.

SPONSORS: Rep. J. Belanger, Hills 5

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill requires planning boards to require developers to provide a deeded right-of-way to certain properties as a condition for approval of development plans.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

12-2297

06/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT relative to requiring planning boards to require a deeded right-of-way to a public road as a condition for approval of plans for certain developments.

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

1 New Paragraph; Right-of-Way for Landlocked Property. Amend RSA 674:36 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

II-a. The subdivision regulations which the planning board adopts shall require that, if a property owner notifies the planning board that development of abutting property would block his or her access to a public road, the developer of such property shall, as a condition for approval of plans for the development of 2 or more lots, provide to the abutting property owner a 20-foot deeded right-of-way to the public road. The planning board may permit one house to be built along the deeded right-of-way.

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