CHAPTER 3
HB 331 – FINAL VERSION
2016 SESSION
03/08
HOUSE BILL 331
AN ACT relative to absences among selectmen on election day.
SPONSORS: Rep. D. McGuire, Merr 21; Rep. J. Belanger, Hills 27; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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This bill allows appointment of selectmen pro tem to perform the duties of absent selectmen on election day.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0195
03/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT relative to absences among selectmen on election day.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
3:1 New Section; Selectmen Pro Tem. Amend RSA 658 by inserting after section 21 the following new section:
658:21-a Selectmen Pro Tem. If a selectman is absent from or unable to perform his or her duties for all or any part of the day at any state election, the selectman is authorized to appoint a selectman pro tem to perform his or her duties. If one or more selectmen are absent or unable to perform their duties and have not appointed selectmen pro tem, or if a selectman pro tem is absent or unable to perform his or her duties for all or any part of the day, the moderator is authorized to appoint selectmen pro tem to perform their duties.
3:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: January 26, 2016
Effective: March 26, 2016