Bill Text: NH HB382 | 2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Relative to the maintenance of municipal public cemeteries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-12 - House Signed by the Governor 03/12/2012; Effective 05/11/2012; Chapter 0004 [HB382 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB382-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 4

HB 382 – FINAL VERSION

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2012 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 382

AN ACT relative to the maintenance of municipal public cemeteries.

SPONSORS: Rep. Seaworth, Merr 7; Rep. McDonnell, Merr 7

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill removes the requirement that municipalities maintain sufficient fencing and gates surrounding municipal public cemeteries.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15Mar2011… 0514h

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT relative to the maintenance of municipal public cemeteries.

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

4:1 Maintenance of Cemetery Fences by Municipalities. Amend RSA 289:4 to read as follows:

289:4 Maintenance. Every municipality shall raise and appropriate sufficient funds, by taxation or otherwise, to provide for the suitable care and maintenance of the municipal public cemeteries within its boundaries which are not otherwise provided for by an alternative funding source [, and to provide and maintain around all such cemeteries a good and sufficient fence, and to supply the fence with necessary gates]. Every municipality may raise and appropriate annually a sufficient sum to provide for the suitable care and maintenance of deserted burial grounds and cemeteries which have been declared abandoned in accordance with RSA 289:19-21.

4:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: March 12, 201

Effective Date: May 11, 2012