Bill Text: NH SB322 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to access to a water utility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-21 - Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 03/21/2018; Senate Journal 9 [SB322 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2018-SB322-Introduced.html
SB 322 - AS INTRODUCED
2018 SESSION
18-2989
10/08
SENATE BILL 322
AN ACT relative to access to a water utility.
SPONSORS: Sen. French, Dist 7; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Innis, Dist 24
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires that a property owner shall have access to service from a water utility if the owner pays the rates for such service.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
18-2989
10/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to access to a water utility.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Water Companies; Service to Customers. Amend RSA 362:4 by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:
VIII. No water utility, whether a municipal corporation or water utility regulated by the commission, shall decline or refuse to provide adequate service to a property owner that desires to connect to water service and to pay the incremental rates for service that apply to customers within the municipal boundaries or franchise territory of the water utility.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
