Bill Text: NH SB39 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to recounts on questions and relative to photographs of voters not presenting identification.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-06-04 - Sen. Birdsell Moved Nonconcur with House Amendment #1303h, New Title, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; Senate Journal 17 [SB39 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2015-SB39-Introduced.html
SB 39 – AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
03/09
SENATE BILL 39
AN ACT relative to recounts on questions.
SPONSORS: Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Lasky, Dist 13; Rep. Byron, Hills 20
COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs
This bill requires notice to voters requesting a recount on certain local questions and public posting of notice of the time and place of the recount.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0591
03/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT relative to recounts on questions.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Recount; Deadline. Amend RSA 40:4-c, I to read as follows:
I. If any 10 voters of a town shall, before the expiration of 7 days from the date of an annual meeting or special meeting, apply in writing to the town clerk for a recount of the ballots given in at said meeting on any question, affecting said town only, legally appearing on the official Australian or nonpartisan ballot used at said meeting, said clerk shall appoint a time and place for the recount not earlier than 5 days nor later than 10 days after the receipt of said application. The clerk shall notify the first-named voter who applied for a recount on a question and a representative of other known interested parties, at least 3 days prior to the day appointed for the recount of ballots. Notice of the time and place of the recount shall be posted in 2 public places at least 24 hours prior to the recount. The applicants for such recount shall pay to the town clerk, for the use of the town, a fee of $10.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
