Bill Text: NH SB476 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to parking restrictions at public access to public waters.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-12 - Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 03/12/2020; Senate Journal 7 [SB476 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-SB476-Introduced.html
SB 476 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2769
11/06
SENATE BILL 476
AN ACT relative to parking restrictions at public access to public waters.
SPONSORS: Sen. Dietsch, Dist 9
COMMITTEE: Election Law and Municipal Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill modifies the authority of towns and cities to establish parking restrictions within a certain distance to public access areas.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2769
11/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to parking restrictions at public access to public waters.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places; Powers of City Councils; Bylaws and Ordinances. Amend RSA 47:17, XVIII to read as follows:
XVIII. Automobile Parking Controls. The city councils shall have the authority to adopt such bylaws and ordinances as are necessary to control the parking, standing and stopping of automobiles within the city limits, including ordinances allowing for the towing or immobilization of automobiles for nonpayment of parking fines and creating parking fines recoverable by means of civil process. No such parking control shall restrict public parking to town or city residents within 80 feet of any public access as defined in RSA 270:20-a.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
