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HB109: relative to residential fire sprinklers.

Bill status: Veto overridden

Citation
2011 HB109
Official source

Bill details

Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.

House status
Veto overridden
Senate status
Veto overridden
Committee
SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
Hearing
04/12/2011 at 09:55 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Public and Municipal Affairs

Official links

CHAPTER 203

HB 109 – FINAL VERSION

16Mar2011… 0267h

05/11/11 1749s

2011 SESSION

11-0785

05/03

HOUSE BILL 109

AN ACT relative to residential fire sprinklers.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hunt, Ches 7

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits local planning boards from requiring the installation of a fire suppression sprinkler system in proposed one- or 2-family residences as a condition of approval for a local permit.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16Mar2011… 0267h

05/11/11 1749s

11-0785

05/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven

AN ACT relative to residential fire sprinklers.

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

203:1 New Paragraph; Local Land Use; Subdivision Regulations. Amend RSA 674:36 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV. The planning board shall not require, or adopt any regulation requiring, the installation of a fire suppression sprinkler system in proposed one- or 2-family residences as a condition of approval for a local permit. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit a duly adopted regulation mandating a cistern, dry hydrant, fire pond, or other credible water source other than a fire suppression sprinkler system.

203:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

Approved: Enacted in accordance with Article 44, Part II, of N.H. Constitution, without signature of the governor, June 22, 2011.

Effective Date: July 1, 2011