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HB173: relative to regulations restricting the use of water for outdoor usage.

Citation
2018 HB173
Official source

Bill details

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House status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Senate status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
Senate Public and Municipal Affairs
Hearing
04/12/2017 at 09:15 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Public and Municipal Affairs Environment and natural resources

Official links

HB 173 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

9Feb2017... 0117h

23Mar2017... 0725h

2017 SESSION

17-0303

06/01

HOUSE BILL 173

AN ACT relative to regulations restricting the use of water for outdoor usage.

SPONSORS: Rep. J. Graham, Hills. 7; Rep. Danielson, Hills. 7; Rep. Gould, Hills. 7

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

ANALYSIS

This bill extends the authority of selectmen to restrict outdoor water usage.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

9Feb2017... 0117h

23Mar2017... 0725h 17-0303

06/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

AN ACT relative to regulations restricting the use of water for outdoor usage.

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

1 Selectmen; Restricting the Watering of Lawns. Amend RSA 41:11-d, I to read as follows:

I. The local governing body may establish regulations restricting the use of water from private wells or public water systems for residential and commercial outdoor lawn watering when administrative agencies of the state or federal government have designated the region as being under a declared state or condition of drought. The governing body issuing the ban order may, upon application for exemption by an affected party, grant an exception to the watering ban.

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