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RSA 162-U:1 · [RSA 162-U:1 repealed by 2025, 141:331, effective July 1, 2045.] 162-U:1 Definitions
[RSA 162-U:1 repealed by 2025, 141:331, effective July 1, 2045.] 162-U:1 Definitions. – In this chapter:
Copy link"Place-based economy" means a tailored economic development response that uses a region's unique characteristics to create and sustain growth. The goal is to improve the quality of life and economic vitality by building on its limited strengths and assets.
Copy link"Distressed" means an area that has a high rate of poverty, unemployment, or outmigration and is the most severely and persistently economically distressed and underdeveloped. Source. 2025, 141:330, eff. Aug. 26, 2025.
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Source. 2025, 141:330, eff. Aug. 26, 2025.
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- 2025, 141:330, eff. Aug. 26, 2025
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epartment Commissioners. The general court hereby declares that Coos County is a distressed place-based economy. All agencies shall consider this declaration in decisions affecting Coos county. 141:331 Repeal. RSA 162-U, relative to the designation of Coos County as a distressed place-based economy, is repealed. 141:332 Effective Date. I. Section 331 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2045. II. Section 330 of this act shal