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RSA 677:20 · Fee Shifting and Posting of Bond
677:20 Fee Shifting and Posting of Bond. –
Copy linkWhenever an appeal to the superior court is initiated under this chapter, the court may in its discretion require the person or persons appealing to file a bond with sufficient surety for such a sum as shall be fixed by the court to indemnify and save harmless the person or persons in whose favor the decision was rendered from damages and costs which he or she may sustain in case the decision being appealed is affirmed.
Copy linkIn any appeal initiated under this chapter the court may, subject to the provisions of this paragraph or any other provision of law, award attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party. Costs and attorney's fees shall not be allowed against a local land use board unless it shall appear to the court that the board, in making the decision from which the appeal arose, acted with gross negligence, in bad faith, or with malice. Costs and attorney's fees shall not be allowed against the party appealing from the decision of a local land use board unless it shall appear to the court that said party acted in bad faith or with malice in appealing to court. Source. 2022, 272:77, eff. Aug. 23, 2022.
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Source. 2022, 272:77, eff. Aug. 23, 2022.
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- 2022, 272:77, eff. Aug. 23, 2022
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