Title III, Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places

The governing board of a city, town or village district may adopt, by ordinance or regulation, provisions for the licensure and regulation of itinerant vendors, hawkers, peddlers, traders, farmers, merchants, or other persons who sell, offer to sell, or take orders for merchandis…

I. Any municipality may require persons who go from door to door, place to place within a town, or town to town, who sell, offer to sell, or take orders for merchandise or offer to perform personal services for household repairs or improvements, to submit to a state records check…

A town may, by vote of the legislative body, voluntarily contribute funds, services, property, or other resources toward any county or state project, program, or plan. Any contribution involving the expenditure of funds under this section shall be subject to the requirements of R…

The governing body, or chief administrative officer or designee of any political subdivision, who knows of or suspects a cybersecurity incident within the political subdivision's information systems, or within any vendor acting as an agent of the political subdivision, shall imme…

Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, no member of the governing board of any municipal corporation or political subdivision, no member of any other board, commission, or bureau of any municipal corporation or political subdivision created or existing pursuant to…

A city, town, county, village district or precinct, school district, chartered public school, school administrative unit, or any other municipal corporation or political subdivision may by a vote of the governing body indemnify and save harmless for loss or damage occurring after…

All cities, towns, counties, village districts and precincts, school districts, chartered public schools, school administrative units, and other municipal corporations and political subdivisions shall indemnify and save harmless any person employed by it and any member or officer…

A political entity permitted or required to indemnify its officers and employees under RSA 31:105 and 106 may purchase a comprehensive general liability insurance policy necessary to protect itself and its officers and employees against such liability. The insurance policy may be…

No attachment or trustee process shall be available or allowed where immunity has been granted pursuant to RSA 31:104 or where indemnification has been voted pursuant to RSA 31:105 or where indemnification is required pursuant to RSA 31:106.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, an oil refinery shall not be located in any town without a vote of approval of a majority of the voters present and voting on the question at an annual meeting or a special town meeting called for such purpose. All votes on the que…

The power may be exercised in cities by a 2/3 vote of the city councils. It may be exercised by the selectmen of towns and the governing boards of districts without vote of the voters in town or district meeting. Provided, that no sum in excess of $100,000 shall be so borrowed wi…

The legislative body of any city or town may vote to establish by purchase, lease, grant, tax collector's deed, transfer, bequest or other devise, a city or town forest.

The main purpose of such city or town forest shall be to encourage the proper management of timber, firewood and other natural resources through planting, timber stand improvement, thinning, harvesting, reforestation, and other multiple use programs consistent with the forest man…

I. A city or town forest established under RSA 31:110 shall be managed by a forestry committee consisting of not less than 3 nor more than 5 members. In cities the members shall be appointed by the mayor and aldermen and in towns they shall be appointed by the selectmen. When a f…

For the purposes of establishing or maintaining a city or town forest, a city or town may raise and appropriate such funds as it deems necessary. The proceeds from said forest shall be placed in a special forest maintenance fund and shall be allowed to accumulate from year to yea…

For the purpose of determining eligibility for federal funds which are or may be available under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383), any city or town may perform any eligible activity as defined by that act or by any regulation duly adopted thereunder…

No town shall impose requirements that manufactured housing, as defined by RSA 674:31, which is located in parks be placed on other than the structural carriers designed for that purpose.

Towns may make bylaws providing for the adoption of the model code, promulgated by the state fire marshal pursuant to RSA 153:14, IV, relative to the installation and operation of solid fuel heating appliances and, further, to provide for the inspection of such appliances. A reas…

Loans so effected shall not exceed the amount of the funds so lost or unavailable; and the proceeds thereof shall be held in lieu of such funds and applied to the same uses. The loans shall not be included in determining the authorized borrowing capacity of the municipality.

The declared purpose of this subdivision is to enable municipalities to establish central business service districts in high density areas of predominantly commercial uses to provide property services at a more intensive level than is provided in the balance of the municipality; …

For the purposes of this subdivision, the legislative body of any city or town shall have the authority to establish one or more central business service districts.

I. (a) The services which may be provided by a municipality in a central business service district under the provisions of this subdivision may include property-related services performed in the public right-of-way, including sidewalk snow removal, landscaping, street and sidewal…

Each municipality shall adopt a budget for capital expenditures or services to be performed in a central business service district as part of its budget process. At the end of the fiscal year, a full accounting of expenditures shall be made. Balances or deficits of the central bu…

Upon local adoption of the budget, the municipality may levy assessments in an amount not greater than the net appropriation to a central business service district account. The assessments shall be made against the owners of commercial and industrial properties and such other typ…

The provisions of RSA 507-B relative to bodily injury actions against governmental units shall apply to all municipal activities performed in connection with a central business service district.

Municipal legislation, after 5 years following its enactment, shall, without further curative act of the legislature, be entitled to a conclusive presumption of compliance with statutory enactment procedure. Any claim that municipal legislation is invalid for failure to follow st…

In this subdivision: I. "Enactment procedure" includes any required notice, copying, filing, service, reporting, publication, posting, public hearing, voting procedure, vote count, ballots, or the form or timing of any of these. II. "Municipal legislation" means any charter, ordi…

A certified copy of the municipal legislation, or a certified code, codification or compilation which includes the legislation, shall constitute prima facie evidence that the legislation was enacted on or prior to the date of certification. Certification shall be by the town or c…

This subdivision shall not affect any claim of invalidity which is founded upon the substance of the municipal legislation, or upon the lack of authority of the municipality or its officials, under the federal and state constitutions and laws, to enact such legislation.

The notes originally issued for such loans shall be payable not later than the tenth day of December following the next annual tax assessment after their issue; but by vote of the city councils, or at a legal town or district meeting, such notes may be renewed from time to time i…

The forms of questions prescribed by municipal enabling statutes shall be deemed advisory only, and municipal legislation shall not be declared invalid for failure to conform to the precise wording of any question prescribed for submission to voters, so long as the action taken i…

Any question which an enabling statute authorizes to be placed in the warrant for a town meeting by petition may also be inserted by the selectmen, even in the absence of any petition. So long as the subject matter of an action taken at a town meeting was distinctly stated in the…

A municipality may offer storage space for paper records or other storage media formats, such as electronic records, and associated records management services to any agency of the United States government, political subdivisions of the state, and qualified non-profit organizatio…

A municipality shall employ the highest standards in record management practices. However, a municipality's liability for loss, damage, delay, improper delivery, or non-delivery shall be limited to the actual value of the storage container and the value of the paper contained wit…

The establishment of water and/or sewer utility districts will enable municipalities to provide property services at a more intensive level than is provided in the balance of the municipality; provide funds for capital expenditures towards constructing and maintaining those utili…

In this subdivision, "water and/or sewer utility" means an entity established for the acquisition, operation, and management of water and sewer infrastructure.

I. For the purposes of this subdivision, the legislative body of any city or town shall have the authority by a majority vote to establish one or more water and/or sewer utility districts and designate a water and/or sewer utility commission to be the governing body to manage the…

For the convenient management of any water and/or sewer utility district, a municipality shall vest the construction, management, control, and direction of such district in a board of commissioners to consist of 3, 5, or 7 citizens of each municipality, the commissioners to have …

I. The board of commissioners may be elected by the legal voters of the municipality at any meeting or election at which the provisions of this subdivision are accepted, or at any special meeting or election thereafter called for that purpose, and their successors shall be electe…

I. The services provided by a water and/or sewer utility district under this subdivision may include property-related services, including but not limited to providing public drinking water and water for domestic uses; water for fire suppression; and wastewater management; related…

Whenever such municipality recovers any portion of the funds, the net sum so recovered shall be applied to the payment of any balance remaining unpaid on such notes or bonds.

Each municipality shall adopt a budgetary appropriation for capital and operating expenditures including replacement and upgrades, or services to be performed in a water and/or sewer utility district as part of its budget process. The expense of constructing and maintaining the f…

Upon adoption of the budgetary appropriation, the municipality may levy assessments or fees, or both, in an amount not greater than the net appropriation to a water and/or sewer utility district fund. The assessments and fees shall be made against the owners or users, or both, of…

The provisions of RSA 507-B relative to bodily injury actions against governmental units shall apply to all municipal activities performed in connection with a water and/or sewer utility district.

The commission shall have the authority to issue bonds under RSA 33 or RSA 33-B, as approved by the governing body of the municipality or, if intermunicipal, in accordance with the terms of the intermunicipal agreement.