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

The city councils shall, once in every year at least, publish, for the use and information of the inhabitants, a particular account of the receipts and expenditures of the city and a schedule of its debts and property.

The city councils shall have power to construct drains and common sewers through highways, streets or private lands, paying the owners such damages as they shall sustain thereby, the damages to be assessed by the mayor and aldermen in the same manner and with the same right of ap…

I. Power to Appropriate. The governing body of any city may, subject to the provisions of paragraphs II and III, raise and appropriate such sums of money as public convenience or necessity may require, to aid or to contribute to a mass transportation system. II. Optional Referend…

The city councils may appropriate money to support or aid group homes. For the purposes of this section, a group home is an institution or home which is supervised and licensed pursuant to the provisions of RSA 161:2, IV, and provides residential and counseling services to person…

Any city may establish computer-based geographic information systems and control the distribution of that information, subject to RSA 91-A. The city may finance the completion and perpetuation of the system through establishing a special revenue fund under RSA 47:1-b and 47:1-c o…

All the powers vested in the board of health of towns shall be vested in the city councils, and shall be carried into execution in such manner, by such officers and with such powers, as the city councils shall determine.

The city councils may appropriate money to provide, wholly or in part, group plan life, accident, medical, surgical and hospitalization insurance benefits, or any combinations of such benefits, for all regular employees of the city and their dependents. Any provision in a city ch…

The executive powers of the city and the administration of police, except where vested in the mayor, shall be exercised by the mayor and aldermen; and they shall have the powers, and do and perform all the duties, which the selectmen of towns have, and are authorized or required …

They shall appoint a city marshal, and one or more assistant marshals if they think it necessary, a collector of taxes, constables, police officers and watchmen, and may remove them from office for sufficient cause; and may require the marshal and constables, before entering on t…

It shall be the duty of the mayor and aldermen to fix and determine a suitable and appropriate uniform for the marshal, assistant marshal and police officers by them appointed, and to designate such badges and other marks of their official character as they may deem expedient.

The mayor and aldermen shall issue their warrant for a general meeting of the voters, for any constitutional or legal purpose, whenever requested to do so, in writing, by 100 legal voters.

The city councils shall have power to make all such salutary and needful bylaws as towns and the police officers of towns and engineers or firewards by law have power to make and to annex penalties, not exceeding $1,000, for the breach thereof; and may make, establish, publish, a…

I. In this section, "forestry activities" means developing, caring for, or cultivating forests; timber harvesting; silviculture; and customary management and supporting activities. II. Before enacting any ordinance, bylaw, rule, or other regulatory provision that is likely to aff…

In addition to any other enforcement procedure authorized by law, any city code, ordinance, bylaw, or regulation may be enforced pursuant to the procedures established in RSA 31:39-c, RSA 31:39-d, or both, subject to the provisions and limitations thereof.

All proposed city bylaws and ordinances and all adopted city bylaws and ordinances shall be kept on file at the office of the city clerk and at such other public place as the city council may designate. Notice of proposal and of adoption of a bylaw or an ordinance shall be made b…

All fines and forfeitures for the violation of any bylaw or ordinance of a city shall be recovered by complaint before the municipal court of said city, and shall enure to such uses as the city councils may direct.

The city councils shall have the power to provide for the appointment or election of all necessary officers for the good government of the city not otherwise provided for, and to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation; but no person who is a member of the city councils…

It shall be sufficient in any such complaint to set out the offense plainly and substantially; but the bylaw or ordinance upon which the complaint is founded need not be recited or set out.

Any party so prosecuted shall have the right to appeal to the superior court in the same manner and on the same terms and conditions as are provided by law for appeals from the judgments of municipal or district courts in other criminal prosecutions.

The board of mayor and aldermen, or the corresponding governmental body of any city or the local legislative body of any town is hereby empowered and authorized to establish minimum construction standards for manufactured housing used as dwellings in the city or town, by adopting…

The authority granted under RSA 47:22-a to establish minimum construction standards for manufactured housing, as defined by RSA 674:31, shall not extend to imposing requirements that manufactured housing which is located in parks be placed on other than the structural carriers de…

Any such ordinance may be amended or supplemented in like manner, provided, that 3 copies of such ordinance, as amended or supplemented, shall be filed, as provided in RSA 47:22, in the office of the building inspector and 3 copies filed in the office of the city clerk for use an…

The provisions of this subdivision shall not be construed to permit the adoption by reference of penalty clauses which may be part of any nationally recognized code, rules and regulations. The said city councils shall have power to annex penalties deemed necessary, not exceeding …

At least 30 days prior to the adoption of any such ordinance or any amendment or supplement thereto, not less than 3 copies of such code or regulation referred to shall have been filed in the office of the building inspector, and 3 copies in the office of the city clerk for the u…

No such ordinance or amendments or supplements thereto, as hereinbefore set forth, shall become effective or be altered until after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. Notice of the time and place …

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, an oil refinery shall not be located in any city without a vote of approval by one of the procedures specified in paragraphs I, II or III. I. A site plan for an oil refinery may be approved by a 2/3 vote of the entire governing bod…

The board of mayor and aldermen, or the corresponding governmental body of any city, is hereby empowered and authorized, in the passing and adopting of ordinances, to adopt the model code, promulgated by the state fire marshal pursuant to RSA 153:14, IV, relative to the installat…

The city councils shall, at the times fixed by ordinance for that purpose, meet in convention, and by joint ballot elect a city treasurer and all other subordinate officers who are not chosen in the ward meetings, appointed by the mayor and aldermen or otherwise appointed by law;…

At a like convention, held by request of either branch of the city councils, they shall fill all vacancies that shall exist in the boards of assessors, overseers of the public welfare or school board, until an election shall be had, and all vacancies in any office to which they h…

The city councils shall have the care and superintendence of the city buildings, all city property and all public squares and streets; and the power to sell or let what may be legally so disposed of, and to purchase property, real or personal, for the use of the city, whenever th…

I. The city councils shall take proper care that no money be paid from the city treasury unless previously granted and appropriated, and shall secure a just and prompt accountability from all persons entrusted with the receipt, custody or disbursement of the money or funds of the…

Any city may, by vote of its councils, establish the office of auditor for the city, and may prescribe the auditor's duties, and fix the compensation and term of service.

The auditor shall be appointed by the mayor, with the approval of the board of aldermen, or, where there is no board of aldermen, of the city council.

The city councils of any city shall have the power to pass an ordinance which shall provide that the chief, or any deputy chief, of the fire department of such city shall be appointed for an indefinite period of time, that no person shall be appointed to such office except one te…