Title XX, Transportation

The certification by the commissioner of transportation shall be recorded by the town or owner of land to whom certification is made with the register of deeds for the county in which such land is situate.

Any person who sustains damages because of such discontinuance of property acquired by the state in 1945 or earlier may petition for the assessment of damages to the superior court in the county in which such discontinued portion of highway is located within 60 days from the post…

The commissioner of transportation shall pay from funds of his department the amount of final judgment and costs.

After the highway planning corridor return has been filed, no person shall subdivide any land, begin any development, or alter or expand any structure or use of land within such corridor, without first obtaining a corridor permit from the layout authority or its designated agent.…

The following listed class V access roads leading from the below described class I and class II highways to a recreational road in a state park or recreational area, shall henceforth be classified as class II highways: I. The road running from New Hampshire route 107A for approxi…

The class IV and V Salmon Falls Road running from the intersection of New Hampshire route 125 in Rochester approximately 6.99 miles to the New Hampshire-Maine state line in Somersworth shall be henceforth classified as a class II highway. Unimproved portions of said highway shall…

As used in this subdivision: I. "Bicycle" means every vehicle propelled solely by human power upon which any person may ride, having 2 tandem wheels, except scooters and similar devices. II. "Bicycle route" means any lane, way, path or trail designated by appropriate signs, that …

In addition to the powers and duties of the commissioner of transportation under this title, the commissioner: I. May expend the amounts necessary for the establishment, operation and maintenance of bicycle routes and lanes and may expend amounts necessary for bicycle paths or tr…

For the purposes of this subdivision the department of natural and cultural resources shall assist the commissioner of transportation in matters relating to recreational use and the availability of government funds which may be used for purposes of this subdivision. The departmen…

The department of transportation shall design, locate and erect suitable signs to mark the bicycle paths or trails established pursuant to the provisions of RSA 12-B:4 along class I, II, III and IV highways so designated as bicycle paths and trails.

I. Whenever any class I or class II highway or highway bridge in the state shall be insufficient, any person may give notice of such insufficiency to the department of transportation. The notice shall set forth in general terms the location of such highway or highway bridge, and …

I. Upon receipt of such notice of insufficiency, and unless the commissioner determines in good faith that no such insufficiency exists, the department of transportation shall immediately cause proper danger signals to be placed to warn persons by day or night of such insufficien…

The corridor permit requirement shall be in addition to other federal, state or local permits which may be required for such development, and no development shall be exempt from a corridor permit by reason of any other permit, any grandfather clause, or any other exemption. Autho…

All class I and class II highways and all highways within the state included in the national system of interstate highways shall be laid out by a commission appointed by the governor and council.

I. The department of transportation shall not be held liable for damages in an action to recover for personal injury or property damage arising out of its construction, maintenance, or repair of public highways and highway bridges unless such injury or damage was caused by an ins…

Notwithstanding RSA 230:78-80, the department of transportation shall not be held liable for damages arising from insufficiencies or hazards on public highways or highway bridges thereon, even if it has actual notice or knowledge of them, when such hazards are caused by snow, ice…

The department of transportation shall not be deemed to have any duty of care whatsoever with respect to the construction, maintenance or repair of class IV or V highways or highway bridges thereon, or municipally maintained portions of class II highways or highway bridges thereo…

In addition to the powers and duties of the commissioner of transportation under this title, the commissioner: I. Shall establish a sponsor-a-highway program by directly involving citizens, groups, associations, and the business community in the beautification of the state's high…

Any real estate, franchise or easement of a corporation may be taken for a highway in the same manner as the estate of individuals.

Within 60 days after receipt of a completed corridor permit application, the layout authority or its designated agent shall: I. Determine that the impact of the proposed development on highway design planning and impact on the cost of possible acquisition is not substantial, and …

I. A class A trail shall be a full public right-of-way, of indefinite duration subject to public trail use restrictions. It shall not have the status of a publicly approved street, and shall not be used as a vehicular access for any new building or structure, or for the expansion…

All class IV highways not financed in whole or in part with federal aid highway funds, and class V and VI highways shall be laid out by the mayor and aldermen of the city, the selectmen of the town or the commissioners of a village district formed for the purpose of RSA 52:1, I(m…

Owners shall include tenants for life or years, remaindermen, reversioners, or holders of undischarged mortgages of record whose mortgages are dated not earlier than 20 years prior to date of filing such petition. I. When the owner resides or lives within the state, notice shall …

All expenses in connection with any title search and notice to abutters and landowners required under this subdivision shall be borne by the petitioner requesting the reopening of an existing highway which has been subject to gates and bars.

If 2 or more towns are chargeable with the expense of repairing and maintaining a highway they shall be liable for such damages and all costs and expenses of suits for the recovery thereof, in the proportion in which they are required to contribute towards its repair and maintena…

In case the proceedings are begun against the town in which the highway is situated only, the selectmen thereof shall cause true copies of all statements, petitions, writs and other papers served upon them or their town to be given to, or left at the usual place of abode of, one …

Any such town may settle with the claimant its proportion of the damages claimed; and the settlement shall be a full discharge of its proportional share of the damages and costs as against both it and the other towns; but the same shall not affect the claimant's rights against th…

Whenever final judgment is to be entered up in any such action the court, upon notice to all the towns interested, shall determine the amount to be paid by each to either of the others to adjust all matters of damage, cost and expense according to the provisions of the preceding …

Any person or corporation, except municipal corporations, through whose negligence or carelessness any obstruction, defect, insufficiency, or want of repair is caused upon any highway, shall be liable to any person injured by reason thereof, and the damages may be recovered in an…

At the time and place so appointed the selectmen shall make a personal examination of the several routes proposed, and of the highways for which such new highway is designed to be a substitute, shall hear all parties interested who may attend and any evidence they may offer, and …

All actions for damages brought under the provisions of this subdivision shall be brought in the superior court of the county where the injuries were received.

The mayor and aldermen of any city, upon petition, may construct sidewalks therein, with or without edgestones, and covered with any appropriate material, and for that purpose may widen and straighten any highway as in other cases, except that the notice of proceedings shall stat…

In constructing such sidewalks such board may assess upon the owners of the property abutting on such street a portion not exceeding 1/2 of the expense of constructing the same, and the amount so assessed upon each of such owners shall be reasonable, and proportional to the benef…

The highway agent, under the direction of the mayor and aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town shall have charge of the repair of all sidewalks therein constructed under the provisions of this subdivision, and such sidewalks shall be maintained, repaired and reconstructed …

It is hereby found and declared: I. That the free circulation of traffic of all kinds through the streets of the municipalities of this state is necessary for the rapid and effective fighting of fires, disposition of police forces, and transit of other emergency vehicles in said …

Terms used in this subdivision shall have the meanings set forth below, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, or is otherwise inconsistent with the manifest intention of this subdivision: I. "Public parking facilities" shall mean any lots, g…

I. When the legislative body of any municipality finds that the public health, safety, morals and general welfare so requires, it may undertake to study the question of providing public parking facilities. For the purpose of such study said legislative body may appoint or authori…

Pursuant to a plan adopted under RSA 231:116 a municipality is empowered, subject to the fiscal and other pertinent requirements of law: I. To construct or contract for the construction of public parking facilities and shall have the right to acquire or agree to acquire when comp…

If the legislative body of a municipality which has adopted a plan as described shall determine to acquire pursuant to said plan any real property or interest therein, including air rights, necessary for or incidental to the construction, maintenance or operation of public parkin…

Municipalities may finance the construction of public parking facilities by issuing bonds or notes, which bonds or notes shall conform to and be issued in accordance with the provisions of RSA 33 insofar as the same may be applicable. All such bonds or notes shall be issued for p…

They may lay out such highway over any ground they may deem most suitable, and alter any highway as they judge proper, without regard to intermediate limits or particular monuments described in the petition.

I. The assessors of any municipality which has constructed public parking facilities, upon direction from the legislative body and in accordance with the plan adopted, shall assess in the manner provided in paragraph II of this section upon the owners or lessees of leasehold inte…

Assessments shall be levied according to a formula which shall be set forth in the plan and which shall be reasonable and proportional to the benefits conferred upon the land or leasehold interest upon which such assessment is laid. Such formula may, but need not necessarily, be …

In order to defray the costs of the operation and maintenance of such public facilities, the assessors may assess upon the owners and lessees whose land is benefited by such public parking facilities their just share of the annual operating expenses of the same. The assessors may…

The funds received from the collection of assessments provided in RSA 231:122 shall be deposited by the treasurer of the municipality in a special account which in any fiscal year shall be used only to pay the operating expenses of the public parking facilities. Any surplus in su…

All assessments under the provisions of RSA 231:120 and 122 shall create a lien upon the lands on account of which they are made, which shall continue until one year from October 1 following the assessment, and, in case an appeal has been taken and the assessment has been sustain…