Title XXII, Navigation; Harbors; Coast Survey

Whoever violates the provisions of RSA 271:17 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

This subdivision shall not apply to ponds closed, or areas set off, by order of the director of the fish and game department under authority of RSA 206.

I. All natural bodies of fresh water situated entirely in the state having an area of 10 acres or more are state-owned public waters, and are held in trust by the state for public use; and no corporation or individual shall have or exercise in any such body of water any rights or…

I. Public access to public waters means legal passage to any of the public waters of the state by way of designated contiguous land owned or controlled by a state agency, assuring that all members of the public shall have access to and use of the public waters for recreational pu…

The local governing body of a municipality may post warnings for the use of any frozen surface of any public body of water within its boundaries in the interest of public safety.

If any person shall unload, cast or throw out of any ship, vessel or boat, or from shore or wharf, any ballast, rubbish, gravel, earth, dirt, ashes or filth into the harbor, or river of Piscataqua, between the lighthouse at the entrance of said harbor and Dover Point bridge, so c…

Navigable streams or waters are those which are used, or are susceptible of being used in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade or travel is or may be conducted in the present customary modes of trade or travel on water, and such term shall not appl…

Any person employed under an act of the Congress of the United States, passed February tenth, 1807, and the supplements thereto, may enter upon lands within this state for the purpose of exploring, surveying, triangulating, leveling or doing any other act which may be necessary t…

If the parties interested cannot agree upon the amount to be paid for the damages caused by doing any of the acts aforesaid either of them may petition the superior court for the county in which the land entered upon is situate for an assessment of the damages, and the court shal…

The person so entering upon land as aforesaid may tender to the party injured sufficient amends therefor, and, if the damages finally assessed do not exceed the amount so tendered, the person so entering shall recover his costs; and in all other cases the party injured shall reco…

If any person shall wilfully deface, injure, or remove any signals, monuments, buildings, or any appendage thereto, used or constructed under and by virtue of the acts of Congress aforesaid, he shall be fined $50 and shall also be liable for all damages sustained by the United St…