Title XIX, Public Recreation

I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, individual gifts and donations not exceeding $2,500 in value in a fiscal year may be received by the division of parks and recreation without the approval of the governor or the governor and council. Individual gifts …

I. The state treasurer shall establish a separate and distinct account to be known as the Cannon Mountain ski account fund. The account shall be continuing and nonlapsing. The treasurer shall deposit in the Cannon Mountain ski account fund actual revenues associated with the stat…

I. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 4:29 or any other law to the contrary, if Laconia developmental services is relocated, or this overall property becomes available for disposal and a state park is not developed pursuant to RSA 216-H:2, the 200 acres more or less and the ap…

The department of natural and cultural resources is hereby authorized to use any funds which may become available to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Any available funds from the United States Land and Water Conservation Fund or other federal assistance programs may also…

The department of natural and cultural resources is hereby authorized to use any funds which may become available to carry out this chapter. Any available funds from the United States Land and Water Conservation Fund or other federal assistance programs may also be used to accomp…

Upon completion of the project as herein provided, the federal government will assume the maintenance of the dredged channels and the city of Portsmouth will assume the operation and management of the public landings or wharves.

The commission is authorized to institute a program to solicit and receive any gifts, grants, or donations made for the implementation of the master development plan and to deposit such gifts, grants, or donations in the Hampton Beach master plan fund.

Upon completion of the project as herein provided, the federal government will assume the maintenance of the harbor entrance channel and facilities. The operation and management of the harbor improvement project shall be under the supervision of the Pease development authority, d…

I. An approved disposal system shall be provided in all recreational campgrounds or camping parks. II. Septage or waste water shall be discharged from recreational vehicles or portable recreational toilets into portable sanitary service vehicles, individual sewage disposal system…

I. The commissioner shall appoint a New Hampshire statewide trail system advisory committee, for the purposes of advising the director of parks and recreation on matters related to the New Hampshire statewide trail system. The members shall equally represent the different trail i…

Any contracts for the construction of any of the cooperative projects shall be administered by the commissioner of transportation in accordance with RSA 228 as amended.

At such time as the department of natural and cultural resources shall have been established, the recommendations to governor and council, which shall be initiated by the director of parks and recreation, the advisory commission to the department of natural and cultural resources…

Any contracts by the state shall be administered by the commissioner of transportation in accordance with RSA 228 as amended.

There is hereby established in the office of the state treasurer a fund to be known as the Hampton Beach master plan fund which shall be kept separate and distinct from all other funds and shall be continually appropriated to the commission. Such fund shall be the depository of a…

The functions of the governor and council as custodians of the Hannah Dustin monument, Franklin Pierce homestead, Daniel Webster birthplace, and the grounds connected with each, as provided in RL 12:1 are hereby transferred to the department of natural and cultural resources.

All persons upon entering a recreational campground or camping park shall register with the appropriate authorities. All recreational campground or camping park owners or operators or their agents shall upon the registration of each camper or camper's guest cause an entry to be m…

The commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources shall identify and publish best management practices for erosion control during trail maintenance and construction. The practices shall be based on the type of activity that is occurring or may occur on a trail,…

The provisions of RSA 228:4 shall apply to the execution of agreements pursuant to this chapter.

The agency authorized to negotiate and cooperate in engineering studies and construction with the United States through the Corps of Engineers shall be the department of transportation. The commissioner of transportation is hereby ordered, directed and empowered to take the neces…

The agency authorized to negotiate and cooperate in engineering studies and construction with the United States through the Corps of Engineers shall be the department of transportation. The commissioner of transportation is hereby ordered, directed and empowered to take the neces…

I. All recreational campground or camping park owners or operators or their agents may remove or cause to be removed from such recreational campground or camping park any person remaining in a recreational campground or camping park in violation of this chapter by notifying such …

Pursuant to RSA 4:43, the general court hereby designates and names the granite formation on the eastern slope of Cannon Mountain in Franconia as the "Old Man of the Mountain."

I. There is established an endowment fund, to be known as the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract monitoring endowment, for the purpose of ensuring a perpetual source of funds to monitor compliance with the terms and conditions of the conservation easement interests acquired by th…

The director of the division of parks and recreation, in cooperation with the commissioner of the department of health and human services, shall establish a conservation corps for the purpose of employing New Hampshire youth with an emphasis on employing young people who need edu…

Any property left in a recreational campground or camping park after check-out time or eviction pursuant to RSA 216-I:6 shall be considered abandoned. Such abandoned property may then be moved off the campsite and placed in storage. Any owner or operator or their agent of a recre…

I. The conservation corps program is designed to increase the sense of involvement and ownership by the participants in their state and to give them an opportunity to contribute something of lasting value to the state, by creating a new recreational resource for the state. II. Th…

I. The monitoring endowment established by RSA 216:7 shall be maintained in perpetuity and shall be utilized only for the purposes of monitoring and enforcing the conservation easement acquired through the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract purchase. II. The principal of the endo…

If any of the charges referred to in RSA 216-I:7 shall remain unpaid for 60 days, the lien holder may sell such property at public sale. The proceeds, after first paying the expense of sale, shall be applied in payment of the storage charges, and the balance, if any, shall be pai…

I. There is hereby established an endowment fund to be known as the Connecticut Lakes headwaters natural areas stewardship endowment account. II. The stewardship endowment shall be maintained in perpetuity and shall be utilized jointly by the executive director of the fish and ga…

I. All fireplaces in recreational campgrounds or camping parks shall be on an area cleaned to mineral soil at least 8 feet across. Where fires are built on the ground, there shall be at least 6 inches of sand or gravel under the fire. II. All tree limbs or other burnable material…

The conservation corps shall be a permanent and ongoing program.

There is hereby established the freedom's way heritage area, hereinafter referred to as the area, which shall include the cities and towns of Amherst, Brookline, Greenville, Hollis, Mason, Milford, Merrimack, Nashua, and New Ipswich. The purpose of such designation shall be to re…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The New Hampshire Native Plant Protection Act of 1987".

The department of transportation shall cause investigations and studies to be made in cooperation with the appropriate agencies of the United States of America with a view to devising effective means of preventing erosion of the shores of the coastal waters of the state by waves …

I. Nothing in this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter shall interfere with any act authorized, permitted, or exempted by the Endangered Species Act or any regulation promulgated under that act. II. Any protected plant species may be transported to, possessed at, and s…

Any person violating the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter shall be guilty of a violation. Each such prohibited act with respect to each plant shall constitute a separate violation.

I. Any peace officer shall have the authority to enforce this chapter, and may: (a) Conduct searches as provided by law, and execute a warrant to search for and seize any equipment, business records, merchandise, or plants taken, possessed, transported, sold, offered for sale, ba…

Because there are no laws protecting any of our native plants, every year hundreds of our native plants are dug up and removed without permission from public and private property. Many of these are taken out-of-state and sold for profit. Therefore, the legislature finds and decla…

In this chapter: I. "Commercial" means all types of activities, uses, and purposes of an industrial or trade nature including, but not limited to, the buying and selling or barter and exchange of commodities and activities conducted for the purpose of such buying and selling or b…

The department shall conduct investigations on all species of plants and natural communities indigenous to and throughout this state necessary to develop information relating to population, distribution, habitat needs, limiting factors, and other biological and ecological data, a…

I. The commissioner of the department shall, on the basis of research and investigations and other available scientific data on plant species, and after public hearing, adopt, pursuant to RSA 541-A, an inventory of plant species occurring in the state which are threatened by the …

I. The commissioner shall establish programs for the protection of species listed under RSA 217-A:5 and for exemplary natural communities. These programs may include methods for the acquisition of land and interests in land that the commissioner determines is necessary for the pr…

I. All state agencies, consistent with their authority and responsibilities, shall assist and cooperate with the commissioner to carry out the purposes of this chapter. To the extent possible actions funded or carried out by state agencies shall not jeopardize the continued exist…

I. The commissioner may charge a fee for using inventory and information services and for publications and reports to recover the costs of providing products and services. II. Fees shall be sufficient to cover the costs of providing services and producing and providing products a…

The commissioner of the department shall adopt rules, after public hearing and under RSA 541-A, relative to: I. Criteria and procedures for listing endangered and threatened species under RSA 217-A:5. II. Procedures for identifying exemplary natural communities. III. Procedures f…

I. It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person, other than the owner of private property on which the species listed under RSA 217-A:5 is located to: (a) Export any protected species from the state. (b) Import any protected species into the state. (c) Transport any pro…