Title XX, Transportation

Except as otherwise provided by law all town bridges not constructed with town bridge aid funds and which the town has the duty to maintain shall have a carrying capacity of at least 6 tons. The selectmen shall cause notice of the load limit of such town bridge to be posted on or…

I. An operator of any motor vehicle, as defined in RSA 259:60, that exceeds any weight, height, or other dimensional limit posted for a wooden covered bridge, who damages any part of said wooden covered bridge within the state as a result of such operation shall be guilty of a vi…

All bridges constructed with bridge aid funds shall have a carrying capacity of at least the legal load as stipulated in RSA 266. All bridges reconstructed with bridge aid funds shall have a carrying capacity of at least 15 tons.

The selectmen of the town or the street commissioner of the city in which such bridge is situate, may grant a written permit to carry a load in excess of such posted load limit on such conditions and under such regulations as such selectmen or street commissioner believe will per…

Any person who operates or attempts to operate any vehicle on such bridge when the weight of the load, inclusive of the vehicle exceeds such posted load limit, without such permit, or who operates or attempts to operate any vehicle on such bridge in violation of such conditions a…

In order equitably to allocate responsibilities between this and adjoining states for the security of interstate bridges and other interstate structures and facilities, in time of war or military emergency or when hostile destructive acts on the part of enemy agents have occurred…

I. The selectmen of a town, the mayor of a city, or the county commissioners for an unincorporated place may annually apply to the commissioner of transportation in the manner prescribed by the commissioner for bridge aid on a class II, IV, or V highway or a county-owned road. Th…

In order to accommodate the early replacement or rehabilitation and lowest cost for municipal bridges that have been closed to vehicular traffic due to safety concerns, cities and towns may request the closed bridge be placed on the schedule for bridge aid funds from the state at…

Applications shall be considered in the order received by the commissioner and shall be programmed for construction on the basis of projected funding availability, anticipated design schedule, and other such parameters as the commissioner may prescribe for scheduling bridge aid p…

The provisions of the Federal-Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction of rural post roads and for other purposes," and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, are assented to,…

The commissioner of transportation, whenever in his opinion the public good so requires, may designate for improvement, subject to the approval of the governor and council, any class I, II, or III highway or portion thereof.

Upon the completion of such improvement to the satisfaction of the commissioner of transportation, the department of transportation shall assume full control and pay the cost of reconstruction and maintenance.

All portions of class II highways which have not been improved to the satisfaction of the commissioner of transportation shall be maintained by the city or town in which they are located.

On or before February 15 in each year, the commissioner of transportation shall notify all cities and towns which have expressed an interest in constructing or reconstructing any class I, II, or III highway or portion thereof, of the amount of state aid available to that city or …

I. A city or town may apply to the commissioner of transportation for state aid on or before the first day of May in each year in the manner prescribed by the commissioner. The application shall state that such city or town has raised, appropriated, or set aside its contribution …

If any city or town desires state aid for the purpose of constructing or reconstructing a section of class I, II, or III highway, the town shall pay 1/3 of the cost and the state shall pay 2/3 of the cost.

Fifty percent of the contribution of a city or town for state aid shall be remitted to the commissioner of transportation before any state aid project is begun, and the balance shall be remitted on completion of the project, and such contribution, together with the amount apporti…

Any part of such joint fund not expended during the year for which it is set apart and apportioned may be expended on class I, II, or III highways during any succeeding year at the discretion of the commissioner of transportation.

The faith and credit of the state are pledged to make adequate provision, from time to time, by appropriation or otherwise, to meet all obligations of the state incident to the acceptance of federal aid under the provisions of said act.

Whenever, upon the completion of a project on a class I, II, or III highway in any city or town, the joint fund has not been expended in full, the unexpended balance shall revert to the state and city or town in the same proportion as each contributed.

Where it appears that the class I, II, or III highway designated for improvement by the commissioner is of no particular benefit to a town, or, in cases where a town is unable to pay its proportion of such cost, the commissioner may, with the approval of the governor and council,…

All funds available to cities, towns and unincorporated places, pursuant to the provisions hereof, shall be allotted by the commissioner of transportation upon the following basis: I. Apportionment A. In each fiscal year, the commissioner shall allocate an amount not less than 12…

I. There is established a highway and bridge betterment program for the purpose of highway construction, reconstruction, and resurfacing, and for bridge construction, bridge reconstruction and bridge maintenance, in each highway district in the state and for the purpose of insuri…

On or before January 1 of each year, the commissioner shall notify all cities, towns and unincorporated places of the amounts of aid being allotted in each fiscal year. Payments shall be made as follows: 30 percent in July; 30 percent in October; 20 percent in January; and 20 per…

To meet such obligations the commissioner of transportation is authorized to use any money appropriated for highways not specifically required to be used elsewhere.

Any city, town or unincorporated place which suffers damage to its highways through disaster which is estimated to exceed 1/8 of one percent of its assessed valuation shall be entitled to aid in the repair of such damage. The commissioner shall be notified of such damage and, aft…

The commissioner of transportation shall require every private contractor engaged in construction or maintenance work by contract with the state, county, city or town, on any state, state aid or town aid highway or bridge project, and who employs 5 or more persons in the state, t…

Every workman on every state aid or town aid highway or bridge project, except workmen employed by the department of transportation in its engineering force or by private contractor engaged in construction or maintenance work on such project by contract with the state, county, ci…

When any county, town or city may have accepted the provisions of RSA 281, pursuant to RSA 281:7 and in which county, town or city there are spent state funds on any state aid or town aid highway or bridge project, the joint fund for such project may be charged that portion of pr…

The commissioner of transportation is authorized to act for the state or any of its political subdivisions in conjunction with the representatives of the federal government in all matters relating to the location and construction of highways, including flight strips, to be built …

Where, under these provisions, improvements are made within the limits of compact sections of cities and towns or upon highways not regularly maintained by the state, the same shall thereafter be maintained by said city or town to the satisfaction of the commissioner of transport…

The commissioner of transportation is authorized to make initial selection within the state of the routes of the national system of interstate highways and to take joint action with the state highway departments of the adjoining states to select the routes of such system, as prov…

Whenever the federal government shall make available to the state special grant of funds for construction or improvement of highways in the state by the terms of which grant the state is not required to make matching appropriations, the commissioner of transportation is authorize…

In case of grants as provided in RSA 235:7 the commissioner of transportation is authorized to use any funds in the highway fund not specifically required to be used elsewhere in order to meet the necessary expenditure for the purposes for which the grant was authorized. When fed…

When federal funds are made available to the state for purposes hereof the amount of the grant accepted by the commissioner shall be deemed to be an appropriation of the same amount for the purposes hereof.

I. The commissioner may regulate the use of class I, class II, and class III highways in towns or cities without compact sections and in other towns and cities outside the compact portion thereof as determined by him, including the use of rights-of-way. II. The commissioner may e…

The person or entity giving such written permission may make rules and regulations to govern the excavation and restoration of such highway and may require that a bond satisfactory to such person or entity be furnished to the state, city, or town providing for the satisfactory re…

Notwithstanding any provision of this subdivision, any junk yard or automotive recycling yard in existence on October 22, 1965, which does not conform to the requirements of this subdivision and which as a practical matter cannot be screened, shall not be required to be removed u…

If the provisions of this subdivision or the application of such provisions to any person or circumstances appear to conflict with the provisions of RSA 236:111-129 then the provisions of this subdivision shall take precedence.

All public land or reservations of the United States, state, city, town or other political subdivision which are adjacent to any portion of the interstate and turnpike systems shall be effectively controlled in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision.

Notwithstanding any provision of this subdivision, junk yards, auto graveyards and scrap metal processing facilities may be operated within areas adjacent to the interstate system and the turnpike system which are within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and whic…

Just compensation shall be paid the owner for the relocation, removal, or disposal of any junk yard lawfully established under state law, which is required to be removed, relocated, or disposed of pursuant to 23 U.S.C. § 136. No rights to compensation accrue until a taking or rem…

The commissioner of transportation may accept any allotment of funds by the United States, or any department or agency thereof, for the foregoing purposes. The commissioner is authorized to landscape, screen or acquire land or interest in land as may be required to effectively co…

A person shall be guilty of a violation for each day or fraction thereof in which he is in violation of the provisions of this subdivision. All fines collected hereunder shall be deposited in the highway fund.

In addition to the penalty in RSA 236:106 the commissioner of transportation may obtain a mandatory injunction to end the violation.