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

The commissioners shall appoint a chief engineer and assistant engineers to serve in the fire department for the ensuing year, and may remove them, for cause, after notice and hearing.

I. The funds received from the collection of special assessments shall be kept as a separate fund to be known as the special assessment fund. The fund shall be allowed to accumulate from year to year, shall not be commingled with municipal tax revenues, and shall not be deemed pa…

Votes at district meetings shall be conducted according to the procedures established for town meetings in RSA 40:4-a, 4-b, and 6.

Every legislative body, governing body, board, commission, or committee of any village district established under this chapter shall be deemed a "public body" under RSA 91-A and shall be subject to all applicable provisions of that chapter.

The annual meeting of each district shall be held between January 1 and May 1 of each year. In the case of a district formed for the purpose of impoundment of water, the annual meeting shall be held at another time of the year if so voted at a previous meeting.

A special assessment district created under this chapter may not be dissolved until all debt incurred with respect to the district is finally discharged and all special assessments levied for the purpose of paying the debt have been paid or otherwise satisfied. Upon satisfaction …

In case of a vacancy in the office of commissioners, or of their neglect or refusal to warn a meeting or insert an article in a warrant, or of failure to hold an annual meeting, a meeting of the district may be called and warned in the same manner as in like cases in towns.

The commissioners when calling a special district meeting shall, within one week after posting the warrant therefor, cause a copy of said warrant to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in said district.

I. Whenever the district votes to raise money by taxation or otherwise for any of its purposes, the clerk shall, within 20 days thereafter, deliver a certified copy of such vote to the selectmen of each town which contains any part of the district and to the commissioner of reven…

The power to abate and correct the assessment of such taxes shall belong to the board authorized to assess them; and aggrieved parties shall have the same remedies for relief as in case of town taxes.

If any such district cannot obtain for a reasonable price any land or easement in land required by it for its purposes it may, through its commissioners or other duly authorized agents, make and file in the town clerk's office of each town in which such land is situated a descrip…

Any district which shall have received an order by the department of environmental services under the provisions of RSA 147, 485, or 485-A shall proceed forthwith to acquire whatever easements and lands as are necessary to comply with said order provided that a majority of the vo…

If a district, situated in 2 or more towns, adopts the provisions of RSA chapter 252 the selectmen of all the towns as a joint board shall have powers and perform the duties of selectmen in such case.

Such selectmen shall also forthwith call a meeting of the voters domiciled in the district to see if they will vote to establish the district, and if so to choose necessary officers therefor. They shall call the meeting and give notice thereof as town meetings are called and warn…

I. Consistent with the provisions of this chapter, any town or city may establish special assessment districts for a part of the area of the town or city, within which may be provided public facilities and services from funds derived from service charges, special assessments, or …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any village district may vote to raise and appropriate money for the support of the district by official ballot as provided for in RSA 49-D:3, II-a, by following the procedures set forth in RSA 49-B. The village district may also includ…

The clerk of any district having firewards or engineers shall forthwith after their appointment from time to time report their names and post-office addresses to the town clerks of the town in which the district is situated; and if he fails to do so he shall be fined $20.

Any village district and any district now in existence having the rights and powers of a village district, may, at an annual meeting, by a 2/3 vote of its legal voters, terminate its existence and dispose of its corporate property. Upon the dissolution of any such district, the p…

Notwithstanding the provisions of 1961, 360:7, the provisions of RSA 52:21 shall be applicable to the village district existing in the town of Lisbon at the time of the passage of this act, and to any other village district which may hereafter be established in said town.

Village districts and precincts established under the laws heretofore in force may adopt the provisions of this chapter, and thereupon shall have the rights conferred thereby and be governed by the same except as hereinafter provided. Unless they do so, the laws under which they …

Upon the written application of 10 percent of the registered voters in any village water district, presented to the commissioners or one of them at least 15 days before the day prescribed for an annual meeting of the district, the commissioners shall insert in their warrant for s…

The selectmen of every town, and the councilors or aldermen of every city, which have a village district established under the provisions of this chapter lying in whole or in part within said town or city, shall file with the secretary of state the following information concernin…

Any contract between a district formed for the purpose of impoundment of water, organized pursuant to this chapter, and the department of environmental services for the construction, operation, and maintenance of any dam located within the district's boundaries that is in effect …

A special assessment district shall meet the following requirements: I. Public facilities and services for which special assessments are levied and collected must peculiarly and specially benefit the properties upon which the special assessments are imposed. II. Special assessmen…

I. At such meeting the legal voters may by vote establish the district, give to it a name, and choose necessary officers therefor to hold office until the first annual meeting of the district. II. The district shall thereupon be a body corporate and politic, and shall have all th…

I. In addition to the general powers provided in RSA 52:3, the commissioners of a village district formed for the purposes of RSA 52:1, I(m), shall have the same powers, duties and responsibilities of selectmen of towns which are granted or required pursuant to RSA Title XX; and,…

I. No village district shall raise or appropriate money, or reduce or rescind any appropriation of money previously authorized, at any special meeting of the voters thereof except by vote by ballot, nor unless the ballots cast at such meeting shall be equal in number to at least …

I. Proceedings for the establishment of a special assessment district may be instituted by a petition filed with the governing body. The petition shall: (a) Describe the boundaries of the territory which is proposed for inclusion in the special assessment district and include a m…

Every village district annually by an article in the warrant may establish a contingency fund to meet the cost of unanticipated expenses that may arise during the year. Such fund shall not exceed one percent of the amount appropriated exclusive of capital expenditures and amortiz…

I. Within 15 days after receipt of a petition that satisfies the requirements of RSA 52-A:4, the governing body shall notify the petitioners' representative that it has determined the petition to be sufficient and shall request payment of the cost of mailing notice under paragrap…

I. The selectmen of towns in which any such district has been established upon petition, after notice to parties interested and a hearing, may change the boundaries thereof; and the district shall cause the petition and the return of the selectmen's proceedings and decision there…

A district established for any of the purposes mentioned in RSA 52:1 may from time to time by vote add thereto any other of said purposes; and from and after such vote it shall have all the powers and rights in relation to the new purposes that it previously had in relation to it…

The municipality shall adopt a budgetary appropriation for capital and operating expenditures in a special assessment district as part of its budget process. The expense of constructing and maintaining the public facilities and performing public services described in the improvem…

Upon adoption of the budgetary appropriation, the municipality may levy assessments in an amount necessary to fund the appropriation, net of other revenues applied to the appropriation. The assessments shall be made against the owners of properties in the special assessment distr…

Any special assessments collected pursuant to this chapter shall be used, in whole or in part, only for public facilities and services authorized by this chapter or for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds and other obligations of indebtedness for such public facili…

The moderator, clerk, treasurer and commissioners shall severally qualify and possess the same powers and perform the same duties in respect to the district's meetings and business affairs that the moderator, clerk, treasurer and selectmen of towns respectively possess and perfor…

I. A municipality may borrow money and issue bonds or notes to finance the public facilities and services of a special assessment district, provided that bonds or notes may be issued only for the purposes authorized under RSA 33:3 or RSA 33:3-c. All bonds or notes authorized in a…

In this chapter: I. "Cable television system" means facilities by which television signals are received at a central location and for consideration are transmitted to customers or subscribers by means of cables or wires. II. "Company" means any person, partnership, association, o…

In this chapter: I. "Board" means the governing board of the district. II. "District" means a communications district of 2 or more municipalities, or one county, established under this chapter. III. "Equipment and infrastructure" means any and all parts of any communications syst…

I. All places, not incorporated as towns, which shall be required to pay any public tax are invested with the powers of towns relating to the choice of moderator, clerk, supervisors of the check list, and selectmen; and all provisions of law applicable to towns and town officers …

In this chapter: I. "Authority" means the New Hampshire business finance authority, the administrator for the program created by this chapter. II. "Capital provider" means a private entity or its designee, successor, or assigns that finances or refinances a qualifying improvement…

The general court finds it to be in the public interest to allow municipalities and counties to aggregate retail electric customers, as necessary, to provide such customers access to competitive markets for supplies of electricity and related energy services. The general court fi…

It is the purpose of this chapter to permit municipalities and counties to make the most efficient use of their powers by enabling them to cooperate with other municipalities and counties on a basis of mutual advantage and thereby to provide services and facilities in a manner an…

A solid waste management district shall be a means by which municipalities may join together by formal agreement under this chapter to create a separate authority for the management of solid waste. A district may be established for the purposes of providing one or more solid wast…

The district committee shall hire a certified public accountant or a public accountant licensed by the state under RSA 309-A:8 to conduct a financial audit, in accordance with generally accepted governmental auditing standards as adopted by the U.S. General Accounting Office and …

The governing board shall hire a certified public accountant or a public accountant licensed by the state under RSA 309-B:5 to conduct a financial audit, in accordance with generally accepted governmental auditing standards as adopted by the United States General Accounting Offic…