Bill Text: NH HB655 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Regulating disorderly houses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-23 - Died on Table [HB655 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB655-Introduced.html
HB 655 - AS INTRODUCED
2019 SESSION
19-0798
06/05
HOUSE BILL 655
AN ACT regulating disorderly houses.
SPONSORS: Rep. Butler, Carr. 7
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill permits a town to make bylaws regulating disorderly houses.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
19-0798
06/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen
AN ACT regulating disorderly houses.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subparagraph; Powers of Towns; Bylaws. Amend RSA 31:39, I by inserting after subparagraph (p) the following new subparagraph:
(q) Regulating disorderly houses. In this section, "disorderly houses" mean houses in which the activity of a building's owner, occupants, or tenants, or the invitees of an owner, tenant or occupant, unreasonably disturbs the community, neighborhood, or an individual occupying property near the disorderly activity, including but not limited to loud music or parties, or other loud noises emanating from within or near the building, fights within the building or in its vicinity involving occupants of the building or their invitees, intoxication of the occupants of the building, and similar activities. Disorderly activities shall not include abuse as defined in RSA 173-B:1.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
