Bill Text: NH SB78 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the zoning board of adjustments appeal period.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Hearing: 01/28/2025, Room 100, State House, 10:00 am; Senate Calendar 7 [SB78 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB78-Introduced.html

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SB 78  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0304

06/09

 

SENATE BILL 78

 

AN ACT relative to the zoning board of adjustments appeal period.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. McGough, Dist 11; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 2

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill removes the zoning board of adjustment's discretion for determining when to take an appeal and replaces it with a non-discretionary 30-day period.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0304

06/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to the zoning board of adjustments appeal period.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Appeals to Board of Adjustment.  Amend RSA 676:5, I to read as follows:

I. Appeals to the board of adjustment concerning any matter within the board's powers as set forth in RSA 674:33 may be taken by the applicant, an abutter as defined by RSA 672:3, or by any officer, department, board, or bureau of the municipality affected by any decision of the administrative officer. Such appeal shall be taken within [a reasonable time, as provided by the rules of the board,] 30 days by filing with the officer from whom the appeal is taken and with the board a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof. The officer from whom the appeal is taken shall forthwith transmit to the board all the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.