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HB 512 - AS INTRODUCED
                                            2021 SESSION
                                                                                            21-0781
                                                                                            06/05
HOUSE BILL            512
AN ACT           relative to emergency housing assistance.
SPONSORS:        Rep. Conley, Straf. 13; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21
COMMITTEE:       Municipal and County Government
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                                              ANALYSIS
   This bill prohibits a municipality from requiring a housing code inspection as a condition of
emergency housing assistance.
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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                Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
                                         HB 512 - AS INTRODUCED
                                                                                            21-0781
                                                                                            06/05
                                        STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
                              In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
     AN ACT             relative to emergency housing assistance.
             Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1       1 Housing Standards; Exceptions. Amend RSA 48-A:12 to read as follows:
2       48-A:12 Exceptions.
3           I.    An ordinance, code or bylaw adopted pursuant to the authority of this chapter may
4    provide that any dwelling, building or structure situated within an historic district that is
5    established under RSA 31:89-b, or within such other classes of dwellings, building or structure as the
6    governing body shall determine to have special significance to the public interest and shall expressly
7    define in such ordinance, code or bylaw, may be approved by the board of aldermen as a special
8    exception, after public hearing, and the provisions of such ordinance, code or bylaw may be waived in
9    their application to such dwelling, building or structure, in whole or in part or otherwise so modified
10   as the housing board of appeals may determine.
11          II.    No municipality shall require a housing code inspection as a condition of
12   emergency housing assistance.
13      2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Statutes affected: 
Introduced: 48-A:12
latest version: 48-A:12