CHAPTER 72

HB 453 - FINAL VERSION

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0492

03/06

 

HOUSE BILL 453

 

AN ACT relative to vacancies in the office of supervisor of the checklist.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Hoelzel, Rock. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the remaining members of the board of supervisors of the checklist to fill a vacancy in the board within 45 days.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0492

03/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to vacancies in the office of supervisor of the checklist.

 

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

 

72:1  Filling of Vacancies; Supervisors of the Checklist.  Amend RSA 669:64 to read as follows:

669:64  Supervisors of the Checklist.  Vacancies in the board of supervisors shall be filled within 45 days by appointment made by the remaining supervisors.  If there is only one member of the board, or if the whole board shall be vacant, or if the remaining supervisors fail to fill the vacancy within 45 days, the moderator shall make the appointments.  If a town elects supervisors by means of the partisan ballot system, any such appointee shall be of the same political party as the supervisor whose place he is filling.

72:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: June 02, 2017

Effective Date: August 01, 2017