HB 296  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2023 SESSION

23-0510

10/05

 

HOUSE BILL 296

 

AN ACT relative to local authority for granting driveway permits.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. T. Walsh, Merr. 10; Rep. C. McGuire, Merr. 27; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2; Rep. Steven Smith, Sull. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies that local land use boards and not the state fire code regulate driveway access.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0510

10/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to local authority for granting driveway permits.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; State Fire Code; Authority for Driveway Permits.  Amend RSA 153:5 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:

VI.  The provisions of the state fire code and associated rules shall not supersede the authority of local land use boards under planning and zoning provisions of Title LXIV of the RSA to regulate and permit driveway access when not governed by RSA 236:13.

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