Index of Selected Land Use Regulation and Energy Statutes

This index is intended to be more "user-friendly" than the index found in the back of the OEP handbook, New Hampshire Planning and Land Use Regulation. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. We are open to adding additional topic headings to this table that are frequently used by you. Please e-mail your comments to Chris Northrop at chris.northrop@nh.gov.

This is not an all-inclusive index of land use regulation and energy statutes. To read and search all the statutes, please refer to the NH Revised Statutes Annotated.

A ~ B ~ C ~ D ~ E ~ F ~ G ~ H ~ I ~ J ~ K ~ L ~
M ~ N ~ O ~ P ~ Q ~ R ~ S ~ T ~ U ~ V ~ W ~ X ~ Y ~ Z

A

• Abutters: defined 672:3
• Abutters: notice to 676:4, I (d)
• Accessory use 674:16, V
• Activation of alternate members 673:11
• Active and substantial development or building 674:39, IV
• Adoption of zoning amendments by the local legislative body 674:16
• Adoption/amendment hearing notice 675:7
• Agricultural commissions 673:4-b; 674:44-e
• Aircraft take-offs and landings 674:16, V
• Alternates 673:6 & 673:11
• Airport Zoning 424
• Airstrips as accessory uses 674:16, V
• Appeals to the Board of Adjustment 676:5
• Appeal of ZBA decision 677:2
• Appeal of PB decision 677:15

B

• Board of adjustment 673:1 & 673:3
• Bonding 674:36, III (b)
• Boundaries 476
• Building code adoption 674:51 & 674:51-a
• Building code board of appeals 673:1 & 673:3
• Building inspector 673:1
• Building Permits withheld after posting of zoning amendment notice 676:12
• Building on a class VI road 674:41

C

• Capital improvement program 674:5-8
• Cease and desist orders 676:17-a
• Chairman: election 673:8
• Classification of highways 229:5
• Class VI road 674:41; 229:5
• Community Revitalization Tax Relief Incentive 79-E
• Community services and care planning boards 678
• Conceptual consultation 676:4, II (a)
• Conflict of interest ordinances 31:39-a
• Conditional or special use permits 674:21, II
• Conditional approval 676:4, I (i)
• Condominiums: included in definition of "subdivision" 672:14
• Conflicting regulations 676:14
• Conservation commissions 36-A
• Continuation of a public hearing, notice 676:4, I (d)

D

• Days Included and Excluded 21:35
• Decision: in writing and filed within 5 business days 676:3
• Definitions (see listing of Defined Terms in Lexis)
• Design review phase 676:4,(b)
• Disqualification 673:14
• Documents: filing with OEP 675:9
• Driveways 236:13
• Drinking Water Act, Safe 485

E

• Energy commissions 38-D
• Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy District 53-F
• Energy sections in a master plan 674:2, II I (n)
• Enforcement (penalties and remedies) 676:15-18
• Equitable waiver of dimensional requirements 674:33-a
• Excavations 155-E
• Ex-officio members: duties 672:5

F

• Fences 472-476
• Filing regulations with OEP 675:9
• Fill and Dredge in Wetlands 482-A
• Fines and penalties 676:17
• Five-Year exemption (previously Four-Year Exemption) 674:39

G

• Governmental uses of land 674:54
• Growth management 674:22
• Growth management: interim 674:23

H

• Heritage commissions 673:4-a; 674:44-a thru 674:44-d
• Highway corridor 230-A
• Historic district 674:45-50
• Highway classifications 229
• Housing commissions 673:4-c; 674:44-h
• Housing and Conservation Planning Program 4-C:24-28
• Housing, workforce 674:58-61

I

• Impact fees 674:21(V)
• Improvements in unapproved streets 674:40
• Injunctive relief by abutter 676:15
• Involuntarily Merged Lots, Restoration of 674:39-aa

J

• Joint meetings and hearings 676:2
• Junkyard licensing by state officials 236:93
• Junkyard licensing by local officials 236:115

K

• None

L

• Lakes Management And Protection Program 483-A
• Land affected by municipal boundaries 674:53
• Legal notice of zoning amendments 676:12
• Lot line adjustment, boundary agreement 676:4, I (e)
• Local Land Use Board 672:7
• Local land use citation 676:17-b

M

• Manufactured housing: exclusion 674:32
• Master plan 674:1-4
• Master plan: adoption/amendment 674:4 & 675:6
• Master plan: energy section 674:2, II I (n)
• Meetings: public 91-A:2
• Meetings: scheduling 673:10
• Members of boards 673:2 & 673:3
• Merging lots 674:39-a
• Merged Lots, Restoration of Involuntarily 674:39-aa
• Minutes available to the public 91-A:4
• Modular housing 205-B; 205-C; 47:22-a; 47:22-b; 31:116; 674:31; 674:31-a; 674:32
• Motion for rehearing 677:2
• Municipal boundaries: land 674:53
• Municipal Economic Development and Revitalization (TIF) Districts 162:K

N

• Net Metering PUC 900
• Non-public sessions 91-A:3
• Notice: regulation adoption/amendment hearing 675:7
• Notice: for planning board application public hearing 676:4, I (e)
• Notice: for zoning board of adjustment public hearing 676:7

O

• Occupancy permits: temporary 676:12
• Office of Energy and Planning 4-C
• Official map 674:10
• Open space requirement is subdivision regulations 674:36, II (d)

P

• PACE (Property-Assessed Clean Energy) Districts 53-F
• Petitioned zoning amendments 675:4
• Planning board: access to land 674:1, IV
• Planning board: appeals 677:15
• Planning board: duties 674:1
• Planning board: members, alternates 673:6
• Planning board: members serving on other boards 673:7
• Planning board: removal of members 673:13
• Planning board: rules of procedure 676:1
• Planning board: vacancies 673:12
• Planning and zoning in unincorporated towns and unorganized places 28:7-b
• Plats: complete application 676:4, I (b)
• Plats: conceptual consultation 676:4, II (a)
• Plats: conditional approval 676:4, I (i)
• Plats: 30/65 day "clock" 676:4, I (c)
• Plats: procedure by board 676:4
• Plats: recording 674:37; 676:18
• Posting of zoning amendments notice 676:12
• Preapplication review 676:4, II
• Premature and scattered 674:36, II(a)
• Protest petition 675:5
• Public hearing notice (planning board) 676:4, I (d)
• Public hearing notice (zoning board of adjustment) 676:7

Q

• Quorum 673:10

R

• Reasonable fees 676:4, I(g)
• Recording of plats 674:37; 676:18
• Regional impact 36:54-58
• Regional planning commissions 36:45
• Rehearing 677:2
• Removal of members 673:13
• Renewable Energy Chapter 72 Persons and Property Liable to Taxation. (Grants municipalities the option to exempt certain renewable energy installations from property taxation. Sections 61-72 are the relevant sections.)
• Restoration of Involuntarily Merged Lots 674:39-aa
• Revocation of recorded approval 676:4-a
• Revolving Funds 31:95-h
• Right to know law 91-A
• Rivers Management and Protection Program 483
• Roads: classification 229:5
• Roads: class VI 674:41
• Roads: scenic 231:157 & 231:158
• Rules of procedure 676:1

S

• Safe Drinking Water Act 485
• Scenic roads 231:157 & 231:158
• Selling lots in unapproved subdivisions 676:16
• Septic approval 485-A:29, I
• Shoreland protection act 483-B
• Significant alteration of terrain permit 485-A:17
• Site Plan Review 674:43
• Site review committee 674:43, III
• Small Wind Energy Systems 674:62-66
• Solar skyspace easements 477:49-51
• Special town meeting 39:4
• Staff, finances 673:16
• Subdivision authority 674:35, I
• Subdivision defined 672:14
• Subdivision regulations: amended 675:6, III

T

• Tax maps 31:95-a
• Technical review committee 674:43, III
• Temporary variance 674:33, V
• Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts 162:K
• Time, how reckoned 21:35
• Training 673:3-a
• Transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions 676:16

U

• Unapproved streets 674:40
• Unapproved subdivisions 676:16
• Unorganized places & unincorporated towns, planning and zoning in 28:7-b
• Utility structures 674:30

V

• Variance, temporary 674:33, V
• Village Plan Alternative Subdivision 674:21(VI)
• Voluntary lot merger 674:39-a

W

• Water resource management and protection 4-C:19-23
• Water Pollution and Waste Disposal 485-A
• Wetlands, Fill and Dredge in 482-A
• Wind turbines 674:62-66
• Workforce Housing 674:58-61

X

• None

Y

• None

Z

• Zoning: adoption/amendment 675
• Zoning: adoption/amendment protest petition 675:5
• Zoning: petitioned amendments 675:4
• Zoning: scope of authority 674:16-23
• Zoning board of adjustment 674:33 & 673:3