New Hampshire HB 1297: relative to property owned pursuant to the public trust doctrine.

Bill Text

HB 1297 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-2826

 08/09

HOUSE BILL 1297

AN ACT relative to property owned pursuant to the public trust doctrine.

SPONSORS: Rep. Newsom, Merr. 9

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

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ANALYSIS

 This bill prevents a person from acquiring property owned pursuant to the public trust doctrine from being adversely possessed.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2826

 08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT relative to property owned pursuant to the public trust doctrine.

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

 1 Conveyances of Realty and Interests; No Prescription Against the Public; Public Trust Doctrine. Amend RSA 477:34 to read as follows: 

 477:34 Property. 

 No person shall acquire by prescription a right to any part of a town house, schoolhouse or church lot, property owned pursuant to the public trust doctrine, or of any public ground by fencing or otherwise inclosing the same or in any way occupying it adversely for any length of time. 

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