New Hampshire HB 1246: relative to planning board members serving on other local boards.

Bill Text

HB 1246 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

2026 SESSION

 26-2738

 04/09

HOUSE BILL 1246

AN ACT relative to planning board members serving on other local boards.

SPONSORS: Rep. Fracht, Graf. 16; Rep. Aylward, Merr. 5; Rep. Stavis, Graf. 13; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

 This bill mandates that a member of a planning board, who also serves on a zoning board, may only participate and vote on one board when an application or development project is heard by both boards.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2738

 04/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT relative to planning board members serving on other local boards.

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

 1 Planning Board Members Serving on Other Local Boards. Amend RSA 673:7, I to read as follows: 

 I. Any 2 appointed or elected members of the planning board in a city or town may also serve together on any other municipal board or commission, except that no more than one appointed or elected member of the planning board shall serve on the conservation commission, the local governing body, or a local land use board as defined in RSA 672:7. A member who also serves on a zoning board of adjustment shall recuse from voting on any matter previously decided by that board in a quasi-judicial capacity in which the member participated as a voting member.

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