Bill Text: NH HB655 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Regulating disorderly houses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-11-13 - Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate [HB655 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2019-HB655-Introduced.html

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HB 655 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-0798

06/05

 

HOUSE BILL 655

 

AN ACT regulating disorderly houses.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Butler, Carr. 7

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill permits a town to make bylaws regulating disorderly houses.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0798

06/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT regulating disorderly houses.

 

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

 

1  New Subparagraph; Powers of Towns; Bylaws.  Amend RSA 31:39, I by inserting after subparagraph (p) the following new subparagraph:

(q)  Regulating disorderly houses.  In this section, "disorderly houses" mean houses in which the activity of a building's owner, occupants, or tenants, or the invitees of an owner, tenant or occupant, unreasonably disturbs the community, neighborhood, or an individual occupying property near the disorderly activity, including but not limited to loud music or parties, or other loud noises emanating from within or near the building, fights within the building or in its vicinity involving occupants of the building or their invitees, intoxication of the occupants of the building, and similar activities.  Disorderly activities shall not include abuse as defined in RSA 173-B:1.

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