Section 147:13 – Offensive Matter.
147:13 Offensive Matter. – If a person shall place, leave, or cause to be placed or left, in or near a highway, street, alley, public place, or wharf or on a private disposal site or shall allow to be exposed unburied, any animal or other substance liable to become putrid or offensive, or injurious […]
Section 147:14 – Drainage.
147:14 Drainage. – No person shall discharge, leave, or cause to be discharged or left, within the limits of any public highway, any drainage or discharges from any privy, toilet, sink drain, cesspool or septic tank, when such discharges or matter may enter or pass through any open highway ditch or drainage structure constructed […]
Section 147:14-a – Investigation and Inspection.
147:14-a Investigation and Inspection. – Any authorized member or agent of the department of health and human services may enter any land for the purpose of collecting information that may be necessary to investigate or inspect drainage systems pursuant to RSA 147:14 or private sewage systems pursuant to RSA 147:17-a. No owner shall refuse […]
Section 147:15 – Slaughterhouses, Etc.; Permits.
147:15 Slaughterhouses, Etc.; Permits. – If a person shall use or occupy a building or place near a dwelling-house or schoolhouse, or in the compact part of a town, for a slaughterhouse, a place of deposit of green pelts or skins, or for trying tallow, currying leather, or carrying on any other business that […]
Section 147:16 – Withdrawal of Permits.
147:16 Withdrawal of Permits. – The health officers may withdraw the permission by notice in writing whenever in their opinion such use or occupancy of a building or place becomes a nuisance. In such case they shall order the abatement of the nuisance and the discontinuance of the use or occupancy within a time […]
Section 147:16-a – Procedure for Ordering Building Vacated.
147:16-a Procedure for Ordering Building Vacated. – The health officer shall have the authority to order occupants to vacate a building, structure, or other premises if the officer determines, based on reasonable information and belief, that the condition of such premises constitutes a clear and imminent danger to the life or health of occupants […]
Section 147:16-b – Outdoor Wood-Fired Hydronic Heaters.
147:16-b Outdoor Wood-Fired Hydronic Heaters. – If the owner or operator of an outdoor wood-fired hydronic heater (OWHH), as defined under RSA 125-R, operates the OWHH in a manner which causes a nuisance or is injurious to the public health, the health officers may, in writing, order that use of the OWHH be discontinued. […]
Section 147:17 – Cleansing Premises; Penalty.
147:17 Cleansing Premises; Penalty. – Whenever a building, tenement or room occupied as a dwelling or schoolroom, or any cellar or other appurtenance connected therewith, has become the source of danger to the health of its occupants or others from want of cleanliness the health officers may order the owner, the owner’s agents or […]
Section 147:7-a – Notice to Owner.
147:7-a Notice to Owner. – As a prerequisite to the use of the alternative abatement cost collection procedure under RSA 147:7-b, any notice or order given pursuant to RSA 147:4, 147:11, 147:17, or 147:17-a, shall be in writing and subject to the following requirements: I. The notice shall contain: (a) A description of the […]
Section 147:7-b – Collection of Nuisance Abatement Costs.
147:7-b Collection of Nuisance Abatement Costs. – A municipality which has incurred costs for the removal or destruction of a public health nuisance pursuant to RSA 147:4-6, 147:11, 147:13, 147:17, or 147:17-a, may, as an alternative to a civil action to recover such costs, institute collection of such costs using the following procedure: I. […]