Section 147:3 – Investigations and Complaints.
147:3 Investigations and Complaints. – Health officers of towns, and each of them, shall inquire into all nuisances and other causes of danger to the public health, and for the purpose of such investigations, or whenever they shall know or have cause to suspect that any nuisance or other thing injurious to the public […]
Section 147:4 – Removal, Notice.
147:4 Removal, Notice. – The health officers may notify the owner or occupant of any building, vessel, premises, or property to remove or destroy any nuisance or other thing therein deemed by them, on examination, to be injurious to the public health, within a time limited; and in case the owner or occupant, after […]
Section 147:5 – Assistants; Resistance.
147:5 Assistants; Resistance. – They may employ such assistants and laborers as may be necessary, and if resisted shall have the same powers as sheriffs have to command assistance; and any person wilfully resisting them or their assistants or laborers, in making the search or removing the nuisance or other thing, shall be guilty […]
Section 147:6 – Removal Without Notice.
147:6 Removal Without Notice. – When the owner of a building, vessel or enclosure is unknown to the health officers, or does not reside in town, and the same is unoccupied, or the occupant is, in their opinion, unable to remove the same, they may, without previous notice, immediately cause the nuisance or other […]
Section 147:7 – Expenses.
147:7 Expenses. – The owner or occupant of a building, vessel or enclosure shall be liable to pay the expense of the removal or destruction of the nuisance or other thing, including the fees of the health officers who order or cause the same to be removed; and the same may be recovered by […]
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. […]
Section 147:8 – Toilets; Drains.
147:8 Toilets; Drains. – No person shall occupy, lease to any other person, or permit any other person to occupy, a building or any part of a building as a dwelling house, office, store, shop, theater, public hall, sleeping apartment or tourist cabin, unless such building shall have readily accessible adequate toilet and lavatory […]
Section 147:9 – Penalty.
147:9 Penalty. – Any person neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of RSA 147:8 shall be guilty of a violation for each day of neglect or refusal, after notice as provided in RSA 147:4. Source. 1869, 8:2. GL 111:8. 1881, 89:2. 1887, 62:4. PS 108:9. PL 140:9. RL 165:9. RSA 147:9. 1973, […]
Section 147:10 – Nuisances; When; Regulations.
147:10 Nuisances; When; Regulations. – No privy, toilet, sink, drain, cesspool, septic tank, or the discharges from such facilities, and no pen or sty for swine, shall be erected or continued in such place or condition as, in the judgment of the health officers, to be a nuisance or injurious to the public health. […]