2015 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XL - AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Chapter 430 - INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES
Section 430:12 - Petition.

NH Rev Stat § 430:12 (2015) What's This?

    430:12 Petition. – Ten qualified voters in any city or town may petition the city council, town selectmen, or any other type of city or town governing body, hereafter called the local governing body, that the proposition of creating, establishing, and maintaining a city or town mosquito control district be submitted to the voters of that city or town at the next general election held in that city or town or to the voters in the next town meeting that does not occur within less than 90 days after filing the petition. The petition may consist of one or more separate units and shall be filed with the local governing body. Each subscriber to the petition shall state his name, post office address, the voting precinct in which he is registered, and the date of signing. No subscriber may withdraw his name or have it taken from the petition after the petition has been filed. If the name of any person has been placed upon the petition without his authority, he may appear before the local governing body, before the election or meeting is ordered, and, upon proof his name was placed on the petition without his authority, his name may be struck off the petition by an order of the local governing body.

Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.


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