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Budget and Warrant Preparation
The state Department of Revenue Administration website offers a variety of helpful documents to assist municipalities in the budget and warrant preparation process. Below are direct links to select documents:
Technical assistance for town, village district and budget committees
(information regarding the budget preparation process)Technical assistance for SB 2 municipalities
(official ballot referendum form of government)
Town Meeting and Elections
The following documents were provided at LGC's 2010 Moderators Workshop:
- Basic law of town, village district and school district meeting
- Rules of procedure, ranking of motions
- Election law for new moderators
- Election law: What’s new?
- Polling place checklist
Legal Briefs
The LGC Legal Services attorneys respond to a wide array of questions from member municipal officials. The following list includes some recent questions and answers (PDF format):
- New Topics:
- Abstention from voting
- As justice may require tax deed authority
- Class VI highway use regulation
- Dual Zoning Board of Adjustment and Conservation Commission membership
- Elderly and disabled tax deferral criteria
- Employee residency requirements
- Land use board member removal for malfeasance
- Planning board and property disputes
- Preemption of wind powered generation facilities
- Procedure for removal of elected officials
- Redirecting water to abutting land
- Selectmen control over road agent
- Town meeting power to limit future proposed budgets
- Welfare overexpenditures
- Withholding permit for money owed
- Home Rule: Do New Hampshire towns and cities have it?
- When an amendment is proposed to a municipal building code or zoning ordinance, when does it take effect?
- What guidelines apply when an individual is represented by an agent or other representative before a town official or board?
- What it means to "act as a board"
- When should there be an ex officio member?
- Voters’ guides – are they legal?
- Plowing private roads, driveways, and class VI roads
- How can we tell if a highway has been established by “public travel"?
- Regulating overnight, storm or general parking on town rights-of-way
- Snowmobile use of highways
- Is it possible to "ban" citizens from the transfer station?
- Zoning prohibitions against solid waste facilities in municipalities
- Town cemeteries – does a private cemetery satisfy the law?
- When the municipality has the remains of an unclaimed body cremated, what should be done with the cremains?
- Why would a municipality refuse a tax deed, and what happens if they do?
- Town as landlord: Should a town rent property back to an occupant instead of taking the property by tax deed for unpaid taxes?
- When is it appropriate to require a local welfare recipient to conduct a work search or participate in a local work program?
- Summary eviction from short-term rental units – constitutional?
Visit the New Hampshire Town and City Article Index to access additional legal articles.