HB 453 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0908
11/09
HOUSE BILL453
AN ACTprohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.
SPONSORS:Rep. T. Walsh, Merr. 10; Rep. Vose, Rock. 5; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2; Rep. Packard, Rock. 16; Rep. S. Smith, Sull. 3; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16
COMMITTEE:Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits municipalities from banning the use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0908
11/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACTprohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Maintenance; Internal Combustion Engines. Amend RSA 41 by inserting after section 11-d the following new section:
41:11-e Grounds Maintenance or Snow and Ice Removal Equipment Powered by Internal Combustion Engines.
A local governing body shall not prohibit a person as defined in RSA 382-A:1-201(b)(27) from operating grounds maintenance or snow and ice removal equipment powered by internal combustion engines on any property within any municipality. A local governing body may prohibit the municipality from purchasing any snow or ice removal equipment powered by internal combustion engines, if a majority of the citizenry of the municipality votes in favor of such prohibition.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.