New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-R:1 – Definitions
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In this chapter:
I. “Energy infrastructure” includes high voltage DC or AC electric transmission facilities of 115 kV or greater, natural gas transmission lines, carbon dioxide pipelines, petroleum pipelines, and other energy transport pipelines or conduits.
II. “Energy infrastructure corridor” means an existing state-owned transportation right-of-way within which energy infrastructure could potentially be sited underground.
III. “Developer” means a person or legal entity that can demonstrate to the state the financial, technical, and managerial capability to engage in the development and construction of energy infrastructure.
IV. “Project” means the development or construction of energy infrastructure subject to site evaluation committee jurisdiction under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 162-H within an energy infrastructure corridor.
V. “Site evaluation committee” means the site evaluation committee established in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 162-H:3.
VI. “State-owned transportation right-of-way” means a highway or railroad right-of-way on land owned in fee by the state or a state agency or state authority.
VII. “Sufferance” means that the owner of energy infrastructure has no real property interest in the right-of-way, but merely occupies and uses the public right-of-way subject to terms and conditions established by the New Hampshire department of transportation.
I. “Energy infrastructure” includes high voltage DC or AC electric transmission facilities of 115 kV or greater, natural gas transmission lines, carbon dioxide pipelines, petroleum pipelines, and other energy transport pipelines or conduits.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-R:1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
II. “Energy infrastructure corridor” means an existing state-owned transportation right-of-way within which energy infrastructure could potentially be sited underground.
III. “Developer” means a person or legal entity that can demonstrate to the state the financial, technical, and managerial capability to engage in the development and construction of energy infrastructure.
IV. “Project” means the development or construction of energy infrastructure subject to site evaluation committee jurisdiction under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 162-H within an energy infrastructure corridor.
V. “Site evaluation committee” means the site evaluation committee established in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 162-H:3.
VI. “State-owned transportation right-of-way” means a highway or railroad right-of-way on land owned in fee by the state or a state agency or state authority.
VII. “Sufferance” means that the owner of energy infrastructure has no real property interest in the right-of-way, but merely occupies and uses the public right-of-way subject to terms and conditions established by the New Hampshire department of transportation.