New Hampshire Revised Statutes 52-A:7 – Assessment and Collection of Special Assessments
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 52-A:7
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
Upon adoption of the budgetary appropriation, the municipality may levy assessments in an amount necessary to fund the appropriation, net of other revenues applied to the appropriation. The assessments shall be made against the owners of properties in the special assessment district based on their proportionate shares of the benefits as determined by the governing body. Government property and nonprofit organizations within the district shall be subject to the assessments. The special assessments shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as property taxes under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 76 and N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 80 and be subject to the same penalties and the same procedure and sale in case of delinquency. The town or city shall commit a special assessment to the tax collector with a warrant signed by the appropriate municipal officials requiring the tax collector to collect them. The tax collector shall have the same rights and remedies, including a lien on the real estate, and be subject to the same liabilities in relation thereto as in the collection of taxes as provided in RSA 80.