47:1 In General
47:1-a Contracts With Firefighting Units
47:1-b Special Revenue Funds
47:1-c Procedure for Adoption
47:2 Prescribing Offices; Disqualification
47:3 Election of Officers
47:4 Vacancies
47:5 City Property
47:6 Financial Supervision
47:7 Auditor
47:8 Appointment
47:9 Fire Chief; Deputy Chief
47:10 City Report
47:11 Sewers
47:11-a Mass Transportation for Cities
47:11-b Group Homes
47:11-c Geographic Information Systems
47:12 Health
47:12-a Life and Health Insurance
47:13 Executive Powers
47:14 Appointive Officers
47:15 Police Uniform
47:16 General Meeting
47:17 Bylaws and Ordinances
47:17-a Ordinances Affecting Forestry Activities
47:17-b Enforcement of Bylaws and Ordinances
47:18 Notice and Publication of Ordinances
47:19 Fines and Forfeitures for Violation of Ordinances
47:20 Form of Complaints
47:21 Appeal From
47:22 Grant of Power
47:22-a Manufactured Housing
47:22-b Manufactured Housing Foundations
47:23 Amendment
47:24 Exception
47:25 Examination by Public
47:26 Public Hearing; Notice
47:27 Local Option for Oil Refinery Siting in Cities
47:28 Woodstoves

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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 47 - Powers of City Councils

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • 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
  • bylaw: when used in reference to legislative action taken by a city, town, county or village district shall have the same meaning as an ordinance and shall be subject to the same procedures for enactment. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:45
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • 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
  • 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.
  • legislative body: shall mean a town meeting, school district meeting, village district meeting, city or town council, mayor and council, mayor and board of aldermen, or, when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county convention. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:47
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
  • 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
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.