483-B:1 Purpose
483-B:2 Minimum Standards Required
483-B:3 Consistency Required
483-B:4 Definitions
483-B:5 Enforcement by Commissioner; Duties; Woodland Buffer
483-B:5-b Permit Required; Exemption
483-B:6 Other Required Permits and Approvals
483-B:7 Reporting; On-Site Inspections; Local Participation
483-B:8 Municipal Authority
483-B:9 Minimum Shoreland Protection Standards
483-B:10 Nonconforming Lots of Record
483-B:11 Nonconforming Structures
483-B:12 Shoreland Exemptions
483-B:14 Rehearings and Appeals
483-B:15 Gifts, Grants and Donations
483-B:16 Assistance to Municipalities; Office of State Planning and Energy Programs
483-B:17 Rulemaking
483-B:18 Penalties
483-B:22 Coastal and Great Bay Region Reports
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 483-B - Shoreland Water Quality Protection Act

  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • 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
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • road: shall include all bridges thereon. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:26
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4