CPA · Municipal Government Act
Part 7 — Meetings with the Public
225 Counting petitioners
officer and the chief administrative officer is responsible for
determining if the petition is sufficient.
(2) No name may be added to or removed from a petition after it
has been filed with the chief administrative officer.
(3) In counting the number of petitioners on a petition there must
be excluded the name of a person
(a) whose signature is not witnessed,
(a.1) whose signature is witnessed but for which no affidavit is
attached to the petition,
RSA 2000
Section 226 MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT ACT Chapter M-26
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(b) whose signature appears on a page of the petition that does
not have the same purpose statement that is contained on all
the other pages of the petition,
(c) whose printed name is not included or is incorrect,
(d) whose street address or leg al description of land is not
included or is incorrect,
(e) if the date when the person signed the petition is not stated,
(f) when a petition is restr icted to certain persons,
(i) who is not one of those persons, or
(ii) whose qualification as one of those persons is not, or is
incorrectly, described or set out,
or
(g) who signed the petition more than 60 days before the date
on which the petition was filed with the chief administrative
officer, unless a bylaw under section 226.1(1)(e) provides
otherwise.
(4) If 5000 or more petitioners are necessary to make a petition
sufficient, a chief administrative officer may use a random
statistical sampling method with a 95% confidence level to
determine the sufficiency of the petition, instead of counting and
checking each petitioner.
RSA 2000 cM-26 s225;2015 c8 s28;2017 c13 s1(18)