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Part 3 — Special Municipal Powers and Limits on Municipal Powers Division 1 Expropriation

27.2 Forestry road agreement

Current to 2026-05-14 · Official PDF

(1) A municipality may enter into an agreement with a person
with respect to a former forestry road that
(a) authorizes the person to use the road for commercial and
industrial purposes,
(b) authorizes the person
(i) to allow others to use the road for commercial or
industrial purposes, and
(ii) to charge those others a fee for that use,
(c) requires the person to maintain the road according to
specifications or standards referred to in the agreement and
to be responsible for capital improvements to the road, and
(d) deals with any other matter concerning the road that the
parties consider appropriate.
(2) If the agreement holder does not maintain the former forestry
road in accordance with the agreement and the municipality incurs
costs in maintaining the road, the costs incurred by the municipality
are an amount owing by the agreement holder to the municipality.
(3) An agreement holder must not charge a person who uses a
former forestry road for a commercial or industrial purpose an

RSA 2000
Section 27.5 MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT ACT Chapter M-26
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amount that exceeds a reasonable fee based on the increased
maintenance and administrative costs of the agreement holder as a
result of the person's use of the road.
RSA 2000 cM-26 s27.2;2022 c16 s9(9)
27.3 and 27.4 Repealed 2022 c16 s9(10).