New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:17 – Right Granted
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:17
- 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.
- Dam: means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, which impounds or diverts water and which has a height of 6 feet or more, or is located at the outlet of a great pond. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:2
- Mills: shall include both manufacturing plants and plants at which electric power is generated for public distribution or for the operation of mills, railroads or public utilities. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:2
- Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, company, organization or legal entity of any kind. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:2
Any person or corporation authorized by its charter or articles of agreement to do so may erect and maintain on his or its land, or on land of another, with the owner’s consent, a dam upon or across any stream or may increase by flashboards or permanently the height of any dam already so maintained by him or it for the purpose of raising the water to work any mill or mills on such stream or on another stream to which the same is tributary or for the purpose of creating a reservoir of water or raising the level of a public or other lake or pond to control, conserve or equalize the flow of such stream or streams for the benefit of any such mill or mills, upon obtaining authority to do so as provided in this subdivision.