Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:27

  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, company, organization or legal entity of any kind. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:2
  • Reconstruction: means :
    (a) A change in the height, length, or discharge capacity of the structure;
    (b) Restoring a breached dam or one in ruins;
    (c) Modification of flashboards which either increases their height or increases the headwater elevation at which the flashboards will fail; or
    (d) A change in the structural configuration of a dam. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 482:2
If any person interested neglects to comply with the order, any one or more of the others may rebuild or repair his part or share; and the cost of such repair or reconstruction, upon notice, shall be determined and certified by the selectmen, with their charges for the service, and the amount of such costs may be recovered of such delinquent, with interest at the statutory rate established in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 336:1. The person paying the cost and charges shall have a lien for such cost and charges upon such delinquent’s part or share, and the rents and profits of such part or share, until the amount, with the interest and all taxes and repairs, is repaid.