Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 149-I:6-b

  • 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.
  • legislative body: shall mean a town meeting, school district meeting, village district meeting, city or town council, mayor and council, mayor and board of aldermen, or, when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county convention. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:47
The formation of a stormwater utility is hereby authorized upon approval by a majority vote of the legislative body of a municipality. In the case where a stormwater utility encompasses land within more than one municipality, the utility may be authorized by majority vote of the legislative bodies within each affected jurisdiction. Inter-municipal stormwater utilities shall be governed by a stormwater utility commission.