485-C:1 Statement of Purpose
485-C:2 Definitions
485-C:3 Duties of the Department
485-C:4 Rulemaking
485-C:5 Classes of Groundwater
485-C:6 Ambient Groundwater Quality Standards
485-C:6-a Groundwater Management Zones
485-C:6-b Recordation of Groundwater Management Zone Permits
485-C:7 Potential Contamination Sources
485-C:8 Inventory and Management
485-C:9 Procedures for Classification and Reclassification
485-C:10 Degraded Groundwater
485-C:11 Best Management Practices
485-C:12 Prohibited Uses
485-C:13 Groundwater Release Detection Permit
485-C:14 Notice to Municipality
485-C:14-a Notification of Large Groundwater Withdrawal Required
485-C:14-b Notification of Groundwater Contamination Required
485-C:15 Investigation and Inspection
485-C:16 Cease and Desist Orders
485-C:17 Appeals
485-C:18 Administrative Fines
485-C:19 Penalties and Other Relief
485-C:20 Effect on Local Ordinances
485-C:21 Approval for Large Groundwater Withdrawals
485-C:21-a Conservation Management Plan Not Required
485-C:22 Exemptions for Large Groundwater Withdrawals From Replacement Wells
485-C:23 Temporary Exemptions for Large Groundwater Withdrawals Required for Emergency Purposes
485-C:24 Short-Term Use Groundwater Withdrawals
485-C:25 Exemption for Certain Large Groundwater Withdrawals Associated With Geothermal Processes
485-C:26 Groundwater Withdrawals Less than 57,600 Gallons Over Any 24-Hour Period for Community Water Systems

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 485-C - Groundwater Protection Act

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • 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.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • farm: means any land, buildings, or structures on or in which agriculture and farming operations or activities are carried out or conducted and shall include the residence or residences of owners, occupants, or employees located on such land. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:34-a
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
  • 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.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • month: shall mean a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:8
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • road: shall include all bridges thereon. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:26
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4