SB 95 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

03/06/2025   0504s

2025 SESSION

25-1054

06/09

 

SENATE BILL 95

 

AN ACT relative to youth recreation camp cabins and the state building and fire codes.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. McConkey, Dist 3; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts new residential cabins in youth recreation camps from being required to have automatic sprinkler systems, and provides that the cabins also do not need to have electrical, mechanical, or plumbing systems, but if they do, such electrical, mechanical, or plumbing systems must comply with the state building code.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03/06/2025   0504s 25-1054

06/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to youth recreation camp cabins and the state building and fire codes.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Youth Recreation Camp Cabins.  Amend RSA 155-A by inserting after section 13 the following new section:

155-A:14  Youth Recreation Camp Cabins.

I.  Residential cabins in youth recreation camps as defined in RSA 170-E:55 shall meet the applicable existing chapter in the state building code, provided however, that no new or renovated structures used as youth recreation camp cabins shall require automatic sprinkler systems.  For purposes of this section only, all new residential facilities for youth summer recreation camps shall be limited to 2 stories above grade.

II.  Residential cabins shall not be required to have electrical, mechanical, or plumbing.  However, if a residential cabin does have such system the applicable state building code shall be followed.

2  New Paragraph; State Fire Code.  Amend RSA 153:5 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:

VII.  Residential cabins in youth recreation camps as defined in RSA 170-E:55 shall meet the applicable existing chapter in the state fire code, provided however, that no new or renovated structures used as youth recreation camp cabins shall require automatic sprinkler systems.  For purposes of this section only, all new residential facilities for youth summer recreation camps shall be limited to 2 stories above grade.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.