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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 33:4-a: Debt Limit, Municipalities.

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  1. Title III: TOWNS, CITIES, VILLAGE DISTRICTS, AND UNINCORPORATED PLACES
  2. Chapter 33: MUNICIPAL FINANCE ACT

I. Cities shall not incur net indebtedness, except for school purposes, to an amount, at any one time outstanding, exceeding 3 percent of their valuation determined as hereinafter provided.

II. Cities shall not incur net indebtedness for school purposes to an amount at any one time outstanding, determined as hereinafter provided, exceeding 7 percent of said valuation. Any debt incurred for school purposes by a city under this or any special statute heretofore or hereafter enacted shall be excluded in determining the borrowing capacity of a city for other than school purposes under the 3 percent limitation in paragraph I.

III. Towns shall not incur net indebtedness to an amount at any one time outstanding exceeding 3 percent of their valuation determined as hereinafter provided.

IV. School districts shall not incur net indebtedness to an amount at any one time outstanding exceeding 7 percent determined as hereinafter provided.

V. Village districts shall not incur net indebtedness to an amount at any one time outstanding exceeding one percent of their valuation determined as hereinafter provided.

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