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The committee held a public hearing on October 7, 1993. The committee held work sessions on October 13, 1993, October 18, 1993 and October 27, 1993. The majority recommended that the House pass it with changes, and the minority recommended that the House kill it, by a vote of 11\u20134. The committee's amendment (3943) was adopted on a voice vote on January 5, 1994, changing the text of the bill. On January 5, 1994 the House voted to pass it with changes on a voice vote, then referred it on to the House Appropriations committee. The committee held a public hearing on January 25, 1994. The majority of the committee recommended that the House study it after the session ends unanimously, 17\u20130. On February 8, 1994 the House voted to study it after the session ends on a voice vote. The committee held a work session on October 12, 1994. The committee reported back on its interim study of the bill: \u201cRecommended for Future Legislation\u201d, by a vote of 14 to 0.", "stages": [{"label": "House Committee (Commerce, Small Business and Consumer Affairs)", "hand": "H:committee", "text": "It was introduced on January 6, 1993 and referred to the House Commerce, Small Business and Consumer Affairs committee. The committee held a public hearing on January 26, 1993. The committee held work sessions on February 16, 1993 and March 2, 1993. The majority of the committee recommended that the House pass it with changes by a vote of 16\u20133.", "notes": []}, {"label": "On the House Floor", "hand": "H:floor", "text": "On March 10, 1993 the House voted to pass it with changes on a roll call 262\u2013100, then referred it on to the House Appropriations committee.", "notes": []}, {"label": "House Committee (Appropriations)", "hand": "H:committee", "text": "The committee held a public hearing on March 23, 1993. 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authority.\n\nThe authority shall be responsible for facilitating commerce in the seacoast area through development of air, sea, and surface transportation and land development in the area.\n\nThe bill also appropriates funds to the authority to capitalize the facility improvement fund.\n\nThe new authority shall come into existence July 1, 1994.", "fiscal": {"lead": "", "tables": [{"caption": "", "raw": ["The Pease Development Authority and the Port Authority are unable to determine the fiscal impact of this bill, as amended by the House, on state, county and local revenues and expenditures."]}]}, "body": "10march93.....1776h\n\n5jan94........3943h\n\n5jan94........4488h\n\nHOUSE BILL AMENDED BY THE HOUSE\n\n0383B\n\n08\n\nHB 442-FN\n\nnine hundred and ninety-three\n\ncreating a new New Hampshire port authority and making\n\nan appropriation therefore.\n\nBe it Enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-\n\ntatives in General Court convened:\n\n1 New Hampshire Port Authority. RSA 12-G is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nCHAPTER 12-G\n\nNEW HAMPSHIRE PORT AUTHORITY\n\n12-G:1 Declaration of Purpose.\n\nI. The general court recognizes that the operation of 2 authorities within close proximity of each other, with the same economic goals of creating commerce, employment and other business, is best served by consolidating the daily operations into one management entity. The consolidation has the distinct advantage of a unified worldwide marketing program which will maximize the potential for economic revitalization of the seacoast communities and the state of New Hampshire.\n\nII. In addition, the general court embraces as an economic goal, the completion of the seaport expansion permitted by the Corps of Engineers in January 1993. The utilization of bonding authority, acquisition of federal grants and public/private funding is encouraged.\n\nIII. It is also the intent of the general court to acknowledge the importance of New Hampshire's quality of life by pursuing environmentally responsive development of the seaport and former air base. Every effort shall be made to foster and encourage a continued environmentally sensitive high quality of life for future generations.\n\nIV. The general court fully endorses, and acknowledges the benefits that may accrue by participating in public/private partnerships, to include private sector funding, whenever such partnerships contribute to managed economic progress of the region.\n\nV. The general court recognizes that the closure and redevelopment of Pease Air Force Base is a matter of great concern for the town of Newington, the city of Portsmouth, the seacoast region, and the state of New Hampshire. It is also the intent of the general court to return non-airport district land, with the exception of the golf course at the airbase, to the tax bases of Portsmouth and Newington.\n\nVI. The general court further recognizes that the economies, environment, and quality of life of the affected communities, the seacoast region, and the state will depend on the speedy and proper development of the port and the former air base.\n\nVII. It is further declared that creation of a New Hampshire port authority to promote, oversee, and integrate the development of the former\n\nair base and the port is in all respects for the benefit of the affected communities, the seacoast region, and the state and for the improvement of their welfare and prosperity, including the creation of employment and other business opportunities.\n\nVIII. The general court also recognizes the economic necessity for the maintenance and development of the ports, harbors, and navigable tidal rivers of the state of New Hampshire from the head of navigation to the seaward limits within the jurisdiction of the state. There is a need to foster and stimulate commerce and the shipment of freight through the state's ports and to assist shipping, and commercial and industrial interests that may depend on the sea for transport of products, including such interests as may be desirous of locating in tidewater areas of the state. The general court encourages the establishment of accommodations for the boat traveler, the area boat owners, the pleasure fishermen, and others who pass up and down our coast line or in its tributaries.\n\nIX. The general court realizes it is important to plan, develop, maintain, use, and operate land transportation facilities within a 15 mile radius of the authority headquarters at Portsmouth and maintain, use and operate facilities on property owned or controlled by the authority.\n\nX. To these ends, the authority shall cooperate with the Seacoast Metropolitan commission, the department of transportation, and departments, agencies, authorities, or commissions of the federal, state or local governments and accept grants, aid, or services from such agencies.\n\n12-G:2 Definitions. In this chapter:\n\nI. \"Airport district\" means:\n\n(a) The property conveyed, granted or otherwise transferred to the authority or its predecessor by the federal government or any agency thereof pursuant to section 13(g) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (50 U.S.C. App. section 1622(g)), as amended; or\n\n(b) Property conveyed, granted or otherwise transferred to the authority or its predecessor by the federal government or any agency of the federal government and declared or designated by the authority as the \"airport district\" in accordance with the procedures prescribed in RSA 12-G:14, II after the expansion or contraction of the district has been approved by the governing body of the municipality in which the land sought to be added to or taken from the airport district is located.\n\nII. \"Appointing authorities\" means the governor and executive council, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the mayor and city council of the city of Portsmouth, and the board of selectmen of the town of Newington.\n\nIII. \"Authority\" means the New Hampshire port authority.\n\nIV. \"Board\" means the board of directors of the authority.\n\nV. \"Bond\" means any bond, note, or other evidence of indebtedness issued under this chapter.\n\nVI. \"Director\" means a member of the board.\n\nVII. \"Excess revenues\" means those revenues in excess of the funds identified in the audit performed pursuant to RSA 12-G:31 required (a) to pay the costs of operating, maintaining and repairing all property and projects of the authority, (b) to pay the costs of administering and operating the authority, including, but not limited to, all wages,\n\nsalaries, benefits and other expenses authorized by the board or the executive director, (c) to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on the outstanding bonds of the authority as the same become due and payable, (d) to create and maintain reserves established pursuant to RSA 12-G:20 or required or provided for in any resolution authorizing, or any security document securing, such bonds of the authority, (e) to create and maintain a facilities improvement fund to be established by the board in an amount not less than $1,000,000 nor more than $5,000,000, and (f) to pay all taxes owed by the authority. Excess revenue shall not include any revenues generated from property transferred or conveyed to the authority pursuant to section 13(g) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, 50 U.S.C. App. section 1622(g), as amended, within the airport district, unless the board and the Federal Aviation Administration deem, in compliance with applicable Federal Law, including but not limited to 49 U.S.C. App. section 2210(a)(12), such revenues to be excess revenues within the meaning of this chapter.\n\nVIII. \"Land use controls\" means all municipal ordinances and requirements or rules of the authority regulating the use, development and improvement of property, including, but not limited to, zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, site plan review regulations, and building, electric, plumbing and fire codes.\n\nIX. \"Pease Air Force Base\" means all land, easements, buildings, structures and appurtenances owned or controlled by the United States Department of Defense on January 1, 1990, in the towns of Newington and Greenland, or the city of Portsmouth.\n\nX. \"Person\" means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state (including the state of New Hampshire), municipality, commission, United States government or any agency thereof, political subdivision of the state, or any interstate body.\n\nXI. \"Project\" means the development, construction, reconstruction, maintenance or operation of any property of the authority or of any airport or other transportation system by the authority, including all real property and tangible and intangible personal property, structures, machinery, equipment, and appurtenances or facilities which are part of such airport or other transportation system or used or useful in connection therewith.\n\nXII. \"Property\" means all real property and tangible and intangible personal property, rights, and facilities of the authority.\n\nXIII. \"Resolution\" means:\n\n(a) The statements of intent adopted by formal vote of the former Pease Air Force Base redevelopment commission established in 1989, 3:2 on the dates set forth below and related to the following:\n\n(1) The New Hampshire Air National Guard on August 1, 1989.\n\n(2) The Pease Air Force Base trash-to-energy plant on August 15, 1989.\n\n(3) The proposed wildlife refuge at Pease Air Force Base on August 29, 1989.\n\n(4) Asbestos in housing at Pease Air Force Base on October 10, 1989.\n\n(5) The provision of health care for military retirees on October 24, 1989.\n\n(b) Any other statement of intent designating a resolution and adopted by the Pease Air Force Base redevelopment commission since March 20, 1989.\n\nXIV. \"Revenues\" means the gifts, contributions, and appropriations from any source and the rents, profits, fees, charges, receipts, and other income derived or to be derived by the authority from the purchase, sale, leasing, or development of properties and the operation of related facilities located on such properties and all right to receive the same, including investment earnings and the proceeds of any borrowing under this chapter or of any sale or disposition or insurance of any assets of the authority.\n\nXV. \"Security document\" means any trust agreement, security agreement or resolution authorizing the issuance of or securing bonds.\n\nXVI. \"Self-funding\" means when revenue equals operating expenses plus debt service obligation of the former Pease Development Authority as of July 1, 1994.\n\nXVII. \"State\" means the state of New Hampshire.\n\nStructure of New Hampshire Port Authority\n\n12-G:3 New Hampshire Port Authority Established. There is hereby created a body politic and corporate of the state, to be known as the New Hampshire port authority, to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The authority is hereby deemed to be a public instrumentality, and the exercise by the authority of the powers conferred by this chapter shall be deemed\n\nand held to be the performance of public and essential governmental functions of the state.\n\n12-G:4 Management by Board of Directors.\n\nI. The management of the authority shall be vested in a board of 7 directors and one ex officio non-voting member to be appointed as follows:\n\n(a) One member appointed by the governor and executive council. (b) Two members appointed by the mayor and city council of the city of Portsmouth.\n\n(c) One member appointed by the board of selectmen of the town of Newington.\n\n(d) One member appointed by the president of the senate.\n\n(e) One member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.\n\n(f) One member who is nominated by majority vote of the legislative delegation of Strafford county, including the senators whose districts include towns in Strafford county and who is appointed by the governor, the senate president, and the speaker of the house. The person appointed in this manner shall be a resident of Strafford county.\n\n(g) The commissioner of the department of resources and economic development, who shall be a nonvoting ex officio member.\n\nII. The governor shall appoint the chairman of the board, who shall serve in that capacity at the pleasure of the governor. Directors shall hold office for 3 years and until their successors shall have been appointed, which period shall not exceed 3 months. In the event that an appointing authority does not make an appointment within 3 months after the effective date of this chapter or the expiration of a term or the creation of a vacancy, the governor shall make an appointment to fill the position for the term of the remainder of a term. No member shall serve more than 2\n\nfull or partial terms. Directors shall serve staggered terms. The persons initially appointed under subparagraphs I(a), (b) and (f) shall serve for 3 years, those initially appointed under subparagraphs I(c), (d) and (e) shall serve for 2 years. State appointed directors may be removed from office pursuant to the provisions of RSA 4:1. Directors appointed by the municipal appointing authorities may be removed from office for cause after hearing by the municipal appointing authorities.\n\nIII. Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum. A minimum of 4 affirmative votes shall be required for any action of the board, except for the adoption of land use controls, which shall require 5 votes.\n\nIV. The directors shall serve without compensation from the authority, except for such incidental expenses determined by the board to be necessary and incurred while performing business of the authority.\n\nV. Voting directors shall be residents of the state. No voting director shall be an elected public official of the state, federal government, or any political subdivision of the state or federal government.\n\n12-G:5 Statements of Financial Interests; Content; Form.\n\nI. Every member of the board shall file by July 1 of each year a verified written statement of financial interests in accordance with the provisions of this section, unless he has already filed a statement in that calendar year.\n\nII. A voting member of the board shall not be allowed to enter into or continue his duties, unless he has filed a statement of financial interests with the secretary of state.\n\nIII. Statements of financial interests shall contain the following information:\n\n(a) The name, address, and type of any professional, business, or other organization in which the reporting individual was an officer, director, associate, partner, proprietor, or employee, or served in any other professional or advisory capacity, and from which any income in excess of $10,000 was derived during the preceding calendar year.\n\n(b) The description of any debt and the name of the creditor for all debts in excess of $5,000 owed by the reporting individual, as well as the description of any debt and the name of the debtor for all debts in excess of $5,000 owed to the reporting individual, but only if the creditor or debtor, respectively, or any guarantor of the debt, has done work for or business with the state in the preceding calendar year. Loans issued by financial institutions, the normal business of which includes the making of loans of the kind received by the reporting individual, and which are made at the prevailing rate of interest and in accordance with other terms and conditions standard for such loans at the time the debt was contracted need not be disclosed. Debt issued by publicly held corporations and purchased by the reporting individual on the open market at the price available to the public need not be disclosed.\n\nIV. The statement of financial interests shall be completed by typewriting or hand printing, and shall be verified, dated, and signed by the reporting individual personally. It shall be submitted on a form prescribed by the secretary of state.\n\n12-G:6 Executive Director.\n\nI. The board shall appoint an executive director, who shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the authority and who shall have general and active supervision and direction over the day-to-day business and affairs of the authority and its officers and employees, subject, however, to the direction and control of the board. The executive director shall perform all such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the board. The executive director shall hold office for\n\nan indefinite term at the pleasure of the board. The executive director shall also be the secretary of the authority, shall keep a record of the proceedings of the authority, and shall be the custodian of all books, documents, and papers filed with the authority and of its minute book and seal. He shall have the power to cause copies to be made of all minutes and other records and documents of the authority and to give certificates under the seal of the authority to the effect that such copies are true copies, and all persons dealing with the authority may rely upon such certificates.\n\nII. The executive director shall employ support services, legal counsel, accountants, public relations specialists, marketing specialists, and environmental specialists sufficient to maintain operations.\n\nIII. The executive director shall establish and maintain the following co-equal divisions: an airport division, to operate and develop airport facilities and operations, an industrial development division to develop the airport district and all land acquired outside the airport district, a seaport division to develop water borne commerce, and a surface transport division to facilitate all forms of surface passenger and freight mass transportation. The executive director may establish such other divisions, with the consent of the board, as are necessary to the proper administration of this chapter.\n\nIV. The salary of the executive director shall be established by the board.\n\n12-G:7 Disqualification of Member. If any director, or the spouse or issue of any director, shall be interested either directly or indirectly or\n\nshall be a director, officer or employee of or have an ownership interest in any firm or corporation interested directly or indirectly in any contract or other matter with the authority, including any loan to any eligible mortgagor or loan to or purchase of any loan from any lending institution, such interest shall be disclosed to the board and shall be set forth in the minutes of the board. The member having such interest shall not participate on behalf of the authority in any proceedings or decision relating to such contract or matter.\n\n12-G:8 Seacoast Advisory Committee Established. There is hereby created a regional advisory committee which shall advise the board on regional concerns and interests and authority decisions affecting the region's communities. The members shall serve without compensation. The committee shall be composed of a member of the board of directors and an elected city councilor or town selectmen from Dover, Durham, Exeter, Greenland, Hampton, Madbury, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Portsmouth, Rye, and Stratham. The elected city and town officials shall be appointed by their respective legislative bodies. The board shall seek participation of an elected town or city officer from Eliot, Kittery, and South Berwick, Maine. The appointed member of the board of directors shall serve as chair of the committee and the executive director shall appoint a staff member to serve as secretary of the committee. The committee shall meet monthly and shall submit monthly reports to the chair of the board.\n\n12-G:9 Port Expansion Special Committee.\n\nI. There is hereby established a port expansion special committee to\n\nadvise, consult and provide oversight assistance to the New Hampshire port authority on port expansion that was authorized by a 1993 permit of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The committee shall:\n\n(a) Be composed of 6 individuals appointed by the outgoing board of directors of the port authority. The vice-chair of the board of directors of the New Hampshire port authority shall serve as chair and the seaport division director of the New Hampshire port authority shall serve as secretary.\n\n(b) Cease to exist on June 1, 1999, unless extended by the New Hampshire port authority. Any vacancies occurring on the committee shall be filled by the authority.\n\nPowers and Duties of the New Hampshire Port Authority\n\n12-G:10 Duties.\n\nI. The authority shall perform the following duties:\n\n(a) Monitoring the proposed closing of Pease Air Force Base.\n\n(b) Conducting a comprehensive study of all issues related to the closure, conversion, redevelopment and future use of Pease Air Force Base. This study shall have as a primary concern the impact of the closure and redevelopment of Pease Air Force Base on the economies, environment, and quality of life of the affected communities, the seacoast region, and the state.\n\n(c) Reviewing all options relative to the most appropriate use of Pease Air Force Base.\n\n(d) Adopt rules necessary and proper for the maintenance, supervision, and management of the airport district and the harbor\n\nmanagement program, including but not limited to administrative fines and penalties for violations of such rules.\n\n(e) Making all necessary arrangements with relevant governmental entities of other states and federal departments, agencies, and foreign countries and their port entities for the interchange of business, and for such other purposes as will facilitate and increase the commerce of the ports, harbors, airport district, and tidal navigable rivers of the state.\n\n(f) Establishing offices for the transaction of its business at such places as, in the opinion of the authority, shall be advisable and necessary in carrying out the purpose of this chapter.\n\n(g) Appointing and compensating harbor masters at Hampton, Rye, New Castle, Portsmouth, Seabrook and Newington who will enforce the harbor management directives of the authority, such as the placement of moorings, the assignment of anchorage areas and the movement of traffic. The authority may appoint an assistant harbor master at any such place to assist the harbor master of such place in carrying out his duties.\n\n(h) Contracting with and securing the services of a port terminal operating firm for the purpose of having such firm operate a part or all of the facilities of the seaport division of the authority, including piers, wharves, warehouses, parking and storage areas, or other facilities owned or leased by the authority, with such operating firm having the exclusive right to operate the business of a port terminal operator and stevedore, including but not limited to the handling of cargo, the collection of fees from wharfage and dockage and other marine terminal operations, the maintenance and security of the premises, and the promotion, encouragement\n\nand solicitation of business for such port facility or facilities; such contract with an operating firm shall include the following provisions:\n\n(1) The firm shall file with the authority for its approval a tariff clearly defining the terms \"wharfage\" and \"dockage\" and the charges to be made therefor.\n\n(2) The amount of minimum payments per year satisfactory to the authority to be paid to it for the exclusive right to operate upon the marine terminal, as described in the contract, the business of a port terminal operator and stevedore.\n\n(3) The amount retained by said firm from all fees for which it is accountable, said amount being a percentage to cover administrative costs of collection.\n\n(4) The firm to supply a ship's manifest for every vessel using said facilities.\n\n(5) The firm to provide a performance bond in an amount and form acceptable to the authority, as well as insurance in amounts acceptable to the authority for fire and extended coverage, public liability, property damage, and other risks as required by the authority, the insurance company or companies to be licensed to do business in New Hampshire and to be acceptable to the authority.\n\n(6) The firm to file quarterly reports with the authority indicating the amount of all fees for which it is accountable to the authority, the amounts collected and the amounts retained, with a certified audit prepared by a certified public accountant submitted annually.\n\n(7) Such other appropriate provisions which in the opinion of\n\nthe board will carry out the intent of this section and best protect the interest of the authority and of the state.\n\n(i)(1) Setting and collecting fees for mooring and slip permits. A table of such fees shall be attached to the authority of each pilot.\n\n(2) Setting and collecting fees for the management of the foreign trade zone established under RSA 12-G:15.\n\nII. The authority shall at all times act in a manner which is consistent with the public good and pursuant to this chapter shall seek to implement the comprehensive duties identified in paragraph I.\n\n12-G:11 Incorporation; Powers. The authority shall have all of the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including the power:\n\nI. To sue and be sued in all courts and to initiate or participate in actions and proceedings, whether judicial, administrative, arbitrative or otherwise.\n\nII. To have a seal, and to alter such seal at pleasure and to use it by causing it or a facsimile to be affixed or impressed or reproduced in any manner.\n\nIII.(a) To employ or retain as independent contractors architects, engineers, attorneys, accountants, and such other advisors and employees, consultants, and agents as may be necessary in its judgment without regard to any personnel or civil service law or personnel or civil service rule of the state, to prescribe their duties and qualifications, and to fix and pay their compensation, if any.\n\n(b) To appoint qualified individuals to serve as unpaid\n\nvolunteers or advisors under such terms and conditions as it may deem necessary. Such volunteers or advisors may be reimbursed for such incidental expenses determined by the board to be necessary and incurred while performing the business of the authority.\n\nIV. To impose administrative fines and penalties for violations of authority rules regarding the airport district and the harbor management program.\n\nV. To purchase, receive, take by grant, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use and otherwise deal in and with property or any interest therein, whether tangible or intangible, for its purpose.\n\nVI. To sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer, abandon or otherwise dispose of, or mortgage, pledge or create a security interest in, all or any of its property or any interest therein.\n\nVII. To apply for and accept gifts, loans, matching funds, grants, property, funds, money, materials, labor, supplies, land, or services from the United States of America or its agencies or departments or any state agency or any political subdivision of the state, or any other person, to carry out the terms and provisions of, or make agreements with respect to, any such gifts, loans, or grants, and to do any and all things necessary, useful, desirable, or convenient in connection with procuring, accepting, or disposing of such gifts, loans, or grants.\n\nVIII. To purchase, take, receive, subscribe for, or otherwise acquire, hold, make a tender offer for, vote, employ, sell, lend, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, mortgage, pledge or grant a\n\nsecurity interest in, use or otherwise deal in and with, bonds and other obligations, shares or other securities or interests therein issued by others, whether engaged in a similar or different business or activity.\n\nIX. To make and execute agreements, contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers and functions of the authority under this chapter, including contracts with any person, firm, corporation, municipality, state agency, governmental unit, or other\n\nentity, foreign or domestic, provided that no contract in excess of $5,000, including contracts under paragraphs III and XVI, shall be made without requests for proposal. This requirement may be eliminated by an affirmative vote of 5 members of the board on any particular matter. Justification for eliminating the requirement shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.\n\nX. To borrow money at such rate or rates of interest as the authority may determine, issue its notes, bonds, or other obligations to evidence such indebtedness, and secure any of its obligations by mortgage or pledge of all or any of its property or any interest in such property, tangible or intangible, whether then owned or acquired later.\n\nXI. To arrange for guaranties of its notes, bonds, or other obligations pursuant to RSA 12-G:32 by the federal government or by any private insurer or otherwise, and to pay any premiums for such guaranties.\n\nXII. To issue such notes, bonds, or other obligations, whether or not the income from such notes, bonds, or other obligations to the holders is exempt from federal income taxation.\n\nXIII. To purchase notes, bonds, or other obligations of the authority at such price or prices, in such manner, and upon such terms as the authority may determine.\n\nXIV. To invest and reinvest its funds, and take and hold property as security for the payment of funds so invested.\n\nXV. To procure insurance against any loss in connection with its\n\nproperty or projects in such amount or amounts and from such insurers, including the federal government, as it may deem necessary or desirable, and to pay any premiums for such insurance.\n\nXVI. To enter into and perform contracts and agreements, whether or not they may be deemed to constitute indebtedness under applicable law, for the joint and separate planning, financing, construction, purchase, operation, maintenance, use, sharing costs of, ownership, mortgaging, leasing, sale, disposal of or other participation in facilities, products or services of any person who engages in business on property owned or controlled by the authority.\n\nXVII. To maintain a principal office in the state and an office or offices at such other place or places as it may determine.\n\nXVIII. To make any inquiry, investigation, survey, feasibility study or other study which the authority may deem necessary to enable it to carry out effectively the provisions of this chapter.\n\nXIX. To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the federal government and the state for licenses, permits or approvals of its plans or projects as it may deem necessary or advisable, and to accept such licenses, permits or approvals as may be tendered to it by such agencies or officials, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate.\n\nXX. To make bylaws and establish committees for the management and regulation of its affairs as it may deem necessary, and subject to agreements with bondholders, to make rules pursuant to its own procedures for the use of its projects and property, including but not limited to zoning, subdivision and site plan review regulations, and building,\n\nelectric, plumbing and fire codes, and to establish and collect rentals, fees, and all other charges for the use of projects under the jurisdiction of the authority and for services or commodities sold, furnished, or supplied by the authority.\n\nXXI. To design, construct, maintain, operate, improve, and preconstruct such projects as shall be consistent with the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including without limitation the maintenance and development of aviation services, including landing fields, heliports, hangars, shops, passenger and freight terminals, control towers, and all facilities necessary or convenient in connection with any such project and also to contract for the construction, operation, or maintenance of any parts thereof, or for services to be performed thereon, and to rent parts thereof and grant concessions thereon, all on such terms and conditions as the authority may determine.\n\nXXII. To purchase, lease or otherwise acquire lands or interests in land, including options, on, near or adjacent to the tidal waters of the state suitable for construction, establishing and maintaining piers, wharves, warehouses or other facilities useful and necessary in the encouragement and development of commercial navigation.\n\nXXIII. To undertake the improvement of any land acquired by it, by the construction of piers, wharves, warehouses or other facilities as specified in paragraph XXII. Any such improvement shall, insofar as possible, be self-liquidating. The authority shall charge just and reasonable fees for the use thereof.\n\nXXIV. To take such other action as it may deem necessary and\n\nadvisable in the furtherance of the purposes of this chapter.\n\n12-G:12 Status of Authority Employees; Entitlement to State Benefits.\n\nI. The authority may hire, fix and pay compensation, prescribe duties and qualifications and establish personnel policies without regard to any personnel or civil service law or personnel or civil service rule of the state. The employees of the authority shall not be classified employees of the state within the meaning of RSA 21-I:49. Any individual employed by the authority shall be deemed an employee at will and shall serve at the pleasure of the authority.\n\nII. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph I, any individual employed by the authority whose employment calls for 30 hours or more work in a normal calendar week, and whose position is anticipated to have a duration of 6 months or more, shall be entitled to elect to receive such health, dental, life insurance, deferred compensation and retirement benefits as are afforded to classified employees of the state provided, however, that the election is made in writing within 30 days of the start of employment. Upon election by such individual, the authority shall pay from its revenues the state's share of such benefits. Any remaining costs of health, dental, life insurance, deferred compensation and retirement benefits which an individual elects to receive pursuant to this section, shall be withheld from such individual's salary as a payroll deduction. Written notice of the availability of these benefit options shall be provided to each individual upon employment by the authority.\n\n12-G:13 Coordination Between State and Federal Governments.\n\nI. In addition to any other duties set forth in any provision of\n\nthis chapter, the authority shall coordinate with, and provide information to, the United States Department of Defense, and any official or employee thereof, regarding any matter related to the ownership, condition, closure, conversion, redevelopment, or future use or operation of Pease Air Force Base. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no political subdivision of the state shall submit any plan regarding the closure, conversion, redevelopment or future use or operation of Pease Air Force Base without the prior approval of the authority.\n\nII. Notwithstanding any provision of law, except for the authority, no political subdivision or any agency of the state or governmental unit of the state, may apply for or receive pursuant to any provision of federal law any funds, grants or other assistance from the Office of Economic Adjustment within the United States Department of Defense relative to the closure, conversion, redevelopment, or future use of Pease Air Force Base without prior approval of the authority. Except for the authority, no state political subdivision, or any agency or governmental unit of the state, shall apply for or receive any funds, grants, or other assistance from any agency of the federal government relative to the closure, conversion, redevelopment, or future use of Pease Air Force Base without prior notification to the authority. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the adjutant general or to school administrative units for the city of Portsmouth or the town of Newington.\n\nIII. Except for the adjutant general and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority shall be the only person in the state authorized to negotiate, purchase or otherwise obtain on behalf of the\n\nstate or any of its political subdivisions any fee ownership, easement, lease or other property interest in any property in, or on a part of, Pease Air Force Base, except that the town of Newington may negotiate for and reacquire from the federal government the \"Old Stone School\" and associated yard located on Nimble Hill Road and the city of Portsmouth may negotiate for and acquire Jones School and Brackett School and associated yards located on Northwood Road and Rockingham Drive, respectively. The board may grant exemptions in its sole discretion from this provision to any state agency or political subdivision on such terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate.\n\nIV. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority shall be the only person authorized in the state to accept on behalf of the state or any of its political subdivisions any title to, or any other interest in, the runway, taxiways, parking aprons, hangars, control tower, airspace or other property or related facilities at Pease Air Force Base, from the United States pursuant to section 13(g) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (50 U.S.C. App. section 1622(g)), as amended.\n\nV. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, public employees and appointed officials of the state and any of its political subdivisions may serve, if appointed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, as directors of the authority. Any such public employee or official shall serve without compensation, except that such officials and employees may be reimbursed by the authority for such incidental expenses established by the board.\n\n12-G:14 Local Land Use Controls.\n\nI. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any and all land use controls of the town of Newington and the city of Portsmouth shall not apply to any of the property at Pease Air Force Base transferred, conveyed or otherwise granted to the authority by the federal government or any agency of the federal government. The authority shall have the exclusive jurisdiction in adopting and establishing land use controls for the property at Pease Air Force Base transferred, conveyed, or otherwise granted to the authority by the federal government or any agency of the federal government.\n\nII. The authority shall adopt land use controls including, without limitation, regulations to establish zones, building codes, subdivision regulations, site plan review and fire codes necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter. All land use controls and amendments to such controls shall be enacted in accordance with rules of procedure adopted by the authority and shall include at least one public hearing. In order to adopt, amend, interpret, or override any land use control, 5 affirmative votes of the authority shall be required. All land use controls enacted by the authority shall be filed in the Rockingham county registry of deeds, the clerk's office for the town of Newington, the clerk's office for the city of Portsmouth, and the New Hampshire office of state planning.\n\nIII. In adopting land use controls, the authority may adopt, in whole or in part, the land use controls of the town of Newington or the city of Portsmouth, or both. If the authority opts not to adopt the land use controls of Newington or Portsmouth, or both, in whole or in part, the authority shall adopt its own land use controls which are consistent with\n\nthe comprehensive conversion and redevelopment plan prepared by the Pease Air Force Base redevelopment authority and consistent with the master plans of the town of Newington, the city of Portsmouth, or any other host community.\n\nIV. The land use controls and any amendments to them adopted by the authority shall only apply to all property at Pease Air Force Base acquired by the authority from the federal government or any agency of the federal government, and shall remain applicable and enforceable after the sale, lease, assignment or other transfer of any or all of such property to such person by the authority. All other property at Pease Air Force Base shall be subject to all land use controls of the municipalities in which such property is located.\n\nV. With the exception of the airport zone and that portion of the airport industrial zone acquired by the Pease development authority pursuant to the Surplus Property Act of 1944, section 13-G, in the enforcement of land use controls, the following shall apply:\n\n(a) The authority shall delegate enforcement of the land use controls to the appropriate land use boards of the town of Newington and the city of Portsmouth for property within each municipality, respectively.\n\n(b) If the town of Newington or the city of Portsmouth, as appropriate, rejects the enforcement on the basis of Part I, Art. 28-a of the New Hampshire constitution, the authority may delegate such enforcement to the community which did not reject it or to another community. If the town of Newington or the city of Portsmouth, or both, elect to perform said enforcement, the building inspection services, zoning enforcement services,\n\nand planning services of Portsmouth or Newington, or both, shall be made available to the authority for all land within the authority's control. In addition, the building code boards of appeal, the zoning boards of adjustment and the planning boards of the respective municipalities shall process building code appeals, administrative appeals, special exception and variance requests, as well as subdivision, site plan review and conditional use applications. The only charge that may be made for such services shall be the standard application fees charged by the municipalities for local permits.\n\n(c) In all instances, the authority shall retain the power to make the final decision regarding applicability, interpretation, and enforcement of its land use controls, which shall require 6 affirmative votes.\n\n(d) Any action of the authority in the exercise of its powers under this section shall be subject to a motion for rehearing and appeal in accordance with the appropriate provisions of RSA 677. In addition to any other person deemed to be an aggrieved person, the city of Portsmouth and the town of Newington and any abutters shall have standing to appeal land use decisions made by the authority.\n\n(e) Any property located at the former Pease Air Force Base which is sold, leased or otherwise conveyed by the United States government to any person other than the state of New Hampshire or one of its political subdivisions shall be in full compliance with all applicable municipal land use regulations, building codes, electrical codes, plumbing codes and related codes prior to being occupied for any use by any person.\n\nVI. Notwithstanding any provisions of this section, all property on Pease Air Force Base west of McIntyre Road shall be designated a wildlife preserve under the control of the United States Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge, or other appropriate federal or state agency. The authority shall not permit the development of the property designated a wildlife refuge or preserve.\n\nVII. In any event, regulatory power over all land use controls at Pease Air Force Base except for the airport district and all property west of McIntyre Road designated as a wildlife preserve shall revert exclusively to the municipalities no later than January 1, 2020, or sooner at the election of the authority.\n\n12-G:15 Authorization to Seek Designation as Port of Entry or International Airport and to Establish Foreign Trade Zone and Free Port Area.\n\nI. The authority shall be and is hereby authorized to make application to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for the purpose of having Pease Air Force Base, or portions thereof, designated, established or constituted, a port of entry, or an international airport, pursuant to the Customs Reorganization Act, 19 U.S.C. section 1 et seq., as amended, and 19 U.S.C. section 58b, as amended, and regulations of the United States Customs Service, including 19 C.F.R. section 101.0, et seq. and 19 C.F.R. section 122.1, et seq.\n\nII. The authority shall be and hereby is authorized to make application to the Secretary of Commerce of the United States for the purpose of establishing, operating and maintaining foreign-trade zones in\n\nNew Hampshire, including at Pease Air Force Base, pursuant to the Free Trade Zone Act, 19 U.S.C. section 81a, et seq., as amended, providing for the establishment, operation and maintenance of foreign trade zones in or adjacent to ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for other purposes.\n\nIII. The authority shall have full power and authority to select and describe the location of the zone for which application to establish may be made and to make such rules and take such other actions concerning the operation, maintenance and policing of same as may be necessary to comply with the Free Trade Zone Act and the regulations adopted thereunder.\n\nIV. The authority shall have full power and authority to lease the right or to erect, maintain and operate any structures or buildings or enclosures as may be necessary or proper for the establishing and operating of any such foreign trade zones that might be established in the state of New Hampshire.\n\nV. The authority shall have the power and the duty to establish an area in which personal property in transit shall be exempt from the provisions of the stock-in-trade tax and such other taxes and customs as are normally levied in a port of entry. For the purpose of this section, personal property in transit through the areas established by the port authority is defined as follows: goods, wares, and merchandise which is (a) moving in interstate or international commerce through or over the areas hereinbefore established, or (b) which was consigned to a warehouse, public or private, within the state, from outside the state, whether specified when transportation begins or afterward. Such property shall not\n\nbe deprived of exemption because while in the warehouse the property is assembled, bound, joined, processed, disassembled, divided, cut, broken in bulk, relabeled or repackaged. The exemption granted shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes of this chapter, provided, however, that the warehouse in which said goods, wares or merchandise is stored shall not be owned, in whole or in part, by either the consignee or consignor.\n\n12-G:16 Limitations on State and Local Taxation; Provision of Services.\n\nI. The exercise of the powers granted by this chapter shall be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, for their well-being and prosperity and for the improvement of their social and economic conditions, and, except as provided in paragraph II the authority shall not be required to pay any tax or assessment on any property or project owned by the authority under the provisions of this chapter or upon the revenues from such property or project, nor shall the authority be required to pay any recording fee or transfer tax of any kind on account of instruments recorded by it or on its behalf except that a payment in lieu of taxes shall be paid by the authority to the town of Newington or the city of Portsmouth annually for highway maintenance, fire protection and other services as negotiated between the parties. Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any transferee, lessee or tenant of the authority from paying any recording fee, transfer tax, or other tax required by state law including property taxes.\n\nII. All property within the boundaries of Pease Air Force Base but outside of the airport district located on Pease Air Force Base that is owned or occupied by a person, other than the authority or any other entity\n\nexempted from taxation under RSA 72:23, shall be taxable by the municipality in which the property is located as though such property were not owned by the exempt entity and were held in fee simple. Upon leasing or renting by the authority of any of its property within the boundaries of Pease Air Force Base but outside the airport district located on Pease Air Force Base to a non-exempt entity for any use, the municipality in which such property is located shall subject such property to any and all applicable property taxes of the municipality as though such property were not owned by the state or authority and were held in fee simple. Tax payments shall be made as follows:\n\n(a) In the case of such property rented from the authority, the renter shall pay, in lieu of real estate taxes, to the municipality in which the property is located an amount equal to the amount that would have been paid as ad valorem taxes in respect to such property, had it been owned by a nongovernmental person.\n\n(b) In the case of such property leased from the authority, the lessee of such property shall pay all taxes duly assessed against such property no later than the due date. If the lessee fails to pay such duly assessed taxes on or before the due date, the tax collector of the municipality in which the property is located shall notify the authority that such taxes remain unpaid, and such obligation shall become an obligation of the authority. Upon payment by the authority of any tax, costs and interest due upon such property, the authority shall be entitled to be reimbursed for any such payment and reasonable attorney's fees from the lessee of such property and shall have a lien upon any personal\n\nproperty, including, but not limited to equipment, of the lessee, which lien shall continue in force for 2 years from the date the tax was paid by the authority or until the lessee reimburses the authority.\n\n(c) Such tax payments shall be made at the times and in the manner prescribed for ad valorem property taxes for nongovernmental persons and shall be based on the valuation of the property determined by the respective municipality for such purpose, subject to any equalization or proportionality factor to be applied within such municipality. If the authority determines that any valuation made by a municipality is excessive, it may seek a reduction of the valuation by following the procedures prescribed in RSA 76 for the abatement of taxes.\n\nIII. Notwithstanding any other provision of law:\n\n(a) Security for all land and buildings within the airport district and security for all flights at Pease Air Force Base shall be provided by the authority. All other police services within the airport district shall be provided by the municipalities. Any municipality providing police services to the authority shall be reimbursed in timely manner pursuant to a contract with the authority for all costs incurred by the municipality in providing such services, including but not limited to, salaries, benefits, insurance, equipment and associated administrative expenses.\n\n(b) The provision of all other services to land, buildings and people in the airport district which are traditionally provided by the town of Newington or the city of Portsmouth, or both, shall be exclusively the responsibility of the authority. These services shall include, but not be\n\nlimited to, the provision of fire protection, roadway maintenance, runway and parking apron maintenance, maintenance of all underground storage facilities, public assistance, public education and public utilities. In accordance with the provisions of RSA 12-G:11, VIII, the authority may contract with any person for the provision of these services.\n\n(c) Outside of the airport district the provision of the municipal services by the towns of Greenland and Newington and the city of Portsmouth shall be governed by the general law of the state.\n\n12-G:17 Distribution of Excess Revenues.\n\nI. Subject to the limitations contained in RSA 12-G:2, VII, excess revenues of the authority may be distributed by the board annually within 30 days of the end of the authority's fiscal year as follows:\n\n(a) 50 percent to the state treasurer for deposit in the general fund.\n\n(b) 50 percent to the town of Newington, the town of Greenland, and the city of Portsmouth, to be distributed based upon the ratio of the equalized assessed value of the real property within the boundaries of Pease Air Force Base, but not including the airport district, located within the town or city limits of each municipality to the total equalized assessed value of all such property.\n\nII. The annual report prepared by the authority pursuant to RSA 12-G:31 shall include a detailed explanation of any distribution of excess revenues made pursuant to this section or of any decision by the board not to make such distribution.\n\n12-G:18 Limited Liability of State and Municipalities.\n\nI. Except as provided in paragraph II, all obligations incurred by the authority, whether arising from bonds, contracts or otherwise, shall be corporate obligations of the authority and not general obligations of the state or any political subdivision of the state, and neither the full faith and credit nor the taxing power of the state, nor any subdivision of the state is pledged to support such obligations, except as provided in RSA 12-G:32, nor shall they be deemed a debt of the state or any political subdivision of the state in determining its borrowing capacity under any applicable law.\n\nII. Any agreement between the United States and any agency of the United States and the authority shall constitute a binding agreement between the United States and the state. Any agreement between the United States and the authority obligating the state to expend funds may be satisfied in full by revenues, bond proceeds or other funds provided by the authority in the first instance, and if such funds are insufficient, then the obligations shall be satisfied by the state from other funds. Furthermore, any agreement between the United States and the authority requiring payment of funds by the authority to purchase any property at Pease Air Force Base shall be satisfied in full by revenues, bond proceeds or other funds provided by the authority, and such payment shall not require a pledge of the full faith and credit of the state, except as otherwise provided under RSA 12-G:32.\n\nNew Hampshire Port Authority Bonds\n\n12-G:19 Issuance of Bonds. The authority may issue bonds which shall be obligations of the authority and not general obligations of the state,\n\nexcept as provided in RSA 12-G:32. Such bonds may be issued from time to time consistent with the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including, without limitation, financing the preacquisition costs and other costs of acquisition of any property or interest therein at Pease Air Force Base, or for any costs incurred in undertaking any project authorized by this chapter, or for paying or refunding any bonds issued pursuant to this section or interest on such bonds. The principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on all bonds shall be payable solely by the authority in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Prior to each new issuance of bonds, the authority shall provide written notice to the state treasurer of the maximum amount of bonds proposed to be issued. The bonds shall be issued by the authority in such amounts as the board shall determine, not exceeding in the aggregate $250,000,000. Bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates, including rates variable from time to time as determined by such index, banker's loan rate or other method as may be determined by the board, and shall mature at such time or times as may be determined by the board, except that no bonds shall mature more than 30 years from their date of issue. Bonds may be made redeemable before maturity either at the option of the authority or at the option of the holder, or upon the occurrence of specified events, at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the board prior to the issuance of the bonds. The board shall determine the form and details of the bond. Subject to RSA 93-A, the bonds shall be signed by at least 4 members of the board. The bonds may be sold in such manner, either at public or private sale, for such price, at such rate or rates of\n\ninterest, or at such discount in lieu of interest as the board may determine.\n\n12-G:20 Security Documents. Any bonds issued under this chapter may be issued pursuant to and entitled to the benefits of a security document between the authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state, or by a security document directly between the authority and the purchasers of the bonds, and such security document shall be in such form and executed in such manner as may be determined by the board. Such security document may include the mortgage, pledge, or grant of a security interest in any property of the authority and may pledge or assign, in whole or in part, the revenues held or to be received by the authority, any contract or other rights to receive the revenues, whether then existing or thereafter coming into existence and whether then held or thereafter acquired by the authority, and any proceeds thereof. Such security documents may contain provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights, security and remedies of the bondholders as may, in the discretion of the board, be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law. Such security documents may include provisions defining defaults and providing for remedies in the event of defaults, which may include the acceleration of maturities and the enforcement of any mortgage, pledge or security interest, and covenants setting forth the duties of, and limitations on, the authority in relation to the custody, safeguarding, investment and application of moneys, the issue of additional or refunding bonds, the fixing, revision and collection of rates, charges and other revenues, the\n\nuse of any surplus bond proceeds, the establishment of reserves, the acquisition of any property or interest therein or undertaking of any project, any contracts relating thereto and subsequent amendments of such provisions and contracts. It shall be lawful for any bank or trust company to act as a depository or trustee of the proceeds of bonds, revenues or other moneys under a security document and to furnish such indemnification or to pledge such securities and issue such letters or lines of credit or credit facilities as may be required by the authority acting under this subdivision. Any such security document may set forth the rights and remedies of bondholders and of the trustee and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders.\n\n12-G:21 Credit Facilities and Insurance. Any bonds issued under authority of this subdivision may be issued pursuant to lines of credit or other banking arrangements under such terms and conditions not inconsistent with this chapter, and under such agreements with the purchasers or makers thereof, as the board may determine to be in the best interests of the authority. In addition to other security provided herein or otherwise by law, bonds issued by the authority under this subdivision may be secured, in whole or in part, by insurance or by letters or lines of credit or other credit facilities issued to the authority by any bank, trust company or other financial institution, within or without the state, and the authority may make any pledge, mortgage, assignment or security interest in respect of its property and revenues as security for the reimbursement by the authority to the issuers of such letters or lines of credit, insurance or credit facilities or any payments made thereunder.\n\n12-G:22 Perfection and Priority of Mortgage, Pledge or Security Interest. Any mortgage, pledge or security interest made by the authority under this subdivision shall be valid and binding and shall be deemed continuously perfected for the purposes of RSA 382-A and all other laws from the time when the mortgage, pledge or security interest is made. The property or revenues so mortgaged, pledged or subjected to a security interest then held or thereafter acquired or received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such mortgage, pledge or security interest without any physical delivery or segregation thereof or further act. The lien of such mortgage, pledge or security interest shall be valid and binding against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. No such property or revenues may be used in a manner inconsistent with the terms governing such mortgage, pledge or securities interest. Any agreement by which a pledge or security interest in personal property is created under this subdivision shall be filed or recorded in the records of the secretary of state. Any mortgage or other agreement by which a security interest in real property is created under this subdivision shall be filed with the register of deeds for Rockingham county.\n\n12-G:23 Enforcement of Rights. Any owner of a bond issued under the provisions of this subdivision and any trustee under a security document securing the same, except to the extent the rights given in this section may be restricted by such security document, may bring suit upon the bonds and may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other\n\nproceeding for legal or equitable relief, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the state granted hereunder or under such security document and may enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this chapter or by such security document to be performed by the authority or by any director or officer of the authority.\n\n12-G:24 Refunding Bonds. The authority, when authorized by the board, may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying any bonds issued under the provisions of this subdivision at or prior to maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. Refunding bonds may be issued at such times prior to the maturity or redemption of the bonds being refunded as the board may determine. The refunding bonds may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereon, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of such bonds, the expenses of issue of the refunding bonds, the expenses of redeeming the bonds being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other expenses from the proceeds of such refunding bonds as may be required by a security document securing the bonds. The authorization and issue of refunding bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties and obligations of the authority in respect to the same shall be governed by the provisions of this subdivision relating to the issue of bonds other than refunding bonds insofar as the same may be applicable.\n\n12-G:25 Separate Funds. Any debt service fund, construction fund, debt service reserve fund or other fund established in connection with the\n\nissuance of bonds under this subdivision shall be kept separate from other moneys of the authority. The moneys deposited in any such funds, together with the income derived from any investments held as part of such funds, shall be expended without further authorization or appropriation as provided for in the security document establishing such funds.\n\n12-G:26 Investment of Funds. Moneys in any fund or account created under the provisions of this subdivision, subject to the terms and provisions of any security document applicable thereto, may be invested. Except as otherwise provided by any such security document, obligations so purchased as an investment of money in said fund or account shall be deemed at all times to be part of said fund or account, and the interest thereon and any profit arising from the sale thereof shall be credited to said fund or account, and any loss resulting on their sale shall be charged to said fund or account, respectively.\n\n12-G:27 Alteration of Rights of Bondholders. The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of bonds issued under this chapter that the state shall not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the authority to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the said holders of such bonds or in any way impair the rights and remedies of such holders until such bonds, together with the interest on them, with the interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully met and discharged. The authority is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state in any agreement with the holders of such bonds.\n\n12-G:28 Tax Exemption. Bonds issued under this subdivision and their transfer and income, including any profit made on their sale or transfer, shall at all times be exempt from all taxation by or within the state.\n\n12-G:29 Investment Securities. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this subdivision or any recitals in any bonds issued under this subdivision, all such bonds shall be deemed to be investment securities under RSA 382-A.\n\n12-G:30 Eligible Investments. Bonds issued under the provisions of this subdivision are hereby made securities in which all public officers, agencies and authorities of the state and of its political subdivisions, insurance companies, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or any agency, authority or political subdivision of the state for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations of the state or any political subdivision is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.\n\n12-G:31 Audit and Annual Reports. The accounts of the authority shall be subject to an annual audit performed by an independent certified public accountant selected by the authority. The authority shall submit annually to all appointing authorities, to the house appropriations committee, and to the senate finance committee a detailed report of its operations and a complete financial audit for the preceding fiscal year, including financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting\n\nprinciples.\n\n12-G:32 State Bond Guarantee.\n\nI. In view of the general public benefits expected to be derived from the property acquisitions and projects to be financed under this chapter, and their contribution to the social and economic prosperity of the state and its political subdivisions, the governor and council may award an unconditional state guarantee of the principal and interest thereon of bonds issued under this subdivision. The full faith and credit of the state shall be pledged for any such guarantees of principal and interest, but the total amount of the principal of bonds guaranteed by the state under this section shall not exceed $75,000,000, plus interest. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is authorized to draw his warrant for such a sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of honoring any guarantee awarded under this section. The state's guarantee shall be evidenced on each guaranteed bond by an endorsement signed by the state treasurer in substantially the following form:\n\nThe state of New Hampshire hereby unconditionally guarantees the payment of the whole of the principal and interest thereon of the within bond and for the performance of such guarantee the full faith and credit of the state are pledged.\n\n....................\n\nState Treasurer\n\nII. In connection with the award of a state guarantee, the governor and council may impose such terms and conditions as they may deem\n\nappropriate concerning the bonds, the use of any property or operation of any project and the revenues therefrom, and reimbursement to the state if any state funds are used to honor the guarantee. Such terms and conditions\n\nmay be contained in an agreement between the state and the authority, to be executed on behalf of the state by the governor and the state treasurer and on behalf of the authority by at least 4 directors.\n\n12-G:33 New Hampshire Port Authority Fund; Expenditure of Other Revenues.\n\nI. For the purpose of providing a fund to be known as the New Hampshire port authority fund, the state treasurer shall credit to such fund any appropriation made to the authority for each fiscal year.\n\nII. All sums so credited are appropriated to the authority:\n\n(a) To purchase, lease, acquire, own, improve, use, sell, convey, transfer, or otherwise deal in and with property or any interest therein, whether tangible or intangible;\n\n(b) To pay the costs of operating, maintaining, improving and repairing all property and projects of the authority;\n\n(c) To pay the costs of administering and operating the authority, including, but not limited to, all wages, salaries, benefits and other expenses authorized by the board or the executive director;\n\n(d) To pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on the outstanding bonds of the authority as the same become due and payable;\n\n(e) To create and maintain reserves established pursuant to RSA 12-G:20 or required or provided for in any resolution authorizing, or any security document securing, such bonds of the authority;\n\n(f) To pay all taxes owed by the authority;\n\n(g) To pay any excess revenues authorized pursuant to\n\nRSA 12-G:17; and\n\n(h) In general for the payment of all expenses incident to the management and operation of the authority as are consistent with its statutory purpose and as the board thereof may from time to time determine.\n\nIII. This fund shall constitute a continuing appropriation for the benefit of the authority. Any amount remaining to the credit of the authority at the close of any fiscal year shall be nonlapsing and shall be carried over and credited to its account for the succeeding year.\n\nIV. Money in this fund shall be paid to the treasurer of the authority on manifests approved by the governor and council in the same manner as other state claims are paid, provided that there shall be advanced to the treasurer such money as may be requested by the treasurer of the authority and approved by the governor and council, and provided further that manifests covering the money so advanced shall be submitted according to regular procedure at the earliest practicable time.\n\nV. The revenues received and due to the authority from all other sources, except by way of state appropriation, from whatever source derived shall be retained by the authority and shall be used in such manner as the board may determine consistent with the provisions of this chapter or as is otherwise provided by law or by the terms and conditions incident to any gift, grant, devise, bequest, trust or security document.\n\n12-G:34 Facility Improvement Fund.\n\nI. The authority shall establish a separate, nonlapsing, revolving fund to be known as the facility improvement fund to cover renovation, repair, removal and maintenance costs of existing authority facilities.\n\nII. Until such time as the authority is self-funding or June 30, 1998, whichever occurs first, the state of New Hampshire shall appropriate annually to the authority a sum sufficient to begin each new fiscal year with a fund balance of $1,000,000. The authority shall submit to the governor, in time for preparation for the legislative session, a written request for an appropriation for the sum, if any, required to ensure a beginning balance of $1,000,000 in the fund. All sums appropriated by the general court, if any, paid to the authority to capitalize the facility improvement fund shall be deposited in such fund. Expenditures shall be subject to timely approval of the capital budget overview committee.\n\nIII.(a) Once the authority is self-funding or June 30, 1998, whichever occurs first the state of New Hampshire shall no longer be obligated to capitalize the facility improvement fund; provided, however, that the authority reserves the right to approach the legislature through the governor's office with appropriation requests from time to time as necessary.\n\n(b) When the authority becomes self-funding the authority may maintain the facility improvement fund provided that it shall not exceed $5,000,000 in any fiscal year.\n\n12-G:35 Biennial Operating Budget; Capital Budget; Quarterly Reports.\n\nI. Until such time as the authority is self-funding the board shall approve and submit a biennial operating budget to the governor for submission to the legislature for approval. Once the authority becomes\n\nself-funding, the board shall approve and submit a biennial budget to the fiscal committee and the governor for approval.\n\nII. The board shall approve and submit any capital budget requests\n\nfor new construction and any projects too large to be funded through the facility improvement fund to the governor in time for preparation for the next legislative session.\n\nIII. Until such time as the authority is self-funding, the board shall submit quarterly financial reports on its revenues and expenditures to the governor, the senate president, and the speaker of the house.\n\n12-G:36 Reservation of Authority of Towns. All towns and cities within the confines of which there are ports, harbors or navigable tide rivers of the state which are subject to the jurisdiction of the authority shall retain all the powers of such town or city relative to such ports, harbors and navigable tide rivers and the lands abutting the same so long as the authority has not pre-empted the jurisdiction provided in this section.\n\n12-G:37 Employment of New Hampshire Residents.\n\nI. Any contractor bidding on a project at the port of Portsmouth which is funded through the authority or the state of New Hampshire shall be encouraged to employ the maximum possible number of New Hampshire residents.\n\nII. For the purposes of this section, \"resident\" shall mean any person maintaining a dwelling within the state of New Hampshire who has a present intent to remain within the state for a period of time.\n\n12-G:38 Harbor Pilots. The authority may prescribe the qualifications of harbor pilots, and from time to time appoint and commission, under its hand and seal, as many harbor pilots as it may judge necessary, and remove the same at pleasure; and it shall take from them such security, by bond or otherwise, as it may deem proper.\n\n12-G:39 Authority of Harbor Pilot. Any harbor pilot appointed by the authority, who has given security for the faithful discharge of his duties, may take charge of any vessel, except pleasure or fishing vessels, or a vessel of 150 registered or enrolled tons and under, and shall pilot such vessel into and out of the river and harbor of the Piscataqua, first\n\nshowing to the harbor master his appointment if requested.\n\n12-G:40 Harbor Pilots Required. All vessels, except pleasure or fishing vessels, or vessels of 150 registered or enrolled tons or under, and U.S. flag coastwise vessels with a Federal pilot aboard shall be piloted by a harbor pilot appointed by the authority into and out of the Piscataqua River and harbor from a point designated by the authority.\n\n12-G:41 Harbor Masters. The harbor masters appointed by the authority shall have authority, under the supervision of the authority, to oversee the harbor for which he was appointed master, to preserve and regulate navigation within said waters, to assign moorings, require the same to be kept in safe condition, to require the removal of vessels if necessity or an emergency arises, and to inquire into all offenses occurring within his area of responsibility and to perform such duties and enforce such regulations as the authority shall prescribe. Marine law enforcement shall be in accordance with RSA 270:12-a.\n\n12-G:42 Penalty. Whoever violates any of the rules of the authority shall be guilty of a violation.\n\n2 Transfer of Duties.\n\nI. All functions, powers, duties and obligations of the New Hampshire port authority and the Pease development authority, in existence, prior to July 1, 1994, are hereby transferred to and vested in the New Hampshire port authority. The transfer provided in this section shall become effective on July 1, 1994, except that the port authority board of directors shall continue in existence for the sole purpose of making the initial appointments to the committee established in RSA 12-G:9, II of\n\nsection 1 of this act. Such appointments shall be made on or before July 3, 1994.\n\nII. The transfer of the port authority and the Pease development authority provided under paragraph I shall include all of the personnel, books, papers, records, unexpended appropriations or other funds, actions and other property or obligations of every kind formerly a part of the port authority or the Pease development authority.\n\n3 Appropriation. The sum of $1,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the New Hampshire port authority as established in section 1 of this act to fund the facility improvement fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995. This appropriation shall be nonlapsing. The governor is authorized to draw his warrant for said sum out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.\n\n4 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 12-A:2-h to read as follows:\n\n12-A:2-h International Trade Promotion. The commissioner of resources and economic development shall plan, develop and administer programs for international trade promotion and inward investment promotion in cooperation with the New Hampshire port authority and the Small Business Development Center and other private organizations. The commissioner shall take a proactive role in targeting foreign trade shows and foreign trade missions and shall assist New Hampshire businesses desiring to participate in these shows and missions. In planning, developing, and administering programs under this section, the commissioner shall be assisted by the advisory committee on international trade established in RSA 12-A:30 and may draw on the revolving fund created under\n\nRSA 12-A:31.\n\n5 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 12-A:30, II(g) to read as follows:\n\n(g) The executive director of the New Hampshire port authority or designee.\n\n6 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 21-I:49, VII to read as follows:\n\nVII. Personnel of the [Pease development authority] New Hampshire port authority.\n\n7 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 72-A:1, I-a to read as follows:\n\nI-a. \"Commercial boat\" means a vessel used primarily for commercial purposes which, in the case of vessels used for tidal and coastal waters, is verified by the New Hampshire port authority by means of a notarized document affirming that the vessel is so used. For the purposes of this paragraph \"primarily for commercial purposes\" means that the vessel is not used for more than 14 days of non-commercial use per registration year.\n\n8 Reference Deleted. Amend RSA 94:1-a, I by striking out in group L, director, port authority.\n\n9 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 99-D:2 to read as follows:\n\n99-D:2 Defense and Indemnification. If any claim is made or any civil action is commenced against a present or former officer, trustee, official or employee of the state or any agency [thereof] of the state, including members of the New Hampshire national guard and any justice of the district, municipal, probate, superior or supreme court, or the clerks or bail commissioners thereof, or any harbor master appointed by the New Hampshire port authority, or officials and employees of the New Hampshire housing finance authority, or directors, officers, and employees of the\n\n[Pease development authority] New Hampshire port authority seeking equitable relief or claiming damages for the negligent or wrongful acts and the officer, trustee, official, or employee requests the state to provide representation for him, and the attorney general, or, in the case of a claim or civil action commenced against the attorney general, the governor and council, determines that the acts complained of were committed by the officer, trustee, official, or employee while acting within the scope of official duty for the state and that such acts were not wanton or reckless, the attorney general shall represent and defend such person with respect to such claim or throughout such action, or shall retain outside counsel to represent or defend such person, and the state shall defray all costs of such representation or defense, to be paid from funds not otherwise appropriated. In such case the state shall also protect, indemnify, and hold harmless such person from any costs, damages, awards, judgments or settlements arising from the claim or suit. The attorney general or governor and council shall not be required to consider the request of such person that representation be provided for him unless within 7 days of the time such person is served with any summons, complaint, process, notice, demand, or pleading he shall deliver the original or a copy thereof to the attorney general or, in the case of an action against the attorney general, to the governor and council. As a condition to the continued representation by the attorney general and to the obligation of the state to indemnify and hold harmless, such officer, trustee, official, or employee shall cooperate with the attorney general in the defense of such claim or civil action. No property either real or personal of the state of\n\nNew Hampshire shall be subject to attachment or execution to secure payment of or to satisfy any obligations of the state created under this chapter. Upon the entry of final judgment in any action brought under this chapter, the governor shall draw his warrant for said payment out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and said sums are hereby appropriated. The attorney general shall have the authority to settle any claim brought under this chapter by compromise and the amount of any such settlement shall be paid as if the amount were awarded as a judgment under this chapter. Indemnification by the state under this section shall be for the actual amount of costs, damages, awards, judgments, or settlements personally incurred by any such officer, trustee, official, or employee, and the state shall not pay any amounts for which payment is the obligation of any insurance carrier or company under a policy or policies of insurance or any other third party under a similar obligation.\n\n10 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 211:19-a, II to read as follows:\n\nII. State conservation officers and persons appointed by the New Hampshire [state] port authority shall enforce the provisions of this section, and may remove gear from the restricted area if the verbal request authorized in paragraph I of this section is ignored.\n\n11 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 211:60-a, II to read as follows:\n\nII. For the original appointments hereunder there shall be nominated 4 persons, and thereafter there shall be nominated at least 2 persons for each vacancy. Said subsequent nominations shall be made by the [state] New Hampshire port authority.\n\n12 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 216-C:2 to read as follows:\n\n216-C:2 Federal Assistance. The New Hampshire [state] port authority with the approval of the governor and council or the commissioner of public works and highways as their appointed agent, are hereby authorized to cooperate with and enter into agreements with the federal government, or any agency [thereof] of the federal government, as they may deem advisable to secure federal funds for the purposes hereof and further to render such assurances to the federal government on behalf of the state as the federal government may require, including but not limited to, an assurance that the state of New Hampshire will hold and save the United States free from all claims for damages that may arise before, during or after prosecution of the work.\n\n13 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 270-E:2, II(e) to read as follows:\n\n(e) A vessel used primarily for commercial purposes which, in the case of vessels used on tidal and coastal waters, is verified by the New Hampshire port authority by means of a notarized document affirming that the vessel is so used.\n\n14 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 270-E:3, II to read as follows:\n\nII. The department shall furnish a registration certificate or temporary registration certificate and a vessel number to any person who meets the registration requirements. The certificate shall be kept upon the vessel at all times it is being operated, and the certificate shall be open to examination by any duly authorized representative of the department, peace officer, fish and game officer, or representative of the New Hampshire port authority upon request. A person who refuses to produce the certificate upon request or who fails to keep the certificate\n\non the vessel shall be guilty of a violation.\n\n15 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 483-B:12, IV to read as follows:\n\nIV. The [state] New Hampshire port authority may request an exemption under this section for all or a portion of any land purchased, leased, or otherwise acquired by it pursuant to RSA [271-A] 12-G.\n\n16 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 541-A:10, I(n) to read as follows:\n\n(n) RSA 12-G, relative to the [Pease development authority] New Hampshire port authority.\n\n17 Reference Changed. Amend RSA 541-B:1, I to read as follows:\n\nI. \"Agency\" means all departments, boards, offices, commissions, institutions, other instrumentalities of state government, including but not limited to the New Hampshire port authority, the New Hampshire housing finance authority, and the New Hampshire energy authority, [and the Pease development authority,] and the general court, including any official or employee of same when acting in the scope of his elected or appointed capacity, but excluding political subdivisions of the state.\n\n18 Repeal. The following are repealed:\n\nI. RSA 12-A:30, I(k), relative to the director of the Pease development authority.\n\nII. RSA 271-A, relative to the New Hampshire state port authority.\n\n19 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 1994.\n\ncommerce.....\n\nHB 442\n\nLBAO LSR 93-0242 *\n\nAmended 1/5/94\n\nPrepared 1/31/94\n\nFISCAL NOTE for an act creating the New Hampshire trade port commission.\n\nMETHODOLOGY:\n\nThe Port Authority states all state property it now operates and all new property would no longer be tax exempt and would become fully taxable by the City of Portsmouth. This would increase the amount of revenue paid in lieu of taxes. The Port Authority is unable to determine if there would be any additional costs or savings as a result of the reorganization. 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