Title I: The State and Its Government, is the collection of New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated which relate to the state's government as a whole. Like other portions of the RSAs, the Title is divided into Chapters and Sections organized in numbers and subsections organized in lowercase letters.
Contents
- RSA 11 Perambulation of the New Hampshire Line With the Adjoining States of Maine Massachusetts and Vermont
- RSA 12 Notice
- RSA 13 Return
- RSA 14 Expense
- RSA 15 Perambulation of the New Hampshire Massachusetts State Line
- RSA 16 Perambulation of New Hampshire Maine State Line
- RSA 17 Perambulation of New Hampshire Vermont State Line
- RSA 18 Preservation of Monuments on State Boundaries
- RSA 19 Determination of Need for Monuments
- RSA 110 Permit for Resetting Markers and Bounds
- RSA 111 Penalty for Alteration Without Application and Permit
- RSA 114 Oceanic Boundaries
- 115 Oceanic Boundaries With Other States
- RSA 3 State Emblems
- RSA 31 State Emblem
- RSA 39 State Seal
- Repealed RSAs and portions of RSAs In Title I
- References
RSA 1:1 Perambulation of the New Hampshire Line With the Adjoining States of Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont
RSA 1:2 Notice
RSA 1:3 Return
RSA 1:4 Expense
RSA 1:5 Perambulation of the New Hampshire-Massachusetts State Line
RSA 1:6 Perambulation of New Hampshire-Maine State Line
RSA 1:7 Perambulation of New Hampshire-Vermont State Line
The border of New Hampshire with Vermont is as established and marked on land in accordance with the decision in Vermont v. New Hampshire, 290 U.S. 579 (1933).
RSA 1:8 Preservation of Monuments on State Boundaries
It is also a misdemeanor to attempt or actually engage in an act on the banks or bed of the Connecticut river that would alter the boundary line with Vermont, without making an application to the DOT commissioner.
RSA 1:9 Determination of Need for Monuments
RSA 1:10 Permit for Resetting Markers and Bounds
RSA 1:11 Penalty for Alteration Without Application and Permit
Whoever violates RSA 1:8 is guilty of a misdemeanor if a person, or a felony if any other entity, such as a corporation.
RSA 1:14 Oceanic Boundaries
RSA 1:14 divides New Hampshire's maritime boundaries in regard to the offshore waters into three categories, Marginal Seas, High Seas and Submerged Land, all of which have been agreed upon, through agreement with Maine and Massachusetts as well as through international maritime law.
Marginal Seas
Marginal Seas are anything within three nautical miles (6 km) of the coastal baseline (median between high and low tides at the shore).
High Seas
The High Seas within New Hampshire are classified as anything within 200 nautical miles (370 km) of the coastal baseline unless the coastal baseline is further than 200 nautical miles (370 km) away. In that case, the boundary is extended to the edge of the continental shelf.
Submerged Land
Any land that lies within the Marginal or High Seas claimed by New Hampshire is part of New Hampshire, although to date, only parts of the Isles of Shoals would be included as part of this clause.
Controversy
1:15 Oceanic Boundaries With Other States
1:15 provides a specification for maritime boundaries with other states, as well as its claim of title to the resources within its oceanic territory in this RSA's third section.
Maine
Stated as starting at the midpoint of the mouth of the Piscataqua River, heading southeast in a straight line into the mouth of Gosport Harbor in the Isles of Shoals, with a set of lights between Fort Point Light and Whaleback Light marking the boundary within the ocean.
Past Gosport, the boundary then intersects the halfway point of the breakwater between Cedar Island and Star Island, continuing on that course until the end of New Hampshire's oceanic boundary stated in 1:14.
Massachusetts
From the land boundary, the nautical boundary heads 118 degrees east of True North, per 1901's Chapter 115, which since has been repealed.[2] However, despite the repeal, the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire has not been disputed, unlike New Hampshire's borders with Maine and Vermont. [The citation listed reads, "excepting from general repeal the following described statutes" and includes 115, 1901, which would seem to mean that 115, 1901 was NOT repealed.]
RSA 3 State Emblems
RSA 3's subchapters have to do with all of New Hampshire's symbolic and heraldic imagery and classifications.
RSA 3:1 State Emblem
The State Emblem is an elliptical panel, vertically oriented, with a picture of the Old Man of the Mountain surrounded on the top by the state name and on the bottom by the state motto, "Live Free or Die." It may be placed on all printed or related material issued by the state and its subdivisions relative to the development of recreational, industrial, and agricultural resources of the state.
RSA 3:9 State Seal
In order to make the official state seal, the following factors need to be in place according to 3:9.