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N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 230:1 (2026)

Class I Trunk Line Highways

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    230:1 Class I Trunk Line Highways. – The department of transportation shall assume full control and pay the costs of construction, reconstruction and maintenance of all class I highways, including bridges thereon.

Source. 1945, 188:1, part 2:1. 1950, 5:1, part 9:1, par. 2. RSA 231:1. 1981, 87:1. 1985, 402:6, I(a)(2).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14 cases, 1958–1991 · leading case: Moulton v. Groveton Papers Co., 323 A.2d 906 (N.H. 1974).
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Moulton v. Groveton Papers Co., 323 A.2d 906 (N.H. 1974). · cites it 2× “or is the Town limited to a recovery from the Defendants of any damages for which it has not or will not receive payment from the State of New Hampshire under Chapter 428 of the laws of 1969 or any other State statutes?” The two bridges damaged by the failure of defendants’ dam…”
Blevens v. Manchester, 170 A.2d 121 (N.H. 1961). · cites it 2× “See RSA 230:1; Harrington v. Manchester, 76 N.”
Hartman v. Town of Hooksett, 480 A.2d 12 (N.H. 1984). “RSA 230:1. In certain circumstances, a town may be liable for injuries occurring on roads under its control, but not for injuries on roads over which it exercises no control.”
Leo Found. v. State, 372 A.2d 1311 (N.H. 1977). · cites it 2× “However, plaintiff argues that Pond Road, from which the proposed highway was laid out, was not shown to be an existing “highway” as defined by RSA 230:1 (Supp. 1975). This section defines “highways” as follows: “Highways are only such as are laid out in the mode prescribed…”
Opinion of the Justices, 592 A.2d 180 (N.H. 1991). “Proposed RSA 231:93, granting municipalities immunity for injuries suffered on particular classes of highways, is constitutionally justified because each class named consists of either high ways maintained solely by the State, see RSA 230:1 (Supp. 1990) (class I highways); RSA…”
Locke Dev. Corp. v. Town of Barnstead, 349 A.2d 598 (N.H. 1975). · cites it 2× “The main issue to be decided is whether the judgment entered by the court in accordance with the recommendations of the commissioners in their reports that the roads described in plaintiff’s petition, as amended, be laid out subject to certain provisos contained in the first…”
Perrotto v. Claremont, 140 A.2d 576 (N.H. 1958). · cites it 3× “RSA 230:1 defines what constitutes highways.”
State v. Tardiff, 369 A.2d 182 (N.H. 1977). “While conceding, in view of the trial court’s findings, that the road in question does not amount to a “public highway” as that term is defined in RSA 230:1 (Supp. 1975), the state argues that it amounts to a “public .”
State v. Rosier, 191 A.2d 526 (N.H. 1963). · cites it 2× “See RSA 230:1. Perrotto v. Claremont, 101 N. H.”
Bancroft v. Town of Canterbury, 388 A.2d 199 (N.H. 1978). “See RSA 230:1 (“highways” include the bridges thereon); RSA chs.”
Wilton-Lyndeboro Coop. Sch. Dist. v. Gregg, 274 A.2d 787 (N.H. 1971). · cites it 2× “See RSA 230:1 (supp.) and RSA ch. 232. The fact that the access road or driveway which plaintiff intends to construct on the land taken from the defendants will be used by members of the public to reach the school facilities does not make it a public highway as referred to in…”
Beck v. Town of Auburn, 437 A.2d 289 (N.H. 1981). “The reasons it gave for its decision were the following: first, only two-thirds of one of the lots fronted on a Class V town-maintained highway, the remaining frontage of that lot as well as the entire frontage of the other lot being on a Class VI portion of the road; therefore,…”
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