Nashua, NH Building Safety: Lead Paint (2026)
Key Facts
- Notice period
- 75 days (extended from state's 30)
- State law adopted locally
- RSA 130-A
- Enforcing agency
- Code Enforcement Department
- Local ordinance
- § 182-44, adopted 1990
Summary
Nashua extends the state's lead-paint abatement notice period from 30 to 75 days under its own ordinance, adopting RSA 130-A citywide and enforcing it through the Code Enforcement Department.
Notwithstanding the provision of any other law or regulation, for the purposes of enforcement within the City, the provisions of RSA 130-A:4 which provide for a thirty-day notice and abatement period shall be read and enforced as providing a seventy-five-day notice and abatement period.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4805762; v29 updated 2026-02-10; through 02-10-2026).
Full Breakdown
Nashua has adopted RSA 130-A, the state Lead Paint Poisoning Prevention and Control Act, as local law under § 182-43, but § 182-44 goes further: notwithstanding any other law or regulation, the thirty-day notice and abatement period RSA 130-A:4 gives property owners is read and enforced within the City as a seventy-five-day period instead. That extension applies citywide to any dwelling found to have a lead paint hazard, giving owners more than double the state's standard window to abate before the City pursues enforcement. Article VIII's provisions are supplemental to, not a replacement for, other Charter and City Code requirements under § 182-45.
Violations & Fines
Failure to abate a cited lead paint hazard within the seventy-five-day notice period exposes an owner to enforcement under RSA 130-A as locally applied, pursued through the City's Code Enforcement Department.
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