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#96:  Payment Bond Sureties and "Pay-if-Paid" Subcontracts

NH Construction Law

If the principal is a general contractor with a “pay-if-paid” clause in its subcontracts, must a subcontractor wait for the general contractor to be paid before it can collect on a payment bond? No New Hampshire case has yet considered whether the same result obtains under state law, but the same logic applies.

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#123:  Bonding Around a Mechanic's Lien

NH Construction Law

A New Hampshire statute, RSA 511:48 , authorizes petitioning the court to allow substitution of a bond for an attachment, but the statute is not specific to mechanic’s liens – and a number of unreported Superior Court cases have declined to allow substitution of a bond for a mechanic’s lien. Hawkeye Funding, Ltd.

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#105:  Nonmutual Arbitration Agreements

NH Construction Law

Many construction contracts and subcontracts provide for arbitration of disputes. Are they nevertheless enforceable in New Hampshire? Birckhead Electric, Inc. But it does suggest that in New Hampshire mutuality of obligation is to be searched for in the contract as a whole, rather than in individual clauses.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Eleven different Pennsylvania-based construction companies already have been subcontracted to do much of the work, and many more opportunities will be made available as the project goes forward. The percentage of electricity generated by renewables continues to surge in the United States.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Equipment or transmission lines used directly in producing or transmitting electrical power, but not including distribution. The income tax credits established are intended to promote investment in renewable energy production using low-emission and zero-emission electricity generation technologies.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Funds may be provided for the construction and/or improvement of water lines & wastewater facilities, sewer lines, sewage treatment facilities, roadways, natural gas-line services, electric power services, railroad spurs, lighting, sidewalks and alternative power sources such as solar. The public utilities tax rate is 4.25

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