RSA 155-B:9-a Municipal Lien on Owner's Interest in Property Insurance Proceeds.

If the value of the subject real estate is deemed by the municipality to have insufficient value, based on the current tax assessment, to cover the cost of repairs, razing, or removal, and the owner has no other real property within the state, a municipality may assert a lien on the owner's interest in any real property insurance proceeds that are payable as a result of the damage or destruction of that property owner's real property located in the municipality. The lien shall be for the estimated cost to repair, raze, or remove the damaged structure, whichever of those options is the least expensive, minus the value in the remaining real property based on the current tax assessments. The municipal lien shall be subordinate to any lien holder of record, and to any rights, title, or intere