RSA 483-C:1 Public Use of Coastal Shorelands.

I. It is the purpose of the general court in this section to recognize and confirm the historical practice and common law right of the public to enjoy the greatest portion of New Hampshire coastal shoreland, in accordance with the public trust doctrine subject to those littoral rights recognized at common law.
II. The general court recognizes that New Hampshire holds in "public trust" rights in all shorelands subject to the ebb and flow of the tide to the high water mark and subject to those littoral rights recognized at common law. This "public trust" shoreland establishes the extreme seaward boundary extension of all private property rights in New Hampshire except for those "jus privatum" rights validly conveyed by legislative act without impairment of New Hampshire's "jus p