RSA 227-C:8-h Financial Responsibility.

I. The provisions of this chapter shall not require that the owner or lessee of the land on which the unmarked human burials or human remains are found bear the cost of the excavation, removal, analysis, or disposition if the discovery is the result of vandalism, erosion, or noncommercial land-altering activity.
II. The owner or lessee of the land on which unmarked human burials or human remains are found shall bear the cost of the excavation, removal, analysis, and disposition if the discovery is the result of a privately-financed commercial land-altering activity, including the construction of speculative housing.
III. If the discovery is the result of a state-funded land-altering activity, the department providing the funding shall bear the cost of excavation, removal