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N.H. Rev. Stat. § 99-D:11 — NH Code / Title VI / Chapter 99-D / Section 11
99-D:11 Complaints or Investigations Arising From Licensing Board, Committee, or Regulatory Agency Matters.
Status: in_force

I. Without otherwise limiting or defining the sovereign immunity of the state and its agencies, this chapter shall apply to all complaints filed with or investigations by a professional licensing board, committee, or regulatory agency against any state officer, trustee, official, employee, member of the general court, or other person identified in RSA 99-D:2 when acting in the scope of such person's official elected, appointed, or state employment duty and not in a wanton or reckless manner. II. This section shall apply only to complaints or investigations arising out of incidents occurring on or after July 1, 2013.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 486:12 — NH Code / Title L / Chapter 486 / Section 12
486:12 Action by Attorney General.
Status: in_force

If the commissioner determines, following public hearing, that any industrial user of a treatment works subject to this chapter has failed, in whole or in part, to reimburse the owner of the treatment works as provided in this chapter, and that the owner either has failed to take available legal recourse to compel compliance, or is incapable of doing so, then the commissioner may request the attorney general to institute appropriate legal action against such user in the name of the state and the owner of the treatment works.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 485-A:42 — NH Code / Title L / Chapter 485-A / Section 42
485-A:42 Enforcement.
Status: in_force

I. (a) The department may issue an order to any person in violation of this chapter, of rules adopted under this chapter, or of any condition of a permit issued under this chapter. (b) The department may require such remedial measures as are necessary to correct the violation. (c) Such order may be appealed in accordance with RSA 21-O:14. II. The written order issued under the provisions of paragraph I shall be recorded by the department in the registry of deeds for the county in which the property is situated and, upon recordation, the order shall run with the land; provided, however, that an appropriate description of the land involved including the accurate name of the land's owner shall be incorporated in the order. No fee shall be charged for recording such an administrative order; however, the fee for discharge of any such order shall be the same as for the discharge of a real estate lien. III. Upon certification by the department, local officials are hereby authorized and fully empowered to exercise concurrent jurisdiction in the enforcement of this subdivision.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 596-A:9 — NH Code / Title LIX / Chapter 596-A / Section 9
596-A:9 Caution to Accused.
Status: in_force

The circuit court district division shall cause the complaint to be read to the accused and shall inform the accused of right to retain counsel and of the right to have a preliminary examination. The court shall also inform the accused that they are not required to make a statement or to testify, but that any statement or testimony given by the accused may be used against them. The court shall allow accused reasonable time and opportunity to consult, including an adjournment as provided in RSA 596-A:1, if necessary.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 358-A:6 — NH Code / Title XXXI / Chapter 358-A / Section 6
358-A:6 Penalties.
Status: in_force

I. Any person convicted of violating RSA 358-A:2 hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. II. Any person who violates the terms of an injunction issued under RSA 358-A:4, III, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. For the purposes of this section, the court issuing said injunction shall retain jurisdiction. III. Any person who subverts the intent and purposes of this chapter by filing false, misleading, or substantially inaccurate statements with the attorney general for the purposes of effecting prosecution under this chapter shall be guilty of a violation. IV. If any person is found to have engaged in any act or practice declared unlawful by this chapter, the court may award to the state in any action brought under this chapter all legal costs and expenses. RSA 525:12 shall apply to civil actions commenced under this chapter.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 154:30-b — NH Code / Title XII / Chapter 154 / Section 30-b
154:30-b Organization.
Status: in_force

I. Upon receipt of a petition under RSA 154:30-a, I, the state fire marshal shall call the first or organizational meeting of the system. Upon receipt of a petition under RSA 154:30-a, II, the state fire marshal may call such a meeting. The state fire marshal shall give written notice to the chief of each fire department in the system and may invite private fire departments within the designated area to join in the meeting by giving similar notice to them. Each fire department shall send one delegate to the organizational and subsequent meetings and shall be entitled to one vote in all proceedings. The delegate shall be the chief of each fire department or such alternate as the chief may designate. At the organizational meeting, the members of the system shall adopt articles of association and bylaws and regulations for the future government and operation of the system which shall be effective upon submission to and approval by the attorney general, who shall cause the same to be recorded by the secretary of state. The system shall be deemed to have been formally established upon such recording. The organizational meeting shall also elect a board of directors consisting of such number as they may determine. Delegates and directors need not be residents. The board of directors shall be the governing body of the system and shall serve for terms of one year and until their successors are elected and qualify, provided that the organizational meeting, or any subsequent meeting, may vote to elect its directors for varying terms. If a meeting shall so vote for the first election under said vote one director shall be elected for a term of one year, one for a term of 2 years, one for a term of 3 years, one for a term of 4 years, and one for a term of 5 years, and thereafter there shall be elected at each annual meeting one director for a term of 5 years and until a successor is elected and qualified. II. The directors shall choose from their number the officers of the system, who shall have such duties and powers as the bylaws provide. Within the limits of available funds, the directors may employ and fix the compensation of agents and other necessary personnel, who shall serve at their pleasure and have and exercise such powers and authority as they may delegate to them.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 17-S:5 — NH Code / Title I / Chapter 17-S / Section 5
17-S:5 Report.
Status: in_force

Beginning November 1, 2022, the commission shall submit an annual report summarizing its activities and findings and making recommendations for American Revolution commemorative activities to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house or representatives, the senate clerk, the house clerk, the governor, and the state library.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 294-B:1 — NH Code / Title XXVII / Chapter 294-B / Section 1
294-B:1 Pretended Sales.
Status: in_force

No person or corporation shall keep, or cause to be kept, an office, store, or other place in which is conducted or permitted the pretended buying or selling of stocks, or bonds of a corporation, or petroleum, cotton, grain, provisions, pork, or other produce, either on margins or otherwise, without any intention of receiving and paying for the property so bought, or of delivering the property so sold, or in which is conducted or permitted the pretended buying or selling of such property on margins, or when the party buying, or offering to buy, such property, does not intend actually to receive the same if purchased, or to deliver it if sold.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 98-B:3 — NH Code / Title VI / Chapter 98-B / Section 3
98-B:3 Authority to Interchange Employees.
Status: in_force

Any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state is authorized to participate in a program of interchange of employees with departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the federal government or another state, as a sending or receiving agency. Except as to employees assigned under title IV of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970, 5 U.S.C. sections 3371-3376 as may be from time to time amended, the period of individual assignment or detail under an exchange program shall not exceed 12 months, nor shall any person be assigned or detailed for more than 12 months during any 36 month period. Details relating to any matter covered in this chapter may be the subject of an agreement between the sending and receiving agencies. Elected officials shall not be assigned from a sending agency nor detailed to a receiving agency.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 167:27-c — NH Code / Title XII / Chapter 167 / Section 27-c
167:27-c Cost-of-Living Increases to Residents of Residential Care Facilities and Community Residences.
Status: in_force

The state shall maintain its minimum supplementary payment levels to recipients of assistance at residential care facilities and community residences in conjunction with supplemental and social security increases. The commissioner of the department of health and human services, shall not decrease the amount of the state's contribution paid to recipients of financial assistance in residential care facilities and community residences because of such supplemental and social security increases.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 31:43-g — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 31 / Section 43-g
31:43-g Second Offense.
Status: in_force

Upon any subsequent violation by any child said parents or guardians shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 511-A:10 — NH Code / Title LII / Chapter 511-A / Section 10
511-A:10 Court Rules and Regulations.
Status: in_force

The supreme court may adopt forms and enact rules and regulations, including, but not limited to, administrative provisions which will facilitate the implementation of this chapter.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 529:24 — NH Code / Title LIV / Chapter 529 / Section 24
529:24 Return; Record; Effect.
Status: in_force

The officer shall make a full return of his proceedings, and cause the execution and return to be recorded at length in the registry of deeds of the county in which the real estate lies, and to be returned to the office of the clerk of the court to which it is returnable; and no sale of a greater interest than a term of seven years shall be valid, except against the debtor and his heirs, unless the execution and the return are so recorded.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 304-C:98 — NH Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 304-C / Section 98
304-C:98 Dissociation-Definition.
Status: in_force

Subject to the provisions of RSA 304-C:105 and RSA 304-C:153, the dissociation of a member shall mean the termination of all of the member's membership rights except: I. The member's limited liability company interest; and II. The rights identified in RSA 304-C:99.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 52:18-a — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 52 / Section 18-a
52:18-a Water Pollution.
Status: in_force

Any district which shall have received an order by the department of environmental services under the provisions of RSA 147, 485, or 485-A shall proceed forthwith to acquire whatever easements and lands as are necessary to comply with said order provided that a majority of the voters vote in favor of said acquisition at any regular or special district meeting called for the purpose of taking action on such order and may enter upon, for the purpose of survey leading to land description, any land within the town or towns in which such district is situated. In so proceeding the district commissioners or other duly authorized agents shall institute any necessary land taking in accordance with the provisions of RSA 52:18 and, anything contained in RSA 231 or in the statutes generally notwithstanding, the decision of the commissioners of the town or towns in which such land or lands are situated shall not be vacated and any subsequent appeal or other action by the owner or owners shall be based solely on the amount of damages assessed, and the duly appointed agents of the district shall have full right of immediate entry for the purposes of detailed surveys, borings, or the conduct of any and all other actions necessary or desirable to aid the district in implementation of the order by the department of environmental services.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:61 — NH Code / Title I / Chapter 5-C / Section 61
5-C:61 Divorce, Legal Separation, or Civil Annulment Record Copies and Fees.
Status: in_force

I. Written application for a copy of a divorce, legal separation, or civil annulment record, shall be made to the division or to the New Hampshire court granting such divorce, legal separation, or civil annulment. II. The state registrar, upon receipt of a written application, shall issue a certified copy of a divorce, legal separation, or civil annulment record in his or her custody, or a part thereof to any applicant having a direct and tangible interest in the record. III. Clerks of towns and cities shall not issue certified copies of divorce, legal separation, or civil annulment. IV. Copies issued from records marked with a notice of resumptive marital relations shall be similarly marked and show the effective date. V. If needed, an apostille record shall be prepared in the same manner as described in RSA 5-C:99, except that the procedures may be done by the clerk of the court. VI. A search fee shall be charged for making a record search in accordance with RSA 5-C:10. The search fee shall be payable regardless of whether the record is found. The search fee shall include one certified copy of the record if a copy is desired. The search fee shall apply to certified copies issued by the division, which may differ from fees established by the superior court.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 517-A:1 — NH Code / Title LIII / Chapter 517-A / Section 1
517-A:1 Uniform Foreign Depositions Law.
Status: in_force

I. This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Foreign Depositions Law." II. Whenever any mandate, writ or commission is issued out of any court of record in any other state, territory, district, or foreign jurisdiction, or whenever upon notice or agreement it is required to take the testimony of a witness or witnesses in this state, witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify in the same manner and by the same process and proceeding as may be employed for the purpose of taking testimony in proceedings pending in this state. III. This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 44:1-a — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 44 / Section 1-a
44:1-a City Charters, Filing.
Status: in_force

Each city shall file by January 1, 1973 with the secretary of state a copy of its then existing charter as one document incorporating all amendments thereto. Amendments adopted after said date shall be filed in like manner within 10 days of their adoption.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 179:7 — NH Code / Title XIII / Chapter 179 / Section 7
179:7 Sales to Persons Under 21.
Status: in_force

The establishment of all the following facts by a person making a sale of liquor or beverage to a person under the age of 21 shall constitute prima facie evidence of innocence and a defense to any prosecution for such sale: I. That the person falsely represented in writing and supported by some official document that he was 21 years of age or over; II. That the appearance of the person was such that an ordinary and prudent person would believe him to be 21 years of age or over; and III. That the sale was made in good faith relying upon such written representation and appearance in the reasonable belief that the person was actually 21 years of age or over.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 304-C:76 — NH Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 304-C / Section 76
304-C:76 Classes of Managers.
Status: in_force

I. An operating agreement may provide for classes or groups of managers having such relative rights, powers, and duties as the operating agreement may provide. II. An operating agreement may make provision for the future creation, in the manner provided in the operating agreement, of additional classes or groups of managers having such relative rights, powers, and duties as may from time to time be established under the operating agreement, including rights, powers, and duties senior to existing classes and groups of managers. III. An operating agreement may identify managers as directors or officers rather than as managers.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 479-A:28 — NH Code / Title XLVIII / Chapter 479-A / Section 28
479-A:28 Severability.
Status: in_force

If any provision of this chapter or any section, sentence, clause, phrase or word, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and of the application of any such provision, section, sentence, clause, phrase or word in any other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 511:45 — NH Code / Title LII / Chapter 511 / Section 45
511:45 By Judgment, Etc.
Status: in_force

When a judgment is rendered for the defendant, upon which execution may issue, or when the action is compromised or dismissed, the attachment made in the action is dissolved thereby.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 508-A:4 — NH Code / Title LII / Chapter 508-A / Section 4
508-A:4 Uniformity of Interpretation.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate the general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 41:21 — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 41 / Section 21
41:21 Library Defined.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, every library regularly open to the public, or to some portion of the public, with or without limitations, shall be considered a public library, whether its ownership is vested in the town, in a corporation, in an organized association, or in individuals.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 500-A:15 — NH Code / Title LI / Chapter 500-A / Section 15
500-A:15 Compensation of Jurors.
Status: in_force

I. Grand and petit jurors' fees and mileage shall be paid by the state. The jurors' fees shall be $10 for each half day's attendance before a superior court; for each mile's travel to and from the place where the juror serves, mileage shall be paid at the rate of $.20 per mile, mileage to be allowed for each day's attendance when the juror is required to leave the town or city in which he resides. II. For the purposes of this section "attendance for a half day" means attendance either at the forenoon session or at the afternoon session. III. The clerk of the court attended shall determine whether a juror has attended for a half day. Said clerk may count travel time to reach the place where the juror serves in determining attendance of the juror, if the juror is required to travel more than 50 miles one way by the most direct route to reach the court.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 611-B:12 — NH Code / Title LIX / Chapter 611-B / Section 12
611-B:12 Mandatory Reporting of Medico-Legal Deaths.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of anyone who finds the body of any person whose death is suspected to have been caused or to have occurred in any manner described in RSA 611-B:11, or who finds remains which are thought to be human to immediately notify the medical examiner and the county attorney for the county where the body or remains are found.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 33:2-a — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 33 / Section 2-a
33:2-a Call Bonds.
Status: in_force

The issuance of bonds or notes hereunder which are subject to call, at the election of the municipality, before the date fixed for final payment thereof, is authorized. The bonds or notes, in such cases, shall contain provisions setting forth the method or methods by which the option to call may be exercised, the procedure for payment in the event of call, and the legal effect of the making of the call. If such call bonds or notes are payable to bearer, they may be called, at the election of the municipality, on any date when interest thereon shall become payable, written notice of such election first having been given to the bank, banks or other institutions, if any, at which they are stated on their face to be payable, and published for 4 consecutive weeks at least once a week in one or more newspapers printed and published in Boston, Massachusetts, and in one newspaper printed and published in the state of New Hampshire and circulating in said municipality, the last such publications being at least 14 days before the date specified for payment; and thereupon, after the date so specified, interest thereon shall cease. If such call bonds or notes are payable to the registered holder, they may be called, at the election of the municipality, on any date when interest thereon shall become payable, written notice of such election first having been given to the registered holder by registered mail, postage prepaid, to such holder at his last address, as registered in the books of the municipal treasurer; and thereupon, after the date so specified, interest thereon shall cease.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 304-C:82 — NH Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 304-C / Section 82
304-C:82 Meetings of Managers.
Status: in_force

I. Unless the operating agreement provides otherwise, meetings of managers may be held by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Participation in a meeting under this paragraph shall constitute presence in person at the meeting. II. Unless the operating agreement provides otherwise, on any matter that is to be voted on by managers, the managers may take the vote without a meeting and without prior notice if the vote is recorded in a writing setting forth the action so taken and is signed by all of the managers. III. Unless the operating agreement provides otherwise, a vote transmitted by electronic transmission by a manager or by a person or persons authorized to act for a manager shall be deemed to be written and signed for purposes of this section. IV. For purposes of this section, the term "electronic transmission" shall have the meaning set forth in RSA 304-C:60, V.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 517:17 — NH Code / Title LIII / Chapter 517 / Section 17
517:17 Powers.
Status: in_force

Said commissioner shall have and exercise all the powers conferred by the laws of other states, territories and foreign countries upon commissioners or other persons authorized to take depositions in said other states, territories and foreign countries for use in causes pending in this state.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 39:14 — NH Code / Title III / Chapter 39 / Section 14
39:14 Adjournment Date Falling on Sunday.
Status: in_force

Whenever any adjournment of any town meeting shall fall upon a Sunday, it shall be held on the next secular day thereafter, at the same time and place, and the proceedings thereon at that time shall be of the same force and validity as if the meeting had been adjourned thereto.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 122:2 — NH Code / Title IX / Chapter 122 / Section 2
122:2 Additional Projects.
Status: reserved

Such consent is also given to the acquisition of land or interests therein for such additional projects as may be approved by the governor and council upon recommendation of the department of environmental services retaining, however, to the state the same jurisdiction as is reserved in RSA 122:1.
N.H. Rev. Stat. § 132:10-aa — NH Code / Title X / Chapter 132 / Section 10-aa
132:10-aa Newborn Screening; Pulse Oximetry Test Required.
Status: in_force

The physician, hospital, nurse midwife, midwife, or other health care provider attending a newborn child shall perform a pulse oximetry screening, according to the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on every newborn child.